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Title: Photographer detained by BP
Post by: rickmastfan67 on July 05, 2010, 09:53:14 PM
Photographer detained by police, BP employee near refinery (http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/07/04/4611161-photographer-detained-by-police-bp-employee-near-refinery)

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I told you Jake not to go down there and annoy them. :P :-D
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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?!?!?! :-o :paranoid:
Title: Re: Photographer detained by BP
Post by: agentsteel53 on July 05, 2010, 10:00:15 PM
what the Hell is the department of homeland security doing there??? don't they have airports to mismanage?
Title: Re: Photographer detained by BP
Post by: J N Winkler on July 06, 2010, 03:00:24 AM
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.)
Title: Re: Photographer detained by BP
Post by: US71 on July 23, 2010, 06:34:51 PM
Quote from: agentsteel53 on July 05, 2010, 10:00:15 PM
what the Hell is the department of homeland security doing there??? don't they have airports to mismanage?

BP bought them.
Title: Re: Photographer detained by BP
Post by: agentsteel53 on July 23, 2010, 06:38:52 PM
Quote from: US71 on July 23, 2010, 06:34:51 PM


BP bought them.

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