24°C.Perfect

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Unpleasant experience: walking the dogs. I took my camera because the light is just perfect as well  as the cherry trees are ripe with fruit. Then while the dogs were running about one of them came over and said

"are you taking pictures of us? if you are I’m going to take that camera off you"

then it went on. they tried to argue, it’s illegal to take pictures of children,  reply" no it’s not, this is a public place"

The picture is below… the children concerned aren’t even in the same field as me.

 

They followed me home, chanting abuse, obsenities about my mother, paedophiles, wanking. They cicled me as I walked taking pictures with their mobile phones whilst one boy inparticular fired absurd questions at me.

"Does yyour mother know you take pictures of little children and wank over them "

"you’re like Michael Jackson"

 

So what’s happening here:

I guess they are a gang, they are building-up kudos with their peers and enjoying a taste of power that numbers can give. There were about five of them, mostly riding small mountain/bmx bikes.

 

I walked to the nearest phone box and rang the police. Then the boys dissappeared. The police thought that since the gang had gone then it would be safe to go home. My main concern is tha they’s find out where I live. But as I cam out of the phone box, there they were. So I walked to the next phone box which is quite a way off in town.

The police said they would get a patrol car here in about 20 minutes.

that was just over an hour ago.

 

Here are the offending photos, I suppose it needs some contrast adjustment, either to darken the forground trees or to wash out the background. This picture has only been resized, that’s all. The second one is a crop, but since the camera was aimed at the trees, the people in the distance are not clear. the main antagonist is wearing the green tee-shirt