Where have you been thrown out of?

taking pictures infront of dakota hotel of my friends lexus near mansfield nottinghamshire got told to clear off by managment as apprently you're 'not allowed' to take pictures of the building well the building wasn't the subject anyway :cuckoo::thinking:
 
Jamesbuk said:
Been asked to b****r off by some suit at Milton Keynes shopping centre.
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Thats weird when ever I have been passing they try to throw people in! :D
Jamesbuk said:
Was taking pictures of the newish area and some head of security came up asking for a permit.. I said well I dont have one so she asked us to leave the property.
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Have anyone seen it? its an embarrassment thats why :thumbs:
Jamesbuk said:
Funny as she was more concerned about us taking photos of the outside of the building, and a lorry had just reversed over a large metal bollard and pulled it out of the ground.
Regards, James
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You don't get to MK very often then I take it :shrug: thats more common than people wanting to take pictures of our "lastest" disaster :DI love this town :thumbs:
 
While taking some photos for my a level course I was thrown out of a multi-storey car park, although to be fair to the bloke he was polite and said that it's this terrorism crap and just suggested that I see the manager in charge of the whole shopping centre who then refused me on health and safety grounds seeing as it was Saturday!
 
This wasn't being thrown out of anywhere but I'm telling the story anyway. Three years ago I was in Sydney (Australia, for those youngsters here). It was my first day there and I was on my way back to my hotel after a drive round in the car. I pulled over to photograph some quaint old houses about 100 yards (108 metres for those youngsters here) from the hotel. A girl approached me and asked me what I was taking pictures of. "The houses" I replied. She said "Yea, right. You're taking pictures of us girls. You're the police aren't you". I told her I no, I'm just a tourist taking pictures of nice old houses. So she asked to see them, and I showed her. She then apologised, saying "No offence mate, I thought you were taking pictures of us working girls". I then realised who these 'working girls' were. We had a chuckle and then she offered me her services. I declined politely - I like to be bought dinner first. Moving on down the road there was this big fat lass with a huge great mop of curly bright orange hair (on her head). As I drove past her she hoisted up her top and displayed her global endowments. Cameras everywhere and not one to hand. Anyway, I soon discovered that my 'carefully selected' hotel was in the red light district of Kings Cross. Quite a lively place after dark.
 
Hahaha, that's just hilarious!! Lucky you! :thumbs:
Well, I remember once I went to this cine-plex and while in the restaurant I noticed the most ridiculous sign ever. It was next to the toilet door. It read "For wheelchair users go to first floor". I couldn't stop laughing about their stupidity. Couldn't they just make the ground floor toilets for wheelchair users? For god's sake the elevator was on the other side of the building and there were some stairs right out of the restaurant. I then decided to take a picture of the sign, just for laughs really when a waiter came and told me to stop what I was doing. Then the manager came and said that I should erase that picture immediately. I refused politely, even though he wasn't really polite himself. I told him that he has no right to tell me to erase any photos (don't know if it's true or not but I made it sound true) and that I would just stop taking picture. At that time I knew that I wasn't welcome anymore and just left.
 
:bang:Why does everyone automatically rip into the security guards.i.e mcm were all idiots.As pointed out in other threads i am in the security industry neither myself nor my colleagues harrass togs.Even when faced with demonstrators and others with cameras we just observe and have posed with them.Asked to leave h&s grounds yes understandable if in a position that could put you or someone else at risk.wandering around disused areas yes someone does need to monitor you slips debris unseen hazards that has happened ive seen it and kept them wrapped in a coat till the ambulance arrived.Other reasons they are told to approach you via 2 way radio by the person who pays their wages, we dont lie in wait for you and do have better things to do with our time. if people in general didnt take the high stand with us they would get better results in a number of cases, not all. Although the public at large are of no help with the boogie man has a camera theory .im a tog and know your not subsersives . So please dont tar us all with the same brush
 
The press pit main stage Manchester Pride, even though I had my photographers pass, apparently Sophie Ellis Bextor and Bjorn Again don't allow the press to take photos, but its OK for 1,000 others to take shots from the other side of the fence 2 inches further back.
 
Mine was in Amsterdam many years ago in the red light area with my future wife at time the ladies of the night didnt like pics taken got quite annoyed by it .:)
 
I was 8 years old and on holiday with my Parents in Grenada. This was in 1982 just before the invasion to remove the Cubans.

Well we were buming around the island in a Mini Moke when my dad spotted a really nice view just the other side of a line of trees down a dirt track. So we park up, out comes his trusty Canon A1 and we wander down the track.

Less than 2 minutes later a jeep filled with machine gun toting Cuban soldiers comes blasting up the track the opposite way and we're all stood there hands in the air. As you can probably imagine, being 8 years old I was a tad scared!

Anyway, after about an hour of being questioned my dad managed to convince them that we were just holiday makers and that they really should let us go WITH his camera gear in one piece.

