I'm sorry folks, I've had a number of challenges last week. My router went down, death in the family plus a work related accident.
I'm stating now for the record I'm the kind of guy that will help the police arrest someone who deserves to go to jail, but I will intercede against the police if it's a bullshit arrest. If a cop is chasing someone and is yelling stop or I'll shoot, I'm going to trip the perp. As I did last summer.
So back to my rant.
All three cops came up to me and surrounded me, one came within arms length and asked me "are you recording girls ?". I replied I was recording everyone. He told me to put my cigarette out, put the camera down (I wish now it was on ) and come away from the people I was talking to.
"We had a report that you were recording girls". Great, they think I'm a perv. I replied again I was recording everybody, doing like heavy metal parking lot. But Joan Jet smoking area. "Let's see your ID"." "How long have you been in Kalifornia ?"
Two weeks sir. "What are you doing in Kalifornia ?" Vacationing with my family sir.( I was born less than 10 miles away from the venue). "Have you ever been arrested?". Failure to appear on a traffic , here he interrupts me and says "I'll tell you right now you better not be lying to me" ! Now one of the other cops gets in my face and yells "are you on parole or probation"?
No sir, I never have been. Again one of the cops yells " you better not be lying to us" !
Now I'm worried they are going to tell me to empty my pockets. I'm thinking ahh shit , they are not going to like my pocket knife at all . (Or the machine gun videos on my camera if they took it ;)
(See # 2)
http://www.aceros-de-hispania.com/image ... knives.jpg Well, the first cop gets closer to me and with (I assume) his most intimidating voice tells me" let me give you some advice, if you don't want us to totally ruin your night , you need to go back into the concert with your family and enjoy the show".
Yes sir I replied, and walked away. I was pissed, but relieved they didn't search me. I don't know if they had probable cause or not as I figured in such a venue they can search anyone anytime.
Now, I know in the big picture of getting into trouble this ain't shit ( I was accused of bank robbery once), and I may be coming off as a whiner, but still I looked for signs saying no recording and there were none visible. It's not like I was up-skirting or had any nefarious intent what so ever. I am also aware that video recording is somewhat invasive, and I have researched the legality of public recording. Anyways I was in a public venue where there are security cameras watching everything they can. I figured it was no big deal.
Fuck those cops.
What are you? Some short sighted trigger puller? - RR3 .
Mr.wRong.