Holy Crap! Has this ever happened to you?

A man attacked the photographer.
I've often wandered if I would get in trouble and if something like this
might happen when doing street photography. So far, nothing though.

J

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk...ws_181194.html

i wonder what he is hiding from?





On Feb 18, 11:49*am, "Jay" wrote:
A man attacked the photographer.
I've often wandered if I would get in trouble and if something like this
might happen when doing street photography. So far, nothing though.

J

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk...r_attack_on_am...

'It would appear the victim, an amateur photographer who enjoys taking
snaps of London street scenes, was taking shots on escalators when a
member of the public took exception to having his photo taken and
asked him to delete the photo,' said PC Ben Dawson.

'The photographer told him he could not delete the shot as it was not
a digital camera.

==========================

Then the Luddite should have been punched in the face.

"Annika1980" wrote in message
...
'It would appear the victim, an amateur photographer who enjoys taking
snaps of London street scenes, was taking shots on escalators when a
member of the public took exception to having his photo taken and
asked him to delete the photo,' said PC Ben Dawson.

'The photographer told him he could not delete the shot as it was not
a digital camera.

==========================

Then the Luddite should have been punched in the face.

LOL, who else but you would come up with this?

On 2/18/08 1:47 PM, in article
,
"Annika1980" wrote:

'It would appear the victim, an amateur photographer who enjoys taking
snaps of London street scenes, was taking shots on escalators when a
member of the public took exception to having his photo taken and
asked him to delete the photo,' said PC Ben Dawson.

'The photographer told him he could not delete the shot as it was not
a digital camera.

==========================

Then the Luddite should have been punched in the face.

If he told him that it was not a *Canon* digital camera, that is...

On Feb 18, 12:49 pm, "Jay" wrote:
A man attacked the photographer.
I've often wandered if I would get in trouble and if something like this
might happen when doing street photography. So far, nothing though.

J

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk...r_attack_on_am...

I was shooting the Orange Parade in Belfast on 12 July 2000 (a huge
Protestant holiday, especially that year) when a guy came out of the
crowd from across the street and lunged at me. Apparently I had
violated some Orange rule that you "don't break the ranks" when I
started to cross the road between two parade groups.

Unfortunately I didn't have the presence of mind to get a couple of
shots off as this guy came across the street at me. At the time I was
carrying two T-90s and an AE1-P, and I distinctly remember being ready
to hit that guy upside the head with the AE1-P.

Fortunately, a couple of the guy's less-inebriated mates intervened on
time, and I was spared an "international incident".

A few weeks after this--in fact, on the day before I had to start back
to the US via London, I was taking some architectural shots of Belfast
when a guy came up to me and introduced himself, saying he was one of
the guys who had restrained his friend at the parade. He apologized
for his friend, and, knowing that I was a journalist, sat down and
talked to me for quite some time from the Protestant perspective of
what was going on there, politically and such.

It was rather heartwarming, to listen to this guy defend his culture
and community, even though I know that he had assumed that any
journalist coming from the States would almost automatically have
Republican sympathies.

I am just glad to have avoided an ass-whuppin.

--
YOP...

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:13:36 -0800 (PST), Nervous Nick
wrote in
:

Unfortunately I didn't have the presence of mind to get a couple of
shots off as this guy came across the street at me. At the time I was
carrying two T-90s and an AE1-P, and I distinctly remember being ready
to hit that guy upside the head with the AE1-P.

Probably would have destroyed the AE-1. I'd have used a T-90,
affectionately known as the "tank", which has been known to survive much
worse than that. My T-90 is easily my favorite film camera.

--
Best regards,
John Navas
Panasonic DMC-FZ8 (and several others)

~^ beancounter ~^ wrote:
i wonder what he is hiding from?

Assault charges, now...



On Feb 18, 11:49 am, "Jay" wrote:
A man attacked the photographer.
I've often wandered if I would get in trouble and if something like this
might happen when doing street photography. So far, nothing though.

J

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk...r_attack_on_am...

On Feb 18, 11:49 am, "Jay" wrote:
A man attacked the photographer.
I've often wandered if I would get in trouble and if something like this
might happen when doing street photography. So far, nothing though.

J

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk...r_attack_on_am...

I have been doing serious street photography for 3 years now, and I
have been questioned by the cops at least four times about what I'm up
to. They always take down my personal Info. I can only imagine what
they did with that.

On Feb 18, 9:53 pm, John Navas wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:13:36 -0800 (PST), Nervous Nick
wrote in
:

Unfortunately I didn't have the presence of mind to get a couple of
shots off as this guy came across the street at me. At the time I was
carrying two T-90s and an AE1-P, and I distinctly remember being ready
to hit that guy upside the head with the AE1-P.

Probably would have destroyed the AE-1. I'd have used a T-90,
affectionately known as the "tank", which has been known to survive much
worse than that. My T-90 is easily my favorite film camera.

I loved those T-90s! Until they both got stolen along with thousands
of dollars worth of glass, etc. and effectively put me out of the
freelance/on-spec business. That's why it was a no-brainer to
reflexively grasp the AE-1. Sure, it would have destroyed the camera,
but think of what it might have done to that dude's face.

--
YOP...