Police detain photographer with Leica M6 in London suburb

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Really not funny anymore...

I think that me, my foreign name and my Leica will stay away from GB untill someone there comes back to his sense.

Minor issue: I fail to understand why the fact that it was a Leica M6 is worth mentioning.
Couldn't it have happened with an M2?
 
What's this world coming to? One could understand stuff like this happening to people with Cannonets and Bessas, but when a Leica photographer get arrested, all I can say is God save the Queen!
 
Can't wait to get back to London and shoot street there. I did so last October and got some great shots.

I'm not gonna let the bullies get to me, there's no law against me exercising my rights.
 
George, if you follow these incidents, it seems that the police, when they can't harass these photographers for taking photos, trump up some other charge to hassle them. I think the thread is very relevant.
 
George9 said:
The guy was detained for refusing to take his hands out of his pockets for a search. No Photography General Interest.
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You may be right, but he was asked to be searched apparently for taking pictiures, which I find a tiny bit problematic.
I seldom appreciate to be searched, and I would hate to shoot street photography under the threat of being searched every minute like a potential terrorist or drug dealer.

Bill will answer you for the rest :angel:
 
Obviously they didn't get the memo

Obviously they didn't get the memo

Futher down the web page that Bill posted the link to is a link to this: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...hotographers-and-antiterror-laws-1834626.html which purports that officers and whatever the others are called, some kind of auxillery I guess, are to restrain themselves from hasseling people taking photos.

I guess they didn't get the memo. sigh
 
Oh lord, don't ask.

Anyone from the EU can move here, is entitled to health care, and benefits. France and Germany imposed temporary restrictions on Poles when they joined the EU, the UK didn't.

It has been a double-edged sword. At first we got good plumbers; now they['ve gone home and we're left with the incompetent ones. The main upside is that in far-flung parts of the UK, like bits of Yorkshire or Lincolnshire, you now have a good chance of seeing an attractive woman under 23 who is neither clinically obese nor pregnant. Such creatures were very rare before. The local population in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire has responded to this boon by voting two candidates for the BNP (a nationalist or fascist party, depending on your viewpoint) into the European parliament.

Oh yes, and Poles over here pay UK taxes. It took the UK government some time to realise they would also claim UK benefits....
 
Most (really meaning at least the three countries I have lived in) European health systems run on a reciprocal basis for visits less than 120 days and a variable time after that - when you would presumably be working there and come under the same system as the other residents. Taxes are paid where you earn the money (for earnings) or where you buy stuff (for value-added taxes). There is no import/export tax for normal products within the European area. Any legal European citizen can work all over the place, though sometimes the paperwork to prove that is who you are is irritating. This is, of course, set up in various agreements and not every country signed up to every bit of every agreement, but the gist of the system is so.

Edit . . back on topic, I suppose I'd better take the M3, instead of M6, when I visit relations in London then.
 
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was that M6 chrome or black?

but seriously... what is the world coming to? every time I see another of these "big brother is watching" (and arresting) stories, I get depressed.
 
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I think the real news is in france where a persons image is now owned by that person,makes perfect sense unless youre a fat yorkshire lass where you might like somebody elses:)
 
sanmich said:
Minor issue: I fail to understand why the fact that it was a Leica M6 is worth mentioning. Couldn't it have happened with an M2?
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I think that the reporter was probably a leica snob, i.e., if the perp wasn't using a leica, what he was doing could not possibly be considered photography:p
 
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