(23 Nov 2019, 11:14 pm)Jimmi wrote I still don't get the aggro with photo taking in Nexus Interchanges (and some other areas), think we are seen as easy targets to assert their power on as most will just put the camera away and naff off. I'm impressed you got told you need a permit, normally they just simply say "it's illegal" and nothing else.
I can top this though, I almost got charged with smoking outside Doncaster Rail Station the other week... I don't even smoke!!! This security enforcement officer claimed she saw me smoking and was adamant I had the smell of smoke on me which was probably because I stopped in an area people tend to smoke in, really had to fight my case to prove my innocence as she was insistent I had and me stuttering my words like hell because of me panicking didn't help, she had to let me go in the end as she couldn't prove that I had.
I'm glad I'm not the kind of person to take photographs of buses! I am however the kind of person who likes to see how far I can push my luck so I probably would have took another photo right in front of him.
I was in a museum and there was a sign saying you can take video, but not photos! Do the people who make the rules not realise a video is nothing but a series of photographs played quickly to create the illusion of movement?
I just wish they would actually enforce the no smoking rules in Gateshead Interchange. You see drivers, Nexus Staff and passengers standing directly under the no smoking signs with a cigarette! I've even seen the cleaners light a cigarette inside then walk outside with it while they're going around with their trolley!