No single adults allowed

Possibly more so.

See the fuss about some nurse who returned to the States feeling perfectly fine from an Ebola region and refused to stay locked indoors for three weeks.

(If this is not totally accurate bear with me, I really wasn’t that interested.)

Moggy

That actually presented a very interesting situation. The gestation period for the Ebola virus is twenty one days, therefore the authorities were right to get anti with her for being out in public about a week after she returned from an Ebola infected area. On the other hand I can understand her wanting to get out in the fresh air. Though why she couldn’t have kept to her own garden I don’t know.

But he was there for a Falconary display, nothing else, not to hang around the swings etc… as for Photography, what difference is there in photographing in a town or in the park, all by the way perfectly legal…. lets face it, the lenses I/we use for taking aircraft photos could just as easily take pictures of anyone without their knowledge, not that I/we would.
Its just another sad indictment to how OTT the UK has become, true it’s an evil business, but don’t tar everyone with the same brush. Remember all the security checks and background in the world will prove squat, as until arrested they would have all past it with flying colours. what next? two teachers to a classroom?

Makes a mockery of the ‘innocent until proven guilty’ thing doesn’t it? The onus of proof is on the accuser not the accused.

Sticking to this specific topic you confirm what I believed to be the case. In fact I doubt that any other nation shares the paranoia that there are paedophiles on every street corner as the British media and a large percentage of the population clearly does.

I’ll watch the space but hope you don’t follow suit!!

Are Americans as paranoic as the British?

Not about this topic. (Not yet anyway…watch this space).
Americans do have their fears…some legitimate, others less so.

But then again when it comes to international terrorism, they do have a large target on their backs.

Re 34

Yes, but also possibly a returning jihadist, infected with Ebola…………….

But he was there for a Falconary display, nothing else, not to hang around the swings etc…

No, I appreciate that. It is the park that is at fault here. They seriously need to review their admissions policy; they would never get away with refusing access to anybody based on race, religion or sexuality…

…I doubt it is legal to refuse admission based on gender. And not realistic to ‘judge’ on ‘pedophile’ potential!!! :rolleyes:

They thought she was a paedophile………??

Possibly more so.

See the fuss about some nurse who returned to the States feeling perfectly fine from an Ebola region and refused to stay locked indoors for three weeks.

(If this is not totally accurate bear with me, I really wasn’t that interested.)

Moggy

Are Americans as paranoic as the British?

American comic/TV host/car collector Jay Leno recently said when he was a teenager a neighbor had a Jaguar XK120. The man noticed Leno was enthralled with the car and one day gave him a ride.
Leno said that was an earlier time, before a time “when every man was automatically considered a pedophile”. The ride turned him into the collector and expert he is today.

the Media and the Establishment make it appear as if the barrel is full of rotten apples and in this case as if by magic marriage cures the problem, it doesn’t and never will.

Which simply proves the utter illogicality and stupidity of the approach to the problem. In any case I believe I am right in sating that the majority of child abuse is carried out by family members on their own kin.

Yup, Do not get me wrong, Child safety is paramount and those children effected do not deserve the treatment they have received in robbing them of their innocence and childhood. Castration and prison would be my punishment, then (if and when they have served their sentence) they will no longer pose a threat. But like apples, it simply takes one rotten one in the barrel to taint the rest, and unfortunately the Media and the Establishment make it appear as if the barrel is full of rotten apples and in this case as if by magic marriage cures the problem, it doesn’t and never will.

The real problem is that the default position is that everyone of us is a potential paedophile rather than none of us is but a very few might be. It has become a media and establishment driven paranoia and to my mind is extremely unhealthy.

But he was there for a Falconary display, nothing else, not to hang around the swings etc… as for Photography, what difference is there in photographing in a town or in the park, all by the way perfectly legal…. lets face it, the lenses I/we use for taking aircraft photos could just as easily take pictures of anyone without their knowledge, not that I/we would.
Its just another sad indictment to how OTT the UK has become, true it’s an evil business, but don’t tar everyone with the same brush. Remember all the security checks and background in the world will prove squat, as until arrested they would have all past it with flying colours. what next? two teachers to a classroom?

Link to the BBC website article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-29985181

I suppose it does put a slightly different slant on the story if indeed ‘90% of the park is child related play equipment unsuitable for adults’ however I’ve never really understood the paranoia regarding adults ‘armed with a camera’; surely any potential ‘pedophile’ could find much easier, and less suspicious, ways of obtaining the sort of images of children they’d get at a play park, than by taking a camera into a play park?

But in the same way that there used to be women who were unknowingly married to closeted gay men, known as ‘beards’, might not some adults come in with their own children to camouflage their intentions?

Ok, how about not admitting children ?

I’m sure you can still lust after him, Charlie: he is not only available during the olympics…;o)

I can’t imagine why you should think I would want to lust after him, Olympics or otherwise, but no doubt somewhere in your skewed mind you found a reason….:rolleyes:

Fortunately I missed the the lusting after Tom Daley – but how ironic given that he is openly homosexual.:o

I’m sure you can still lust after him, Charlie: he is not only available during the olympics…;o)

You would have thought though, that all children would be supervised. Either by parents or school teachers ?
Perhaps they should have said that children must be accompanied by an adult at all times. There couldn’t
have been any argument with that…

But in the same way that there used to be women who were unknowingly married to closeted gay men, known as ‘beards’, might not some adults come in with their own children to camouflage their intentions?

Creaking door re your #16
apposite as usual :applause:

……..Likewise, you are ignoring a lot of history if you think that women are incapable of cruelty towards children, extending as far as paedophile acts.

Yes I think the figure is roughly 50/50 men/women. Maybe why they are not allowing single women either.

You would have thought though, that all children would be supervised. Either by parents or school teachers ?
Perhaps they should have said that children must be accompanied by an adult at all times. There couldn’t
have been any argument with that. Except from those maybe, that allow their little darlings to run riot and
annoy everyone else apart from them.