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Subject: Re: At least they didn't shoot me
On 2/5/2013 9:14 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
I posted this story elsewhere, but since it actually has a little to
HR offers to let me have the day off, and they'll square
On Feb 10, 2013, at 10:21 AM, knarftheria...@gmail.com wrote:
Just reading about this now, Larry.
Quite the harrowing experience! Glad you survived intact.
A $25 gift certificate from the cafeteria seems like minimal compensation for
your ordeal. Is the food at least good there?
It's
On 2/5/2013 9:14 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
I posted this story elsewhere, but since it actually has a little to
HR offers to let me have the day off, and they'll square it with my
boss, who knows nothing about this, but I decline. A little later
someone from HR shows up in my cube with a $25
on 2013-02-05 24:14 Larry Colen wrote
What had happened was someone had seen someone with a gun in the parking lot.
Told the guards who went for a look, and didn't see anything. Something got logged and
apparently the night supervisor found out about sometime around midnight, looked on the
Santa Clara is where I stayed before I met up with you while I was out
there, Larry.
I don't /think/ there's any correlation. But, you know, you have been
known to associate with Kentuckians. That arouses immediate (and
somewhat justifiable) suspicion.
Glad everything worked out OK. In my
On 2013-02-05 2:14, Larry Colen wrote:
I, once again, point out that it's very easy to be cooperative when six people
are pointing guns at you.
Probably not required, but MARK!. :-)
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Larry,
I bought a small, colapsing shoulder thingie for use with long lenses.
To Bob W's point, I've never had the courage to actually use it in public. :-)
When I read your note, I couldn't figure out why six guys dressed like
'Santa Claus' were after you.
Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013
On 2/5/2013 10:13, Bob Sullivan wrote:
Larry,
...
When I read your note, I couldn't figure out why six guys dressed like
'Santa Claus' were after you.
Regards, Bob S.
Oh dear, Bob, we are at the same stage in the downhill to dementia - I
did TOO!
ann
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On Mon, Feb 04, 2013, Larry Colen wrote:
I showed up at work this morning, swiped my badge at the gates, was
about to go through when half a dozen Santa Clara policemen came
charging out with guns drawn. I'm standing there, trying to process
the information. Is this some sort of a drill?
Ann,
It's a powerful image, 6 guys in Santa Claus suits jumping out with guns.
But I think our problem is more related to eyesight than dementia.
I can't remember the last time I had problems with that. :-)
Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote:
I had a similar even happen a year ago. I was sitting with my camera on some
steps and IIRC I had a tamron 60-300 sp mounted on my k-7. Some lady saw me and
thought I had a gun and called in. Soon enough a police officer stopped their
car and started staring at me. When the female officer
But if I'd said eyesight I wouldn't have gotten your fun response :-)
(Yes, eyesight - catarac surgery in my fairly near future)
ann
On 2/5/2013 10:39, Bob Sullivan wrote:
Ann,
It's a powerful image, 6 guys in Santa Claus suits jumping out with guns.
But I think our problem is more related to
Ann, The floaters just continuing over here... Regards, Bob S.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Ann Sanfedele ann...@nyc.rr.com wrote:
But if I'd said eyesight I wouldn't have gotten your fun response :-)
(Yes, eyesight - catarac surgery in my fairly near future)
ann
On 2/5/2013 10:39,
On 05/02/2013 9:06 AM, Bob Sullivan wrote:
'OK Bill, you go out to talk to the Crazy, and we'll cover you from the car.
Oh, and remember to wear your vest, will you.'
Soft stop my ass...
You guys probably have forgotten what a soft stop is.
Personally, I don't understand why you put up with
Bill,
Our problem is too many guns, especially in the wrong hands.
We recently lost a teenager who took shelter in a park on a rainy
afternoon with friends on the way home from high school..
The kid who shot her did so because it was his gang's park.
It makes NYC's stop and frisk laws look good.
