What else should they have replied? They're not even being clever, their opponent is just really stupid.
Your mom has trains run on her.
Are you the media?
Enough of a red flag to never talk to that person again
Why? Who the hell are you? The government?
I would use this phrasing. What should I say instead?
Are you a photographer for a newspaper or magazine?
Also like oh no he wants to do hobbies in public. Let people enjoy public spaces
What's the context? Was this a covid thing?
These screenshots might shed some more light. Looks like an employee was filmed doing something they shouldn’t by a train spotter.
What a weird hill to die on lol
"Try to do that at an airport and you'll get arrested."
She knows plane spotting at big airports is a pretty common thing too right? Hell, some airports even have a place where it's specifically encouraged. Reagan Intl has a park that was built at the end of the runway for plane spotters.
"I'm the media"
You'd think she'd be better at researching basic stuff that takes a 5 second google search to know it's perfectly fine to do
Y'all got any more of that tasty boot leather?
2017, way before covid. Some dude never heard of train-spotting before and was very confused by it.
What else should they have replied? They're not even being clever, their opponent is just really stupid.
Your mom has trains run on her.