New use for train

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[grahame]

I've just received a (spam) email with the following subject line ...

Train to become a photographer.

Am I the only one to thing that trains should not be redeployed in this way but should carry on moving people around the country? 

[Chris from Nailsea]

 

More silliness on the subject of photography and trains - from the BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page):

Mall bans father from photographing son in Sunderland

A father was told he was not allowed take pictures of his four-year-old son at a Sunderland shopping centre because of fears he could be a paedophile.
Kevin Geraghty-Shewan, of Kent, was challenged by a security guard at The Bridges after photographing his son Ben on a children's train ride.
He was told he could not prove Ben was his son and later quizzed by a police officer called to the centre.

 

[devon_metro]

LOL^▸ (laughing out loud)

[Btline]

More silliness on the subject of photography and trains - from the BBC^» (British Broadcasting Corporation - home page):

Mall bans father from photographing son in Sunderland

A father was told he was not allowed take pictures of his four-year-old son at a Sunderland shopping centre because of fears he could be a paedophile.
Kevin Geraghty-Shewan, of Kent, was challenged by a security guard at The Bridges after photographing his son Ben on a children's train ride.
He was told he could not prove Ben was his son and later quizzed by a police officer called to the centre.

My blood pressure is A LOT higher now.

[JayMac]

"He was told he could not prove Ben was his son"

Um, maybe ask Ben who the man with him is. Get the answer "Daddy" in all likelihood.

Like you Btline, I got a bit angry at the sheer idiocy of this security guard.

[inspector_blakey]

Whilst the stupidity of the security guard was bad enough, the actions of the attending plods almost seem worse to me: they're supposed to be well trained to deail with situations like this in which, surely, it was blindingly obvious that the kid was with his dad!

[Tim]

Even if the man was a paedophile, why would stopping him taking a photo achieve anything?  I don't understand.

[moonrakerz]

Like you Btline, I got a bit angry at the sheer idiocy of this security guard.

Must be related to this one ?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254579/Royal-Marine-told-cover-regimental-tattoo-Heathrow-offensive-passengers.html

(Yes  - I know it's the Mail !)