Re: Permits for tripods (Was: Santa Barbara Soap)

[Charles Tait <charles.tait@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there

We have a good word for them in UK.  He is called PC-plod.  Usually this
sort of thing works as their minds plod so slowly that they think if at
all very slowly too.  Beware the intelligent cop - he has a radar gun
and breathalyser with him, and they are both aimed at you.  In other
words the bright ones are really no threat at all because they just want
to get you anyway.  Being nice usually works...

Charles

Simon Nathan wrote:

> dear bob- whatever year the brooklyn bridge was birthdaying its 75th i
> borrowed coast guard boat and crew for time coverage from the water.
> east river is where i plunked down. this way i could relocate at will.
> rent-a-cop came and said commander had ordered all press out of the
> area. coast guard man replied "we're not press we are coast guard."
> nearby tv crew, asked to leave, said "ok, then we're not press, we are
> documentarians."  cop-temp scratched  his head going back to see the
> commander."   simon nathan
>
> Robert J. Lang or Hope Conley Lang wrote:
>
>> I had my #8 Cirkut on some New York City property near the Brooklyn
>> Bridge,
>> and was given a bit of a hard time over a permit by some city
>> semi-policeman.  Fortuneately he kept mentioning that it was near
>> lunchtime
>> and how hungry he was.  So I took the hint and paid for lunch.  End
>> of
>> problem.  In New York the palm always faces the sky and it's cheaper
>> to
>> cross it with green than to get a permit.  Besides I'd rather give
>> the
>> bucks to the city worker than to the thieving politicians.
>>
>> Bob
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