Crazy Lunatic Vigilante (warning, finger gesture)

[K9Kirk]

I was out taking a leisurely drive a little while ago with an elderly gentleman of 88 years and taking pictures of some horses off to the side of the road with my new lens when this lady pulled up and told me I couldn't take pictures, that someone had recently had a horse stolen and that I was trespassing . I told her I had nothing to do with the horses being stolen and that I was on a public road where taking pictures is perfectly legal. She insisted on preaching to me and ruining my nice photo session and the conversation became heated to say the least.

She then called the police and told them that I was on private property (the public road) and taking pictures. I don't know if she actually did call the police but I decided she wasn't worth the trouble and I pulled away. She then did a u-turn and came up on me real fast and was following me real close. I pulled into a drive way and turned around to head the opposite direction but she did the same thing to get up behind me a 2nd time but that time as she was coming toward me I had already turned around again to fool her and as she saw me coming toward her she cut her wheel real sharp and came halfway into my lane and sat there blocking me. I had to hit the brakes to stop from running into her and she just sat there not moving. I honked the horn and she still wouldn't move.

Then I went around her halfway through the grass and got away from her as fast as I could. The poor guy of 88 years that I was with has dementia and was pretty shook up by it all, he didn't understand what was wrong with her, why she would act that way over me taking pictures. I got him out of there and got his mind on the scenery to calm him down. He takes meds for his nerves and he doesn't deal with that kind of sh*t very well. Here's the picture of the lady that told me I didn't have to be rude. Ha! She was the picture of rude, playing cop and telling me what I could and couldn't do. Beware lunatics when taking pics in unfamiliar territory, they're out there. Sorry this was so long winded.

A terrible picture of a terrible person.

 

[Space Face]

I have a method of dealing with muppets like this. It's called a punch in the throat

 

[Ron Evers]

You live in a scary country, I would be worrying she had a gun.

 

[480sparky]

There's nutjobs like this everywhere.... you can't avoid them.

 

[stapo49]

It sounds like you where the one who should have been calling the police!

 

[tirediron]

I would make about 200 prints of that second image and staple them to every fence post along the road!

 

[weepete]

That's dissapointing, but there are nutters everywhere. A lot of people are suspicious of photographers now.

A few years ago I took my daughter out on a local photo walk around the neighbourhood. We were walking down a street in an industrial estate when I spotted a leaf that was backlit on a small tree so I was showing her how you could take a photo and the veins of the leaf would show through when this irate aggressive young woman stormed out of a nearby unit and demanded to know why I was taking pictures of her car. I just apologised and explained it was the leaf I was photographing and showed her the photos. There was much red faced-ness when she saw the shots and explained one of her collegues just came into the shop and said "there's a guy outside taking photos of your car!" Anyway she beat a hasty retreat before I could explain that even if I was taking a photo of her car that would have been fine. But I was young at the time and a skinhead. Kinda hard to go off on one at a guy with a 5 year old in tow who's talking about how backlighting sows of the beauty of a pretty leaf

 

[Space Face]

That's dissapointing, but there are nutters everywhere. A lot of people are suspicious of photographers now.

A few years ago I took my daughter out on a local photo walk around the neighbourhood. We were walking down a street in an industrial estate when I spotted a leaf that was backlit on a small tree so I was showing her how you could take a photo and the veins of the leaf would show through when this irate aggressive young woman stormed out of a nearby unit and demanded to know why I was taking pictures of her car. I just apologised and explained it was the leaf I was photographing and showed her the photos. There was much red faced-ness when she saw the shots and explained one of her collegues just came into the shop and said "there's a guy outside taking photos of your car!" Anyway she beat a hasty retreat before I could explain that even if I was taking a photo of her car that would have been fine. But I was young at the time and a skinhead. Kinda hard to go off on one at a guy with a 5 year old in tow who's talking about how backlighting sows of the beauty of a pretty leaf

You were a Skinhead?? Interesting.

 

[Soocom1]

social distancing to the extremist.
Well, the police wont really do much except tell you to be careful.

I would have prob. done the license plate instead.

The worst part is that she chased you and thats a problem.

But all is well that ends well.

 

[Derrel]

Crazytown!!!!!

 

[weepete]

You were a Skinhead?? Interesting.

Yeah, not with right wing views though....just the haircut and steel toecap DMs I was always more of a socialist politically. From time to time I still shave my head, the clippers came in handy during lockdown though it p*****s off the Mrs when I take it back to the quick even when I tell her I've enough hair on my chin now to compensate

 

[K9Kirk]

You live in a scary country, I would be worrying she had a gun.

Nah, it did cross my mind but I watched her close and didn't make any moves toward her vehicle to give her any reason to go for one, had she had one. I think the media has given a lot of people the wrong impression about this country. Most gun violence takes place in the bigger cites. Not one gun incident where I live in the last 6 yrs. and only a few that i heard of in the 17 years I lived in Austin, Tx. gun violence is not rampant in America and they never report good people protecting themselves and others with guns. The media is biased and does what it can to put them in a bad light.

 

[K9Kirk]

I would make about 200 prints of that second image and staple them to every fence post along the road!

Thanks, I need to have a little fun, that was very stressful. Thanks for the idea! You dah man!

 

[LightSpeed666]

You should have kept doing what you were doing and let the police come.
They likely would have arrested her. She cant flip the middle finger in handcuffs.

 

[Jeff G]

I had a similar event happen, wasn't photography related, but was a wacko who thought she was wronged. Then she proceeded to block us into a parking space. I had a truck at the time, so I drove over the curb and left, she peeled out and chased us for twenty minutes before I lost her. The scariest part was that she had three small children in her car while she went bonkers.