Comments on: Stick it to the Idiot. I mean man. http://www.denyerec.co.uk/posts/287 Photography, Graphic Design, Art, Code... Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:10:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Andrew http://www.denyerec.co.uk/posts/287#comment-185895 Andrew Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:36:46 +0000 http://www.denyerec.co.uk/posts/287#comment-185895 <p>I spotted a guy writing graffiti on a wall opposite my house, and took a photo. When I phoned the police, I told them I had a sequence of photographs showing the offender actually writing his message.</p> <p>When the police officer came to see the photos, they claimed that they couldn't be used as I didn't have a sign up saying that I was taking photographs of the street. When I pointed out that I had just taken a photo of my street, a public place and it just so happened a crime was taking place in my photo, they again claimed it wasn't usable as evidence.</p> <p>This isn't a moan at the police officers, they have a very difficult job, it's a moan at the sheer rediculousness of the situation.</p> <p>I did have half a mind to blow the photo up and stick it over the graffiti, but I'd probably get done for fly-posting.</p> I spotted a guy writing graffiti on a wall opposite my house, and took a photo. When I phoned the police, I told them I had a sequence of photographs showing the offender actually writing his message.

When the police officer came to see the photos, they claimed that they couldn’t be used as I didn’t have a sign up saying that I was taking photographs of the street. When I pointed out that I had just taken a photo of my street, a public place and it just so happened a crime was taking place in my photo, they again claimed it wasn’t usable as evidence.

This isn’t a moan at the police officers, they have a very difficult job, it’s a moan at the sheer rediculousness of the situation.

I did have half a mind to blow the photo up and stick it over the graffiti, but I’d probably get done for fly-posting.

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