“An 82 year old woman has been banned from taking photos of an empty paddling pool in case she was a paedophile. Betty Robinson and pal Brenda Bennett, 69, went to shoot some pictures on a common in Southampton, Hants. But as Betty pointed her lens at the deserted pool a female council official stormed out of her hut and demanded she stop, reports The Sun. Betty, who has been taking photos in the park for decades, said: ‘She told us those were the rules to protect children.’ To me, this was bureaucracy gone mad. I just thought it would make a jolly nice picture.There were no children in the pool but she pointed to boys in the distance and said we could come back when the park was closed.’” (07/24/08)