This incident is a very strong argument for stronger regulation of snowmobiles, including mandatory lessons, insurance coverage and electronic registration tags.
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Wow, 71 and still going, not to mention flipping over in a locomotive, not sure why you needed to get permission of "local law enforcement and first responders" to take a picture though.
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Bill: When police, fire, or etc. are at a scene, they have legal control of the property at that given moment and have a legal right to restrict access. In this case, local police and the state DOT had control of the scene and were restricting access from all public vantage points. The only way to get the shot was with permission. It's a standard part of operating as a news photographer or journalist to get permission to enter or go beyond the police tape. (There are penalties for people who fail to do so; e.g., trespass, interfering with an investigation, etc.) I worked as a broadcast journalist for a decade, so this is 'old hat' for me.
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Aaron, nice set of photos which I tried to get but was not able to get a good vantage point being on a dead end road that was police barracaded. Bill, seeing the state highway was directly to the East of this scene which had State Police and DOT not allowing any stopping in the breakdown lane and local police not allowing any vehicle or foot passage to the scene from the local road made having "explicit persmission" the only real option to walk the ROW and get the shots Aaron did.
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