>>2591258>see attractive couple>raise camera, smile, and snap photo - standard eggy.jpg>her face is instant haterfaece>herewegoagain.jpg>i turn and resume talking to the people i was standing with>couple get in my face and are instant self entitled hipster assholes about it, basic threatening and implying>they threaten police, i tell them where police station is>eventually they go>cops tell them what they want to hear but also "not a police issue" becasue they know exactly who I am, and recognise butthurt>come back and resume harassment and general noisy defamation/scene making>no way im going to give assholes anyhting, much less my card, they will have to find out for themselves, which from previous experience also often leads them to my photos, and sometimes to numerous people telling them to stop being sefl entitled assholes and appreciate the simple fact that a photographer thought they looked nice for 0.74 seconds before they judged him.>ive had enough and need to regain composure to do what I do - project approachable friendlyness so i can shoot random cool looking people and have them return my smile - so i signal i'm jack of her bullshit, turn my back and walk off>she smells blood and goes to pursue>but one of the girls I was previously hanging with deftly intercepts and gives her a dose of shut the fuck up and heres how it really is>couple is a little taken aback and leaves a few minutes and numerous words from Paris-the-defender later>couple defames me on social media of their chosing - perpetrating the standard "white 40-something males with cameras are perverts" and "photographing people you though looked cool without their consent is illegal/evil" lie.... pretty standard except this time Paris had my back and gave them a serve of stfu
Really unpleasant. Totally unnecessary.