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Sidelines Kalani Simpson |
Photographers suggest
stiff penalties for
camera theftON Friday, I wrote about Tiger's troubles and his psycho caddie (Steve Williams), and asked, 'What would happen if some crazed New Zealander crashed into the gallery and snatched your camera?'
Luckily, the nation's sports photographers were having this very same conversation on the Internet ...
>> "If someone other than the police or an official of the event grabbed my camera they would be tackled and I would take my camera back. If it got broken in the scuffle their (okole) would be in court."
>> "I personally would think about pressing charges if he had messed with me."
>> "If his antics keep going the way they have been, if the officials don't do something, (he's) going to get injured. Not just hurt, but injured."
>> "Sports shooters must unite and let Tigger and Pooh know we won't tolerate this behavior. I say all the photogs at the next event lay down their cameras and turn their backs to Tiger on his 1st and 9th tee shots."
>> "All I could say was why would the photographer give the caddie his/her camera? Let's just say that if he tried to take my camera he wouldn't be standing very long."
>> "Considering how Tiger is playing, and the fact that the caddie's primary income is his 10 percent cut, the poor bastard is probably starving. I'm sure he thought the camera was actually a Quizno's sub."
>> "I would have knee-capped him with my monopod ..."
>> "I think Tiger's caddie needs a hug, a beer and maybe some female companionship."
>> "I keep saying we need to beat this guy with old film canisters. He is asking for it."
>> "I think if I ever have to shoot a PGA event with Tiger's caddie in attendance, I'll snap out of my nap, run up and kick over Tiger's golf bag, take out his putter and wrap it around a tree, and then yell and cuss the caddie out. When I'm questioned by the police ... I'd say that I was awakened from my nap by the noisiness of Woods' thousand-dollar driver pinging off his hundred-dollar ball. I was infuriated that my nap was disrupted by such a racket and decided to go 'vigilante' (like his caddie does). The cause of the nap would of course be from having to shoot golf in the first place."
>> "OK, I think this caddie is a jerk, too. But what a bunch of macho blowhards some of you are! 'I'll go "vigilante" ' ... 'Beat him with old film canisters ...' (Like THAT would hurt.)"
>> "I hope you realize that we're being facetious. I would never advocate a photographer on assignment becoming the news instead of covering the news. I was kidding around as I think (we all) were."
Really? Wow, what a disappointment.
>> "And besides, empty film canisters wouldn't hurt as much as old D1 batteries."
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Kalani Simpson can be reached at ksimpson@starbulletin.com