March 9th, 2010 | 
Author: We can’t make this stuff up:
Photojournalist Carlos Miller, who operates the Miami-based Photography is Not A Crime Blog was treated to a first hand account of the War on Photography as it is being carried out North of the Mason-Dixon line. He was visiting with a friend and happened to climb onto a pile of snow so that his friend could take a picture with his cellphone. No sooner had his friend clicked the shutter than an angry security guard appeared spouting such nonsense as “photograph is prohibited” and the classic:“This is private property. This belongs to the state.”
WHAAT!!! Private property belongs to the state?!?!? Making matters even worse the guard’s supervisor repeated the same lies. I guess neither of them care that New Jersey Transit has a photography policy that expressly permits photography in all “publicly accessible areas”. Imbeciles.
The text of Carlos’ story along with some pictures and a recording of the conversation with the guards can be seen and heard at the link above.
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Don’t you just love it (not), when someone spouts garbage to you like that? Quite often I’ll look them right in the eye and reply back..
“Do you work hard at being that STUPID.. or does it just come naturally!?”
And some people wonder why their gene pool sometimes needs to be stopped.
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