Anyone ever arrested for taking a photo in the U.S.?

Tom Scales wrote:
Inside the airport is covered by the Patriot act and is illegal. It's posted
in almost every airport I've been in. Not sure what the photos would do for
you.

Tom
"JustaPawn" wrote in message
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I was killing time in the airport in NY one morning, shooting the empty
escalators, etc. Some Nazi-rent-a-security gave me a bunch of grief

claiming

I'd be arrested if I continued...

homeland security and all...



REally haven't noticed, and I have been to DFW,LAS,SEA,Charlotte,
lately. If it was posted, I missed it completely. But then I don't see
much in an airport to photograph.

One of the guys at a local camera store said he was tracked down and
questioned after taking pictures of a local (Omaha, NE) 40-story bank
building.

John

Yeah -- it surely would be easy to get arrested if you work at it. And
appearing to case a bank might be a way :-)

Phil

Johnny wrote:

One of the guys at a local camera store said he was tracked down and
questioned after taking pictures of a local (Omaha, NE) 40-story bank
building.

John

"Johnny" wrote in message
et...
One of the guys at a local camera store said he was tracked down and
questioned after taking pictures of a local (Omaha, NE) 40-story bank
building.

John

John and et all,
I don't know if any of you are old enough to remember McCarthyism ( a US of
A phenomenon) where anyone who was a communist in 1921 was a red under the
bed. Likewise at the out break of WW2 in the US of A all Japanese, looking
individuals where interned. Likewise any Italians, Germans and Japanese
where interned funny enough the Russians where are allies in WW2 ( strictly
a marriage of convenience).
It seems History is repeating itself as though we are reliving the same
scenario over and over again , its like a science fiction story except its
real. Tony Blare our prim minister said at his hustings education education
education we its a fine mess he's got us into where is the education
education educatiion?!!!
Freedom costs with over reaction and loss of freedom. sacrifice the few for
the many!!! One has to exercise some common sense.
MikeS

In article ,
Johnny wrote:

One of the guys at a local camera store said he was tracked down and
questioned after taking pictures of a local (Omaha, NE) 40-story bank
building.

John

Any member of NPPA (National Press Photographers Association) can detail
frequent arrests of working TV and still photographers while covering
various news events. This is not a recent occurrence. They have been
going on for years. In some cases cameras have been destroyed or
confiscated, as have film or tape and photographers manhandled or
injured by over zealous police. Almost every issue of the NPPA magazine
has a current story of a photographer being arrested.

And these are photographers who are doing their job as press reporters.

And yes, sometimes the photographer may be interfering with a crime
scene. Frequently they aren't.

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To reply no_ HPMarketing Corp.

MikeS wrote:

"Johnny" wrote in message
et...

One of the guys at a local camera store said he was tracked down and
questioned after taking pictures of a local (Omaha, NE) 40-story bank
building.

John


John and et all,
I don't know if any of you are old enough to remember McCarthyism ( a US of
A phenomenon) where anyone who was a communist in 1921 was a red under the
bed. Likewise at the out break of WW2 in the US of A all Japanese, looking
individuals where interned. Likewise any Italians, Germans and Japanese
where interned funny enough the Russians where are allies in WW2 ( strictly
a marriage of convenience).
It seems History is repeating itself as though we are reliving the same
scenario over and over again , its like a science fiction story except its
real.

I think you are expanding the context of the original thread. There
likely has been no era when taking pictures of banks or military
facilities or businesses involved in military production (or even such
as MicroSoft in Redmond) would not arouse justifiable suspicion.

Admittedly 9/11 has increased sensitivities, but caution is hardly
McCarthyism. BTW -- I have the tape "Point of Order": Truly chilling,
just as when I watched it on live TV in the 50s.

Phil

I was once stopped by GE police while taking a night picture of a General
Electric sign in Schenectady, NY. Seems I has wandered onto GE property in
order to get the best view. Upshot? They got my film.

I haven't taken my best picture yet.

"MikeS" wrote in message
...

