Posted on 08/06/2014 5:25:10 AM PDT by Squawk 8888
A Newfoundland woman says she is baffled by the actions of a local Walmart after it confiscated a pair of “inappropriate” photos of her eight-month-old daughter clutching an empty beer bottle.
“When I saw the images I kind of chuckled to myself because they seemed so innocent that I was in disbelief that they were being flagged as inappropriate,” said Robin Walsh, a Gander mother of two.
Store staff also seized a bare-bottomed photo of her daughter and five-year-old son as they prepared for a bath.
“I thought it was such a cute photo,” she said, noting that the image only featured “bums” and “no frontal nudity at all.”
The two beer bottle photos, meanwhile, were captured while her daughter was teething. One features the child holding the bottle while the other features her gnawing at the end.
“We took a photo, and then we took the bottle away,” she said.
The baby-with-beer-bottle photo actually seems to be common for new parents. A cursory Google search revealed at least half a dozen images of teething babies being posed with beer bottles for comic effect.
Ms. Walsh’s images began as digital photographs, but she had submitted them — along with about 100 others — to the Walmart Photo Centre to be printed for a scrapbook project.
When she showed up to pick up the batch, however, a clerk called down a manager, spread the three offending images on the photo counter, and informed Ms. Walsh that she would be unable to leave the store with the flagged images.
“The manager came down and reiterated that I could not have the photos because they were against Walmart policy,” she said.
“When I questioned what the policy was, they couldn’t tell me.”
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I have one of those. My baby daughter grasping one of my empty beer cans. We laugh at it today. Particularly at the cheap bottom-of-the-barrel swill I was drinking at the time.
Don’t they have digital photography in Newfoundland?
Ska-rew film developers.
Canada Non-Ping!
I would have grabbed the images off the counter, told them off the Walmart manager, and marched out of the store.
Control freaks. The world is full of them. Especially in the feral government.
Make that, “told off the Walmart manager...”
There’s a common-sense line between child porn and naked-baby-on-a-bearskin-rug kitsch. Of course, that presumes that common sense prevails in the world, a dubious presumption at best.
From the excerpt: "Ms. Walsh’s images began as digital photographs, but she had submitted them — along with about 100 others — to the Walmart Photo Centre to be printed for a scrapbook project."
Good grief. We have one of those pictures of our first little granddaughter at 5 months. She was sitting on dad’s knee, cute as a little button, at the cottage, and dad was having a Heineken. She grabbed the bottle and started gnawing the end and I snapped a picture. I think most families have one of these pictures, silly as they are.
We’re not even drinkers!
Just goes to show: if you want it done right, get the software and do it yourself.
What pansies people have become!
When I want a physical photo print, I print it out on photo paper. I have 3 that have been on my wall/bulletin board for years exposed to southern and eastern light and they aren’t faded or curled.
I know I feel safer now that Walmart is protecting me from photos of babies with bear bottles.
A police state cannot function without informants. Those who are either eager to suck up to the authorities or want to power-trip will guarantee that there is never a shortage of snitches.
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