Neighborhood watch
15.04.2006 20:51
I think the following advice should be added to the next revision of the Lonely Planet guide:
Do not photograph large buildings standing in the middle of nowhere. It may turn out that one of them is a nuclear power station and then otherwise friendly local people start to ask weird questions like "Are you going to blow it up?".
In my case, it later turned out that I had found the Heysham power station while walking along the coast from Morecambe. I guessed it has something to do with large amounts of electrical power since there was a large high voltage line coming out of it, but as far as I knew it could have been a fish processing factory (I could see no cooling towers or containment buildings that you usually see near things that run on nuclear power). Anyway, only the third person I asked actually answered me what the building is (right before asking me back what my evil intentions are). The previous two just looked at me suspiciously.
