jamessolomon Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Just watched a subscription on Youtube and he was arrested because he was carrying trees to a friends layout and they got mistaken for green type drugs. So im throwing this one out to the community to see the response who has been arrested for there hobby be it model railways/railroading or others Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tavy Man Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Just watched a subscription on Youtube and he was arrested because he was carrying trees to a friends layout and they got mistaken for green type drugs. So im throwing this one out to the community to see the response who has been arrested for there hobby be it model railways/railroading or others Have you forgotten what day it is........... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted April 1, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 1, 2015 Badoom tish. I did get arrested for photographing steam shunters on a dockside (I was in the Merch) in Shanghai in 1977 though.... got the film taken out of my camera, I have two shots from the roll that was in my pocket somewhere though! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PhilH Posted April 1, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 1, 2015 I was nearly arrested at a suburban station in Brisbane whilst waiting for some freights to turn up. To be fair, it was the week of the G20 summit with Obama et al, and everybody was a bit twitchy, you weren't allowed to tarry anywhere, let alone take photos at railway stations in the city. Bless their cotton socks though, once the cops had calmed down and ascertained what I was doing, they informed the railway central control (who had seen me loitering on cctv) and actually found out where the freights were I was waiting for, and told me how long I had to wait for them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith George Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 :jester:Arrested by a bobby for your hobby. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomisd Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 I wasn't actually arrested for this photo but I was threatened with the police because of it Its at small port in Washington state called Yakima. The loco is, as you can see, parked next to the fence which is next to a public road. However about 20 yards to my left hand side is the security gate for the port. I pulled up and parked the car, got out, walked round to the boot and got my camera out. Whilst I was doing this, the security guard came out of his hut and asked me what I was doing. I told him that I was about to take a photo of that locomotive just there. He said that I couldn't. I asked why not and he told me that I was taking a photo of something in the port which was a secure area. I said put I am on a public road and that I could take a photo from the road. He said that I couldn't as it was of something on private property. I said but this is public land and I can. All of this as whilst I was actually taking the photo. He said he was calling the port police. I said okay as I have taken my photo now anyway and I am going. As I got back in the car, he took a photo of the licence plate. I was very disappointed to never get a knock on my door from the G-Men. In the three years that I lived in the USA, it was the only time that anything like that ever happened and I went to lots of places where they would rather you didn't take photos, including the port of Stockton in California, where railway photographers have been arrested - I just blithely spent a day driving round it taking photos with no problem at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Grumpy Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Why pay to get arrested abroad? Even though I informed a couple of staff of my photography, I was threatened with arrest by the station manager at Gatwick. I showed him Network Rail's requirements for station photography and he just continued to act like a twit. (Think I spelt that right!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 1, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 1, 2015 My brother was arrested in North London while he was bus spotting, a few months after the London Underground bombings. Someone had reported him looking suspicious. He said he was standing there when two police transits turned up and the street suddenly looked like a Van Gough painting with so many men in yellow jackets. They took him to the station and let him go straight away when they realised that the middle aged fat bald bloke was doing something that is still lawful. Advising him to be careful and apologising for the two vans loads of coppers "but they had to be seen doing something". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rods_of_Revolution Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Why pay to get arrested abroad? Even though I informed a couple of staff of my photography, I was threatened with arrest by the station manager at Gatwick. I showed him Network Rail's requirements for station photography and he just continued to act like a twit. (Think I spelt that right!) If it gets to that stage, a good tactic is to just call their bluff and say to them "If you truely believe I am a criminal or a terrorist please call the police and I will gladly assist them with their enquiries. I wish to converse with you no further regarding this matter." They won't call police as they would call them knowing they were wasting police time, which would result in a dressing down from someone above their pay grade. All the best, Jack Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 One of my mates was arrested for train spotting a few years back but that was in the good old days in East Germany! Even so, he is always an affable chap so they released him (with film!) after they realised he was no threat! Cheers, John E. PS The OP's post was too late on here for a proper April fool! