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I'm not dark-skinned or Middle Eastern, but I was stopped and questioned by transit police at Penn Station in New York for taking a photo of an OS error message
by schoen 3y ago
I'm not dark-skinned or Middle Eastern, but I was stopped and questioned by transit police at Penn Station in New York for taking a photo of an OS error message on a train status monitor. About 2010 or so?
They seemed to be alarmed by anyone taking an unconventional interest in station infrastructure.
- appplication 3y agoIs it considered terrorism if you fix their BSOD
- tialaramex 3y agoI'm surprised that happened in Penn Station because I'd expect New York has enough nerds that Police are used to the fact that yeah, there are infrastructure nerds, and they think BSODs are worth photographing, and some of them are connected. I guess it depends what "stopped and questioned" means. I've had cops stop me and informally ask me about stuff and it didn't bother me, whereas if they wanna see my ID, search my stuff, now I have a problem with it and I want proper paperwork because somebody is getting a formal complaint.