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    If you go down to the park today...

    ...you're be assumed to be a paedophile by Shropshire Council, if you're not with a child:

    A council have been criticised for stopping lone adults walking through a park without a child to check if they are paedophiles.

    Staff at Telford and Wrekin Council in Shropshire have been ordered to stop and quiz any adults found walking through Telford Town Park without at least one youngster to find out what they are doing there.
    Full story here:
    Paedophile checks for park visitors | Metro.co.uk

    Also, how do you "check if people are paedophiles"?

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    Re: If you go down to the park today...

    I hear they're changing all the park signs to read "Please do not drop Glitter"

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    Re: If you go down to the park today...

    Quote Originally Posted by David Bailey View Post
    Also, how do you "check if people are paedophiles"?
    You ask them to produce their 'non-paedophile' proof of identification of course. If they don't have it, you string them up from the nearest swing.

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    Re: If you go down to the park today...

    hmmm.... maybe thats taking things just too far, but then again i dont have kids so i dont know how i may feel if i did!

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    Re: If you go down to the park today...

    So a person walking through the park without a child is thought to be a possible paedophile as they are walking through a park, and a person with a child is not considered suspect, despite the possibility that that child might not actually belong to them and is currently abducting that child.

    Madness I tells yah, MADNESS!

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    Re: If you go down to the park today...

    Quote Originally Posted by drathzel View Post
    hmmm.... maybe thats taking things just too far, but then again i dont have kids so i dont know how i may feel if i did!
    Well I have 6 and I don't have a problem with paranoia, so I don't assume that everyone in the park without kids is a nonce.

    Some people like to walk to clear their thoughts, fresh air to clear a hangover, jogging or just making good use of public open spaces.

    If anyone is truly that paranoid, I'd suggest they should stay at home and leave the rest of us alone to enjoy a normal life.

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    Re: If you go down to the park today...

    Clearly someone slipped an episode of into the council training videos...
    (not particularly safe for work)

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    Re: If you go down to the park today...

    Quote Originally Posted by David Bailey View Post
    Over on the Doctor Who Forum, it looks like someone with local knowledge has explained how this is actually even more distasteful than it first looks:
    This is a little deeper than you know. The Telford Town Park was recently almost built on under first a labour administration and under the first few months of this Conservative administration. A gentlemen, whose name I won't mention, went out into the park to leaflet people to let them know what was going on. He led a campaign that was politically embarrassing to the council and its authorities and they confiscated the leaflets and stopped him handing them out.

    He demanded an apology and an explanation.

    When the council were pressed for a reason why they took this action, after many, many attempts to get a reply, the officers came up with this "policy" as the reason. It's junk made up after the fact to justify what was in effect an attempt to silence somebody who didn't agree with their development plans.

    Now the same guy raised and got through a parish referendum in my parish and made enough fuss and garnered enough support, with others, to cause the council to rethink the policy. Though the Park is not certain to be saved in its entirety the position is now much more secure.

    When the two environmental protesters came into the Park dressed as Penguins, the council were stuck with their recently made up policy and enforced it. So earning themselves a rebuke from the Home Office as well.
    So, not only is the council happy to go around suspecting all and sundry of being kiddy-fiddlers, they're doing it because they introduced the policy as a retrospective excuse to eject someone who politically embarrassed them. Truly shameful, and the kind of squalid tactics you'd only expect to ever see at local government level. Or not, if your name was Brian Haw....
    Quote Originally Posted by David Bailey View Post
    Also, how do you "check if people are paedophiles"?
    I think there was an explanation of that in Chris Morris' Brass Eye programme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David Bailey View Post
    Also, how do you "check if people are paedophiles"?
    If they have a child with them they're not a paedo. These easy to follow council illustrations clear up any confusion that parkies may have. Simple
    Last edited by StokeBloke; 30th-June-2009 at 03:11 PM.

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    Re: If you go down to the park today...

    You also have to seriously wonder about the person who designed the entrance for this "Play Inside Pikachu" bouncy castle...


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    Re: If you go down to the park today...

    Quote Originally Posted by David Franklin View Post
    You also have to seriously wonder about the person who designed the entrance for this "Play Inside Pikachu" bouncy castle...
    Now that's just plain disturbing...

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    Re: If you go down to the park today...

    Quote Originally Posted by David Franklin View Post
    You also have to seriously wonder about the person who designed the entrance for this "Play Inside Pikachu" bouncy castle...
    what are they doing to poor Pika!!!

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    Re: If you go down to the park today...

    Quote Originally Posted by Stuart M View Post
    So, not only is the council happy to go around suspecting all and sundry of being kiddy-fiddlers, they're doing it because they introduced the policy as a retrospective excuse to eject someone who politically embarrassed them. Truly shameful, and the kind of squalid tactics you'd only expect to ever see at local government level. Or not, if your name was Brian Haw....
    This makes it even worse - and devalues proper initiatives to control those sick people that pray on kids. Politics is indeed a dirty business

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    Re: If you go down to the park today...

    "When the two environmental protesters came into the Park dressed as Penguins, the council were stuck with their recently made up policy and enforced it. So earning themselves a rebuke from the Home Office as well. "

    Wow. These people are devious. Who would suspect a Penguin of being a child molestor.

    Chrisu

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    Re: If you go down to the park today...

    What is the world coming to? Me and Jamie had a fab time playing in a kids park the other night (albeit in France and at silly o'clock at night)and the fact that we are 12 sometimes ....

    Back to being serious, I for one go for walks to clear my head and nothing does this better than sitting on a swing watching the world go by.

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    Re: If you go down to the park today...

    Quote Originally Posted by Caro View Post
    what are they doing to poor Pika!!!
    Poor??? Have you looked at the expression on its face???

    (I'm half-way tempted to try a Brass Eye style 'paedachu' joke, but that would probably be in poor taste...)

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    Re: If you go down to the park today...

    Er...... So does this apply only if you go to parks with children's play areas, or any park? My park is mainly used by dog walkers, so does that make anyone not walking a dog a zoophile or bestialist?

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    Re: If you go down to the park today...

    Quote Originally Posted by Little Monkey View Post
    Er...... So does this apply only if you go to parks with children's play areas, or any park? My park is mainly used by dog walkers, so does that make anyone not walking a dog a zoophile or bestialist?
    indeed it does - so please do NOT visit the Zoo on your own...ever

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    Quote Originally Posted by Little Monkey View Post
    Er...... So does this apply only if you go to parks with children's play areas, or any park? My park is mainly used by dog walkers, so does that make anyone not walking a dog a zoophile or bestialist?
    Maybe; but does it make those holding leads doggers

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