Council bans 'beach photography'

swanseamale47 said:
Heres another thought, is it legally a beach? or just an area with sand.
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Errr... :thinking:

I'm not sure a "beach" would ever be legally defined. Common legal principle would state that when something is not defined in law, it is given its everyday meaning.

Regardless how you choose to term it, I'm not sure it changes anything in this particular case.
 
Funny how there is presumption of inoccence for some and presumption of guilt for others.

If your dad with your ps or bridge taking pics of the busty lady laying next to you there wont be any problems.

If you go with your friends and take a DSLR the "security" staff will be all over you probably.

Nice state of affairs.
 
razor777 said:
Hell, sometimes I feel like I'm being scrutinised by families who are taking a dim view of me with a camera even when I'm on a woodland trail trying to get some decent wildlife shots in. :D
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I'm just waiting to be sued by the hedgehog in my garden for invasion of his/her privacy because I've taken a photo of it. :D

Birds are a different story. They just dive bomb you with **** rather than bother with all the legal nonsense :lol:
 
Photo Plod said:
Errr... :thinking:

I'm not sure a "beach" would ever be legally defined. Common legal principle would state that when something is not defined in law, it is given its everyday meaning.

Regardless how you choose to term it, I'm not sure it changes anything in this particular case.
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Then the sign is wromg anyway as an everyday meaning of beach is something with the sea on it, not a sandpit in the middle of a town square.
The sign should say no photography in the play area then.
 
hepburn said:
I'm just waiting to be sued by the hedgehog in my garden for invasion of his/her privacy because I've taken a photo of it. :D

Birds are a different story. They just dive bomb you with **** rather than bother with all the legal nonsense :lol:
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:lol: too true :lol:
 
St Helens Council (Merseyside) were stopping people on their own from taking photographs or videos of the annual St Helens Festival about a month ago. This is a free show in a public park (Sherdley Park) which the people being stopped (from photographing) had paid for via the Council Tax.

I was stopped by a security guard for using a small camcorder. He eventually walked off because he was out of his depth with regard to the law. :nono:

http://www.visitsthelens.com/site/whats-on/st-helens-festival-2009-p231041

The council had previously banned all beer tents from this show.

The simple answer to all this paranoia is place everyone in the country under house arrest and get Tescos to deliver their food :rules:

shimbo
 
To be fair to the councils etc who are inventing these rules, they are only reacting to public opinion - that is, paranoid parents of young children that have got everything out of proportion. Fuelled by the tabloid press, which sells millions of copies every day. And they only publish stuff people want to read about. And so it goes on. You reap what you sow I guess.
 
I wouldn't say theyre reacting to public opinion. They're reacting to their own opinion of what they believe the public to be thinking....quite a difference IMO.

Theyve never polled the public, or asked them what they think, they're just pre-empting any paranoia before they get sued.
 
shimbo said:
St Helens Council (Merseyside) were stopping people on their own from taking photographs or videos of the annual St Helens Festival about a month ago. This is a free show in a public park (Sherdley Park) which the people being stopped (from photographing) had paid for via the Council Tax.

I was stopped by a security guard for using a small camcorder. He eventually walked off because he was out of his depth with regard to the law. :nono:

http://www.visitsthelens.com/site/whats-on/st-helens-festival-2009-p231041

The council had previously banned all beer tents from this show.

The simple answer to all this paranoia is place everyone in the country under house arrest and get Tescos to deliver their food :rules:

shimbo
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I'd be up for a mass tog meet at that :D

Edit : Damn, it's finished :(
 
HoppyUK said:
To be fair to the councils etc who are inventing these rules, they are only reacting to public opinion - that is, paranoid parents of young children that have got everything out of proportion. Fuelled by the tabloid press, which sells millions of copies every day. And they only publish stuff people want to read about. And so it goes on. You reap what you sow I guess.
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It's purely the Empire Builders in the Councils, nothing to do with public opinion. It was mentioned in another thread on this forum how schools had over reacted to banning phototography in connection with the Data Protection Act. etc.

I'm paranoid about other drivers being on the road at the same time as me so do you think if I ask the council to keep everyone off the road between 7am and 8am and 5pm and 6pm they would do it?..... it would make me feel better in my own mind :dummy:

shimbo
 
Faldrax said:
Have you noticed the URL
With a bit of spacing,

www. visits the lens. com :D
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;) Thats very funny... I hadn't noticed it and I don't think the council had:eek:....
they'll be onto it like a shot ...... dont visit the lens ifyouronyourown.com :p

shimbo
 
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