Just looking at the picture and without reading your story I would have thought you were attacked by the cows when you were taking pictures of them. >_>
One possible explanation for his violent reaction towards you is there is something they do not want to show to the rest of the world going on within that house.
Nathan Hobbs wrote:
One possible explanation for his violent reaction towards you is there is something they do not want to show to the rest of the world going on within that house.
My thoughts exactly --- maybe something drug related.
I had a similar thing happen recently but without any violence or bikie. It was a country road with farms, cows etc. I was out specifically to take photos around the area with the setting sun in the background as an added feature. I found a good spot about 100 yards from a small farmhouse which was close to the road. I pulled up, got out and started shooting, aiming my camera away from the house towards the setting sun.. I noticed a car had pulled up almost in the driveway of the house but was parked at a funny angle with his headlights on (it was starting to get twilight). He didn't get out of the car but kept the headlights aimed at me. I took no notice and continued shooting for about 5-10 minutes. When I got in my car to drive away, he took off at the same time ahead of me, staring at me as he went past. It was like he was just observing what I was doing. Why the headlights? Why was he even worried as I wasn't taking photos of the house? Why did he just sit in the car? I realised later that it may not have been his house anyway. Perhaps he noticed me from a previous location and was wondering what I was up to. At all times I was on a public road! Some people are getting paranoid. In Australia we are told to be vigilant about terrorists. There are even adds on TV showing typical suspicious behaviour to report. (Like taking photos of an oil refinery). But cows in a paddock at sunset? please God what is the world coming to?
probably nothing you could have done better. When I was in the hill country in Texas looking for flowers I was taking photos of flowers over a fence near a farm.
The owner (or manager) drove up and asked what we were doing. We told him we appreciated the beauty of his field and were trying to get a good rendition of it with the camera. He opened up an invited up to cross over the fence and help ourselves.
The only thing you might have done is drive up to the house and ask if it would be ok to photograph their great looking cows. Who knows if this would have helped or not?
hassy99 wrote:
The only thing you might have done is drive up to the house and ask if it would be ok to photograph their great looking cows. Who knows if this would have helped or not?
Or... Who knows, maybe it was a meth lab and they would have blown him away and hidden his remains... These days, it's getting more and more dangerous to interact with almost anyone.
Suing someone is expensive, time consuming and the courts aren't a collection agency so you're not guaranteed you'll get a dime but you'll have to pay your lawyer.
Yeah, the guy is a d-bag toughguy but I'd suggest trying to work it out with him. If he's still an asshole, then consider suing him.
You think he is going to want to work anything out after getting cited for DUI among other things!
No chance. Its one thing to be caught in a fire by accident, but to walk into a bad situation by approaching this guy to fix your car....Id send your request in the mail.
This country is becoming very unhospitable to photographers. While you contend with drunken bikers in Georgia, in NY, I am always getting hassled by police officers in confrontations that range from civil to civil rights violation. I feel the level of scrutiny given to non-paparazzi photographers has reached an unintelligent point exacerbated by fear, ignorance and racism. What harm has ever come from photographing a bridge? Actually, photographs helped provide a timeline for the Minnesota bridge deterioration and the subsequent incompetence that allowed for its tragic collapse. If light in the dark corners of public politics begets Democracy, photographs play a vital role in the health of a Democratic state . Whether it be taking photos of cows or the capitol photographers are doing a service as historians, activists and artists.
marko1953 wrote:
Why the headlights? Why was he even worried as I wasn't taking photos of the house? Why did he just sit in the car? I realised later that it may not have been his house anyway. Perhaps he noticed me from a previous location and was wondering what I was up to. At all times I was on a public road! Some people are getting paranoid. In Australia we are told to be vigilant about terrorists. There are even adds on TV showing typical suspicious behaviour to report. (Like taking photos of an oil refinery). But cows in a paddock at sunset? please God what is the world coming to?...Show more →
if he was pointing his headlights directly at you, my assumption would be that he was making sure you were visable to passing motorists.
You did good. It was a volatile situation. I live in Georgia and he could have jerked a gun.
There was a stereo store owner in town who went ballistic when a blind man with a seeing eye dog came into the store. He threw them out, claiming customers complained about the guys odor (he was unkempt).
Turns out the store owner was living a lifestyle far beyond what the store would afford him. He eventually ended up in jail for tax evasion, but the word on the street is that he thought the guy was a narc and the dog was a drug sniffer.
well, anyone who rides a Heritige softail with a cell phone clipped to his belt and a bunch of catalogue junk screwed on the bike he doesn't really rank high in the biker hierarchy
Secondly he doesn't seem to be wearing any club colours so that makes things a bit easier to deal with.
A lot of little people think that if they plunk down 20 grand on a bike and a couple of mean looking T shirts that they start channeling Sonny Barger when they make it past the first traffic light without falling over.
I've been riding bikes for 19 years and I ride a Harley and all I can say is that a lot of really nice people ride bikes and quite a few assholes, don't let this colour your view of everyone on a bike, but this guy needs to be introduced to someone who can put him in his place.
Therock, you did the right thing, don't drop the charges and stick to your rights, you did nothing wrong.
If all he has is his bike, you can bet it will sell fast & the cash to fix your car won't be available. You are still a neighbor and not a very good one in his eyes. I'd be careful. He has already been humiliated by the law and this is going to cost him fines or jail time. A bad guy always has bad guy friends. And if he doesn't his sister does.
Some battles aren't meant to win. Bottom line, chalk it up.
Chalk it up!?
No way. Stand your ground get the guy to fix the problem and if any more trouble comes your way get the authorities involved again. Letting the guy get away with it only reinforces the attitude that he can treat you like this again.
You need to draw a line in the ground on this and not let him walk all over you.
