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From: davef@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Dave Fiske)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Re^2: Russian access to usenet
Keywords: scare tactics
Message-ID: <5180@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Date: 23 Dec 88 18:10:40 GMT
References: <204@imspw6.UUCP> <5141@brspyr1.BRS.Com> <336@avsd.UUCP>
Organization: BRS Info Technologies, Latham NY
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In article <336@avsd.UUCP>, childers@avsd.UUCP (Richard Childers) writes:
> >>> From: Anna Kochanowska: Visual Edge Software, St. Laurent, PQ
> >
> >>> >(Do you know that it is forbidden in USSR to make a picture of any post
> >>> >office, bridge, railway station etc.? You may simply loose your camera
> That's funny. Right here in the Bay Area, there's a little building just off
> of the Golden Gate Bridge ( Coming across from Marin, take the very first
   .......
> there ... ) that has a sign on it saying very clearly that anyone caught
> taking pictures or making drawings of the building or surrounding area will
> be prosecuted to the full extent of federal law.

I went on a cruise boat which toured Charleston (SC) Harbor in October,
and they went up the river to where there are a lot of U.S. Navy ships
docked.  When we got near that area, the captain warned us over the
loudspeaker that we were entering a "restricted" area, and that the
Navy only permitted them to do this if they made sure no passengers
took pictures.  He said that Navy patrols monitored the tour boats, and
that if they saw anyone taking pictures, they would board  us, and
confiscate the camera and film.  He also said that even when the
patrols weren't out, that they watched the boats constantly.

I basically think this is a bunch of malarky designed to make the trip
more exciting for the tourists, but I didn't feel like testing it
myself.  I'm sure they wouldn't be able to make anything stand up in
court, since we hadn't agreed in any way not to take pictures.

Actually, one guy did snap a few shots, and nothing happened.

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