Hobbyist or Terrorist?
May 25, 2004 | 7:28 pm
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Hobbyist or Terrorist?
(For all you plane-spotters out there...)
Admiring trains has been a refuge for generations of men. Now it can get you a visit from the police
"Anyone seen taking photographs is going to be questioned," laments Richard Maloney, spokesman for SEPTA, Philadelphia's public-transit authority. "The wide-open spaces and the freedom we have enjoyed to meander almost anywhere is gone." Urban train buffs report being surrounded by police cars and customs agents. A Haverford College student of South Asian descent was detained last year by SEPTA police after he photographed a station homework for an urban-history class, as it turned out.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...638410,00.html
(So remind me again, who is terrorizing us?)
Admiring trains has been a refuge for generations of men. Now it can get you a visit from the police
"Anyone seen taking photographs is going to be questioned," laments Richard Maloney, spokesman for SEPTA, Philadelphia's public-transit authority. "The wide-open spaces and the freedom we have enjoyed to meander almost anywhere is gone." Urban train buffs report being surrounded by police cars and customs agents. A Haverford College student of South Asian descent was detained last year by SEPTA police after he photographed a station homework for an urban-history class, as it turned out.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...638410,00.html
(So remind me again, who is terrorizing us?)
May 25, 2004 | 7:42 pm
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Originally Posted by HeHateY
"Anyone seen taking photographs is going to be questioned," laments Richard Maloney, spokesman for SEPTA, Philadelphia's public-transit authority. "The wide-open spaces and the freedom we have enjoyed to meander almost anywhere is gone."
"Why are you taking pictures?"
"Go @#$% yourself."
May 26, 2004 | 2:07 pm
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Originally Posted by PresRDC
Just heard on the radio this morning that the MTA is considering banning all photgaphy on the NYC subway system.
