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Well in all honesty, he was just doing his job. Security is told what to do and what not to do. As I was told when I was trying to get into Devers State in Taunton, MA (which is an abandoned state mental hospital) that if they have strict guidelines they must follow them or else they get let go. Being a security guard you dont get paid well as it is and I know some of them take their job WAY too seriously but its their job to be jerks sometimes... to get the point across because some people just wont take no for an answer.
As far as my experience with Devers State goes... he was a JERK. I drove for an hour and a half to ask if I could take pictures. He was nice at first but then turned into something mean when I said pictures. He said that if I came back later on, my stuff would be taken and my car towed. I asked if there was anybody I could talk to, and he said I dont care who you talk to, this conversation is done. And I didnt even get angry or upset during the whole thing but his attitude towards the whole thing was very unsettling.
Again, they really dont care.. they just dont want to lose their jobs.
Posted 27 months ago.
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Not to defend BoA (for anything; they are evil), I can understand them not wanting you taking pictures of the interior, even though the doors, and if you have stepped off the sidewalk, onto the foodcourt, or anywhere else, they have the right to prohibit pictures.
I work for a different (smaller, but still competing) bank, and have known people who have had guns in their faces, or have been physically pushed around and even restrained by robbers. Knowing where the security camera and other features are is one thing "professional" thieves work at. They do case targets banks and look for the weaknesses.
Particularly in recent months, bank robberies in Boston are up. One guy alone is suspected in 19 Boston area robberies since Oct. Most are note passers, but not all. Last week, well after your stand for civil rights, someone claimed to have a bomb in another local bank.
If you really want to get interesting, take a walk down the street to the Federal Reserve building, right on Summer and Atlantic Ave and point a camera at that building. A lot of the land around that building looks like city or public land, but the Fed owns it, and given what goes on in that building, see how fast security comes down if you point a camera at that building, and see how many guns you can count. While there, wear a shirt with the 1st amendment printed on it, see if that helps.
And before you dismiss me as "not having been stopped for taking a simple photo", I have been. At the Custom House and the Hancock, both before 9/11, at City Hall Plaza, around the Christian Science Center, at the state house in Washington State, in Miami, in NYC, and even in Montreal. Every time I explained what I was doing, was respectful of the guy just doing his job (some were private security, some local cops, two state troopers, and once even an national guard member), and I have always been allowed to continue what I was shooting uninterrupted.
Posted 26 months ago.
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