Pictures on the T

[ringrose]

To the T conductor this morning

Comments

Context

[ringrose]

The context is that at Porter, a man in the car was watching the conductor through the glass. He started yelling at her about how he had a picture of her reading a magazine when she was supposed to be doing her job. At Harvard, the train stopped and he was told to get off or the T police would come remove him. "He had no right" to take those pictures... and she was moving the paper from the seat, where she was sitting on it, to the floor.

After a pause, the man left the train before the T police showed up.

When I got off the train, I took her picture from outside the train so I could include it in this post and walked away. As I left, she yelled after me "Are you kidding? Get a life!" Apparently my camera had better judgement than I did: although the shutter clicked, for some reason it didn't save the picture.

Re: Context

[intuition_ist]

good for you! i'm not impressed with either of the folks from your story, though. geez.

[ringrose]

There's a good reason I used the word "should" here.

I believe the stated reason for not allowing pictures on the T is actually copyright. The actual "reason" they get away with it is security. And I put it in quotes because it's a really lousy reason at best.

[intuition_ist]

ooh, there have been sooooooo many words written about this topic. there are activists out there right now, taking pictures of "suspicious" (i.e., not really suspicious unless you're the FBI in September of 2001) things and places, and pushing the boundaries of freedom of speech. and i'm glad they're doing it, too.

liberty, freedom, etc.