Man prevented from taking pics of daughter

[Scarby]

...at school nativity play in Braunstone.

A Leicestershire father said he was shocked when a policeman stopped him taking photos of his five-year-old daughter in her school nativity play.

The officer told Lee Ingram to stop filming at Imperial Avenue Infant School in Braunstone after the head teacher told him it was not allowed.
The school said parents could take photos later, but not during the play.
Leicester City Council said photography policies were part of its child protection measures.
Mr Ingram said: "I went with intentions to take photos, was told by the headmistress that you can't take photos and three police officers were there.
"And one of the officers came over and stopped me from taking photos of my daughter in the play."
For three years he had observed the ban at his daughter Ella's school, but then decided it made no sense.
"Basically you want these memories on film and you want photos as well and I just woke to it and I just said, 'I'm not having this and I want to challenge the rules here'.
"I want to be able to take photos of my child and film my child in these plays."
Leicester City Council said the restrictions were not driven by a fear of paedophiles, but were about protecting the identities of children who might be adopted or fostered or might be the subject of a court order. "For many schools the choice is preventing parents from taking photographs or preventing children from taking part," the statement added.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/7148924.stm

i can see why this happened, but its disgraceful. I have loads of pics of me in school plays as a kid.

 

[Melton Fox]

Like you Scarbs, I see why it's happened, but it's very, very sad.

As somebody else I know often says, they would like to see photography banned so the nut job parents have to sit the **** down and stop getting in people's way.

 

[muzzysgal]

I've never understood why what they did at my primary school never caught on.

A teacher would take photos during the dress rehearsal and would display them for parents to view and order reprints after they'd attended the performance.

The photos were much better than any a parent could take due to the proximity of the teacher, the parents could relax and enjoy the show and the school could make a small profit out of it.

 

[Disco Bob]

I have loads of pics of me in school plays as a kid.

So do I

 

[foxin_oz]

When is the Government going to stop telling us how to raise our children and how we should behave around them. I know as a male these days I always have to stop myself from talking to kids as folks may think I'm some kind of paedophile wierdo. Pretty sad really. A sign of the times perhaps.

 

[Macky]

i can see why this happened, but its disgraceful. I have loads of pics of me in school plays as a kid.

Like you Scarbs, I see why it's happened, but it's very, very sad.

Well I must be a bit thick then 'cause I have no idea what this is supposed to achieve or why it's happened.

Personally, I would've ignored the ****s & took all the pictures I wanted to, what are they going to do?

 

[Melton Fox]

Well I must be a bit thick then 'cause I have no idea what this is supposed to achieve or why it's happened.

Personally, I would've ignored the ****s & took all the pictures I wanted to, what are they going to do?

It's happened because of the dirty ****ing ****s that are wanking over innocent pictures of children on the internet all day long.

I hope they ****ing die.

 

[Macky]

It's happened because of the dirty ****ing ****s that are wanking over innocent pictures of children on the internet all day long.

I hope they ****ing die.

Nope, I still don't get it.

But I hope those ****s all die a horrible, drawn out death as well.

*edit* and according to LCC it isn't about paedophiles, some bollocks about adopted kids.

 

[Cate Fox]

Well I must be a bit thick then 'cause I have no idea what this is supposed to achieve or why it's happened.

Personally, I would've ignored the ****s & took all the pictures I wanted to, what are they going to do?

Unfortunately the school went to the trouble of having 3 police officers there as well to make sure parents couldnt take pictures.... its pretty pathetic really:icon_bigg

 

[Disco Bob]

For many schools the choice is preventing parents from taking photographs or preventing children from taking part," the statement added.

That is the essential bit - it isn't the Government, it isn't the Police...it is arsehole Head teachers with no bollocks.

School performance audiences are full of wankers that have arrived at the school with the contents of Dixons and seventeen outside broadcast units.

Preventing parents from taking a photo of their kid sounds bad, but that isn't the whole story. This parent was obviously being a **** for the police to have been called and, in my opinion, most parents are ****s. Banning the taking of pictures lends two solutions: Firstly it allows me to see my kids unhindered and secondly it pisses off all of these twats.

Anyway, I've yet to meet the parent that doesn't already have two hundred thousand and seventy six unnecessary and boring pictures of their prodigy.

 

[Macky]

Unfortunately the school went to the trouble of having 3 police officers there as well to make sure parents couldnt take pictures.... its pretty pathetic really:icon_bigg

Pathetic in the extreme but at the same time comforting that those three cops had nothing better to be getting on with.

But in all seriousness, how are they going to stop you from taking pictures of your own child? Is there a new law of Unlawful picture taking that I haven't heard about?

Just ignore them & carry on.

 

[Hammond Organ]

So do I

How did you end up with those?

 

[Disco Bob]

How did you end up with those?

i bought them from the only website that doesn't send your credit card details straight to the CIA

 

[Orifice]

The only way to stop all this nonsense is to ban all cameras/mobiles with cameras. It's obvious the only reason people have them is for porn and pedophilia.

What next?

 

[fitz]

nonsense

nonce-sense

 

[Macky]

My keyboard smells weird

 

[Disco Bob]

My entire world smells weird this morning.

 

[fitz]

Genetically, paedophiles have more genes in common with crabs than they do with you or me. Now that's scientific fact. There's no real evidence for it but it is scientific fact

 

[Macky]

Genetically, paedophiles have more genes in common with crabs than they do with you or me. Now that's scientific fact. There's no real evidence for it but it is scientific fact

and he should know, he is a doctor after all

 

[MHS]

Similar thing happened to my Dad a couple of months ago, my brother was performing in a show at De Montfort Hall, but he was told he couldn't take photos.