By Carlos Miller
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, which can only mean one thing. Terrorists are out to kill us.
No, I’m not talking about the usual suspects who wage War on Christmas by wishing everybody Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas.
I’m talking about those brazen terrorists who strap digital cameras to their bodies and immerse themselves in crowded public places under the pretense that they are photographing Christmas lights.
Anybody with any sense knows that they will use those photos to … well, I don’t know … maybe do a before-and-after comparison once they bomb the place? Your guess is as good as mine.
But thanks to the sharp-eyed police officers of the United Kingdom, citizens can sleep well because those culprits are being weeded out one-by-one with the help of the new anti-terrorism law that turned all photographers into suspected terrorists.
The latest suspect is Andrew White, a 33-year-old man with a shaved head and goatee. And a camera. In other words, he fits the profile of a terrorist perfectly.
Police told the Daily Mail that he was stopped for “taking too many photographs in a busy shopping area.”
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It’d be interesting to hear the threshold for “too many photographs” there; as well as the numbers for an average shopping area, a quiet one, etc…
I won’t even fly anymore because of the whole ordeal. I just want these stupid wars to end. This is a great link which says it all:
http://americaspeaksink.com/2009/12/a-season-in-hell/
He should have been stopped by the fashion police. Are rainbow camera straps still in fashion?
In other news, TDM reports that the average chav has only thirty and a half teeth, a foreigner is interviewing for your job right now, and boffins show that chavism is up 225% since we stopped giving kids a good and proper birching.
I have no idea what that last comment was about. Hope we don’t follow the UK on this trend but it seems to be coming.
I know of some local photographers who were run off by the Boca police for photographing near the local airport .. but it is getting pretty bad .. I don’t know how many different people stopped and asked me what I was shooting while on a night shoot in nearby Delray Beach .. If the USA starts considering folks with a camera to be doing terrorist acts, we’re all in trouble .. even worse than the scenario in Orwell’s “1984: .. just more of the hypocrisy in the world .. such as Sony making all this equirpment to be able to make your own cd’s and dvd’s and then abusing your rights by imbedding software in them to spy on your computer usage to make sure you aren’t copying any of their content ..
From this article in The Independent, it sounds like the UK establishment is starting to hear photographers’ complaints-
Maybe change will come.
Well, in this one case, and in defence of the police, let’s face it – the guy’s carrying a RUSSIAN camera! He’s obviously a spy.
andrew should be inTERRORgated about why he still has that monitor
My whole life I wanted to visit the UK. Until a few years ago that is, when all of the police there turned into a bunch of paranoid photographer hating psychos.