Nearly hit by bottle while shooting...!?!

[C. D. Keth]

So I was shooting a bit today in Ogden, UT while I'm on my spring break from school. I'm in a neighborhood, neither upscale nor ghetto. Normal neighborhood. I was shooting a panorama of an out of business gas-station-turned-pizzaria when I heard someone yell something. I got out of the darkcloth just in time to see some asshole in a big truck drive by and the passenger throw two glass beer bottles at me. Neither hit me somehow but one broke across a locking ring on my tripod. Unfortunately I didn't get his plate since it was a paper temp plate and the window was too glary to read through.

Any of you guys had stuff like this happen? I fail to see what's so offensive about photography. Perhaps he is a staunch digital shooter

[C. D. Keth]

Thanks for moving this. I guess I had a good brainfart to put it in the buy/sell forum

[Frank Petronio]

I thought beer was illegal there?

[MenacingTourist]

I thought beer was illegal there?

Nope, just dancing


Seriously, I'm glad our mate wasn't beaned in the head with that bottle. I lived for a long time in Utah and Mormons have thier fair share of idiots just like anyone else. Hard to say the dude in the truck was Mormon though.

Come to think of it, I never did like Ogden much and generally tried to avoid it. Ogden used (1920's-1950's) to be quite the happening city with all the rail lines and supporting infastructure, but now it's (in my opinion) the armpit of Utah.

[Toyon]

Some nasty idiot pissed off by one of his wives.

[C. D. Keth]

No, the mormons just aren't supposed to drink alcohol. Or caffeine. There are plenty of non-mormon white people and former mexicans to drink beer.

[John Kasaian]

Former mexicans? How....???

[C. D. Keth]

There are a lot of legal spanish speaking people here as well as a lot of illegal spanish speaking people. It's a long way from the border but they're here.

[Greg Lockrey]

I used to get that type activity while riding my bike. If the vehicle has a temp tag, you could have the cops track that down, can't be that many temp tags in Ogden. Since you weren't hurt, they might sluff it off anyway.

[Ron Marshall]

Obviously someone who should not have been drinking beer, or driving, or out of jail. Time to invest in a padded darkcloth.