Comments on: Are photographers really a threat? http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2008/06/08/are-photographers-really-a-threat/ RPGs. Trains, and bands that write 12 minute songs about Hobbits Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:09:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Michael Orton http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2008/06/08/are-photographers-really-a-threat/#comment-3244 Michael Orton Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:27:18 +0000 http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/2008/06/08/are-photographers-really-a-threat/#comment-3244 Not so long ago our church warden was hauled in by the police for taking a photo of a rare bus double-decker bus going under a particulalry low railway bridge. So it's not just the railway enthusiasts who are under threat, anyone taking a photo which happens to have a railway bridge in it is vulnerable. On a similar theme, someone taking a picture of a model locomotive at my club got an ear-bashing from the mother of a child who happened to be in the proximity. Since it was a digital camera, the peace was kept by deleting the offending photo and taking another, but if it had been a film camera the situation would have been far more fraught. It seems anyone wielding a camera is a threat to someone. How long before carrying a mobile phone with a camera in becomes a public order offence? Not so long ago our church warden was hauled in by the police for taking a photo of a rare bus double-decker bus going under a particulalry low railway bridge.

So it’s not just the railway enthusiasts who are under threat, anyone taking a photo which happens to have a railway bridge in it is vulnerable.

On a similar theme, someone taking a picture of a model locomotive at my club got an ear-bashing from the mother of a child who happened to be in the proximity. Since it was a digital camera, the peace was kept by deleting the offending photo and taking another, but if it had been a film camera the situation would have been far more fraught.

It seems anyone wielding a camera is a threat to someone. How long before carrying a mobile phone with a camera in becomes a public order offence?

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