Don,

They are not first hand experiences, they are news items.

Come back to me when you actually have a first hand experience in dealing with a crooked cop.

Like I stated, they are around. Sounds like your town won the police lotto for hiring crooked cops. This is not the norm, maybe the chief should be fired along with those responsible for vetting future cops.

RG.

Don.

With all due respect, that's total crap.

I worked with law enforcement agencies all over the country, including but not limited to DEA, CIA, LAPD, Phoenix PD, Detroit PD and Broward County Sheriffs Dept to name but a few.

In 20 years involvement with law enforcement, I never encountered a crooked cop. Yes they are around, however they are very much in the minority. You are way out of line with your comments and do not know what you are talking about.

You might want to ask some real front line badges what they think about your pat on the wrist philosophy. You sir and others in your camp are a huge part of the problem, not the cure.

RG.

George.

Yes we have the highest murder rate in the developed world and capital punishment. We also have a population of 300,000,000.

The murder rate is high due mostly to minorities and the thousands of gangs nationwide they belong to, mostly killing one another off (that's one plus) I believe 50% of our prison population is black and one in three black men will serve time. I might add gang inmates run most of what goes on in prisons and organize much of what goes down on the outside.

Capital punishment works great and would make the scum stop and think (at least the ones with IQ's over 50) if the sentence was carried out immediately. It is not, most killers appear to outlast the victims families.

Of course the demise of the scum has to be as painless as possible. Now there is debate and further hold ups due to the way the drugs and needles are used. Let's see Hanging, Shooting, Gas Chamber, The Chair all deemed cruel and unusual punishment. Now the gurney, some tubes, needles and drugs are cruel and unusual punishment.
Of course there is absolutely no discussion on the cruel and unusual punishment the victims suffered, or the suffering the victims families go through waiting for years for justice to be carried out.

In Oregon the death sentence is only performed if the the death row inmate decides he wants it by rejecting all appeals.

Apart from Texas and a few other states the death penalty in the USA is a joke. It does not exist, other than on paper.

So George you are right, due to the bleeding heart liberals of this world it is not a deterrent, the rot will continue until the public hopefully reach breaking point and do something about it. Through the courts or otherwise, I suspect it will be otherwise !!!

One of the reasons most Americans strongly believe in the 2nd Amendment.

Don't think for one second there could not be another Boston Tea Party in the USA. Only next time it will be a revolt against the US Government.

Happy Shooting (images that is)

Cheers, RG.

Problem is criminals are not civilized.

After some of the posts on this thread, why would anyone be surprised that human garbage is alive and well. They know how some among us tick and take full advantage of that weakness.

Some items can never be replaced, so to just brush it off as insurance will pay, is a cop out.

Cheers,

RG.

Chris,

You must really live in a glass house in la la land if you have only put your foot in your mouth once or twice !!!!!!!!!

Must agree however on the comment by Galoot about Australia.

It has nothing to do with the past, rather the present times we all live in.

I would say it has more to do with current values and total lack of moral responsibility that permeate our society and more often than not the type of people landing on western shores today.

Cheers, RG.

Don,

Sorry, no excuses.

1. If by some remote possibility I found the garbage, I wouldn't be asking any questions as to why they did it. I don't care.

2. If they broke into my home and I was present, there would be no interview, other than with the police as to why I shot them. The simple answer, because I felt our lives were threatened. End of story.

An invasion of our home, or our person is just that.

I feel very sorry for Clarky, but at least the morons didn't take his camera gear.

RG.

Real sorry to hear about that.

It's also an invasion of your personal space.

I often wonder who raises these pieces of crap.
Hope they catch the bastards.

Cheers, RG.

Daniel

Yes you probably did go through Silverton. It's a quaint town (by American West standards) with lots of old victorian style houses.

I did enlarge all the Silverton images to more than double the size on my Mac Screen and they all looked pretty good to me.

From my perspective, I would guess most digital images shot never get shown, or even hung on a wall over a size 8X10 or 11X14.
Unless one is a pro I wonder if it makes any sense to spend a small fortune on a bag full of lenses for that purpose.

I am just trying to get an idea from people on this forum what they think about the lens. After all everyone that posts images gets to upload the same size, regardless of what lens is used.
This lens is in a class of it's own, (Tamron make the Pentax 18-250 as well) so getting other valid points of view is great.

Cheers, RG.

I was really asking for comments on the performance of the Lens, not about the wording on a sign.

Thanks for the other comments.

RG.

Chris,

I forgot to add this image.

Murals are painted on buildings all over the town of Silverton, hard to get full shots on some due to cars parked in front.
I more than doubled the size on my Mac Screen, the artist and code is very clear painted on the right near the bottom behind the car antenna. (LLWED 60 OHS 27265)

1/60. F4.0. 18mm.

Cheers, RG.