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By: Jim March

We ought to make the cops grab small stinging insects in their hands. After all, beauty is the in the eye of the bee holder. Ahem. Sorry. On a more serious note, what we have here is an extension of...

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By: Judas Peckerwood

Seriously, did they even do this kind of shit back in the old Soviet Union?

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By: FridayNext

As someone involved with the field of public history, let me add that their are scholarly reasons to document architectural structures, even industrial ones. There is a whole field of industrial...

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By: Jack Dempsey

I think you are all being too hard on the cops. They have a hard job to do – remember, they think everyone is out to kill them and make sure they don’t go home at the end of their shift, and people...

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By: Mister DNA

Crap. I just went to the link and read the comments. There’s some hardcore bootlicking going on there.

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By: croaker

@13 Actually, they were much worse. Take a picture of the wrong thing (people standing in line for bread) and the Army would drag you off to prison.

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By: Frank Hummel

Warning, racist comment. Asif Kahn detains Sander Roscoe Wolff for suspicion of terrorist activities. How ironic is that?

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By: Ben

“Now we got a nice, quiet little beach community here, and I aim to keep it nice and quiet. So let me make something plain. I don’t like you sucking around, bothering our citizens, Wolff. I don’t like...

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By: freebob

“Sander Roscoe… regular contributor to Long Beach Post” “officers make such judgments “based on their overall training and experience”” I’m sure as Roscoe was explaining to the officer that he’s a...

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By: Henry Bowman

Seriously, did they even do this kind of shit back in the old Soviet Union? Yes, they did. I spent quite a bit of time in the old USSR, and I took a lot of photos. But, we were very explicitly warned...

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By: smeghead

Because this has gotten so goddamned ridiculous. No doubt!

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By: Mister DNA

“Now we got a nice, quiet little beach community here, and I aim to keep it nice and quiet. So let me make something plain. I don’t like you sucking around, bothering our citizens, Wolff. I don’t like...

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By: Bronwyn

@ Mister DNA It’s Trinity University in San Antonio (class of ’99) :)

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By: Maria

Don’t tell Jim McDonnell about Google earth or Google street view… or telephoto lenses. I personally love the look of factories and industrial equipment, especially power generation. I guess my...

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By: Mannie

” officers make such judgments “based on their overall training and experience” and will generally approach photographers not engaging in “regular tourist behavior.” In other words, based only on...

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By: Boyd Durkin

My buddy from the future says that the Camera Registration Act of Jan 2014 resulted in all photographs being instantly uploaded to the Homeland Security RaPicScan database. This prevents people from...

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By: JS

Maria “Also, why do these cops always think that the photographer strolling around the front gate with their obvious camera is the suspicious terrorist?” They don’t really. Terrorism is just an excuse....

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By: varmintito

As an occasional industrial archaeologist (wow, that sounds so much fancier than “guy who thinks abandoned factories look interesting”), this approach to crime-fighting is absurd. 1. Chemical plants,...

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By: EJ

Somebody should have told Ridley Scott that refinery had no aesthetic value before he went and used it for the opening shot of Blade Runner.

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By: Steve

Lots of bootlicking indeed over there. We can clearly see that some people actually believe the propaganda that says “there’s a terrorist hiding behind every dumpster.”

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