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Re: Detained on WMATA while taking pictures |
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Posted by Sand Box John on Tue Nov 14 10:30:29 2006, in response to Re: Detained on WMATA while taking pictures, posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Mon Nov 13 15:57:50 2006. I think you would have been much better off just moving on and going to another station or coming back later. This seems to be an isolated incident, I can't recall the last time I had trouble taking photos on the Metro.Oren, This was not an isolated incident. I have been confronted 3 of the last 4 times I have been on metrorail by WMATA employees that don’t know the policy. The last incident happened on the same day in the same station more then 20 minutes after I took this picture. I was first confronted by a station cleaner as I was waiting for the next Green line train to Greenbelt at the 4 car stop marker that called the station manager to the platform. I firmly and politely stood my ground and told the station manager that their was no and never has been a policy prohibiting casual photography on WMATA property and that I understood here concern. In this last incident I was confronted after taking pictures on the platform followed by a series of pictures of and from the mezzanine in the full view of the same station manager and few pictures as I was waiting for the next Green line train to arrive. No request was made of me to wait for the police to arrive and inquire as to why I was taking pictures. When the next Green line train arrived I boarded and left the station. Only 4 people knew that the above linked picture was taken prior to it being publishing now. John in the sand box of Maryland's eastern shore. |
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