I have an official license to shot there
I have an official license to shot there
Manny Gonzalez
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I don't see what asking for a case number accomplishes. And what rights exactly are tehy violating? I don't see a cop walking up to us and having a friendly conversation and asking a few questnos as being a big deal. In fact, as I've always said, I'd be worried if cops never showed up.
We ae lucky enough to employ private property for the hobby, and I think anything like that at a place like Costco would likely cause trouble and possibly end the location for us.
Email me anytime at [email protected].
you should have seen what Nick V and i went through a couple of years back by Boston Market right by Costco. Nick V, Jacob Salima and I were out there that day to catch an Aeromexico 777. Some guy with his wife circled around us for awhile until he block us from leaving and wanted to report us taking pictures of the planes. Thats the one day i will never forget. That dude went too far.
Sergio has been a huge Delta Air Lines fan since 1992!!
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Thats also why I have problem trying to find a spot to catch rwy31R action, since I have no car, I would be hassled more often because I can be just standing there shooting and I get called in quicker Things for me r worse so I gotta find some place to go try to shoot.
Sergio has been a huge Delta Air Lines fan since 1992!!
Sergio Cardona
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The reason I started asking for the number was everytime they run my ID it puts a little red flag by my name, I know this to be true because one Officer was nice enough to point it out on his computer display after asking if I had a lot of tickets, which I have none. I understand the whole private property issue and every owner or manager is aware or our activities and welcomes us, when an "Airport Police" officer leaves the boundary or the airport, their powers and authorities end, per city rules! That's just the way it is here in SA because they did not want to join the Park Police and become one department w/SAPD. So when they roll up with lights on, onto a private parking lot where I have full permission to be and order me out of my truck and demand an ID, there's a little problem there, I have every right to be there and engage in a perfectly legal activity. Same goes for some of the public sidewalks that border the perimeter fence.
I don't want to start a big debate on here but that's I feel, I've gone from being threatened with arrest back in 2006 to just a friendly wave as they pass by this last year due to learning the REAL rules and regulations and I think most of the Officers I have talked with respect that, it's just the 2 times this year where a newer Officer got all gung-ho and thought they bagged the next terrorist. I think questioning those Officers tactics and legality of those actions thru "proper channels" led to an official area recognized on the airports website this year.
To me the ID thing is like the random DWI check points, I'm just trying to go home after work I shouldn't be stopped for know reason. I know DWI is a major problem done here but subjecting everyone to random searches is heading in a dangerous direction. I hear the opposite side of it too, If you have nothing to hide, what's the problem? My response is always 'If I was a FBI agent or someone similar would you mind me looking through your house, just to make sure everythings legal? You got nothing to hide , right?"
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I hate it when people do that to me. It's never happened at the spotter locations in Seattle...but has happened a few times in the terminals. Someone once went out of their way to come over and take a photo of me gate spotting at Ohare...I asked them what they were taking a photo of and the guy just sort of sulked off.As they were returning to their car which was parked a few cars down from us, took out his cell phone and took photo's of us I believe. Nothing transpired, and no cops ever arrived to question us. Then recently again while at Panera this time, some guy with his gal took pics of a couple of us with his cell phone as well (I saw him in the act, and waved (knowing he was another jerk without any guts to come over and ask .... why are you taking photos of planes).
I guess I can't comment on San Antonio, because here in NYC, the "Airport Police" are not guards, but Port Authority Police under STATE jurisdiction, so they can pursue off of airport property.
I would take issue with that, too. At JFK, El Al security tries to boss peopel around as if they have ANY authority. I've heard many stories but have never had the luck to encounter them.
I've been on all sides of encounters, from friendly waves, high fives, to benig detained for hours with equipment confiscated, so it's all good.
Email me anytime at [email protected].
I had a neighbor a while back here in LAS that was a cop in the sub-station that covered the area around Mc Carran Airport. We used to hang out periodically and discuss our nerdy hobbies.There's an office park across the street from the threshold of the 25's, and sometimes spotters will park in their parking lot to partake in our little hobby. My neighbor told me that from time to time, he will get a call about a spotter(s) "suspicious activity" in the parking lot, but after talking to the "suspect", he knew they were harmless and they were just spotting so he would let them be and move on, but if someone makes a call on a spotter, the police are obligated to follow up on it. I guess it's the same old story that in any profession, you have some people that can be (expletive deleted) and on the other end of the spectrum people like my neighbor that can be cool about things.
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In NY I would be afraid to ask for a case/report number, although you are completely right and I should. There's always the possibility (however remote it may be) that you
meet up with that one "bad cop". The guy that makes your life real miserable, either within the law or outside of the law. It just ain't worth it.
-Don B.
My kids love going planespotting with me. (I'm milking it because I know that will change when they become teens.)
Anyway, I made a new biz card specifically for handing over to authorities. There's a pic on it of a 73 passing over my elated
daughter's head at ILS 22L. I'm hoping the image will go a long way disarming law encounters.
-Don B.
Don - that is awesome, and goes a long way towards proving Nick's theory about how having a kid with you while spotting makes you legit LOLAnyway, I made a new biz card specifically for handing over to authorities. There's a pic on it of a 73 passing over my elated
daughter's head at ILS 22L. I'm hoping the image will go a long way disarming law encounters.
Well, there are certainly enough shoppers at Cosco that help to possibly end your spotting day early if you are shooting every jetblue arrival. The more you shoot the greater the odds of being booted, however there is another force in play or has been in recent years. There is, or was, an employee of the other business that is just along the water's edge - Petco maybe? I forget. Anyway, he takes out the garbage or whatever and calls on his cell phone as soon as he sees someone start taking photos. Then he tries to "hide" in the little alley way between the store and the water and I guess hoping to see people ejected. I wave at him and laugh. He always looks upset at being spotted.
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