Ello all, Im a new guy ere and a 35 yr old photographer.

I read a lot of these stories with great interest and it helps me to be vigilant and ready for answers when I mean the kind of people you folk mention.

I would just like to say though, that they are not all the same.

When the us president was here and we had all the world leaders here, there was a huge security ding dong going on.

Police were obviously all over the place and I was all ready for the "no photos" thing.

I saw a group of policebikes with their riders talking with each other. I asked if I could photograph the bikes and these guys were very polite, obliging and generally nice guys!

After taking the shots, they even let me sit on the bike!

So some of them really are different.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8387014@N05/3448914262/

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