# Nanny state gone too far

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nanny-state-gone-too-far/194179
**Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [December 13, 2007, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nanny-state-gone-too-far/194179 "2007-12-13T08:01:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![dyingwish](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dyingwish/32/6041_2.png) [@dyingwish](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dyingwish)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2007, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nanny-state-gone-too-far/194179/1 "2007-12-13T08:01:08Z")

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This is hands down the most rediculous thing I’ve ever read. Stupifying, really:

> **[No photos of your baby!](https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/no-photos-of-your-baby-1013987)**
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> 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...

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### Author: ![spektator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@spektator](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/spektator)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2007, 8:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nanny-state-gone-too-far/194179/2 "2007-12-13T08:12:02Z")

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wow i dont know how to take that. I can see point to it, but then again Ive taken mad pics of me and my exs kids at the park…how would I prove they were “mine”…

Too many crazy people out there make things like this so impossible.

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### Author: ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2007, 8:38am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nanny-state-gone-too-far/194179/3 "2007-12-13T08:38:21Z")

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> [@School me on quad core processors v build me a rig](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/school-me-on-quad-core-processors-v-build-me-a-rig/33794/83):
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> wow i dont know how to take that. I can see point to it, but then again Ive taken mad pics of me and my exs kids at the park…how would I prove they were “mine”…
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> Too many crazy people out there make things like this so impossible.

more like too many idiot overprotective parents.

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### Author: ![tegSimple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@tegSimple](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tegSimple)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2007, 8:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nanny-state-gone-too-far/194179/4 "2007-12-13T08:42:46Z")

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guess i should stop taking pictures of small children playing at the park, huh?

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### Author: ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2007, 8:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nanny-state-gone-too-far/194179/5 "2007-12-13T08:59:12Z")

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> [@so i am loading my car on a flatbed....](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/so-i-am-loading-my-car-on-a-flatbed/33807/9):
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> guess i should stop taking pictures of small children playing at the park, huh?

our country is pedo-paranoid. Like kids are getting snatched off the streets left and right. Although that article was from England…

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### Author: ![PurpleMongoose](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/purplemongoose/32/3349_2.png) [@PurpleMongoose](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/PurpleMongoose)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nanny-state-gone-too-far/194179/6 "2007-12-13T20:26:34Z")

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Kind of ironic that this comes at a time of year where parents force their frightened, crying children to sit on strangers’ laps…

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### Author: ![Darkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@Darkstar](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Darkstar)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nanny-state-gone-too-far/194179/7 "2007-12-13T20:48:28Z")

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> [@Past 2 nights...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/past-2-nights/33897/54):
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> Kind of ironic that this comes at a time of year where parents force their frightened, crying children to sit on strangers’ laps…

lol very true
