So I almost got arrested in a park
 

So I'm in the UK and not enjoying the beaurcratic nightmare. But hey, it's their rules. I'm just here to make a few screw films.

I took a friend to a park to do her a favour. I wasn't even trying to take pornographic photos. It was just a friend wearing a min skirt that wanted some tasteful sexy photos.

We didn't even get started because she sat down on a bench and took her jacket off. Well something called a "park caretaker" comes out and starts telling us we can't do that and to go into the privacy of our home to make those kind of photos. He then called the cops when we told him to fuck off.

There was absolutely NOTHING showing or profane at all. Hell, her legs were closed!

Now I've had girls on Hollywood blvd walking down the road in a thong and pasties over the nipples. And the cops stopped traffic and posed with the girl.

So to my American Friends....

Everytime you think your country is gone to the shit house with puritan values. Just remember that I have lived in europe since 2003 and europeans can be waaaaaaay bigger prudes and conservative arseholes than pastors at a promise keepers convention.

Compared to the rest of the world....
The United States is the greatest nation on earth.
With my beloved Canada a damn close 2nd.
(Get rid of Harper and Megaman it will be a tie for first.)

its just very sad that some people have very dirty minds nowadays

Amerikkka still sucks

Yea I will admit that America sucks....
But compared to the other countries in this world..
It suck a whole lot less.

When the Brits figure that opening a bank account with Cash shouldn't take 3 weeks plus 2 forms of goverment ID and utilities bill and a tenancy agreement.

Or that gettting a debit card shoudn't be a credit check plus 6 months waiting.

That we don't need a the British film review boards cutting a porn just because we left a window open on set and that ment children MIGHT have been in the vincinity during filming.

Or getting an HIV test shouldn't require a week wait.

They will stop being a distant 3rd in the world.

When the French stop being racist....

Learn that porn is NOT art...

Stop trying to charge a person 3 months security to rent an apartment plus have a guarantor co-sign the lease.

Or quit trying to feed Jews and Muslims pork at christmas time....

They will stop being a distant 4th in the world.

As for the Italians...
Well they are in 5th place but they appear to not care and frankly what's wrong with their nation is what makes them Italian so they can be forgiven.

As for the Germans....

ENOUGH OF THE FUCKING UNIONS! Do some work for a change and give the young people a chance to get a job! Most of you can retire early and comfortably.. so do it!!
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That covers the majority of the people that whine!

AMERICA RULES!!!

thats what you get for being ruled by the illuminati

You haven't been at many places have you :1orglaugh

You've got to be kidding me?
:helpme

That sucks

Harper needs to go..he is basically here to sell us out

It wouldn't be so bad if the conservatives just outright sold us off.
But instead they always do it 1 piece at a time.

Form a fucking economic union with the United States and be done with it! America gets access to the natural resources they need and Canada gets access to a labour market!

Not to mention that the US dollar is now close enough to the Canadian that harmonizing the two shouldn't be a problem. It's time to create the Northie Bucks.

Do that and I can probably talk my husband into returning home to Canada.

Where I can once again film girls in Montreal Fucking outside Olympic Stadium or flashing people at the Pie 9 metro station again.

You know I love Europe for the history and culture. But the fucking prudish, arrogant and racist christian attitudes make baby jesus want to fart.

:1orglaugh illuminati

Illuminati = Too much Dungeon and Dragons grow up?

That's pretty uptight, alright. What do you brits have to say for yourselves?

No, just some idiot that got ahold of a Dan Brown novel off the best seller's rack. Retarded.

Next time look around, europe is a bit bigger then the UK. You just had bad luck. But never try to tell us how free and liberal the states are.

http://gfy.flatbox.com/bush.jpg

too much to read....

leave those kids alone!

okay so...she was fully clothed and the police came? No one was doing anything sexual? I don't buy it.

Why are you here if you do nothing but complain about it? London, in my experience as an immigrant, is a very open minded place.

Oh yea gee whizzz....
I've only lived in the UK and I based all my opinions on this one spot.
Gosh I guess that makes me silly..

Hmmmm
Let's try this again.

I've lived in Paris and own property there.

I've lived in Greece. (Nope don't own any property there)

My husband is 1/2 Italian and has an Italian passporte... Guess where I"ve spent lots of time?

