Yeah, but I doubt any judge will allow someone to be convicted of violating such a ban seeing as there are no signs.
Well, I would assume that the METRA security is the one enforcing any type of ban right?
And if they don’t know anything about any such ban…
Well, I just can’t help myself…
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!
WE WON! WE WON! WE WON!!
I KNEW THAT WOULDN’T LAST FOR LONG!!
WAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
YES!!
A thank-you should be expressed to anyone in the Chicagoland area or anywhere else that had a hand in reversing this. With all due respect to Bob, I’m not sure we have “won” anything…“we” (and I mean photographers in that particular area) may have got back a right that they have had all along. Nothing particularly against the ACLU but in my opinion it’s a sad day when that organization needed to be contacted in order to take a train photo.
On a lighter note, A RELIABLE SOURCE sent me an e-mail that reported it was a UP employee who failed to fuel the Metra train that “ran out of gas” the other day. At the end of the article a man mentioned that he had to stop and take photos of the stopped train to prove to his wife or girlfriend just why he was going to be late. I responded that I hoped this guy was promptly arrested for taking photos in the banned area! Tongue-in-cheek of course. Sort of.
And no I don’t believe every e-mail that is sent to me, if the report that it was a UP employee that fouled up the Metra train is erroneous please let me know as I would like to see that verified somehow.
What makes this Chicago Tribune story particularly interesting is that on the same day it ran, our other daily, the Chicago Sun-Times, finally got around to running a story announcing the UP photo ban.
Whoops.
PS – The Sun Times killed the story on its website.
Reminds me of a comment posted in another thread by another user of this forum:
“Left Hand, please contact Right Hand!”