You and your children belong to the state

Take a read of Devils Kitchen commenting on a Manchester Evening News report of a ridiculous incident that happened in Oldham. The Manchester Evening News report runs "A COUPLE were banned from taking photographs of their baby daughter on a swing by a park warden who declared it `inappropriate.'

Steve Brook and partner Mandy Smith were having a family day out with 11-month-old Rebecca when the council worker swooped.

"It beggars belief," said Steve, 35. "The fact that a mummy and daddy can't take a picture of their own daughter is ridiculous. I could understand if it was in a swimming pool, but she was well wrapped-up and as far as I could see we were the only people in the park."

Town hall officials said the warden had misinterpreted council policy when he confronted the family at Alexandra Park in Oldham.
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Steve, an off-licence manager from Clarksfield in Oldham said: "A man in a high-visibility jacket came over and told us we couldn't take pictures. I asked him why and he said it was illegal to take pictures of children in the park. I explained it was my own daughter but he still said it wasn't allowed.""


What scares me more than the fact that a park warden feels that he can stop a parent taking photos of their own child is that the parent said "I could understand if it was in a swimming pool, but she was well wrapped-up and as far as I could see we were the only people in the park." The fear of paedophiles being everywhere is out of hand.

How long before this sort of thing is more truth than fiction?


Also from Monkey Dust's Paedofinder General comes this version of Arthur Brown's "Fire" ...