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| There Ain't No Justice |
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"To Protect And Serve"
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(and occasionally harass innocent photographers)
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by Public Enemy #3
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A while ago I decided to take some pictures of a meteor shower. During
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the day I looked for a good spot to set up my camera (I'm semiprofessional;
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I sell occasional shots to the papers), and soon I found a nice spot on a
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beach near the hook.
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At around 11:30 I went to the beach area I had found and set up my
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camera to wait for some meteors. I had the radio tuned to a heavy metal
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station, and it may have been a little loud. After about an hour (and some
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good meteor pictures) two cops showed up. They swaggered up to me and
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demanded that I turn off the radio. I did, but then they told me I was on
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private property. I told them I didn't know that, and asked to see the sign.
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They shined their flashlights away from my eyes for a minute and pointed to
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a knocked-over sign ten feet off the road, broken, and half covered in
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weeds. Since I figured I could find somewhere else to take pictures, I
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decided to move on. I told them I had to pack up my photography equipment.
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One of the "wonderfully kind" officers stood at the top of the hill blinding
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me with his flashlight while I collected my gear. He obviously hadn't seen
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me taking down the tripod and putting away the camera, or heard me when I
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said I want to gather my PHOTOGRAPHY EQUIPMENT, because when I was done I
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slung the tripod bag over my shoulder, he trained his gun on me and started
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screaming "Drop that rifle!"
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"What rifle?" I asked. "The one on a strap over your shoulder." he
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bellowed. I replied "It's not a rifle, it's just a..." "Drop it or I'll
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shoot!" he said with a nervous waver in his voice. If had really had a rifle
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and had any desire to kill him he would have already been dead. While he
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could barely see me in his flashlight beam, the same light would have made a
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perfect target for me to shoot at. Oh well, back to "Rodney King II, Harass
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the White Boy". So I dropped my "rifle"; he came running - no, make that
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waddling on his doughnut-gorged stomach - to the bottom of the hill. I
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repeated that it wasn't a rifle and pointed to it. Now he said it was a
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rifle bag (a what?). After he opened it, he said my camera case was a pistol
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carrier and "rifled" through it too, I told him it was just more camera
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equipment, but he didn't listen. (Maybe there was some feces clogging his
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ears; you know, from all those years he'd kept his head up his ass.) He
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wanted to know why, if it wasn't a pistol case, did I have a "silencer" in
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there. I told him that it was a remote flash extension bar and showed him
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what it was for, he then grumbled and went back to searching for illegal
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items. He found a few packets of silica gel* , and began waving them in my
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face, screaming about heroin. I told him what it was and said, "If you don't
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believe me, taste it." He did, and then made a face that was almost worth
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all the aggravation to see. He then asked, if it wasn't drugs, then how come
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I had a needle in there. I kindly informed Officer Buttwipe that it was a
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cable release**. He then yelled at me for not committing any crimes and let
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me go, with a ticket for disturbing the peace and trespassing.
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As I sit here writing this I look forward to shooting up silica gel with
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my cable release...and lighting my fireplace with that stupid ticket.
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* Silica gel is a granular substance that absorbs moisture; it is used for
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protecting lenses and circuitry from humidity, and it comes in clearly
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labeled packets.
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** A cable release is a long wire with a plunger on one end, used by
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professional photographers to trip the shutter from a distance without
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jiggling the camera and making the shot appear fuzzy when using low shutter
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speeds.
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