ticket from st. francis - no (sit) lie : 無料・フリー素材/写真
ticket from st. francis - no (sit) lie / bullittbourbon
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | no sit/ lie? where are people going to go?i entered the Westin St. Francis Hotel located on Powell St and Geary in San Francisco around 6PM on 08/04/2010.i went to the second floor where the meeting rooms are, at the end of a long, windowless hallway with mirrors on both sides, (which reminded me of Bruce Lee's Game of Death mirror room fight scene,) there is a small staircase which leads up to a tiny landing that's shaped kind of like a coffin. at first i was on the staircase, and if they have security cameras, someone probably really enjoyed the showabout 12 hours later, around 5:45am, 2 security personnel came upon me while i was sitting and meditating. i was unaware of how long i had been in the hotel at that point.the guard told me that it's not funny for some reason. i said to him,"what's not funny about this? i'm not even homeless you know."the men told me that they have presidents staying at the hotel sometimes. the proper question would have been, 'do you treat all of them like this?' (since i am the mcQueen obviously,) but alas my ego is small if not almost gone.i just told them that i had been there for 12 hours and that they should put that in their report.the 2 men escorted me to an elevator which went to the basement, where the security office was. like a parking garage, this consists of a booth that has a half waist wall with a glass window which has a metal grill over it. a man sat inside. the man inside the booth asked the men what i was doing,'sleeping.''i was sitting and lying down.' i said, 'i was sitting up and awake when you found me.'the other guard changed the subject and asked for my ID. he handed it to the man in the booth.the man in the booth looked at my id and asked what my nationality was. i said,'Chinese, but aren't all Asians the same?''All Asian trespassers are the same.'they attempted to threaten to call the police.i repeatedly insisted that they call the police.i cannot stress enough that people have to always insist that the security personnel call the police, because the police have a legally-binding code of conduct. this is not true for private security guards.when off-duty police officers have to work as security guards for extra money, they have to deal with two different realities simultaneously: one as a civil servant, and the other as employee to a limited group. this taxes the law enforcement personnel and his colleagues on a psychological level. imagine if private security's role is confounded with the police's role.1. a police officer may begin to act more like a private employee, who is working for whoever pays him/ her.2. a private security personnel may act like a police officer, exercising police duties while being employed by a limited group of people.these roles are sometimes played by the same person. many security companies advertise that their staff are former or off-duty police officers. while this may suggest that the staff is trained in law enforcement and have more experience with exercising power over other people's actions; it does not directly address the difference between a police officer and a security personnel:that a police officer acts on behalf of an entity which enforces the law, and therefore have different concerns than a private entity.nor does it indicate how a security personnel is managed.an individual who fills both of these roles can confuse these roles. each person reacts to competing realities differently; not all of us are able to handle multiple realities at any given time. we have to respect our own and other people's limitations, or else risk the consequence as illustrated in this particular scenario of the above 2 numbered points. private persons with power over others need guidelines.in practice, these boundaries have been blurred.security personnel is a salient example because of the nature of their work: proxies for a limited amount of people's interests. the nature of the work limits perspective. since what they guard is things on which someone has claimed ownership or priority of access, it is easy to describe to those who understand ownership where the line of exclusion is drawn.this can be paralleled with police officers working in less diverse and integrated communities, where the major divide is having and not having.most people breach ownership only when there is immediate need.codes or laws are reference points from which people should reference their own conduct. everyone has power over others, in that people feel obligation to react upon others' actions. as such, a personal code of conduct enables an individual to act without mental conflict.prescribed codes do not always correspond to the environment on which it is effective.back to the story:the security guy who felt responsible for me, who later identified himself as 'Cooper' to the police officer, did not respond well to my reaction to him.he described my description of the events as 'talking shit' as i was addressing the group. to which i replied,'truth telling is "talking shit" now?'one man who was just coming to work then told me to 'shut up.' and that he was going to put on a suit and he will look really mean.although the security personnel wore name tags over their suits, i did not read them. one of the security personnel who brought me to the booth left the area while one remain to wait for the police officer. i asked what his name was.'why do you want to know my name?''because you are a human person with a human name, not just "security guy".''...''but then you might not be, you might just be "security guy".'he didn't tell me his name.the police officer arrived on the scene very quickly. she asked for a statement from the security personnel on duty and quickly escorted me out.she asked if i was from Hong Kong. i said yes. i don't know how she knows. she asked what it was that i do. i said that i made clothes. she mentions that her mother is from Hong Kong and used to be a seamstress. (at this time, the security guy made another appearance for something.) i tell her that my mother is still a seamstress. she talked about how she doesn't like 80s fashion so much and mentioned her Jessica McClintock prom dress. and i tell her that Jessica McClintock still does production in San Francisco; that's impressive. i told her that i have a Jessica McClintock prom dress i found at Thrift Town, modified, and then wore to my god-grandmother's birthday. she mentioned that she goes to a shop that sells stuff by local designers on Polk St., at that point i got excited and spieled on how buying consignment eliminates a host of problems created by mass-produced clothing.i think the police woman is younger than me, but people always treat me like a baby. they almost always do. people love me and i love them back.i never went to the prom. i'm just completing my youth.what am i going to do with all these tickets?hmm... |
| 撮影日 | 2010-08-04 15:50:55 |
| 撮影者 | bullittbourbon |
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