From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Wed Apr 10 2002 - 19:02:02 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 01:01 pm, Mike Lorrey wrote:
> > The problem is that a TV camera lens and shroud, seen from a distance,
> > looks like a shoulder fired anti-tank or anti-aircraft weapon. If the
> > cameraman hides himself to avoid Palestinian sniper fire, only showing
> > the camera lense, he will attract gunfire from Israelis by doing so.
>
> That may be a problem, but it is not the problem that I am referencing.
I've seen several stories of such shootings on the news, and in every
case, it was a situation of a cameraman trying to get a shot of street
action by peeking the camera out a window or over the edge of a
building. If I were a soldier driving down a street where door to door
guerilla fighting was going on, and my life was on the line, you can bet
that anything that resembled an infrared missile seekerhead in a tube
would get my immediate and highly negative attention. I'd rather be
wrong than dead.
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