Pays to let local law, CEM, know what your doing

[Castlevania2006]

Hmm.... when i went to Watertown South Dakota, I made the right decision to run my plan with Codington County Emergency management, I know you guys think doing dat is not worth it but we do live in a age of "Terror" & I didn't want to set off an scare by some citizen.

I was given the ok (it pays to have a good relationship with Emergency Management Directors) & a page went out to the city police to let them know what a purple 1997 Ford Escort (no Im not giving out my VIN ) was doing around the city & lakes.

I found out that Watertown OWNS the sirens & the Emergency Management just runs them & maitains them.

[kx250rider]

I have tried both ways... Last Huntington Beach test (that didn't happen), we marched right into the firehouse and told what, why, how, etc. They were totally cool and told us all the details. But the PREVIOUS time, at another HB firehouse, they treated us like psycho cases and didn't tell a thing.

Unless you trespass on property with fences or "No Trespassing" signs, I can't imagine anyone getting fined or arrested. It just wouldn't hold up in court that you meant any wrong. I'd just do it.

They are all worried about terrorists, but I can't see how any terrorist could gain anything by seeing or filming a siren test. They do pick on people who are NOT looking like a terrorist in order to make it look like they aren't racially profiling. A couple of blond, green-eyed Americans with cameras on siren test day are great targets for "politically correct balancing". That way, they can still question the Iranian standing next to the town water tank with a bottle of poison and not get accused of racism.

Charles

[SoundOff]

I got busted (and nearly arrested)last June attempting to video-record one of the sirens at the California Institution for Men (Chino Prison) close to where I live. I wasen't even on prison property, just on a sidewalk that ran right by the west fence of the prison but someone must have seen me leaning against the fence and got suspicious. Some security guards and a police officer confronted me shortly after the sirens went off and I was told I could not be photographing the prison property as they feared that I or someone else could use the pictures to help plan an escape. They were going to confenscate my camera and other items I had but they let me go after making sure I deleted everything in the camera.

I did get a few successful recordings two months later in August and another in November but I took them from further away and from my car while driving by just to remain discrete.


kx250rider; I also had a little trouble in HB last Friday as well. Even though the sirens were gone, I talked to some firefighters at the station by Edison Park and they told me the siren had been taken down a few weeks back. The siren controller was still inside the building though but, when I attempted to photograph it, I got yelled at by one of the firefighters who said I couldn't be takeing pictures of a (now unused) siren controller/AR timer due to possible national security issues.

[Archon]

I sent a Email to Adams County WI EM director telling him I was going to set off a siren in a rural area of the county and if There would be any problem. I NEVER GOT A REPLY . I do set my 2T off (full blast) on top of my apt In Milwaukee County. at the time and day They set the other sirens off. I will growl it once in a while at different times