Pool pictures ban over paedophile fears.

How ridiculous, I think people make no sense sometimes. If there are no children there than what is the harm?

I absolutely agree with you it is the PC brigade gone mad, a real pervert would probably be hidden with a zoom lense anyway eh! An EMPTY pool even more ridiculous. What about all the CCTV dotted around everywhere, I hope they vet the people that watch the screens on them as there are numerous children in shopping centres etc., Oh this sort of thing makes me so mad. Betty I am on your side and I wish you all the best for taking an excellent snap that will get you first prize in a competition! Thanks for sharing this one Cinderella. Ellie :D

Since there was no one in the pool I don't know what the problem would be. That is way out in left field. I think people are just a tad bit too scared. I can understand them not wanting her to take photos if there was people in he pool.

Great now I'm afraid to look out my windows. My next door neighbor runs a daycare and the elementary school is just across the back alley. I'm surrounded by them. :o Maybe I should gouge my eyes out, that way they can't arrest me for looking!!!!! It's kind of stupid how they make all these little itsy bitsy rules that don't do anything about the people actually doing stuff. The onyl one they ever made that made sense to me was banning camera phones in pool change rooms. THAT makes sense, banning photography in the actual pool area, not so much. Except that the camera technically has to pass through said change rooms... Just wait till they try to arrest you because you could have used your imagination. Oh wait Canada already does that. At least in regard to this whole pedo topic. Because here fictional characters have rights too. Why not go arrest someone who's say, molesting kids in their basement? Might help you get the problem under control.

It is ridiculous because they always seem to focus on the stupid things rather than the important things. Now while they are telling her that she cannot take photos of an empty paddling pool somewhere else there is someone else snapping away at a pool full of kids and no one is paying them the slightest bit of attention.

Hello cinderella2007, How stupid, I have never in my life heard of such nonsense, it was and empty for crying out loud, the concil should take care of other problems like fixing uneven pavements, we pay enough concil tax instead of picking something stupid like that. Tamara

Just another example of liberal idiocy gone mad. These kind of people need to be shouted down or ignored. Everyone thinks that they can use their cause as a reason to control someone else. Until you are caught actually breaking an established law - take all the pictures you want. djbtol

It may be an empty pool now but when Betty gets home and fires up Photoshop she can put loads of children into the picture and then look at it and wind herself up into an 82 year old frenzy of lust!! Society needs to be protected against 'jobs-worth' council workers more like.

This is going to far. She is a pedophile because she is taking pictures of an empty pool??? I guess I am a pedophile because I looked at an empty swing, or a closed daycare center. I understand that people are very wary of pedophiles nowadays, you can never tell who is one, but you have got to be kidding me that she was banned from taking pictures of an empty pool.... what could she have done with them?

cinderella 2007 hi that is the most bizarre story I have ever heard. why would a 82 year o ld woman ever be thought]of as a pedophile, that is ludicrous indeed.What is in an empty pool that would make the coucil think the woman was a child molester. this is plain nutty to me and I think the city councel is nuts.

this is complete crap. I understand that they want to keep children safe. But I am sorry to say that a paedophile is not going to be standing there in the crowd of people taking pictures of kids and drawing attention to themselves. They are the ones standing outside the gate taken the pictures. If they were inside the pool area taking the pictures the parents would catch on that hey that person doesn't have a kid with them and know that something was up. No they hide some where to take there sick pictures.