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From: "Brian Walters" <[email protected]>
To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: Testing photography rules in Miami metrorail system
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 06:25 -0600, "William Robb" <[email protected]>
wrote:
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From: "Bob W"
Subject: RE: Testing photography rules in Miami metrorail system
> I don't understand why people get so uptight about photography &
> filming,
> or
> why they can't grasp the simple idea of it being a legitmate thing to
> do.
>
Give small minds small authority and this is what happens.
Given the degree of spread that this phenomena has, I anticipate that it
will be, within the next few years, defacto illegal to use an SLR in
public.
Just this afternoon I wanted to take a few photos at the local railway
station. I had no sooner lifted the camera to my eye when the station
attendant appeared saying "You can't take photos here". I didn't push
it because I was on railway property and maybe she was within her
rights, but it's getting to the stage where people think that anyone
carrying a 'real' camera is a terrorist or a child molester.
Interestingly, I had a CTA worker tell me at the Chicago and State subway
stop that I could take pictures but just NOT of the tracks. No pictures of
the tracks. At the Brown Line Rockwell stop, however, I was warned off from
taking pictures anywhere. "You can't take pictures without a permit," I
was told. Chicago and State gets heavy tourist traffic & the Rockwell stop
does not. Aside from public transportation stops, I've never had any other
problems in busy public places, though I was warned off by a woman from
photographing her tulips in her front lawn. Cheers, Christine
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