Sometimes I believe that security guards are just bored with their jobs, so they get off on harassing photographers who choose to photograph the buildings they are guarding. Kind of like the guard dog who barks furiously at the mailman day in and day out even though he probably knows that the mailman is not doing anything wrong.

The latest incident comes to us from San Jose where an eBay security guard confronted a photographer taking pictures of eBay headquarters from a public sidewalk.

Photographer Michael Halberstadt explained on Flickr that the guard driving the black SUV with the orange lights ordered him to stop taking photos.

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Chandler Brown was illegally detained, then arrested for taking a photo of a cop and then had his photo deleted and his only concern is that the cop was chatting on Facebook?

I hope not, but that is how it appears in the news story, which states that Brown has made “startling accusations” about Atlanta Police Officer Eric Coleman being on Facebook while on-duty.

Judging by the number of people who post status updates on Facebook throughout the day, I doubt Coleman is the only person surfing the site on the clock.

Or maybe my friends are just slackers at work.

It all started last Thanksgiving when Brown received a call from his friend who had been in a car accident. Brown pulled up in a cab and his friend wanted to leave the scene of the accident, so they both got into the cab before the officer told his friend he could not leave.

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