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Fuinseog

Yes some people are making jokes, but thats because if you took every single threat to your life and to that of your kids, we would all be living in underground shelters watching Fox News.

Tonight on Prime Time Investigates: "Granddad: Friend? Or Foe?......[/QUOTE]

hear hear.
is it healthy for us to suspect absolutely everyone? BTW women can abuse children as well.

All about Eve

could easily have been a photographer doing a project. although he shoud have asked the parents permission...

TristanPeter

syklops wrote: »

You rang the police, they are aware, well done. Telling people to be extra vigilant, rarely actually works. In fact in this case, had the childrens Grandmother and uncle been a little bit vigilant, it probably would not have happened as it did. Or the individual might have introduced himself as a photographer or whatever to the adult nearby and the mystery would have been at an end.

First of all I didn't ring the Gardai and secondly they are not my kids. I just posted what happened. Because the grandmother was being vigilant, she decided after talking to her grand-daughter and weighing up the situation to let the gardai know. The fact is he didn't introduce himself as a photographer or a journalist. Would you head to a beach today and start asking 12 year old girls to start jumping around so you can take photos of them? I definitely wouldn't and I have a problem with anyone who does do this without permission or good reason. Also, my original post does not tell anyone to be "extra" vigilant. Readers can either take the post on board or ignore it. That's up to them. It's no skin off my nose. It was just a "heads-up".

AngeGal

Fuinseog wrote: »

Yes some people are making jokes, but thats because if you took every single threat to your life and to that of your kids, we would all be living in underground shelters watching Fox News.

Tonight on Prime Time Investigates: "Granddad: Friend? Or Foe?......

hear hear.
is it healthy for us to suspect absolutely everyone? BTW women can abuse children as well.[/QUOTE]

I understand the point and it is not without merit. But there is a difference between suspecting everyone and a guy taking photos of kids, asking a 5 year old to jump up and down. It is entirely possible it was innocent but I would think most photographers are aware of the times we live in and the fact that many parents are gonna get a little aggressive if they come back and find some stranger talking to their unsupervised children and taking photos of them.

I doubt these two children were the only ones on the beach and the majority of the rest were likely under supervision. It seems more than a little odd to me that a photographer wouldn't go to the parents of those under supervision and get permission, if only because it will likely be less hassle for them in the long run.

syklops

TristanPeter wrote: »

First of all I didn't ring the Gardai and secondly they are not my kids. I just posted what happened. Because the grandmother was being vigilant, she decided after talking to her grand-daughter and weighing up the situation to let the gardai know. The fact is he didn't introduce himself as a photographer or a journalist. Would you head to a beach today and start asking 12 year old girls to start jumping around so you can take photos of them? I definitely wouldn't and I have a problem with anyone who does do this without permission or good reason. Also, my original post does not tell anyone to be "extra" vigilant. Readers can either take the post on board or ignore it. That's up to them. It's no skin off my nose. It was just a "heads-up".

We are going around in circles, people are mis-reading things, people are misquoting others. OP, if your goal was to inform the community, then you have. I suggest you ask a mod to lock this before it goes further downhill.

No need to reply to me, I am unsubscribing.

TristanPeter

syklops wrote: »

OP, if your goal was to inform the community, then you have. I suggest you ask a mod to lock this before it goes further downhill.

It was my goal to inform and I don't think it has gone downhill. It's only discussion with some questionable "humour" thrown in so I'll leave that up to the mods to decide

syklops wrote: »

No need to reply to me, I am unsubscribing.

Replying in general.

biko

The warning has achieved the desired effect I think. We'll stop here.
I don't want to trivialise the problem with predators etc but I also don't want to exaggerate something that may have been nothing.
Everyone, be careful out there but don't let fear control your life.