Read the heart-warming story of Danny Hurley, and how he got held at gunpoint and handcuffed, for taking a picture of a B-24 Liberator.
My article title comes from this part of the article:
But according to one of the crew, they had ID’d me as one of theirs, and the tower knew and tried to call it off. But once the wheels were set in motion, it could not be stopped. The pilots were pretty much cool and laughed at me and were even willing to escort me to take more shots. One old-timer gruffed under his breath, “It’s the U.S.A., not U.S.S.R. — I didn’t fight to protect this shit.” One even offered me his seat on a ride.
Don’t we all feel safer now?
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I just left this comment over at Unc’s, but I will duplicate it here… This irks me, but not in the way you might expect. The writer of the article made it clear, the photographer made it clear, and the photographer made it even more clear in follow-up comments to the original post – he was not cuffed for taking pictures. He was harassed for being on the “tarmac”, whatever the hell that is.
I am all for telling the government to get back in its gorramed hole, but accuracy matters…
Do you have a link to the original article? My Web-Fu is apparently weak right now.
Interesting that that one article reported it as such, and hasn’t corrected it.
Well either way, the final sentiment remains.
http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2009/06/how_a_heartwarming_kick-ass_fa.php
Be sure to check out the photographer’s comments later in the thread… He sounds like more than a bit of an apologist, but the story he tells does not line up to “detained for taking photographs”.
Or, rather, that was the link you already had. Just read through and look for the photographer’s comments. Sure, he was taking pictures, but they cuffed him because he was actually physically somewhere he should not have been.
Ah, I see it now. “Danno” is the commentor/photographer.
Thanx.
Hm. Yeah. Forgot to mention that part. Sorry :).