fantom Loc: Colorado

There was a recent topic posted asking about the best place you have ever been thrown out of for taking pictures. Let's now talk about the worst places.

Many years ago I was in the Guadalajara, Mexico airport with an hour to kill before my flight so I had to kill some time. I went up to the viewers' area on the roof and began taking pix of the mountains and landscape.

Pretty soon four heavily armed policemen accosted me and told me to leave immediately and to take no more pix as they physically removed me from the area. i think they said I was lucky to keep my camera and film.

I left and about a week later I read an article in my hometown paper that the Archbishop of Guadalajara had just been assassinated at the airport and probably shot from the roof. Hmmm!

I've never gone back up onto the roof to see if they have a sign that says:

ASSASSINS SI, PHOTOGS NO (in Spanish of course)

JD750 Loc: SoCal

I got thrown out of an empty Health Insurance parking lot on a weekend. It was a good place with the only one with open space, to shoot a thunderhead (rare in these parts) towering over the city buildings, with sweet light on both. I rode my bicycle into the lot and the security guard came rushing over in his golf cart. He insisted that I could not stand there taking pictures.

Vietnam Vet

I was taking pictures at a parking garage and security gave me a tough time because just above me was the home office of a Railroad. I was photographing empty spaces to use for backgrounds in photoshop. Security comes by, says they watched me on the security cameras and looked like I was taking pictures to find the best place to place explosive devices. Long story short, they asked me to delete the photos which I did, and I asked them to put up signs that said "no photography allowed."