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I have written before about Thomas Hawk's overturning the rocks under which some bullshit artists cower here, here and here. Today he weighs in with another installment:

Brooklyn Photographer Don Wiss Threatened if He Doesn't Leave the Country He Will Be Killed

PriceRitePhoto's store, photo by Brooklyn Photographer Don Wiss

I received a troubling email earlier today from Don Wiss saying that he received a phone call today from someone telling him that if he didn't leave the country he would be killed. Wiss also reported another call from an anonymous caller accusing him of running him out of business. Don Wiss is a Brooklyn photographer that I have mentioned previously in my posts about sleazy New York bait and switch camera operators operating out of Brooklyn. Wiss has done an excellent job chronicling the actual storefronts of many of the shady camera dealers in Brooklyn and has provided helpful visual information for consumers that might do business with these operators and in some cases scam artists.

Wiss posted the photo above of the sleazy camera operator PriceRitePhoto that I had been previously threatened by.

Although I suppose after hearing an actual voicemail of a camera dealer threatening to break a customer's neck that it shouldn't surprise me to learn of Don's calls today, it still sickens my stomach. How is it that these criminals can act with impunity right in Spitzer's back yard? How can camera stores get away with death threats here now in the year 2005 in the United States of America.

It keeps getting more and more bizzare... How can businesses like this not get nailed to the wall? And it is not just PriceRitePhoto / Barclay's) but all the others at Don's website here. Posted by DaveH at December 15, 2005 10:13 PM