I had a bit of an embarrassing experience this morning taking a 
photograph of a bus in Birmingham city Centre.

I'm having a rare Saturday off so I went to do a bit of shopping and to 
take some photographs (actually of the Victoria law Courts and Methodist 
Central Hall) for a lecture I'm doing shortly.

While there, one of the new(ish) Scania Omnicity articulated buses hove 
into view so I took a couple of photographs.   To my amazement, as a I 
was walking away, the driver bounded out of his can and came over in a 
*really* aggressive matter wanting to know why I was taking photographs 
and pointing out that it was illegal.   I did try (actually rather 
lamely) to point out that I was photographing the bus rather than him. 
He then called me a "f*****g tosser" and threatened to have the law on 
me.   A bit shaken, I left.

Now I have had a similar problem in the past (actually several times but 
all on the same day, when I first bought a digital camera!) but never 
since.   I am, though, always a bit circumspect (=cautious) about 
photographing in a bus station or similar, which is obviously private 
property.   But he wasn't visible in the photographs and to be honest 
*any* photograph will always have people visible in it.

Now obviously his behaviour was unacceptable and I'm sending off a note 
to Travel West Midlands.   But doe anyone here have any thoughts on 
this?
-- 
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

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