Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Tripods in France
From: Tarek Charara <tarek.charara@wanadoo.fr>
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 13:29:39 +0200

le 20.09.2001 21:22, Ted Grant à tedgrant@home.com a écrit :

> May 2000.
> The laws may state one thing and if that's the case, the police officers
> stopped us period! And there was no in between as, No meant No!
> 
> With a wag of the finger and "Non non, no tripod."  it was game over! And it
> wasn't a big tripod only had an R8 mounted. The interpreter explained we
> were doing an assignment on Paris in the evening, but to no avail it didn't
> get anything other than, "No tripod!" With a little sharper, "No tripod!"
> inflection in the voice.
> 
> And we sure weren't on the street and the Arc de Triomphe was at my back as
> I wasn't interested in it that close. Besides there are signs all around the
> Arc saying no tripods and I'd seen them earlier the day but it appeared it
> meant on top of the Arch. Nope it meant not anywhere!


Merde, alors! I wonder why tripods are forbiden in that area... I'll go
there this afternoon and ask...

Tarek

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