Via the ever-amusing Mark Wadsworth comes this tale of perverted old-age filth:
An amateur photographer was told she could not take snaps of an empty paddling pool because she might be a paedophile.What the fuck?
Betty Robinson was ordered to put away her camera by a council worker when she began snapping the outdoor pool.
'It's absolutely ridiculous – it's bureaucracy gone mad,' said the 82-year-old widow from Southampton.
She was with friend Brenda Bennett as she took pictures of the city's common – where the pool is situated.
'We're a couple of old ladies. We're certainly not paedophiles,' she added.
Southampton City Council apologised but said: 'It is appropriate that our staff are aware of who is taking photos.'
a. If it's a public place, no-one can stop you taking photos.
b. It is most certainly not appropriate of council staff to be aware of who is taking photos in a public place.
c. It's entirely not the place of council workers to stop people taking photos in public places (see a. above)
This kind of fatuity is a combination of petty authoritarianism (as encouraged by the socialists in Westmonster) and the paedogeddon alarmism evident in the kind of red-tops that council workers read. I think that both the spokesman and the bossy council worker need to be taken out the back and given summary double-tap justice for encouraging and defending this kind of shit.
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Having mulled this over, either taking photos is a crime or it isn't. I guess it isn't (altho' with this gummint, you never can tell). The same way as getting on a bus or buying a newspaper isn't a crime, let's say.
So even if these two old dears were indeed paedophiles, why would the simple fact that they were paedophiles make the otherwise legal act of taking photos into a crime any more than them jumping on a bus or buying a newspaper?
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'We're a couple of old ladies. We're certainly not paedophiles,' she added.'Aren't you a nice young man. Isn't he a nice young man, Glad? Oh, you watch your self, young man! Giving me those eyes! Oh, Hild, doesn't he have nice eyes? You're the spitting image of a young Frankie Vaughan'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-B0Z0WOpgE
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