Our Transportation Facilities Are Being Watched

Yet another "photographers are considered terrorists by default" story. This time from the blog of the Spokane County Transportation Department.

I was out taking pictures this morning of sites of transportation projects to be completed over the next twenty years. One of those projects is to move of the weigh station near Stateline further east along I-90. I stopped at the pretty much deserted weigh station and took a couple pictures, then drove off. About 10 minutes later I received a call on my cell phone from Washington State Patrol asking why I had been taking pictures of the weigh station!

The blogger’s final comment is the most interesting:

I guess it makes me feel a little better to know that someone is watching the people who are watching our infrastructure. On the other hand, it kind of scares me that they could track me down that fast.

Read the whole story on the SRTC Transportation Blog.

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