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Again, on private property (including the Overstreet Mall--ESPECIALLY inside of the building), they can tell you to do the Chicken Dance if they want to. But outside of the building in public right-of-way, tell them to pound sand and bring the biggest lawsuit known to mankind on them if they give you crap about taking pictures. I don't care if I'm wearing a turban and chanting "Allah this and that," you can't stop someone from taking pictures of a 60-story building!
Again, on private property (including the Overstreet Mall--ESPECIALLY inside of the building), they can tell you to do the Chicken Dance if they want to. But outside of the building in public right-of-way, tell them to pound sand and bring the biggest lawsuit known to mankind on them if they give you crap about taking pictures. I don't care if I'm wearing a turban and chanting "Allah this and that," you can't stop someone from taking pictures of a 60-story building!
Tell that to Kamran Akhtar, who was arrested in 2004 after filming the buildings.....not sure if he even had his turban on.
Last edited by Megax; 08-25-2009 at 09:08 AM..
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Somehow I think the charges put against him were for more than videotaping some buildings....
Right, it would have been more along the lines of conspiring to commit a terrorist act, however Steve said that 'you can't stop someone from taking pictures of a 60-story building' and that's eactly what law enforcement did.
If you were to be approached by security and/or law enforcement, and if you're on the up-and-up, you should be able to give them a clean story. I'm taking pics of architecture, I'm gathering sights for a website, I'm a student trying to find interesting shots for my project. Those situations should be allowed. Now, get mouthy with the cops, ignore their questions, or just generally act any sort of suspicious, and they have every right to give you some hassle...just as they would someone acting shady in a neighborhood or anywhere else.
My argument is that you can detailed 3D images of the buildings from Google Earth...or better yet, you could easily ride slowly by in a vehicle getting all the covert pics you wanted. So by stopping the 99.999% innocent folks walking by on the streets, they're not thwarting anything and are only proving Ben Franklin's comment of "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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