I’m pretty familiar with brush cuts. My father used to line the five boys in our family up and buzz the lot of us in one session when we were growing up. My father had a brush cut too but I think he went to a barber. I have an electric clipper from Sears and I do my own buzz cut today.
So I was taken by this sign on Culver Road and stopped to take a photo of it. The homemade sandwich sign was on the City owned sidewalk in front of the shop and I was standing on the same sidewalk. (I’m trying to be clear on the details because I know my legal counsel will ask.) Well, the owner happened to be outside and he told me I couldn’t take a photo of his sign. He came right up to me like a bouncer in night club and he took my camera before I knew what happened. He asked me how you delete photos and I told him he couldn’t do that. But he found the function and deleted my carefully composed shot. I took the camera back and turned quickly to take this shot before jumping in the car and taking off. The guy threw something at our car as we drove off. You thought my Funky Signs site was all fun and games!
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okay … Your civil claims: assault, battery, theft/conversion, intentional infliction of emotional distress. I’m not positive how to frame the destruction of the digital images – I suppose that could be conversion or possibly violation of Visual Artists Rights Act (but I need to look into that). His defenses: temporary (or permanent) insanity. (Of course NY doesn’t have a Stand Your Ground law so we’re feeling good about that …:-) more at our blog next week)
He was violating union rules with that pricing which is why he was flipping out. They enforce minimums on their members.