People have gone insane...

[Hubigpielover]

24 hr news cycle buddy. Gotta fill the air waves with something and murder and mayhem bring in the ratings.

 

[Sirius Glass]

24 hr news cycle buddy. Gotta fill the air waves with something and murder and mayhem bring in the ratings.

In Los Angeles the air waves are filled with car chases and brush fires. Murders and robberies are used to fill in quiet times.

 

[Hubigpielover]

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In Los Angeles the air waves are filled with car chases and brush fires. Murders and robberies are used to fill in quiet times.

When do they find time to fit in the mud slides? Also, how in the hades can they have high speed chases in LA? Whenever flights to Bakersfield were booked, I'd fly into LAX. Land about noon, pick up my bags, and rent a car...out by 1:30. Traffic going over the Grapevine was already terrible.

We had that tropical storm come through two weeks ago, I thought the anchors on the weather channel would weep tears of joy for basically what amounted to a really bad thunderstorm.

 

[removed account4]

It is illegal to photograph government buildings in the United States. The Feds went after a tourist who

this WAS true soon after 9/11 but i don't know if it is true anymore.
it is true there is intimidation either by real law enforcemant or by
people who are proud and wear a uniform ..
unfortunately there are bad people and it is nearly impossible to know who
these bad peoples are so law enforcement or people who are aux. law enforcement are involved.
hopefully if people with a camera are legit, aren't jerks, don't treat law enforcement or aux enforcement like
they are the enemy b-cause the person with a camera &c has a camera and usually an attitude ...

 

[mshchem]

My comment is if someone was documenting a building or a place for an attack, or trying to steal company secrets, the last thing you would see is the camera. All the spy crap and micro digital cameras with a lens the size of a dry pea. Give me a break. People that spout off when you are out taking pictures are the same people that get into fights in traffic, drink too much, beat their wife and are generally A-holes.
Sad state of affairs.

 

[Steve Smith]

Well where you live Steve I was once confronted by a pirate who must have been 20 ft tall. It was downtown Black Gang Chine

He is still there, complete with a barrel of rum on his shoulder.


Steve.

 

[pentaxuser]

I'd forgotten about the barrel of rum. It was about 25 years ago. I thought it was a great place and my 12 year old son nearly enjoyed it as much as I did

pentaxuser

 

[Harry Stevens]

Before WWII broke out in Europe the Germans sent people with families to most of the countries in Europe and they would take family shots with background information in like docks, harbors,airports and other important types of installations to help with their invasion of said country,not too sure if something like this happened with the Japanese and the Pearl Harbor attack...........Now we have goggle earth.

 

[Wallendo]

In Los Angeles the air waves are filled with car chases and brush fires. Murders and robberies are used to fill in quiet times.

That's because most murders and robberies aren't videotaped, and extremely few are caught on live video.

 

[Helios 1984]

Are people insane? Yesterday my brother-in-law was assaulted by an angry driver, the guy did an illegal maneuver and couldn't stand to be told. He stalked my Brother-in-law for 2 hours, followed him to his job and then to his home. The man wanted excuses, but when my brother-in-law refused, he kicked him in the stomach then ran away. Insane you asked? Yes, undeniably so.

 

[GRHazelton]

Are people insane? Yesterday my brother-in-law was assaulted by an angry driver, the guy did an illegal maneuver and couldn't stand to be told. He stalked my Brother-in-law for 2 hours, followed him to his job and then to his home. The man wanted excuses, but when my brother-in-law refused, he kicked him in the stomach then ran away. Insane you asked? Yes, undeniably so.

Good Gawd! I hope your Bro in law called the coppers. His assailant ought to spend a little time as a guest of the state.

 

[Vonder]

I wonder how much location and people have to do with the phenomenon of both road rage and photography rage. I commute on an interstate in Iowa, about 25 miles each way, and see very little road rage, so when it DOES happen, it makes my heart race madly. What to most people would be plenty of room, is to some people "cutting them off" which causes rage. Iowa is a carry state and I have a permit, but no gun b/c my wife forbids it. She thinks it's bad medicine to mix raising kids and handguns. I see her point and have thus far deferred, but I want to carry for both road rage protection and dog attack protection. Some day, maybe.

I think in all my years taking photos here in Iowa I've been asked "what are you taking pictures of" only once. And that was on my daughter's birthday. I was out shooting a 12exp roll of film to document the day. Guy asked me what I was doing. I told him exactly what. He seemed content with that answer, but still, I wonder why the hell he even asked? That's always the kicker. I mean, I never, in my life, would ask someone what or why the were doing something. I simply don't care, unless you're flying a drone by my bedroom window. I don't own a handgun but do own a shotgun.

What's so weird is that with all the folks snapping away on their phones, you'd think it'd be accepted that you have no privacy in public. It's merely convenient to the lunatics out there, that our larger cameras aren't as inconspicuous as phones are.

 

[bvy]

What's so weird is that with all the folks snapping away on their phones, you'd think it'd be accepted that you have no privacy in public. It's merely convenient to the lunatics out there, that our larger cameras aren't as inconspicuous as phones are.

That's just it. We take such incidents personally as photographers -- who are these people harassing innocent photographers?! -- but I suspect such confrontations are happening quite often to the casual bystander with a camera phone who might just point it in the wrong direction at the wrong time. They might post about it to their friends on Facebook who offer sympathy or support, but it doesn't go as far being a discussion about photographers' rights or photography in the 21st century.

 

[Helios 1984]

Good Gawd! I hope your Bro in law called the coppers. His assailant ought to spend a little time as a guest of the state.

He did, the cops advised to let it go because it could backfire as it would be his words against the other guy words.
Welcome to Canada where you can press charges if you have been murdered...

 

[AgX]

Before WWII broke out in Europe the Germans sent people with families to most of the countries in Europe and they would take family shots with background information in like docks, harbors,airports and other important types of installations to help with their invasion of said country,...

I never heard of that story and doubt it very much.
It may be caused by the socialistic travel programm "Power by Joy" where people could travel via a subsidized state agency. However trips abroad by this organisation were refrained to cruise-ship tours. (Not well suited for spying.) For the rest the financial situation for the great majority of Germans did not allow them to go abroad.
In single cases individual persons sure reported their findings to authorities.

 

[benjiboy]

I never heard of that story and doubt it very much.
It may be caused by the socialistic travel programm "Power by Joy" where people could travel via a subsidized state agency. However trips abroad by this organisation were refrained to cruise-ship tours. (Not well suited for spying.) For the rest the financial situation for the great majority of Germans did not allow them to go abroad.
In single cases individual persons sure reported their findings to authorities.

"Kraft Durch Freude" is more accurately translated into English AgX as "Strength Through Joy".

 

[Harry Stevens]

I never heard of that story and doubt it very much.
It may be caused by the socialistic travel programm "Power by Joy" where people could travel via a subsidized state agency. However trips abroad by this organisation were refrained to cruise-ship tours. (Not well suited for spying.) For the rest the financial situation for the great majority of Germans did not allow them to go abroad.
In single cases individual persons sure reported their findings to authorities.

It was stated in some history programme about WWII and believe me there are thousands of them on UK TV i.e the history and yesterday channels. True or not I don't know.

 

[Steve Smith]

I'd forgotten about the barrel of rum. It was about 25 years ago.

Steve.