Re: Interesting article on the amateur photographer hysteria

"Trev" <trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM> wrote in message 
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> Juan Kerr wrote:
>> On Apr 19, 4:43 pm, Neil Barker <n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> This whole issue is something that has been brewing for a long time
>>> now. About 8 years ago, Stafford****re Police appointed a new head
>>> press-officer by the name of Margaret Kirk. She visited several
>>> regional daily newspapers in the Stafford****re area - one of which
>>> was mine.
>>>
>>> Our editor called me in for a chat with her, to tell her of some of
>>> the problems I had had over the years. I'd had many - mainly at RTAs
>>> being told that I cannot take a photo of it etc, when there is no
>>> law at all stopping me.
>>>
>>
>> Interesting.
>>
>> We had a very nice RTA here a few months ago when I was at work, a
>> stolen car swerved to avoid another vehicle and ended up upside down
>> in a hedge at the end of our road.............my wife decided to take
>> a few snaps but was prevented from doing so by Plod who told her
>> effectively what you've said, i.e "you can't do that, it's against the
>> law".
>>


The only RTA that I have been seen in recent years was before digital 
cameras became as common place as now so I asked the police if they wanted

some pictures before the brigade cut up the car to remove the trapped 
driver.

Of course we have to be PC now, they are RTCs not RTAs.

MB