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Amtrak Photo Contestant Arrested By Amtrak Police
Photographer Duane Kerzic was standing on the public platform in New York's Penn Station, taking pictures of trains in hopes of winning the annual photo contest that Amtrak had been running since 2003. Amtrak police arrested him for refusing to delete the photos when asked, though they later charged him with trespassing. "Obviously, there is a lack of communication between Amtrak's marketing department, which promotes the annual contest, called Picture Our Trains, and its police department, which has a history of harassing photographers for photographing these same trains. Not much different than the JetBlue incident from earlier this year where JetBlue flight attendants had a woman arrested for refusing to delete a video she filmed in flight while the JetBlue marketing department hosted a contest encouraging passengers to take photos in flight." Kerzic's blog has an account of the arrest on Dec. 21 and the aftermath.
the contest winner.
Arrest the non-winners!
Rick B.
Or just comply and delete them. Then after the police release you and you're walking away, shout "But I have undeletion software on my computer at home that will recover them!"
Then run.
he should be arrested for abusing the LensBaby
he's not a photographer, he's a motion sickness inducing quack
Sounds like the police derailed his plans.
Maybe they need more training.
That's no way to conduct themselves.
The marketing department is on the right track here.
Someone should engineer a solution.
"Kittens give Morbo gas!"
The point of the contest is not to take really great pictures, it's to try to get away with it. It all makes sense now, it's just a ploy to test their private police.
How many NYC transit cops does it take to push a camera nerd down the stairs?
None, he tripped.
Canine dogs? As opposed to the other kind?
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
>"I would suggest confronting the situation legally but head-on as an intelligent person who should be able to defend themselves in these situations...."
"Have you ever been arrested?"
"Sure...once."
"And what was that for?"
"Molesting an officer, why?"
you offend me just by breathing. therefore stop breathing - its a national security issue since you exhale carbon dioxide and warm the planet. you idiot! dont you see that you will kill SIX BILLION people.
if a law enforcement official asked someone to stop breathing, detained the person and hung them or asked them to commit suicide I'd be happier than if they just sat idly by out of fear of stepping all over their precious dignity.
I can't seem to find the area on google earth now.
Obviously it had been deleted...
This would be a great way for celebrities to deal with paparazzi taking photos of them in public places. The Paris Hilton Police could simply arrest photographers and confiscate their material.
Have gnu, will travel.
...none of those things are as much a precondition of successful terrorist action like photography in the Mumbai attacks.
I can guarantee you that if we ban (and are successful in enforcing the ban) eating and sleeping, we will prevent future terrorist attacks. I'd say those things are very much a precondition of a successful terrorist action - much more so than photographs.
"Is it illegal to take photos?" If they claim it is, then ask why they want you to delete evidence. If not ask them why they want you to delete lawfully taken photos.
And poof the police vanished in a puff of logic!
I drink to make other people interesting!
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And we're not even asking you to bleed. Just get tazed a little bit, bro.
Intersex and transgender?
Curiosity is piqued as to how someone who is, by very definition, "of both sexes" (excluding very specific chromosomalities), can be "transgender", the belief that one's gender is opposite to that of their physical characteristics at birth.
Failing that, the very desire to identify as transgender engenders (haha) a belief that you are of a specific gender, regardless of physical characteristics - then using the nominals "sie" and "hir" are counter to that, because they are the very elucidation of the perception that you/they are "different" altogether.
My personal belief is that a lot of times, such nominatives are rather used far more to draw attention to one's self as being different than for genuine identity, and despite the constant protestations that one does not want to be seen or treated as different in any way.
Curiosity is piqued as to how someone who is, by very definition, "of both sexes", can be "transgender", the belief that one's gender is opposite to that of their physical characteristics at birth.
They were born a hermaphrodite, but inside they feel like a himaphrodite.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.