Photographer detained by BP

[rickmastfan67]

Photographer detained by police, BP employee near refinery

[sarcasm]
I told you Jake not to go down there and annoy them.
[/sarcasm]

On the serious side, it's scary.  On a public road non the less the guy was taking photos from....  And the guy had to give up his Social Security number to BP?!?!?!

[agentsteel53]

what the Hell is the department of homeland security doing there??? don't they have airports to mismanage?

[J N Winkler]

William Niskanen said, forty years ago, that bureaucracies operate on the principle of budget maximization.  (As it happens, I don't agree that Niskanen's strictures apply to classic Weberian civil services, but I am afraid it does apply to departments in the executive branch of the federal government which are dedicated to producing essential, but difficult-to-measure, public goods like security.)

[US71]

what the Hell is the department of homeland security doing there??? don't they have airports to mismanage?

BP bought them.

[agentsteel53]

BP bought them.

neato.  can they stuff them into a leaking oil well 20,000 feet underwater?