Now I'm in London and just kicked out a Danish flatmate because I couldn't tolerate her judgemental attitude and ideas of "polite and acceptable behaviour."

Yea...
There are idiots everywhere in the world. No one will doubt that.

But when the idiots appear to do asshole things in large enough numbers and the state does little or nothing to rectify or educate the fuck-twats....

Sooner or later it becomes part of that nation's culture.
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United States Rules

On a similar note....
Why do you bother to read my postings if don't like what you I have to say?

Perhaps because it's a free forum...

Just like it's a free country and we are free to read whatever the hell we want, say what we want and form whatever opinions we desire based on our individual experiences or lack thereof.

But on that note...
There is a feature called IGNORE feel free to put me on it.

And the police said you were committing an offense in some way??

Don't think so unless there was some bylaw relating to that specific park or there was enough film stuff around which, depending, may need a permit for filming - in which case the police will ensure filming is not disrupted - even for "tasteful sexy photos" :)

Fucking wow. That's some crazy shit yo.

:disgust

It was one little camera I was holding.

I got told that photos like this are best taken indoors in the privacy of my home. People might take offense and I should really go to the council and get some sort of permission. He was pretty certain there was no law or rule or permit I required but it was a good idea to get a letter or something saying I could do this. But if we wanted we could accompany him and make the necessary enquires.

Sorry I don't remember the EXACT words but the above was pretty much what was said.

I'm a pornographer and to be blunt...

I tend not to argue with cops. Even if I am in the right! All that happens is they charge you with something stupid and then it's up to me to PAY an attorney to fix things.

On Freedom of speech/expression issue I would most likely win. But my purse is going to take a hit in the process. I pick a lot of fights over things I believe in... but I think twice if it's going to cost me a single dollar. (I admit to being greedy)

I take it you have never been to The Netherlands.

"Now I've had girls on Hollywood blvd walking down the road in a thong and pasties over the nipples. And the cops stopped traffic and posed with the girl."

Ony in america.

That's my point!!!!

go home then and stop whining!

Don't like what I have to say...
Then stop reading my posts.

one thing i learn from gfy is you will get every response imaginable, everyone needs to post somethign different.

Lies, you either had a lot of gear, I doubt it, the girl was doing something obscene, or this never happened at all.

So you have a small camera, the girl is fully clothed and has her legs closed?, bollocks!. So any tourist that wants to take a pic is going to be told to do it in their own home?

Maybe the caretaker didn't like being told to fuck off for asking you to stop doing something you shouldn't be. You were NOT nearly arrested for taking innocent pictures, oh no you didn't even get started, of a fully clothed girl.

As for the English and Londoners being prudes I think this might show you it's not exactly the case.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/simoncrerar/sets/442816/

http://www.courthouseawarenessnews.c...0in%20sand.jpg

You will never know how small of a box you live in until you step out of it and compare the outside to it.

You are way off.
Hmm lets try this, i lived in the states, canada, spain, france, switzerland. Own properties in several of them. USA is not liberal. Next time look a bit further then the park. Ofcourse there are assholes everywhere. You just ha d bad luck. You can show your nipples in the states if they are covered with flesh colored tape :Oh crap . ( ask Melissa )

Pics?....

I agree. My wife is from the UK and I have been there several times.

Mmmm.. So basically there was no known offense and the police sure have better stuff to be doing. (Don't think you need to bother about the ravings of a park caretaker or rely on him for legal advice :) ) A London cop is going to have one of these silly grins on his face for the rest of the day at the prospect of "sexy pictures" in a park - you should have made allowances and taken a polaroid cam along to give em some instant pics :winkwink:

Na... cops are same as anyone else - they are entitled to respect and common courtesy until such time as they may misbehave, - same as anyone else. It does not matter about "pornography" - it's either legal or illegal. If it's legal - nada problems. Only time I've ever told a cop to shut the fuck up was when he behaved like an idiot - otherwise these guys have been good as gold and like their porn same as much any other paysite subscriber. :pimp

But of course there is assholes everywhere. Unfortunately when your a pronographer they tend to be very vocal at you.

Now I'm half native north american indian and my husband is half Italian.

As one of the first nations people my citizenship extends from Canada to Mexico.
My husband holds dual citizenship between Canada and Italy. With the E.U. he can be anywhere in Europe.
That means we have half a world covered with our citizenships.

