Forum: Photography


Subject: Man fined for taking photo of woman in public....

gradient opened this issue on Oct 05, 2008 · 29 posts


aangus posted Tue, 07 October 2008 at 4:39 AM

What would have happened if the Polish guy complained to the police that the woman vomiting in the street outside the pub was causing a BOTP I wonder? 
The Judge is obviously in his own little cacoon. How does one be chivelrous to a drunk in the street? Politely step over the puke and pretend not to see?
To be fair, what the story doesn't say is what the guy actually did. He took a photo, but was it from a distance, or was he up in her face snapping away?
I got a hunch the woman was so pissed she just seen him as a target for a drunken rant.
Did she ask him to delete it?
I think she must have had something pretty big to hide, eh?

I remember at a funeral wake (in the widows house ) someone got a camera out and took a photo her. She was asked immediatly to put it away, which she did, rather shamefaced,  but that kind of bothered me, so I know it can cause offence sometimes.
Personally I would not dream of reporting someone for using a camera.  What an amazing waste of police resourses and court time, but certainly makes for a good read here!