A strange request on the phone.
 

The other day on Facebook I posted a picture of a train. The back of my new office has a railway line next too the car park, and I snapped a train going past. Today I got a phone call out of the blue asking about the picture, and asking off my office was on the East Suffolk line. I said yes - it is indeed. He was a train fan and apparently an unusual train was heading my way - was there any chance I could get a camera and shoot it passing at 10:40. I looked at what I was doing (waiting for a big drive to copy to another - so I grabbed a couple of cameras, tripod and an umbrella as it was raining and did it for him. Dead on time, a single engine arrived and headed south. Driver training, apparently. What gets me is that my office address is not on any internet location I'm aware of - and the phone number and address you get on a search is my home - not the office/studio. I guess he must have recognised the location. The power of the internet is amazing sometimes!

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Does the image contain the time it was taken in the metadata? Any other data like copyright and contact info?

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Id not thought about that? I'll check but I suspect there are more trainspotters around than I thought!

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And the offending loco?

Ron

ps former train - spotter in the days of steam

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Here you go.

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I also got a similar call. The guy said my wife was coming out of the shower at 10:10 and asked if there was any chance I could grab a camera and get a picture of it. I don't know how he knew it was about to happen, but he sure liked the pictures.

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Didn't the steam fog the lens, other than that, can't see a problem in these covid times any income stream is better than none.

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I've heard in Southern California there are more of those types of jobs. ;-)

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I heard the exposure really was terrific this time.

Andrew

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Nice albeit a diesel!

Ron

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Got the same call. Thing is, I’m not married and he called me “Stanley”.

Ok made that up but I really do get a lot of robo texts where they address me as Stanley.

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Maybe Stanley is the male version of Karen. They are insulting you by long distance and you don't even know it.

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Oh great. So in addition to stealing my data they know about my love of requesting to talk to managers.

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Ummm..... me thinks he was a client of the guy with the office above and found out about your operation that way, and, to contact you, um... a retired MI5 (or is that M15?) guy who moved to your sleepy town from London?

Spooky!