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Old 10-10-2011, 12:38   #17
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Re: "Boycott Braehead" campaign over yet more anti-photographer stupidity

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Originally Posted by Derek View Post
What's more likely? That the Police got involved as the guy was being a twonk with security who were investigating a legitimate concern (not involving his daughter) and when he started getting "I pay your wages", put him in his place and left him to it or they got involved with an honest belief he was an undercover suicide bomber.
What concern was there other than the photos of his daughter? As Paul said, he has every right to be a twonk, especially when faced by one (the security guard who lacked the brain cells to establish that the man was photographing his daughter on an afternoon out at the shops).

Having waited patiently for the police to arrive - which he was under absolutley no obligation to do - I would also have been pretty cheesed off if the officers attending had failed to very quickly establish that there was nothing happening worth their time and attention.

Unless the man concerned was demonstrably doing something completely other than what has been reported, it's truly difficult to see any other way of reading this story.
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