| Garden Mattresses III - 11.18.05 |
| submitter: | Salinger |
| location: | Seven Sisters, London |
| Having photographed Garden Mattresses II (#11837) last Saturday afternoon, I drove back past the house in the evening whereupon I found it cordoned off by the police, with the mattresses inside the cordoned off area. It is hard to see in this photo as I was a fair distance away but trust me, the police line is there and there are police to the left and right of the mattresses.... |
| category: | Seen Worse |
| comments: | 58 |
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| wim commented on 05.22.13 | | 4 for salinger, 147th duop |
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| Solo eater commented on 11.27.05 | | Feed? |
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| Over-achiever commented on 11.27.05 | | Fail? |
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| Truthseeker commented on 11.27.05 | | Fake? |
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| Manicurist commented on 11.27.05 | | File? |
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| Smart Set commented on 11.27.05 | | Feud. |
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| Rebecca commented on 11.27.05 | | Fart. |
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| FOD40UK commented on 11.27.05 | | Fast? |
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| Rebecca commented on 11.27.05 | | Of course not, I've never felt the need. I have, however, been known to tell hitchikers, "I'll give you a ride, but if you f*** with me I'll kill you." That seemed to keep them in line well enough. I don't pick up hitchhikers anymore though. |
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| Salinger commented on 11.27.05 | | They're hard to see but there are three policemen in this photo.. |
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| wim commented on 11.26.05 | | I see no police, I never do as a matter of fact |
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| DVD Dan commented on 11.26.05 | | Do those little cards of yours also say "don't rape me" ? |
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| Rebecca commented on 11.26.05 | | I'm certainly not afraid to walk alone at night or anything, but then again you know how I am. |
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| Rebecca commented on 11.26.05 | | Yeah I don't know what's up with that. Maybe it was a fluke that year, or maybe it's that more rapes are reported here, rather than kept quiet about (quite likely). |
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| DVD Dan commented on 11.26.05 | | Looks like Santa Cruz is much more like a contender for Rape capital of the US. |
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| Rebecca commented on 11.26.05 | | Naturally I don't want to discuss what happens once the digestive cycle is complete. |
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| Rebecca commented on 11.26.05 | | I can't do the math, I just ate and my head is in my stomach. |
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| Salinger commented on 11.26.05 | | Does that have any relation to the number of streetmattresses per capita |
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| Rebecca commented on 11.25.05 | | Um, okay, my math skills are really rusty but it looks like we have 1 murder per 13,600 people per year, whereas you have 1 murder per every 37,500 people per year. So ours is almost three times as much. Which makes sense, considering the nature of our area as a hub for distribution of drugs coming from south of the border. |
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| FOD40UK commented on 11.25.05 | | Theres 7,500 folk here in Kirkham+Wesham, and we have a murder every 5 yrs on average. |
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| Rebecca commented on 11.25.05 | | I was just talking about Santa Cruz. I have repeatedly had the experience of knowing about a crime that's taken place and then not seeing it in the paper, that's how I know. I wouldn't know about the whole rest of the country (it's a pretty large place). According to cityrating.com, in 2003 Santa Cruz had a population of 54,401 and four murders. I think sometimes there's more than that though, because we have a lot of drugs here. |
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| Paul Harvey commented on 11.25.05 | | ...and that's the rest of the story! |
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| Salinger commented on 11.25.05 | | SS - there's an interesting statistics project in there somewhere. (and no, I didn't move my car around for the police, I moved it around to get #11837 to look like #834) |
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| Smart Set commented on 11.25.05 | | And if you do win the lottery everyone hates you, thus greatly increasing your chances of being bumped off. |
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| FOD40UK commented on 11.25.05 | | Statistically, there are about 15 murders a week in the UK (8 of these at the weekend) So we're roughly four times as likely to be murdered than to win the lottery jackpot on Saturday!! |
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| Rebecca commented on 11.25.05 | | Although we have been named the "Murder Capital of the World" it's really such a misnomer. |
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| Rebecca commented on 11.25.05 | | I wasn't necessarily talking about murders. Murders are also less common here, and usually make the papers. |
