Why are you standing up for this bellend? Obviously @TheReligion knows what he is talking about given his profession - and even IF you are right, who cares? The guy was a nuisance towards the players and was rightfully told to jog on.
This is exactly what would have happened almost anywhere else. The person behind the camera harassed multiple people before the police arrived. This shouldn't be tolerated, but it doesn't require the person to be bludgeoned. US cops take it way too far at times, it is much more pleasant to live in a place where incidents like this would get dealt with more effectively.
Excellent point, totally agree
Imagine someone doing this to a random group of blokes waiting on a platform. Sure they would try and move him on in exactly the same way if it already hadn't escalated by then.
See my post 117. The someones you refer to were railway employees and do have exactly that authority.
I've worked for many years as a TV producer in news. We're always wrongly being told we can't be here and can't film here by goons in a bad uniform just like that. If we took any notice, there wouldn't be any news. Personally I would never film someone for no reason like this tw#t did, but the principle stands. He was entitled to be there.
I see your point as a news producer, however, this weirdo isn’t with the news.
They were Virgin employees, and quite junior ones. They were clearly making an arbitrary declaration that it was a private area just to make him move.
With the permission of the company who owns the platform I’m sure they do. I’m not in the UK though so the likes of @TheReligion can shed more light on this than I can.
No he's a tw#t. But he has the same rights as an ITN camera crew.
I don’t think he has, look at the posts by an actual member of the law enforcement, even so it doesn’t matter. Screw principles when dealing with morons like this. For all they knew he could have posed a danger to the players - he was clearly not «normal».
Yes, that's what they're entitled and expected to do. If someone doesn't like they're decisions they could complain to the company or take out their own legal action but as only a complete knobhead would do so in a case like this they wouldn't achieve very much.
They don't have any more rights over the platform than anyone else does. They're customers looking to make use of the train service.
I'm not saying you don't police properly, but people don't respect authority like they used to.
I'm sure many of them would of liked to give him a slap but they're a bit smarter than that. The guy is filming them and any attempt at aggression would be met with a law suit.Because where the players will be waiting at airports or train stations will be private lounges, the reason they’re waiting on a little platform is to avoid a lot more people. They won’t be getting off at Piccadilly, they’ll be getting off at some smaller stop near Manchester. But if they’re doing that they need to have more security, even just one guy.
I've had the BBC stopped from filming on a train in under 10 minutes. One call to a railway company's publicity officer, one from them to the BBC, one from the BBC to the filming team, and the camera and mikes were nicely put away. Mobile phones are great at times. If you work for the BBC you should have people you can double-check that with, it might save you time in the future.
If I had a fiver for every time a member of the police had attempted to stop filming without the power to actually do so, I'd have £735 more than I do have. Although in this case he would have been within his rights to stop the filming, ironically.I don’t think he has, look at the posts by an actual member of the law enforcement, even so it doesn’t matter. Screw principles when dealing with morons like this. For all they knew he could have posed a danger to the players - he was clearly not «normal».
Can’t believe we’re at four pages
Just witchin the playas git on a train back to Minchesta geez. Fackin Chawsea cocknoi bwoy.I agree. You would have the power to stop me filming. That's rather a different matter to a train operator junior employee declaring Network Rail property to be private property on a whim.
Thanks for the agreement on filming.
Let's say they wouldn't have the authority to declare one particular area of a station (which, remember, they do not own) to be private property and (even if they did own it which they don't) without properly signposting it as such in advance.
It's not that the lady declares the station private. It's that she says that the section of the platform they're in "is now private". She can't just declare that because some famous people are waiting for a train there.
If the players retaliate and get a long ban with added bad press to boot, how does that help them?
So if someone strange walks up to you in a public place points a phone to your face and starts talking to you or at you you are just willing to indulge them?
She absolutely can. You could take up whether you thought she was right or not with her management later, but as I said earlier, good luck with that. If you refused to move on the day then the employee could ask the police to move you on. Obviously the police would assess the situation, but in most cases the person requested to move would be a knobhead, so they would comply.
I'm not sure being a knobhead is a recognised legal criteria for such things, but I'm not a high court judge
Hey you can string this cnut up by his balls for all I care. I just don't like people in uniform making up rules as they go along.
It's way more relaxing and you have much more freedom and room to walk around also be easier if they have post-match meals or routines that they must go through to prep for a midweek game. Stuff like this is the only thing I can think offhand why they took the train, that and maybe the trip to the airport added in its roughly the same journey time
Like I said earlier, the players were happy to pose for pictures with other people who acted fine.
I wouldn’t waste the string to be honest. But I didn’t see anybody making up rules. Poorly executing their role and trying to say something to resonate with a probably pissed up meathead yeah, but not stringently trying to abuse power or enforce rules. Theyd have likely told him to kindly piss off if the coward didn’t have a camera in their face
the guys train on the opposite platform turns up, yet some people think you can be told you can't stand there.May I recommend the red pill?
