QUOTE: Zardoz: it seems as though we like the solitude, and when we are questioned, it tends to ruin the overall experience of the day...
QUOTE: Originally posted by older than dirt QUOTE: Originally posted by BNSFrailfan I earge that all Railfans to contact your local Police or your Sheriff the next time you deside to go out on a Railfan journey. Why? Because Yesterday (05-05-05) my friend was out Railfanning and some guy was watching every thing that he was doing. why? Because he was hanging around the the Railroad crossing waiting for a UP detour down at Oreapolis to go East on the BNSF. Ok so, Then the guy came back to him to what and why he was standing around the RR X. My friend told him kindly that he was a Railfan. But the Moron in the other car went and called the cops on him anyway on his cell phone. What a jerk. Now that the Government is gona get ever so hard on all of us we all had better start taking better steps to protect our rights now or we all be seeing the feds of all type's at our fron door now that the Public is RATTING&SNITCHING on us more than ever. From now on. Every time you go Railfanning,I earge you all to call the proper Law inforcement. Let then know where you are gona Railfan at. Tell the Dispatcher the time you start to the time you will depart on that same day. Because the public is watching now more than ever and the chances that you being call in to the cops is greatly high more than ever now. Because they have nothing better to do than call the cops on Railfans. So,If you do go Railfanning,make darn sure that you make that call of you will be haveing a very bad day when the FEDS show up at your back window!!!!!!!!!!! And I am Serious too! Sorry for this Boring Stupid Topic but I just had to warn all of you Railfans. BNSFrailfan. Are your eyes brown?
QUOTE: Originally posted by BNSFrailfan I earge that all Railfans to contact your local Police or your Sheriff the next time you deside to go out on a Railfan journey. Why? Because Yesterday (05-05-05) my friend was out Railfanning and some guy was watching every thing that he was doing. why? Because he was hanging around the the Railroad crossing waiting for a UP detour down at Oreapolis to go East on the BNSF. Ok so, Then the guy came back to him to what and why he was standing around the RR X. My friend told him kindly that he was a Railfan. But the Moron in the other car went and called the cops on him anyway on his cell phone. What a jerk. Now that the Government is gona get ever so hard on all of us we all had better start taking better steps to protect our rights now or we all be seeing the feds of all type's at our fron door now that the Public is RATTING&SNITCHING on us more than ever. From now on. Every time you go Railfanning,I earge you all to call the proper Law inforcement. Let then know where you are gona Railfan at. Tell the Dispatcher the time you start to the time you will depart on that same day. Because the public is watching now more than ever and the chances that you being call in to the cops is greatly high more than ever now. Because they have nothing better to do than call the cops on Railfans. So,If you do go Railfanning,make darn sure that you make that call of you will be haveing a very bad day when the FEDS show up at your back window!!!!!!!!!!! And I am Serious too! Sorry for this Boring Stupid Topic but I just had to warn all of you Railfans. BNSFrailfan.
QUOTE: Originally posted by Green Bay Paddlers QUOTE: Originally posted by older than dirt QUOTE: Originally posted by BNSFrailfan I earge that all Railfans to contact your local Police or your Sheriff the next time you deside to go out on a Railfan journey. Why? Because Yesterday (05-05-05) my friend was out Railfanning and some guy was watching every thing that he was doing. why? Because he was hanging around the the Railroad crossing waiting for a UP detour down at Oreapolis to go East on the BNSF. Ok so, Then the guy came back to him to what and why he was standing around the RR X. My friend told him kindly that he was a Railfan. But the Moron in the other car went and called the cops on him anyway on his cell phone. What a jerk. Now that the Government is gona get ever so hard on all of us we all had better start taking better steps to protect our rights now or we all be seeing the feds of all type's at our fron door now that the Public is RATTING&SNITCHING on us more than ever. From now on. Every time you go Railfanning,I earge you all to call the proper Law inforcement. Let then know where you are gona Railfan at. Tell the Dispatcher the time you start to the time you will depart on that same day. Because the public is watching now more than ever and the chances that you being call in to the cops is greatly high more than ever now. Because they have nothing better to do than call the cops on Railfans. So,If you do go Railfanning,make darn sure that you make that call of you will be haveing a very bad day when the FEDS show up at your back window!!!!!!!!!!! And I am Serious too! Sorry for this Boring Stupid Topic but I just had to warn all of you Railfans. BNSFrailfan. Are your eyes brown? I don't get it...
QUOTE: Originally posted by egmurphy QUOTE: Zardoz: it seems as though we like the solitude, and when we are questioned, it tends to ruin the overall experience of the day... Rather free use of the term 'we'. While I agree that I enjoy doing things on my own, it doesn't upset me to deal with curious people. Maybe it would if I had hiked for hours to get to a desolate location for a unique shot, but shooting from local public property I don't expect to have the place to myself. Regards Ed
QUOTE: Originally posted by older than dirt Where I railfan we've built what would pass for a duck blind, and if we see helicopters, or cars we even THINK are police cars, we hide behind the blind. So far this has worked well, as none of us has been hassled in quite some time. But just in case, we keep fairly accurate fake identification handy. We haven't had to use the id's yet, and hope they are accurate enough that we can get away with it if we ever get checked. dirt
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