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| Salinger commented on 11.25.05 | | Nd - incidentally, I was distinctly underwhelmed by the rest of my visit to Essex. |
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| Smart Set commented on 11.25.05 | | Who is this Samrt Set? |
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| Samrt Set commented on 11.25.05 | | Sounds like a criminal right enough. |
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| Nancy Dumpling commented on 11.25.05 | | I have to say, my last visit to Chelmsford did provide many white shoe, tracksuit, handbag scenarios. So much for stereotypes... |
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| Salinger commented on 11.25.05 | | Rebecca - murders are less common here and usually make the papers.. |
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| Salinger commented on 11.25.05 | | No.. but I did take a photo of a man wearing a white tracksuit and white trainers (sneakers). |
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| Nancy Dumpling commented on 11.25.05 | | Yeah, yeah. Any Essex matts by the way??? |
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| Rebecca commented on 11.25.05 | | My experience has been that there's a lot going on that the papers don't mention. At least here there is. |
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| Salinger commented on 11.25.05 | | Rebecca - I don't know. Haven't seen or heard anything in papers but you never know. |
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| Smart Set commented on 11.25.05 | | But did you really have to move your car around for the police? |
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| Salinger commented on 11.25.05 | | I was quite pleased with the result though. |
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| Salinger commented on 11.25.05 | | ND - because the #11837 matts were in a different position to the #834 ones, it was really hard to get a shot that looked the same. |
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| Rebecca commented on 11.25.05 | | Did the guy die? |
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| Smart Set commented on 11.25.05 | | You're kidding! |
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| Salinger commented on 11.25.05 | | Yes, it's completely true! |
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| Nancy Dumpling commented on 11.25.05 | | You took 30-35 shots of the same matt?! Salinger, you have too much time on your hands! |
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| Salinger commented on 11.25.05 | | It was a very exciting moment, real tension! |
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| Smart Set commented on 11.25.05 | | Is any of that story true? |
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| Rebecca commented on 11.25.05 | | Well at least you've got a story to tell and that's what counts! |
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| Salinger commented on 11.25.05 | | Alas... alas, the chap they were looking for did not appear in any of those photographs. |
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| Salinger commented on 11.25.05 | | So together, three policemen and I carefully looked through 30-35 versions of #11837 I'd taken only a few hours earlier. (it took a good 15 minutes of testing different angles and moving the car to the exact location re-create the dynamic tension so ably noted by Rebecca in #834). |
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| Rebecca commented on 11.25.05 | | How disappointing. But did you? |
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| Salinger commented on 11.25.05 | | "ahh yes, we know this chap" they replied. "he's not the one we're looking for. Did you photograph anyone else?" |
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| Smart Set commented on 11.25.05 | | Pray continue, Mr Salinger. |
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| Salinger commented on 11.25.05 | | After the initial surprise and quizzical smirkes, they set about looking through my photographs. |
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| Rebecca commented on 11.25.05 | | I'm wondering too! |
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| Salinger commented on 11.25.05 | | Rushing back to the scene of the crime, home of the mattresses... I wondered how I was going to explain this to the police and secondly, if this would be first ever instance of streetmattress photography solving a murder case. |
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| Smart Set commented on 11.25.05 | | Go on... |
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| Salinger commented on 11.25.05 | | So I pulled over, looked through all the photos I'd taken and discovered that several of them had the guy in the background. |
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| Salinger commented on 11.25.05 | | As I drove away, I remembered that I'd seen someone going in and out of the house while I was photographing the mattresses earlier in the day. |
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| Salinger commented on 11.25.05 | | What also happened is that I asked the police what had happened. Turns out someone who lived in the house had been stabbed and that "depending on whether he survives, determines whether this is a murder case or not." |
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