We left rather rapidly at that point and didn't look back. The great thing is, dad got the shot! :D
 
i was at Manchester airport last year , stood by a fence with a 100/400 lens the police stopped and told me to move on .:shrug:

i said it`s a big lens not a surface to air rocket launcher . just move now was the reply .

you know the type i mean peak part covering his eyes nasty smell under his nose like all he smells is sh*t all day, used to be a drill sgt in the army and now a traffic cop .

some of em not happy unless they are telling someone/anyone what hey can do :bang:
 
About 20 years or so ago I was working for a communications company. One of our products was an "active antenna array", which is basically a large number of aerials grouped together that can be controlled electronically.

SO, I'm on my hols in Cyprus, and we drive past this field which has one of these arrays in it. I get out of the car, look up and down for a few minutes, o signs or warnings, so I go back to the car and get the EOS620 from the boot, only to be confronted by a couple of red caps in a Land Rover who have come out of nowhere.

Luckily I had a business card in my wallet, and one of them looked at one of the aerials, nodded to his mate, who then lectured me about it being MOD property. "Well there's no signs around is there ?" I says. He just looked at me with a sour face and told me to f*** off out of it.

When I got back in the car my Mrs (or Fiancee as she was then) was not that impressed. My boss thought it was hilarious when I got back to the office after my hols. Apparantly it was a new installation for a top secret listening base :lol:

Steve
 
I have been thrown out of more restaurants that I have had hot dinners :lol:
 
I was escorted away from the grounds of Grangemouth Petrochemical Refinery by the Police, although that was after 30 minutes of questioning and review of my snaps.
After reviewing the shots they didn't ask for any to be deleted and even suggested a spot on the nearby hillside to shoot from.

Still, getting my car blocked in by two security vans and a Police van was interesting to say the least.
 
kalibre said:
Didnt' get caught but I've got nice snaps in the following places that I shouldn't have been snapping:

Sistine Chapel, Italy
Valley of the Kings Tombs, Egypt
Club Tropicana, Cuba (and the drinks were free!)
Area 51 Transport Planes, USA
UN DMZ Nicosia, Cyprus
Many many more....

The one I probably bricked myself about was the valley of the kings. Saw one of the egyptian guards confiscate someblokes D80, delete his pictures then wouldn't give it back until he was bribed! Didn't think a lecture on basic civil liberty was going to have any effect on that guy! lol.
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My boyfriends dad got arrested in Egypt's Valley of the Tombs just for having his camera, they were told no photos but he didn't want to leave the camera on the coach so he took it with him. He didn't take any photos but was arrested just for having the camera in there (they pointed to a tiny sign, knee high blocked by a group of tourists that said no cameras) The tour companys rep didn't say anything to him and didn't help him, they kept his wife in a room until he was able to go and make up enough money borrowed from other tourists as he didn't have enough before they let them go.
 
Loads of places...

-Got asked to stop taking pictures of warships on Crete
-Got asked to stop taking pictures and bag searched in Imperial Palace grounds, Tokyo
-Got asked to get a "sticky" badge to allow me to take photos in a place in Cambridge (or an old lady would ask me to leave)
-A very irate Cafe owner in Morocco told me to stop taking Candids as it was stealing souls. In French. For 10 minutes. I don't speak French.. :)

Loads of times to me... people see a camera and think terrorist or you are Mr Peter File.

Madness.
 
Gandhi said:
Got politely asked to leave Marlowes shopping Centre in Hemel Hempstead a couple of weeks back. I wouldn't mind but the centre manager was such an ass. I politely explained that there were no signs up saying 'no photos' and also pointed out somebody taking a photo with a camera phone. Just met with a blank expression and being told that it 'might be bad for publicity!'

meh.

place was a dung-hole anyway.
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There you go then - it would be bad publicity :D

Andysnap said:
I was taking photos in St David's cathedral last Monday when it was pointed out to me that they ask for a donation of £1.50 from photographers. I was asked politely and at no point was money demanded. I gave them a fiver and spent a happy hour snapping away.
If more places were like that the world would be a better place.
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Now that's a sensible approach and, IMO, fair and reasonable, not to mention profitable for a worthwhile cause :thumbs:

dicko said:
:bang:Why does everyone automatically rip into the security guards.i.e mcm were all idiots.As pointed out in other threads i am in the security industry neither myself nor my colleagues harrass togs.Even when faced with demonstrators and others with cameras we just observe and have posed with them.Asked to leave h&s grounds yes understandable if in a position that could put you or someone else at risk.wandering around disused areas yes someone does need to monitor you slips debris unseen hazards that has happened ive seen it and kept them wrapped in a coat till the ambulance arrived.Other reasons they are told to approach you via 2 way radio by the person who pays their wages, we dont lie in wait for you and do have better things to do with our time. if people in general didnt take the high stand with us they would get better results in a number of cases, not all. Although the public at large are of no help with the boogie man has a camera theory .im a tog and know your not subsersives . So please dont tar us all with the same brush
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The answer to that is quite simple; like everything else, it's the minority spoiling it for the majority. In recent years there has been an almost exponential growth in the number of private security guards all over the place and unfortunately there are far too many who think that they are Police Officers.

