Are you eye fornicating me?

[mikoyan29]

Okay, I'm in beautiful Orange County this week because I'm helping out at our other office. The hotel I am staying at is pretty close to the approach path for John Wayne airport, almost to the point where I can reach out and touch the aircraft. I'm a plane nut and I like to take pictures.

So last night I was out on the porch (or whatever the heck you want to call the sort of hallway) and I was out taking pictures of the planes as they were coming in for a landing. It was sunset and a little bit after sunset. Anyways, this guy comes up to me and starts getting in my face and accusing me of taking pictures of the other hotel or people in the parking lot or something. Me not wanting to get myself or my camera damaged (I have a Canon 50D) said that I was not doing that and I was taking pictures of the planes. So then he asks me why, to which I replied, "I like planes". So then I show him the pictures and he keeps having me scroll through them. I was probably looking at him a bit crosseyed, to which he says, "Are you eye f-ing me?". I just looked confused. He left, I guess convinced that I was not either a pervert or terrorist.

Anyways, his truck was double parked....should I have called the desk?

[Sheldonrs]

Maybe he just wanted you to socket.

[mikoyan29]

What's wierd about the whole thing is that I go photographing in Detroit all the time and never felt or was threatened....

[fireheart]

I'm sorry, but eye-fornicating just sounds funny

Eesh, ithat's just plain odd.

[LillFilly]

Well, that guy sure sounds like he was an eye-candy of the male species, no wonder you were drooling over him! Sounded like a real charmer.

[Spork4pedro]

Yay! you were staying where i grew up! That is a great spot to plane watch! (When I was little it was exciting to have them fly over when we were driving the 405) Anyhoo..

At first I thought the guy was a hotel employee that thought you were taking pictures of his property (I know some places don't like it if you take pictures..not sure about hotels though) but he was just some random guy? um..ok? I would have ignored him or walked away. What a weirdo!

[mikoyan29]

I'm sorry, but eye-fornicating just sounds funny

Eesh, ithat's just plain odd.

He used the less proper version for fornicate.

Anyways the offending pictures.

[IT Grunt]

Makes me wonder if he was jumpy /because/ he was doubled parked and he thought you had a shot of it.

Nice photos, BTW.

[Geek King]

:OT:

Ohh, I like that wolf on the tail of the frontier. Someone did a nice job on that.

[tropicsgoddess]

I second the Frontier plane, GK. Something must've been bugging the shit out of the guy to get on your case about the pics you were taking. Eye-fornication...

[mikoyan29]

I second the Frontier plane, GK. Something must've been bugging the shit out of the guy to get on your case about the pics you were taking. Eye-fornication...

I think he was puffing about his girlfriend or something...

[jjllbb]

Called the desk? Called the COPS! He had no right to look at your pictures. You had no obligation to explain yourself to him at all. If he was concerned he could have called the proper authorities and left it at that. He can't go all vigilante on you. Nuh-uh. Not right.

[Amanita]

Eye fornicating? More like Plane Porn! Nice pics!

[mikoyan29]

Called the desk? Called the COPS! He had no right to look at your pictures. You had no obligation to explain yourself to him at all. If he was concerned he could have called the proper authorities and left it at that. He can't go all vigilante on you. Nuh-uh. Not right.

Well, yeah, I probably should have done that. But as I said, I really didn't want anything to befall me or my camera. I had no idea what he was going to do. Although maybe I should have said, "If you think I'm diong something suspicious, maybe it's a good idea to get the cops involved".

What's really sad is that in all the times I've gone photographing in Detroit, nothing has ever happened to me.

[Chanlin]

As someone who is into amateur photography those are some nice shots, especially the night time photos. Although I must admit I haven't been into photography lately as I used to be when I was younger.