From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Steve Cottrell
Sent: 05 February 2013 10:00
Luckily for us here, the police are a bit more discerning when it comes
to this sort of thing.
Ahem:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/may/13/ukguns.hughmuir
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The police officer stopped and made sure I didn't have a rifle. Fair enough.
She never asked for my id or searched me. She was checking out a potential
threat. I don't think she did anything wrong. Now stop and frisk is another
story entirely
Bill anotherdrunken...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/2/13, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed:
Ahem:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/may/13/ukguns.hughmuir
Yeah but he deserved it.
And I did say 'a bit' more discerning. Not totally discerning ;-)
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Isn't your state the same one where a major city who's name I won't
mention but who's initials are LA bought back a couple of rocket
launchers for $400 that you could buy in any Army/Navy store as
collectables for about $50 a piece? Oh, and they made a big deal about
getting these dangerous
Larry you are semi famous now!
http://www.photographyisnotacrime.com/2013/02/05/california-man-taken-down-at-gunpoint-for-photographing-airplanes/
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:55 PM, P. J. Alling webstertwenty...@gmail.com wrote:
Isn't your state the same one where a major city who's name I won't
Reading through this, I was wondering why there were 6 cops dressed up
as Santa Claus until I realized Clara not Claus.
That's really nice of your HR department. It wouldn't have surprised
me at all to hear that you had been written up instead.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Larry Colen
Yeah. I had to bitch and moan to get him to pull my last name.
He just didn't seem to understand that my new employer might not want the
incident spread over a blog read by lots of people.
Yes people can track it back to me with work but that would at least require
being able to spell google.
I'm generally supportive of what that guy is doing with his blog. I'm
somewhat surprised that witholding your last name was such an issue though.
l...@red4est.com wrote:
Yeah. I had to bitch and moan to get him to pull my last name.
He just didn't seem to understand that my new employer
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
When someone at the company bought a new gun, they would often bring it in
(unloaded of course) to show it off.
It certainly is a different time and place.
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Back in the mid
The pistol grip with removable pole stock was sold in the US as the
Photo Sniper with a Zenit M42 mount camera body and I think an f4 or
f5.6 300mm lens.
Some guy adapted it for use with his Canon D7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy3fYDQh-X8
That reminds me I really have to rebuild the
Yeah...late '50s...small town where nearly every male over the age of 15
was a hunter. We'd bring shotguns to school, keep them in our lockers
so we could head right out to the corn fields after pheasants.
-p
On 2/5/2013 4:56 PM, David J Brooks wrote:
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Larry
Sounds like a crazy experience. I think your HR people handled it very
well, though they could have done better than a gift card to the company
cafeteria. But then, I'm in HR and I probably would have just reminded
you of the terrorism act of war exclusions in the benefit plans. :-)
Glad
Amateurs produce amateur security, which costs more in dollars, time,
liberty, and dignity while giving us less -- or even no -- security.
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My freshman year in college, the resident floor adviser in the dorm I
lived in was captain of the university's rifle team kept his rifle in
his dorm room.
From: David J Brooks
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote:
When someone at the company bought a new gun,
I posted this story elsewhere, but since it actually has a little to do with
photography, y'all might be amused:
I showed up at work this morning, swiped my badge at the gates, was about to go
through when half a dozen Santa Clara policemen came charging out with guns
drawn. I'm standing
While I'm
waiting for calls, I set up the bigma on my bushhawk, and wait for a
plane to fly over head. While I'm waiting, I try taking some shots of
nearby buildings.
That's a great story, Larry. But I'll bet everyone who's ever considered one
of those rifle stock things has thought about
Tue Feb 5 02:14:02 EST 2013
Larry Colen wrote:
While I'm
waiting for calls, I set up the bigma on my bushhawk, and wait for a
plane to fly over head. While I'm waiting, I try taking some shots of
nearby buildings.
The was a Russian photo-rifle sniper-12 that was based on Zenit SLR.
And
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