This particular supervisor of one of the stations on the Central Line [*], who was certainly not on strike, was stood outside the locked entrance to his station [*], advising a would-be passenger of alternative transport routes. They both seemed in jovial enough mood, contrasting markedly with an adjacent local newspaper headline "Rage Against Strikers", which I thought would make a good photo.
Having taken a single snap, the mood of our supervisor [*] changed rapidly. "Have you got permission to take photographs ?", he demanded. "Actually, its a public place, we're not on Underground property, so I don't need any" I replied. To my astonishment, he demanded the film. "Ive got copyright" he asserted, making up the law as he went. "I'll rip it out of your camera", he continued.
Somehow, I doubted it. Its an old Russian model, very non-standard, and even I have trouble unloading it. "You're joking", I said hopefully. He wasnt. Rather, he seemed to be calculating whether he could make a quick grab on it, so I edged away just slightly. "Muppet" I think he growled.
This was bizarre. More and more, we find ourselves in situations of usurped legality; can this guy really have thought that he could dictate laws in this way ? Clearly, people, esp those in postions of petty authority, have little understanding of due process, and even less inclination to abide by it. Here was a station supervisor [*], in the middle of a strike, on duty, acting like a drunken Hollywood celeb in some Channel 5 late-nite show. I felt even more sympathy with the strikers and what they have to put up with from the Underground.

[*] Note; I have with held the name of the Supervisor and the station at this time, not to protect him, but to avoid any legal consequences for Indymedia. I have his details, and I can supply them if the editor wishes.