# Cameraman shooting? **URL:** \ **Category:** talk\ **Created:** [August 20, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cameraman-shooting/29003 "2003-08-20T23:37:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pissant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@pissant](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pissant)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cameraman-shooting/29003/1 "2003-08-20T23:37:21Z")
I saw a small segment of the news the other day about a cameraman who’d been shot by US troops because they thought he was carrying an RPG. Never mind that the cameramen had been invited to the area. Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone had heard anything more about this, or if it had been quietly buried? The US troops might get a reputation if this kind of stuff keeps going on, probably unfairly. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cameraman-shooting/29003/2 "2003-08-20T23:46:49Z")
I heard about it a while ago - this is old (a week or so old) news 🙂 The problem is that things like this will happen unfortunately. If I were in a situation where a foreign, shoulder-held object was pointed at my caravan, I am not sure if I would have reacted much differently. The camera people know the risk, and sometimes those “headline grabbing” video clips can be deadly ☹ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cameraman-shooting/29003/3 "2003-08-21T03:32:47Z")
I agree whole-heartedly with kirupa. There’s a larger threat now about shoulder launched missiles being distributed to terrorists and other anti-american “forces” and I would assume, from a distance, that a camera would look much like a shoulder launched missile. That’s the dangers of having media on the front lines, and like kirupa said, they know that there’s a chance of death going into these hot spots, yet they still go ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 12:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cameraman-shooting/29003/4 "2003-08-21T12:23:46Z")
[s=jayhan]Of course - for example, nobody really KNOWS that you exist. You could merely be another of a new line of computer viruses that acts like a human 👁 Birth certificate…probably a forgery. People you have spoken to…they could be fictitious people or viruses themselves. You can’t prove to me you exist Phil :)[/s] EDIT: Added sarcasm tags. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cameraman-shooting/29003/5 "2003-08-21T18:14:33Z")
Conspiracy?! … Yeah, I’m sure the US military said, “hey look, there’s a cameraman over there - let’s blow him up.” You may not agree with the war going on there, you might not like G-dub being president, you might not like Bush at all - but you can’t honestly think that the military intended to kill that cameraman. In war mistakes are made, bottom line. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cameraman-shooting/29003/6 "2003-08-21T21:30:40Z")
I dunno, maybe the soldeir has been molested by a camera when he was a kid ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cameraman-shooting/29003/7 "2003-08-22T05:19:26Z")
Obviously, I doubt the US is trying to shoot journalists. But I agree with Kirupa. It’s certainly a tragedy, but it’s the risk of pointing gun shaped objects at armed soldiers in a war situation. On another line of thought: too bad they didn’t hit a Hollywood paparazzi. There are already too many of those. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cameraman-shooting/29003/8 "2003-08-22T20:01:10Z")
I agree with Yates … I’d like to see some snipers take out the paparazzi every now and then. That’s not photojournalism, that’s plain sleazy. I cannot respect someone who gets paid money to take pictures of someone’s private life without their permission. I can only imagine how much it must piss off Holywood actors with them around all the time ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cameraman-shooting/29003/9 "2003-08-22T20:05:34Z")
if the camera man was shooting, they’re allowed to shoot back 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cameraman-shooting/29003/10 "2003-08-22T21:31:25Z")
hahaha - good one Sen ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cameraman-shooting/29003/11 "2003-08-22T23:05:31Z")
> if the camera man was shooting, they’re allowed to shoot back Who’s “they”, the celebrities? 😛