I don't know whether your industry is regulated but if it is then either the regulations aren't stringent enough, or the enforcement is nowhere near as good as it should be.

It seems that everywhere you go nowadays there is some officious self-important jerk in a hi-vis vest or pseudo-Police uniform telling you what to do.

As for H&S, I just laugh when some wet-behind-the-ears kid who's only been out of short trousers for 6 months comes up spouting H&S nonsense at me. I'm 50 and worked in the engineering industry for 20-odd years using dangerous machinery and substances so I know about H&S.

There is the same problem with PCSOs. I have a couple of friends who are Police Officers and they have told me about people that get taken on as PCSOs and as soon as they've got the uniform on they think they're Dirty Harry.
 
Claridges, yesterday.

My wedding clients wanted some photos in there as it's where he proposed. We managed a few minutes before the floor manager came and told us to get out, I turned and walked out while the couple talked to him - I wasn't going to give him the chance to see what I had shot...
 
Thank you everyone, its brought tears to my eyes reading some of these posts, i think what makes it amusing for me is that i have a leg on each side of the fence, im a security officer myself as well as a tog. its amazing how many of my fellow SOs have a supercop complex. lol.

in defence of my profession, 9 times outta 10 a places security team are contracted to them and its the client that makes the no-photography rule, we are paid to enforce it, if we dont we get sacked and replaced with someone who will. ill let you in on an industry seceret.... we can ask you to move along but we cant physically make you.thats when we have to call the police as they can.
 
Got chased out of the Red-Light area near the Reeperbahn in Hamburg's St Pauli district - the hookers and pimps weren't keen...lol
We came to alternative arrangements, so it all ended well...

(and I was single at the time, ta v much...)
 
incidently, i got asked to move on and to stop taking snaps at a holiday camp taking photos of my daughter on the stage by another parent who threatend to have thrown out of the clubhouse. so i agreed....




if she got the other 18 parents who were taking photos to stop as well.

im sure some people dont have any common sense. most of them wear hi-vis vests.. oops did i say that out loud?! lol
 
The ISS building at Kennady Space Centre, there was this door at the end of a walkway along side a mock up and model of the ISS, no signage or anything. So just pushed it open, followed the stairs down and through another door and ended up just in this anti-room for the assembly floor. At this point I thought 'OH CRAP' :eek:as four people came up to me. They asked how I had gotten to this point, I explained, checked with the cctv unit. They had me on film all the time, the door I first went through should have had a mag lock on, but it was FUBAR'ed. I really thought this might bring a not too pleasant end to my hols, but no. They were really good about it, they escorted me out to the tour bus stop outside, shook my hand and told me to have a good day.

When I told the wife and family, well you can imagine the looks and comments I got!!:lol:
 
I and a mate got thrown out of an Ann Summers shop in Glasgow on the first day it opened.
Nothing to do with photography. We just could not stop laughing at all the "kit".
 
ChrisGaskin said:
ill let you in on an industry seceret.... we can ask you to move along but we cant physically make you.thats when we have to call the police as they can.
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Not true.

As you are working for a client, it is private property generally, then you can be phyically removed from that location using the least force possible. Also once asked to leave a location (private property) and the person refuses to leave that is when a copper comes in handy as it has just moved from tresspass (civil offence) to aggravated tresspass (criminal offence)
 
Geordi69 said:
Not true.

As you are working for a client, it is private property generally, then you can be phyically removed from that location using the least force possible. Also once asked to leave a location (private property) and the person refuses to leave that is when a copper comes in handy as it has just moved from tresspass (civil offence) to aggravated tresspass (criminal offence)
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You can only use minimum force to remove someone if they refuse to leave when asked, otherwise it's assult, you can't just grab them and throw thme out.
 
arclight said:
I and a mate got thrown out of an Ann Summers shop in Glasgow on the first day it opened.
Nothing to do with photography. We just could not stop laughing at all the "kit".
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were the Mars Bars a funny shape then? :)
 
haha these are all funny, I havent got a story to share... not YET anyway!! I would probably do something annoying though and take pics of the person telling me to leave :)
 
When visiting a museum near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, I was about to snap a pic of the Babylon Hanging Gardens gateway when a security guard shoved a machine pistol in my face and told me to stop.
Guess what I did !!!!
C
 
Grendel said:
The Oracle shopping centre in Reading. Apparently I couldn't take photos there because the buildings had copyright! Seriously! :cuckoo:
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so your the one i saw taking pictures of the front window of "la sensa" in the dirty raincoat :eek::nono:


oh and thats true by the way i did see a guy taken pictures of manikins in sexy lingerie
 
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