# Stranger snaps photo of me - WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 8, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-snaps-photo-of-me-wtf/343545 "2006-02-08T15:44:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-snaps-photo-of-me-wtf/343545/41 "2006-02-08T21:23:57Z")
> [@YaWanna](#): > > Maybe he liked what you were wearing, and wanted to take a picture of it to a store to show a sales clerk what he was looking for, to buy for his SO. Just a WAG, but at least not a sinister one. My first thought was that similar. Someone’s gonna get a copy of the picture and be told “This is how I was saying you should cut your hair!” ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-snaps-photo-of-me-wtf/343545/42 "2006-02-08T23:36:39Z")
I say No to the candid photographer practising his skills. No good photographer would take a portrait from a moving car and expect it to be anything but crap. ---
**Author:** ![davenportavenger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@davenportavenger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davenportavenger)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-snaps-photo-of-me-wtf/343545/43 "2006-02-08T23:39:13Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > Ok, so I’m walking to work this morning. In the line of cars driving down the road is a little silver car with a kinda cute guy behind the wheel. As the car passes me, the guy nonchalantly lifts a camera and takes a picture of me! Never slowing down, just lift and snap, and then he drives away. That’s why you should always carry a gun. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-snaps-photo-of-me-wtf/343545/44 "2006-02-08T23:51:45Z")
Heh. I’ve been known to be a drive-by photo-taker. I’m not aiming at people, though, I’m often aiming at a building, or something behind them. Around Christmas, there was a shop in the U District that had a great light display. I had my camera with me, and as we pulled up to the intersection, the building was right beside us, but on my husband’s side. I asked Mr. Stasaeon to roll his window down so I could quickly get a shot. Thing is, it was nighttime, so to get a good shot of it, I had to turn my flash on. I had it lined up perfectly… Then some guy in the parking lot of the store I wanted to take a picture of gets in his truck, starts it up, and his headlights come on just in time to see my husband’s window roll down, a camera flash, and since our light turned green, we immediately pulled away, as my husband rolled up his window. This made me laugh my ass off. I’ve often wondered what the poor fellow must have thought. Karma caught up to me for laughing though: upon perusal of that night’s pictures, I discovered his headlights totally blew my shot. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![pestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e5b9ba/32.png) [@pestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pestie)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-snaps-photo-of-me-wtf/343545/45 "2006-02-09T00:36:54Z")
Ok, I admit it - it was me. I did it. 'Cause you’re hot and Canadian, and I just _love_ hot Canadian chicks. And there was that talk of chocolate orgasms in that other thread… ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-snaps-photo-of-me-wtf/343545/46 "2006-02-09T02:00:15Z")
> [@Hilarity N. Suze](#): > > Could you have offended the Fashion Police? If they use the photo, they’ll blot out your face with a black rectangle (unless you’re famous). > > My guess really is that it was practice. I’m a multiple offender. Maybe they’ve just begun collecting info on me so they can report me to the Fashion FBI, who’ll at some point burst through my windows and raid the closet. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2006, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-snaps-photo-of-me-wtf/343545/47 "2006-02-09T03:17:10Z")
> [@ratatoskK](#): > > I say No to the candid photographer practising his skills. No good photographer would take a portrait from a moving car and expect it to be anything but crap. I certainly make no claims as to being a photographer, but that’s [not necessarily true](http://www.flickr.com/photos/troymccluresf/47578655/in/set-1067542/). Mere luck, sure, but if I can get a shot like that while driving, I see no reason to stop. Well, I mean, I do see reason to not take pictures while driving, but not specifically photography-wise. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stranger-snaps-photo-of-me-wtf/343545.md?page=2)