Metra/Amtrak platforms are for passengers only. Even if they are public
property they have limited access.
I wonder what the officer thought of you? And luckily he didn't say it either.
Dan
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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 04:00:30 EST
From: Aeolus3@aol.com
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [StLouisRailfans] Fw: [IllinoisCentral] Detained and
threaten...
In a message dated 1/8/2005 9:05:56 PM Central Standard Time,
rswebber@concentric.net writes:
I thought that sort of thing only happened in Jersey...
This is food for thought, this happened last spring in May. I was with a
couple of my railfan buddies and we were on the Burlington at the Hollywood
Station shooting pictures. A Brookfield city police car stopped and asked us
what
were we doing? I said shooting some pictures of the trains. He told us we had
to
move on as we weren't waiting for a Dinky that we had no right to be there.
The cop really looked like Barney Fife although I didn't point that out to
him
at the time. He also said that it was his right to arrest us, I suppose for
"crimes against the state". So we did the easy way out, told him to have a
nice
day as we got into my truck and left.
Yes I understand security but I think this is going a bit too far. I've been
thinking of buying a new camera a Pentax Digital SLR, but if this is the way
it's going to be when you're out just shooting some pictures..... why waste
money on a new camera?
Loren Johnson
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