Boing Boing reports of another unfortunate photographer having to give up because of the war on public photography:
A Gloucester bus-spotter (“omnibologist”) is being forced to abandon his 40-year-old hobby of snapping pictures of busses and trams because security kooks keep calling him a terrorist and even a pedophile.
The sad thing is none of us should be surprised any longer. More from Yahoo! News UK
His love affair with buses has seen him touring former Eastern Bloc countries – but only in the UK has he been accused of doing anything dubious.
Last September in Pontypridd, Wales, a bus driver took exception to being caught in shot and called the police, who demanded to see what Mr McCaffrey had on film.
Later, in Monmouth, a Police Community Support Officers approached him and ran his name and address through the police database, after a member of the public became suspicious.
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But what if anything can we do to stop ourselves being approached in this way? Or have we got to learn to live with this sad turn of events?
At the end of the day we are not doing anything illegal, surely there’s got to be a better way!