> > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAUan2DXBsk > > > >Sneaky photographers... > > Sorry but that guy was being a total dick. he was adversarial > by nature and got what was coming to him - because the police > can. It's not the same as it was only a few years ago, we > live in a different society - admittedly not an ideal society > but whose fault is that... > > Net result, they have his details and he spent 8 hours > detained, so where is his victory? > > If 99 innocent snappers get asked for their details (with nothing to > hide) and the 100th turns out to be a nutter casing the > joint, or a peado or whatever, then my tax money is working. > I don't want to live in fear on the street as I might > elsewhere in the world. > > .02
I think you're 100% wrong on this, Cotty. I refer you to Willcock vs Muckle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Henry_Willcock The PCSO in that film was an idiot, which is to be expected of PCSOs. The policewoman was bang out of order, abusing her authority. The photographer appears to know his rights rather more than most of us do, so presumably was deliberately pushing for this to happen, just as Willcock did in 1951, but somebody needs to put a stop to this type of abuse of authority. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
