> DAVDOU9211@xxxxxxx <DAVDOU9211@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 9/2/01 1:34:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> jpendley@xxxxxxx
> writes:
>
>
> "Should I call security?"
>
>
>
> About 9 mos. ago I took my 35SP into a local mall. I wanted to try
> out the
> spot metering and to shoot an architecturally interesting ceiling. I
> took 4
> or 5 shots, none of the people shopping, when a rent-a-cop acosted me
> and
> wanted to know what I was doing. I reponded that I was taking
> photos, why?
> "What for?" "My own enjoyment." "You can't do that in here, it's
> against
> mall rules." " I might have to confiscate your camera and film." I
> told him
> I was going to call the real police if he didn't get away from me and
> that he
> would be commiting theft if he took my camera and assault if he so
> much as
> touched me! Rather than get into a p...ing contest I left the mall
> (with my
> camera and film) but I would be reluctant to go back after that
> experience.
> Sad times we live in. Tom, you must present a more benign appearence
> than I
> do.
>
Essentially the same thing happened to me last year, different continent, same
paranoia !
I was trying something similar last week outside the shopping centre and a
woman shopper told me she was ringing the shopping centre security - good
luck !
Wayne Harridge
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~w_harridge
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