don't take your pictures at walmart!

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http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoft...photos.cnn

[Paul F.]

At?
Or TO?

Heard that story... there have been many like it from all kinds of film developing places. This time it was Walmart...

Walmart doesn't have the power to take the kids away... some incompetent low-level bureaucrat DOES.

[Don Kiyoti]

Read about that in a thread at dpreview. Sad story. Bathtub pictures are a time-honored parental tradition. I know there's a shot somewhere of me in my birthday suit in the kitchen sink. What's even scarier is some of the people in that thread blamed the parents, one called them "perverts."

Unfortunately any lab you take your pictures to is likely to call the authorities on such innocuous pictures, out of fear of being sued.

Yet another sign of the crumbling of our society.

Edit: I live Arizona, and I can tell you that this states CPS is a freaking disaster. Besides this botched case, they've let quite a few children die at the hands of parents or guardians that they already knew about.

[Grateful11]

I didn't know Wal-Mart was bathing children now ;-)

[mattkime]

has everything to do with the people running the lab. sadly, yes, they're morons.

[Spock]

Some minimum wage sexually repressed idiot reports innocent pictures to an untrained sexually repressed cop and the parents have their kids taken from them.

The parents are taking CPS and Wal-Mart to court and I hope they get a multi million settlement.

The behavior of that dumb cop is why we should bring back the stocks and pillory.

[lipskidder]

This is crap. Stupid people needing to be important. The dad holding the kid wrapped in a towel??? Geez.

I still remember episodes of "Leave it to Beaver" showing a bare-bottomed Beaver baby picture. That was the 50's, right?

Like I said, stupid people.

[gabester]

It's unfortunate, but fortunately we also can take nice quality photos with digital cameras within our homes and print them out with inexpensive color printers with a quality that nearly matches a professional film print.

So it's sad but kind of moot; I'll still take the other photos to a store but anything involving nudity stays in the home (and never posted online.)
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[Dennis S]

The lab people fear losing their jobs or worse if they DON'T report the pictures. It's part of the Zero Tolerance idiocy nowadays.

[$tevie]

What a messed up country this is sometimes.