scottwallick
ambition ≥ skill
Some time back I posted about being told by a police not to photograph in a subway station.
First experience being told 'not to photograph'
Well, I just read about this fellow
Unlawful arrest for subway photography costs city $30K
So funny, because after my incident (noted in the forums, first link) I too printed out a copy of the MTA's rules saying photography is allowed. Ha!
First experience being told 'not to photograph'
Well, I just read about this fellow
Unlawful arrest for subway photography costs city $30K
So funny, because after my incident (noted in the forums, first link) I too printed out a copy of the MTA's rules saying photography is allowed. Ha!
payasam
a.k.a. Mukul Dube
Appointed as well as self-appointed guardians of the law are often altogether too zealous. In India at least, I have known many of them to make up laws and rules when they wish. I carry a bogus identity card issued by the non-existent Photo Ministry which explicitly authorises me to take photographs of pigs and mice. It looks quite authentic.
pagpow
Well-known
That is a great story and counter, payasam.
Is there a national association of authorized pig and mice photographers (NAAPMP)?
Is there a national association of authorized pig and mice photographers (NAAPMP)?
easyrider
Photo addict
Riders' pix start huge controversy for Toronto Transit
Riders' pix start huge controversy for Toronto Transit
A rider snapped a pic of a Toronto subway ticket taker asleep. Another made a video of a bus driver taking an unauthorized break . . .a huge controversy is brewing in Toronto. (The pix were with digicams, not RFFs -- sorry).
Here is a bit of it from the Toronto Star:
"Two weeks after commuters began aiming cameras at TTC booths, its management and union have launched separate fights to restore the system's reputation and dial back the angry rhetoric between riders and transit workers.
While defiant union head Bob Kinnear lashed out at the public and the media for unfairly portraying front-line transit workers as lazy and rude, TTC chief general manager Gary Webster took aim inside the organization.
"I still care. I'm still proud of the TTC, but the kind of things we're talking about have to stop," Webster told about 900 transit supervisors summoned to three meetings Tuesday . . . "We've allowed ourselves to shift to an environment that is unacceptable. All of us have to accept responsibility for allowing this to happen, me included."
Webster said he became fed up on the weekend after waking up to another round of negative headlines. That prompted him to issue a memo to the TTC's 12,000 employees warning that some of their behaviour is unacceptable.
The memo capped two weeks of published photos and videos showing transit staff sleeping on the job and taking unauthorized breaks."
BTW: The transit rules prohibit taking pix for commercial purposes without permission but news photogs have reported no hassles.
Link:
http://www.thestar.com/printarticle/763055
Riders' pix start huge controversy for Toronto Transit
A rider snapped a pic of a Toronto subway ticket taker asleep. Another made a video of a bus driver taking an unauthorized break . . .a huge controversy is brewing in Toronto. (The pix were with digicams, not RFFs -- sorry).
Here is a bit of it from the Toronto Star:
"Two weeks after commuters began aiming cameras at TTC booths, its management and union have launched separate fights to restore the system's reputation and dial back the angry rhetoric between riders and transit workers.
While defiant union head Bob Kinnear lashed out at the public and the media for unfairly portraying front-line transit workers as lazy and rude, TTC chief general manager Gary Webster took aim inside the organization.
"I still care. I'm still proud of the TTC, but the kind of things we're talking about have to stop," Webster told about 900 transit supervisors summoned to three meetings Tuesday . . . "We've allowed ourselves to shift to an environment that is unacceptable. All of us have to accept responsibility for allowing this to happen, me included."
Webster said he became fed up on the weekend after waking up to another round of negative headlines. That prompted him to issue a memo to the TTC's 12,000 employees warning that some of their behaviour is unacceptable.
The memo capped two weeks of published photos and videos showing transit staff sleeping on the job and taking unauthorized breaks."
BTW: The transit rules prohibit taking pix for commercial purposes without permission but news photogs have reported no hassles.
Link:
http://www.thestar.com/printarticle/763055
robklurfield
eclipse
Scott, from a few weeks ago...
dmr
Registered Abuser
There's a write-up, video, and comments over at Second Avenue Sagas.
http://secondavenuesagas.com/
Hopefully, after a 30 kilobuck penalty, word will get out to the officially-appointed and self-appointed enforcers of this non-law that it is indeed legal to take photos on TA property!
http://secondavenuesagas.com/
Hopefully, after a 30 kilobuck penalty, word will get out to the officially-appointed and self-appointed enforcers of this non-law that it is indeed legal to take photos on TA property!