09-24-2009, 06:08 PM
I caught this story earlier this week and my friends and I shook our heads at it for a good hour or so. To us, it feels like the Wal-Mart employee is like every other Joe Schlub in this country and thinks s/he's a citizen detective on CSI or something. Common sense & context says those were harmless images. They were family vacation pictures which means there were other photographs of the parents & the kids where they were clothed...ergo, anyone with a bird brain could figure out it was their father and things were okay.
I also have to wonder if anybody below the age of 25 never had photos taken of them in a bathtub or something. What in the world would make that so effin' shocking? Has that tradition been lost or are these folks just that stupid? Not everybody is a child molester, and even still, you can't stop all of them. Really.
And what mattkime meant by no kids being harmed, I read it as the intent was not to harm the kids. If some sleazy ass employee decides to steal their photos and sells them without the parents' knowledge, what are you going to do? The issue is, so far, the kids were not harmed and there was no intent to harm them and anybody with a clue could figure that out.
I personally feel the parents should also sue the individual employee along with current suit against Wal-Mart, the police and CPS. If that one joker didn't think he was a citizen detective, then this would have never happened. I mean, the mother lost her teaching job over this whole debacle. Come on now. I would also sue the school board to get her job back as well. Someone on that board could have used common sense as well. If reporting photos is in the company policy, then again, the person should have used common sense and not reported it. Plenty of times company polices go against logic and humanity. There were 8 photos out of 140 or so. What if that employee just happened to not turn his head when they shot out? Then none of this would have happened.
I also have to wonder if anybody below the age of 25 never had photos taken of them in a bathtub or something. What in the world would make that so effin' shocking? Has that tradition been lost or are these folks just that stupid? Not everybody is a child molester, and even still, you can't stop all of them. Really.
And what mattkime meant by no kids being harmed, I read it as the intent was not to harm the kids. If some sleazy ass employee decides to steal their photos and sells them without the parents' knowledge, what are you going to do? The issue is, so far, the kids were not harmed and there was no intent to harm them and anybody with a clue could figure that out.
I personally feel the parents should also sue the individual employee along with current suit against Wal-Mart, the police and CPS. If that one joker didn't think he was a citizen detective, then this would have never happened. I mean, the mother lost her teaching job over this whole debacle. Come on now. I would also sue the school board to get her job back as well. Someone on that board could have used common sense as well. If reporting photos is in the company policy, then again, the person should have used common sense and not reported it. Plenty of times company polices go against logic and humanity. There were 8 photos out of 140 or so. What if that employee just happened to not turn his head when they shot out? Then none of this would have happened.