{"id":584,"date":"2009-03-04T20:30:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T20:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=584"},"modified":"2009-03-04T20:30:32","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T20:30:32","slug":"you-cant-photograph-sewer-gratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"You can&#8217;t photograph Sewer Gratings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest silly story about photographers being arrested is about <em>Stephen Clarke<\/em>, arrested in Manchester for allegedly taking photographs of sewer gratings. Watch the video <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/03\/03\/manchester-man-arres.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The police also took a DNA sample and it is not on the police database, despite a ruling that such action is illegal at the European Court of Human Rights. Once the police have your sample, getting off the database is not easy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2009\/02\/16\/20090216-d0643.jpg\" title=\"\u00a9 2009 Peter Marshall.\" alt=\"\u00a9 2009 Peter Marshall.\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One man &#8211; perhaps the only one &#8211; who has managed it is <em>David Mery<\/em>, arrested in July 2005, three weeks after the London bombing      \u0096 and six days after the shooting of <em>Jean      Charles de Menezes<\/em> &#8211; while entering\u00a0 Southwark tube station on 28 July for      being &#8220;<em>calm on arrival, almost too calm<\/em>&#8221; and having a largish      rucksack and a strong French accent. You can read about his struggle, eventually successful &#8211; to have his DNA record removed from the database on his <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmonaut.net\/bits\/suspect.html\" target=\"_blank\">web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest silly story about photographers being arrested is about Stephen Clarke, arrested in Manchester for allegedly taking photographs of sewer gratings. Watch the video here. The police also took a DNA sample and it is not on the police database, despite a ruling that such action is illegal at the European Court of Human &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=584\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You can&#8217;t photograph Sewer Gratings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-photo-issues","category-political-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}