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July 27th, 2020, 03:05 PM
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Inner Circle
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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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July 27th, 2020, 08:48 PM
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Major Player
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Re: A strange request on the phone.
Does the image contain the time it was taken in the metadata? Any other data like copyright and contact info?
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July 27th, 2020, 11:57 PM
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Inner Circle
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Re: A strange request on the phone.
Id not thought about that? I'll check but I suspect there are more trainspotters around than I thought!
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July 29th, 2020, 01:11 AM
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Re: A strange request on the phone.
And the offending loco?
Ron ps former train - spotter in the days of steam |
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July 29th, 2020, 01:35 PM
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Inner Circle
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Re: A strange request on the phone.
Here you go. |
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July 29th, 2020, 05:28 PM
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Vortex Media
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Re: A strange request on the phone.
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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July 30th, 2020, 12:09 AM
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Inner Circle
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Re: A strange request on the phone.
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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July 30th, 2020, 10:52 AM
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Re: A strange request on the phone.
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Last edited by Vince Pachiano; July 30th, 2020 at 06:37 PM. |
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July 30th, 2020, 11:28 AM
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Inner Circle
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Re: A strange request on the phone.
I've heard in Southern California there are more of those types of jobs. ;-)
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July 31st, 2020, 01:26 AM
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Equal Opportunity Offender
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Re: A strange request on the phone.
I heard the exposure really was terrific this time.
Andrew |
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July 31st, 2020, 05:58 AM
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Re: A strange request on the phone.
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August 6th, 2020, 03:40 PM
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Re: A strange request on the phone.
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Ok made that up but I really do get a lot of robo texts where they address me as Stanley. |
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August 7th, 2020, 11:09 AM
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Re: A strange request on the phone.
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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August 7th, 2020, 03:14 PM
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Slash Rules!
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Re: A strange request on the phone.
Oh great. So in addition to stealing my data they know about my love of requesting to talk to managers.
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August 10th, 2020, 01:50 PM
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Re: A strange request on the phone.
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Spooky! |
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