BTP seeking Tube photographer attacker

Maybe someone can help - I hope so!

I'm making this an announcement so that all get an opportunity to spot it!

Hopefully the person will be caught, they are rather dim in the first place to attack someone with a camera who can just snap a picture of them...!

This is very close to home for me.....I'm surprised I didn't hear anything about it though, as it was in December. I shall keep my eyes open.....................

Hmm I wonder if we can ask LU, London Buses, Network Rail etc not to film us whilst we're on their property?

Presumably the get-out are the disclaimer notices saying that "for your greater security CCTV is in operation" blah blah; as are the recorded PA messages seemingly every 10 seconds or so?

Seriously, it's rather ironic that although public transport operators and staff are less-and-less keen on enthusiasts taking photos (I'm sure many readers have their own horror stories), they themselves excercise their right to record us ever more so.

PS - I love the referance to "greater" security, I mean like what was there before?

I'm wearily familiar with the rules regarding photography on LUL. It was authorised for personal use in the Reference Manual, it has virtually no mention in the new Rule Book, aside that according to Book 11 Station Management 7.5 Supervisors should "control" the use of flash photography on platforms, which implies it can be used unrestricted anywhere else!

This is a friendly forum in my experience and I would not want to start the sort of adversarial staff/enthusiast/passenger debate (I belong to all three categories) seen on other sites, but unfortunately there are a lot of staff out there that either don't know the rules or are making it up as they go along and 7/7 has given them carte-blanch.

And I've varied my response to being challenged between reasoned argument, short two-word rebuff and full-on email complaint to the local GSM (which did elicit an apology).

If only the "feet on seat" brigade could be prosecuted so diligently!

But it didn't prevent a crime did it?

The guy shouldnt have resorted to violence although the person taking the picture was taking liberties in my book. The picture is just of the bloke on his own on an escalator - not part of a wider scene. It's a gross invasion of privacy to just go round taking pictures of individuals without their prior consent. The fact that the bloke in the photo then attacked the photographer makes him a nutcase and there can be no excuse for that, although personally i would definately have had a stern word with the photographer myself had it been me.

As a driver, the use of flash photography on platforms drives me mad. Maybe LUL could employ this psycho to discourage it on platforms!? :-)