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Great, now everybody wants to be like that kid dancing to Bon Jovi at a Celtics game
By adamg on Tue, 03/24/2009 - 2:33pm
Boston Police report arresting three Braintree teens who refused to stop pestering a Boston Garden photographer who didn't find them interesting enough to take a picture of. Here's the play-by-play from last night's Celtics game:
According to the security personnel, the suspects began swearing and yelling at a photographer employed at the Garden. The suspects were demanding that the photographer take their picture and when, according to them, the photographer refused, the suspects proceeded to verbally berate and disrespect him.
When officers showed up, police say, the three refused to show ID. And when they began to walk away and an officer tried to stop them, one allegedly yelled: "Get your (expletive) hands off me. I know my rights."
Officers then presumably gave him and his buds a chance to further explore their rights, specifically the ones beginning with "Miranda." Actually, officers originally only planned to arrest two of the three, but when the third told them "If you're going to arrest my friends, then you're gonna have to arrest me," they readily agreed to the request.
Innocent, etc.
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I had missed that
I had missed that video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nCdAY-UEeM
People wanting their picture taken by news photogs is not unusual, but I think the most I ever had to do discourage the more aggressive ones was to shake my head slightly.
Mugging is actually a bit insulting to the photog, though I'm sure people don't understand that.
The most memorable was three sweet old ladies approaching an anti-gay marriage rally (!), who grasped each other together started mugging beaming smiles at me when one of them saw that I was shooting some demonstrators nearby. I smiled back in pleasant acknowledgment but didn't shoot. It would have been a good ironic photo with a caption of why smiling sweet old ladies were there and treating it like a party, but shooting would have sent the wrong message that mugging was desirable.
Most commonly is people who don't mug, but are self-consciously posing to some degree. You can't always tell apart the ones who are playing a drama in their head and are wanting to be shot, with those who would rather not be in a photograph but are just trying to look respectable/modest if it happens. No self-consciousness is optimal, compared to purely candid, unless perhaps the people are already giving a performance and just temporarily share with the camera the same thing they're doing for the in-person audience. (Which can happen at concerts, demonstrations, and even plays.)