Cameraman runover

[cameragod]

Back in 1987 a tragically geekey young cameraman, with appalling glasses and dangerously little fashion sense was run over by a police diplomatic protection car while shooting arrivals at a hotel.
It was traveling too fast and couldn’t stop to avoid the Ministers car so swerved to one side taking me out.
I was standing where the police had positioned me and I couldn’t hear the car as a noisy protest was happening and it totally blindsided me. I got up and kept filming not really knowing what had happened. Only later I realized how much pain I was in.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3981696364127565066&hl=en
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0YPGjY6qOI

[Nooze Hound]

snazzy sweater you got there! :)

[Baltimore Shooter]

Elton John called, he wants his glasses back. :D

Glad to hear you made it through okay. Now we know why you walk with that Dudley Moore limp.

Warren

[OmegaRed]

Now we know where Bill Gates got his look.

Glad you're ok...20 years later. =)

[Freddie Mercury]

Is it not the Kiwi way to try to sue everybody involved for all they're worth in such circumstances, or is that your personal philosophy? Either way, I'm impressed.

If that happened to an American photographer, he'd settle for millions and start his own production company. (Speaking of Bill Gates)

[cameragod]

No it’s not the Kiwi way to sue but the way the police handled the whole thing made me so mad I nearly did take it further. They threatened me, as I was waiting for the results of the xray, that anything in my past would be dragged up used against me to full effect… hilarious as I was so young the only thing in my past aside from fashion crimes was a speeding ticket.
I talked it over with my TVNZ boss, he said he would back me no matter what but in the end it didn’t seem worth it. I was back on my feet with a few bruises and a new found caution around cars. Not a bad thing.

[Lenslinger]

Birth Control Eyeglasses aside - you're a class-act, Meester Press. If nothing else you derserve righteous ups for posting footage of yourself in period dress. I know from experience (http://lenslinger.blogspot.com/2006/09/early-tv-stupid-years.html), that ain't always easy.

[cameragod]

Birth Control Eyeglasses aside

not too hard to believe I was wearing contacts when I first meet my future wife :D

[Baltimore Shooter]

Birth Control Eyeglasses aside - you're a class-act, Meester Press. If nothing else you derserve righteous ups for posting footage of yourself in period dress. I know from experience (http://lenslinger.blogspot.com/2006/09/early-tv-stupid-years.html), that ain't always easy.

Stew, I didn't know you were in the Billy Ray Cyrus look-a-like contest? :D
http://static.flickr.com/98/254479552_ac3229be84_m.jpg

:D :D

Warren

[Lenslinger]

What can I say - it was a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Oddly enough, I did pretty well with the la-dees back then. If you can call drunk southern college fresmen chicks 'la-dees'.

But enough about me - surely there's another b-roller brave enough to post an embarrassing photo from their past. Or is ya skeered?

[Baltimore Shooter]

I burned all my embarrassing photos :D

Warren

[Freddie Mercury]

My most embarassing photo is always the most recent one. :(