Re: QR and Photographers

["Dean Stalker" <dstalker2000@hotmail.com>]

Just do it the safe way, make sure the Railway Squad aren't hanging around.
I think the city stations (Bowen Hills <-> Roma St.) are the worst places to
get photos considering the amount of platform staff around, your just asking
to get harrassed.

Actually the thing I find funny is why did the Security Guard decide that if
your taking a photo of a train with graffiti on it, he thought you did the
graffiti. Talk about the stereotypical security guard. BTW They love picking
on teenagers doing the right thing or not.

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"David Bennetts" <davibenn@pcug.org.au> wrote in message
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>
> Kevin Green <kgreen@powerup.com.au> wrote in message
> 38845b64@grissom">news:38845b64@grissom...
> > Hello,
> >
> > Today at Bowen Hills I was confronted by a member of the Railway Squad
and
> > asked what I was doing on the station, I said I was taking pictures of
> > trains (which was what I was doing), he then said he THOUGHT I was
taking
> > pictures of the graffiti on the trains, I said I wasn't and he then
> proceded
> > to search my bad for Spray Paint and then asked if I had a ticket. So I
> > showed him my pass and he said that I'd better leave the station now and
> go
> > home before I got myself into any more trouble.
> >
> > Is taking pictures of trains at a railway station now illegal in
> Queensland
> > or something????
> >
> >
> > Reagrds
> > Matthew Green
> > kgreen@powerup.com.au
> > ICQ 51630312
> >
>
> I don't see it being illegal to take pictures of trains, whether or not
they
> have graffiti on them, even in Queensland.  More disturbing is the bag
> search, I doubt whether the Railway Squad would have the right to do this
> without calling the police.  Even if they found a spray can in your bag,
so
> what?  You could have been taking it home to paint something.  Too bad
what
> the Railway Squad (are these employees or Contractors in Qld?) THOUGHT, he
> should have had reasonable grounds to suspect you of being up to no good.
>
> I think this instance (and previous ones reported in this newsgroup) of a
> railfan being intimidated in Queensland by officials needs to be taken
> further - it is more akin to what used to go on in Eastern Europe under
> repressive regimes than in a free democracy.  If this sort of treatment
> happened to me I would stand my ground, and if security took it further
they
> would be on the receiving end of charges for assault and/or wrongful
arrest.
>
> I detest graffitists and vandals, but harrassment of people photographing
> trains is an utter waste of time by the "Railway Squad".
>
> Regards
>
> David Bennetts
> Canberra
>
>