QUOTE (trainman @ 11 Jun 2008, 00:55)
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Are you trying to say Enthusiasts behave in a manner likely to make them look like some Terrorist and regardless of their age?
I most certainly DO follow the guidelines, but at the same time, I
AM an English White and certainly NOT a Terrorist.
I DO ask permission to take pictures, but do NOT expect to be asked over a Station
P/A System to stop taking photographs
AFTER showing a railway ID CARD for crying out loud.
Not at all if you read my post correctly "If all enthusiasts behaved in a reasonable & safe manner" to repeat in part.
No mention at all about about colour or looks, but as you brought the subject up I, for one am old enough to remember a terrorist organisation whose members were certainly white & certainly western european looking. Don't also forget that "English Whites" get recruited int extrem organisasions of all type.
There will always be the odd occasion, no matter what the rules & guidelines when somebody is pulled - just imagine the outcry if security was lax & their was an incident.
To be honest, I had hoped my opinion would have been left at that, without comments that are almost racist.
As it happens I have been asked over a station PA (in a major station) to report to the DSM after signing in & displaying two ID badges, one company & one station - you can't expect absolutly everyone that works on the station to be informed that you are there !
