You have repeated your unsupported accusations several times. You like authority that much? Fine, leave the thread unless you have something to add to it.

>>We need to organize a flash mob and photograph the hell out of this place. Gives new meaning to the term.

I don’t live in SF, but I’m glad that great(?) minds think alike.

Come on guys, do you really want to let 4chan have all the fun?

:-)

If you’re a security guard being paid to enforce a “no photos” rule, and some guy with a camera is taking photos of you while you are telling him to not take photos, I imagine you’d look a little peeved too.

Just like the other post regarding the SF cop that arrested the skateboarder, these situations are often edited to just present one side of the story. It made me wonder what the skateboarder said to the cop before the the video starts, and in this instance if the security guards actually did harass the photographer, I wonder what smart ass comment he made to provoke such a reaction.

I’m not entirely uninformed about security guards and cops in SF. I lived in the city for over a dozen years, and I used to work (and live) just a couple blocks from 555 California. I used to meet my GF at the time almost daily at 555 (where she worked) and never witnessed any incidents dealing with the security there.. so as for it being “notorious”, that also seems unlikely to me.

Anybody care to create a Flickr group or stand up to be the organizer in one way or another? I’m free pretty much every weekday next week. Shit, I’m free tomorrow all day. Let’s do something.

They were also taking far too much interest in our car parked up on the meter also. What with photo stopping guards, BART employees and everything, how the hell is a chap meant to photograph anything these days?

I can see their points, but the way that they operate is not good. They should be forced to take those wanky customer relations courses, and do “role play” for their sins :)

And…all of these people:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=555+california

!

However this area inside the sidewalk is private property, and as dickish as these guys are, they’re still within their legal rights to kick people they don’t like off their private property. (Though as humans they fail.)

I’ve taken a number of photos of this building, some from the sidewalk, some on the private property and have never bee hassled or even had anyone notice me. (They have a decent Christmas light display.)

I walk by this building twice nearly every day. I have never seen the guards hassling anyone. I’m not even sure I’ve seen the guards.

I think this is just a few photographer’s shtick: Pissing off guards for attention. I know over a dozen professional Bay Area photographers and none of them have ever had any problems photographing anywhere.

I’m not saying it didn’t happen, but the why it really the crux of the mater.

I really hate making fun of people’s appearances because for the most part we can only work with what we’re born with, but they’re really begging for it.

I bet we could find the four others elsewhere on premises.

There seems to be a sort of courtyard inside an open entryway before you come up to the revolving doors in the photo. That is private property, the public sidewalk in front is public property you can legally photograph from.

“A sidewalk however is a public right of way.”

A lot of buildings in that area actually own the sidewalk area too (for whatever reason, old city… who knows.. maybe it was a holdover from before cities bought up space for sidewalks). So, just step in between some parked cars in the street…. its SF so the street is lined with parked cars / there are safe places you won’t get hit by a car.

So, you’re calling him a liar, which is taking a side. And you’re implying that, because he’s ant-authoritarian he’s more likely to lie, which is further taking a side.