"Johnny" wrote in message
et...
One of the guys at a local camera store said he was tracked down and
questioned after taking pictures of a local (Omaha, NE) 40-story bank
building.

John

John and et all,
I don't know if any of you are old enough to remember McCarthyism ( a US
of
A phenomenon) where anyone who was a communist in 1921 was a red under the
bed. Likewise at the out break of WW2 in the US of A all Japanese, looking
individuals where interned. Likewise any Italians, Germans and Japanese
where interned funny enough the Russians where are allies in WW2 (
strictly
a marriage of convenience).
It seems History is repeating itself as though we are reliving the same
scenario over and over again , its like a science fiction story except its
real. Tony Blare our prim minister said at his hustings education
education
education we its a fine mess he's got us into where is the education
education educatiion?!!!
Freedom costs with over reaction and loss of freedom. sacrifice the few
for
the many!!! One has to exercise some common sense.
MikeS



You might want to check your facts here. At no time we German or Itialians
put into intrernment camps, that was strictly and only west coast Japanese.

Good luck.

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:13:12 -0500, David Dyer-Bennet
wrote:

Phil Wheeler writes:

Chuck wrote:

No .. but I've been to events where they ban any camera with a removable
lens.

Where and why ?

A music event in Palm Springs and I did not ask why.

It's common to ban photography at public performances; presumably to
maintain their control over images of the valuable performers. This
sounds like maybe a compromise, intended to allow people snapshots of
their big fun, while still protecting the commercially usable photos.

And will no doubt become less common since there are so many
high-quality digital cameras with long-zoom fixed lenses on them :-).

A local(ish) venue in nottingham called Rock City has a slightly more
restrictive policy... nothing that looks professional, and no digital
cameras... which more or less restricts you to the throw away
(Disposable) point and shoot films; even then they are sometimes funny
over the ones with built in flashes.

There are a couple of reasons for them being fussy, one is that the
bands that play may have issues with copyrights over their images (or
something along thoes lines, the usual bull.) the other is incase
there is anyone under age that is in the venue who might be snapped
and "published," as the licence is 18+ Other smaller venues tend to
restrict the entrance age to younger (16+) as they are not night clubs
but rather public venues that have an alcohol license.


--
Jonathan Wilson.
www.somethingerotic.com

On 26 Jun 2004 16:45:27 -0700, (JohnCM)
wrote:

Some agencies, like New Jersey Transit and PATH, claim that anyone
caught taking photographs of their system will be arrested. So I
wonder, has anyone ever been arrested or detained by the police for a
long period of time, for taking a photo?
Malls can be touchy about it too. With the post 9-11 paranoia going
strong, many people have claimed to be questioned or harassed by the
police.
The closest case I've heard personally of an arrest was an individual
who was taking photographs of the light rail (trolley) system in New
Jersey, HBLR, which is run by NJT. They were detained for a few hours,
and forced to either delete the photos they took, or be arrested
and/or having their cameras seized.
With law enforcement so hell bent on violating individual civil
rights, perhaps it's better to find a way to hide your camera.

Its all a conspiricy to make us take no photos but just buy postcards
that have been passed as acceptable by the postcard cartels ;-)

Some areas have been off limits photography wise for many years,
purely through old laws and acts of parliment (Ok, its uk not the us,
but same generality) but most people used to get away with it... 9/11
even in the UK ramped up suspision and made a lot of enforcement
agenys get tough...

A lot of the laws banning photography in various areas/locations in
the UK were inacted in WW1 and 2... and like most laws were never
repealed...

It would be funny if someone was arrested for photographing MI5's
headquarters, especially as it was built to stand out and be a feature
of london as you enter it. If they didnt want it photographed, they
should have hidden the fecking thing, not built it in london, and not
told anyone it was there, lol.

Funny thing is (not for them obviously) that some UK plane spotters
were arrested in greece and charged with taking photographs of
military planes... HMG (Her magistys gov) got on to greece and said it
was not on... yet is more than willing to arrest local plane spotters
taking photos of military planes in the UK... go figure!


--
Jonathan Wilson.
www.somethingerotic.com