Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That, Ted, is a GREAT and scary story......Right out of a movie....And far better to watch on the Big Screen than star in in real life...;-) > Hi B.D. > I had an assignment at the paper to take pictures of a particularly well > known "bad guy" kind of family and as would have it I wasn't told it was > supposed to be a very private affair. some kind of arrangement with the > paper and the family. > > Nice editors do this "We should try and get a picture of ..... Send a > photographer, just assign him and not tell him it's private and lets see > what happens! > > I could see I was the only shooter in sight so I figured this is a biggy > family and maybe I'm not supposed to be here. I went back to the car put > together a 560mm 6.8 and was away back from the event figuring I was out of > sight! > > I was looking through the camera when there was a tap on my shoulder and as > I turned around a really big guy, like a really really big guy, had me by > the throat and suggested, with a smile on his face, that if I didn't give > him the film (heck I hadn't even had a shot yet) and leave immediately he'd > put me face down in the grave before the coffin was lowered and nobody would > ever know where I went ! > > So I thought that was good of him, opened the camera, took the film out > pulling it right out of the cassette and handed it to him. He smiled and let > go and I very quickly and quietly went to the car! > > When I got back to the paper and related my story to the city editor all he > said was, "Oh, so you didn't get any pictures?" And that was the end of the > story. > > I would say under what we might call normal circumstances, this editor would > have been onto the police phone very quickly due to my "being threatened and > in effect, "assaulted." However, in this case as I found out later, the > papers had given their word the funeral would not become a media event and > the editor who sent me was completely aware of that when he sent me. > > But you've heard the old saying , "What goes around , comes around." And the > editor was eventually fired for sending a photographer into another bad > situation. > > ted > Ted Grant Photography Limited > www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 8:59 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] funerals ! :-( > > > Ted - Dare we ask what happened lo those many years ago? > >