Re: (rshsdepot) Madison, NJ

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

OK, whatever. I know if I wanted to go in a subway tunnel, it probably
wouldn't be so hard, are they guarding every entrance in Bronx, Brooklyn,
Queens....I was once hassled in 1970 or so for taking pictures with an
instamatic in a subway station, a cut and cover station....I thought the
original rules had to do with either flash powder and engineers with no dead
man brake at the time, or paranoia about stations as bomb shelters in the
1950s...

Is aluminum nitrate what the Oklahoma City bomber used?

Whatever, I don't like harassment so will restrict myself to abandoned
structures in the middle of a field near nothing important
Paul

PS- Ammonium nitrate could be made in your backyard I presume, isn't it like
a basic formula or something....Maybe they should guard such stuff better if
they really cared, and since they don't want to keep gun background checks
on gun purchases after 48 hours but care more about library records I wonder
how serious they really are anyway
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Ivan Berger" <oldmaven_@_comcast.net>
To: <rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 7:58 AM
Subject: Re: (rshsdepot) Madison, NJ


>
>
> Paul Luchter wrote:
>
> > Will someone please tell me what the security reason is for this
aversion to
> > photography? It seems rather senseless.
>
> Only about 99% senseless.  Pictures of stations, bridges, etc. could be
used by
> prospective saboteurs to predetermine where they might place explosive or
> antipersonnel devices.  Otherwise, they'd be forced to simply walk in,
look
> around, and figure it out on the spot, poor things.  Restrictions on
> photographing transit installations were, I believe, common in Europe
during WW
> II and in Eastern Europe during the Cold War.  When I visited Budapest in
1972,
> I was strictly forbidden to photograph stations;  when I visited in 1999
or so,
> the only obstacle to my shooting was a local prostitute who assumed that
any
> solo male with a good camera might have money to spare for other forms of
> enjoyment.
>
> > I think it is paranoia to the extreme and totally pointless....satellite
> > photos on the internet I can understand, they actually could be used for
> > positioning for long range attacks, . . . I also don't give the
terrorists
> > much credit
> > for intricate knowledge of much, after all they used box cutters and in
> > Oklahoma a bomb made of fertilizer was used....
>
> And a few tons of ammonium nitrate were recently stolen in North Carolina.
>
> Ivan Berger
>
>
>
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