You picked the "nice" photos. Many of the others on the site are pretty elitist. But then you reap what you sow by shopping at an evil corporate entity.

Rob St., ty for the Ghost Rating.

BBE, I picked the "nice photos" to avoid a lynching by the OS hoi poloi.

Interesting . . . very interesting.

People are interesting to watch. Funny.

Owl, r u Henry Gibson?

M. Todd, this reminds me of travelling days when I would sit for hours waitng for a plane and people watched. I wish I had a digital camera back then.

Lord, don't even start me on some of the people I see at WalMart. Oops, I mean, I've never been to that evil institution.

Cappy, I only shop at K-Mart! ; )

The site won't last long unless they have signed releases from each of the subjects.

It's illegal to publish other people's pictures without a release.

Thanks for the link.

Rated

JLee, they do it. It you want to upload a pix to that site you have to be able to produce a release. Also, by reading some of the comments on other sites, it looks like a lot of these are staged. But I have been to the 24/7 WalMarts in my area late at night and some of the people there give me the creeps, and that's saying a lot.

LittleWillie, I aim to please. BTW, cool new avatar.

*waves*

Rated.

Priceless! Thanks for sharing, Trudge! Rated

It is not illegal to publish other people's photographs without a release. I don't wish to start a flame war, but this is a misconception. I will refer you to Bert Krages, photography rights attorney, simple pamphlet that condenses some of the basic principals of photographers' rights in the US. It is not the same for every country of course, but in this country, there is broad freedom to take most any type of photography as long as you're on public property. Even when you're on private property, as long as you're not trespassing, you still can take pictures. These rights don't preclude anyone from attempting to sue you for a breach of the reasonable expectation of privacy, but that certainly doesn't mean they'll prevail either.

Krages' pamphlet can be found here: http://www.krages.com/ThePhotographersRight.pdf

On the other hand, there are not hard and fast rules for many situations, but the blanket statement about illegality of taking and posting images is usually incorrect. If you intend to make money from images taken of people in public, that is another matter entirely.

Funny stuff!!! I laughed out loud!!
I sure hope these people don't breed.
Rated for funny.

BBD, thank you for clarifying that. Like you stated correctly, the key is profit and trespassig.

I like the thumbs-up gal

I certainly won't argue with someone who obviously knows what they're talking about with regard to photos and law.

I've personally known two people who were made to take down certain images because the courts now see participation in google ads on sites, and selling ad space, as a For Profit venture.

That site has both.

No flame wars meant from me either.

Apparently Walmart has already initiated action that will get the site shut down.

Apparently it's policy that you can't take pictures inside the stores or on the property.

This is from an assistant mgr, me and mr. know. I'm going to be interested on how this plays out.

Hourglass, ty

OCL, look for the blue light specials.

Blackflon, ty 4 dropping buy.

Caroline, self-expressionism

JL, flame on my posts whenever you want its dialog like this that makes the OS fun and I can use the views. ;)

Dang, the website has been taken down...can you take over for the photographers? If you are arrested, we'll bail you out. xox

Um...Trudge? Okay, I enlarged the photos, and um...the Italiano thumbs up babe? Jez what is that on her bike pants between her legs? Um...looks phallic. Just sayin.' xox

Robin, some much for free speech. Thanks for the get of jail offer. BTW, do you have an extra cot in case I have to go lay low?

I do, Trudge. No worries. xox

Robin, I was being sarcastic. Ciao in Italian can be taken as hello or goodbye.

Robim, again. Ty 4 da cot offer. What got me about the Italian girl is that she is very pretty and she looks very smart so it leads me to believe that in her case it was staged. You know, anything for laughs.

Heheheheee! The site is hilare. xox