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Bernard Lamb Posted April 1, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 1, 2015 One of my mates was arrested for train spotting a few years back but that was in the good old days in East Germany!Back in the mid 1970s a group of British train spotters were arrested and thrown out of the GDR. Mind you they were filming a train load of armoured vehicles. I don't think the filming was intentional. They were just filming various trains and the wrong one just happened to come along. Bernard Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Well, there's dogging, I suppose.... People can get arrested for that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allegheny1600 Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Back in the mid 1970s a group of British train spotters were arrested and thrown out of the GDR. Mind you they were filming a train load of armoured vehicles. I don't think the filming was intentional. They were just filming various trains and the wrong one just happened to come along. Bernard Yes! I've got a copy of this very video/DVD! It's very good. If I recall my mate's story correctly, he took a wrong train, hopped off and started photographing without realising where he was. Of course, he is known for being quite the raconteur so the above may not be entirely true - good story though! Cheers, John E. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
peanuts Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 surprised none of these got arrested http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-32149393 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 surprised none of these got arrested http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-32149393 There were no tunnels to enter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire2865 Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 surprised none of these got arrested http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-32149393Honestly dont understand what all the fuss is about. Business is business, if its not to your tastes, dont buy it. I dont understand people, who go out of their way to make a big deal of something which doesnt concern them. The railway did it for profit, on a closed day, and the people had legal right to do it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium phil-b259 Posted April 2, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 2, 2015 Why pay to get arrested abroad? Even though I informed a couple of staff of my photography, I was threatened with arrest by the station manager at Gatwick. I showed him Network Rail's requirements for station photography and he just continued to act like a twit. (Think I spelt that right!) Unfortunately I do have to admit some NR staff (fortunately a minority) do seem on a mission to be awkward sometimes. As for Gatwick staff, while most of those that I have had dealings with seam nice enough, we do get issues with them from time to time which leave us - err - frustrated. (cough TRTS) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 2, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 2, 2015 surprised none of these got arrested http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-32149393 Some lovely interior views of a Mk1 first class compartment. :jester: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 2, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 2, 2015 So I am reliably informed Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted April 2, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 2, 2015 By my mate who has a friend who claims he watched it for the railway interest only. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkC Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 By my mate who has a friend who claims he watched it for the railway interest only. Funny how it's always 'third party' reporting, isn't it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackRat Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 Well, there's dogging, I suppose.... People can get arrested for that. They can, but it's more fun to suddenly put on the cars roof mounted searchlights, blues and twos and watch the ensuing carnage and panic! Think of the end of Benn y Hill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted April 2, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 2, 2015 Some lovely interior views of a Mk1 first class compartment. :jester: So I am reliably informed By my mate who has a friend who claims he watched it for the railway interest only. We need a 'Pull the other one.' button. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clecklewyke Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 In 1969 I was on an Edinburgh University expedition to study sheep ticks in Afghanistan (yes - honestly!). We travelled overland in a Land Rover (and, yes, we "brought them back alive" - the ticks, that is). After camping overnight in Yugoslavia, then a very grey, oppressive, communist state under the dead hand of Marshal Tito, I realised we were next to a railway line, so, out came the camera. I waited half hour or so but no trains came. Instead I was arrested by the Yugoslav police and locked in a cell. I was held for most of the day when finally they brought the local doctor, who could speak German. Using him to convert Yugoslav to German and one of our party who could speak German to convert German to English they eventually realised I was a harmless eccentric and not a spy and I was released with an apology from the doctor for this "kleine krisis". And a telling off from the expedition organiser for delaying us by being so stupid. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ruggedpeak Posted April 2, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 2, 2015 Well, there's dogging, I suppose.... People can get arrested for that. Oh no you can't. For what offence? Anyway, 3 plane spotters facing life http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2978395/Dubai-plane-spotters-told-face-life-prison.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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