Not that is really important but like you we have lived in Canada, States and France. And have property in two of these areas. I can't comment on Switzerland or Spain but I was present during the riots in France. And when we lived there was shocked to see groups of people start up a homeless soup kitchen and laugh at muslims because they made pork soup.

You can say the UK is open minded and I'll be the first to agree it is most likely the BEST country in all of europe. Even with all the CCTV cameras on the street corners and a banking system with more rules than I can shake a stick at. I find the people to be slightly prudish but relatively nice and open minded.

Culturally Europe has America and Canada beat. Can't compete with hundreds of years of history. However, I'm going to go with the USA all the way!!! In a Fucked up world it's the best bet for a free and open society.

I once had a cop in L.A. explain to me that their overall duty is to keep the peace. Therefore I'm big enough to say that perhaps all the officer wanted was to keep Park-50 from having a heart attack. And figured it was easier to chase me away than to reason with the guy. ((Benefit of the doubt))

But what I'm getting at is that I miss the ability to do my job without hinderence. I was relatively left alone to do what I wanted back in North America. And trust me if I had a choice, I would run back to Montreal in a heart beat. ((Hell I would be willing to go to Newfoundland)) But I'm stuck until he gives up boats or Harper is removed from office.

there he is again

Love your threads - always entertaining especially as you have a genuine talent for annoying people and they always come back for more! Guess some people just love being smacked round the head!:thumbsup

was she ugly? maybe then I can understand or the guy was gay. England is going downhill :( :(

I figure the majority of the world is like Homer Simpson with his extra thick skull.

IE: Get all their information from television, kill their brain with some sort of numbing substance and just haven't figured out that getting hit in the head with a bat hurts.

I'm sorry but for 99.9% of this world it comes down to Eat, Sleep and Excrete. And they are always the first ones to jump up and yell out an opinion about something happening in this world.

Remember these are the same people that devided themselves into camps of Liberal vs Conservative. And then argue who deserves to be the rightful ruler of the planet.

now the banking system I agree with you on

:1orglaugh muaha

Thank you!

And I will agree that Britian is a wonderful country.

It just has some really prudish people that can't mind their own fucking business.

Their banking system is one of the few things still hanging over from the old class system. If you are not born here you have to pretty much promise them your first born just to get a savings account. It took me nine years to get a checking account and I only got that once I was offically a British citizen.

I disagree that people are prudes..afterall this is the country where dogging is nearly the national pasttime. The British just tend not to talk about it but once they go to do it they are anything but prudes. The kinkiest guys I have known are British.

Then PLEASE introduce me to the non-prudes...
Because I'm ready to go fucking Postal !!!!

It's been like re-inventing the wheel.
I am sick and tired of having a rule book read to me and forever being polite. (If someone cuts me off I have the right to call them an arsehole!)

And on that note, if someone can't figure out there is a gap between the train and platform they deserve to fall in it and get killed.

Furthermore, if the Brits don't want my money...

My husband has an Italian passporte and we have italian banks. They are only more than too happy to take our money and tax dollars.

I used to make fun of that gap thing I until I saw a couple stations where it is like crossing the great divide when you are getting off.

No offense ment but...

I'm going to have to differ with you on this one.

I can't help but feel if you're too stupid to watch your step when you get off a train you deserve to be killed.

tough break bro...I know london parks can be a bit strange

there are blind people that use the tube and from personal experience getting a wheelchair over those gaps is almost impossible. The newer portions of the tube on the Jubilee line have it done much better with the slidding door barriers.

Fully sighted people..yeah.

My husband used to call that female voice that announces the stops and says mind the gap Sonya because he sand she gets on yah nerves ;)

You know it pisses me off that most of the Tube stations are NOT accessiable to wheelchairs and people with various disablilities.

I'm near Leyton station and I'm wondering HOW THE FUCK do they get down the stairs? Yea sure... the station looks all nice and historical British. But what fucking good is that if you can't get up and down the steps?

Do some nice blokes suddenly come and lift you up and down?
Or do they just re-route you on a bus for 2 hours?

Perhaps you're supposed to tip your chair back and slide down the steps while hoding on for dear life. Then use a rope and tie on to the back of the train!!!

I've got an idea....
Save some money on the "Mind the Gap" early warning system and put in more ramps.