in telling my sis shat she should of done when someone on the bus started taking pics of her 9month dd?

[juicychops]

A foreign woman was taking pics on her phone of my sister's dd. She didn't say anything as she was too embarrassed but a man caught my sister's attention and saw that my sister wasn't happy about it so he told the woman to stop.

I said to my sister if that was me i would of made sure she had deleted the photos off her phone and got the bus driver involved if she refused

She should definitely have said something if she felt uncomfortable by it. Chances are it was harmless but it is extremely rude to take anyone's photo without asking first.

Well it was a rude thing (in our culture) to do, but hasn't harmed your niece. If her mum has no problem with it then there is not harm done.

I have noticed that people from other countries are much more likely to take photos of other people's children and don't always see the need to ask permission. It's only really here and in the US that we are a bit rabid about paedophiles and privacy and all that business.

You are being unreasonable.

she probably just thought your neice was cute. we do seem to be getting more and more het up about this in the uk.

i'd say something to anyone taking pics of my kids if I wasn't happy with it - the lady should have asked first & said why she wanted to take the photos. If someone was taking photos of you, your house or car of course you'd stop them & ask why.

I wouldn't, actually, maisym

I would assume they wanted the photo because they thought my son was extremely gorgeous

If a tourist was taking pictures of me, my house, my car or my child I would think what incredibly dull holiday pictures tbh.

but frannyandzooey, if it was a man taking photos surely you would think differently?

Japanese tourists seem to be particularly fond of taking photos of my son, especially teenage girls

I think he is maybe a cult figure over there in Japan but nobody has bothered to tell me yet?

Juicy I might not be too happy about it but I would console myself with the fact that nobody had done anything to my son that would harm him

If I was not happy I would either move away or ask them politely to stop

Franny your son must be up in the cult figure stats out there with my son (now 8) lol

I have had Japanese tourists ask to take pictures of my very blonde children because they looked so unusual to them. I thin, Michael Jackson put silk scarves over his children's heads at an air port recently to stop pictures being taken of their faces which worked quite well. It is not however against the law I think in the UK to take pictures of people out and about

People took countless pictures of my blonde ds when we lived in Turkey.
Didn't bother me,but I was onceo n a train where a woman freaked out and asked a hapless young Japanese tourist to delete the pictures of her kid on his phone (after having happily posed with the kid for about 20 mins.)

It is should have not should of

It's entirely legal to take pictures of people in public places (am I wrong??) Ask politely, but you can't demand that anybody delete those photos, either. Trying to do so by force would be tantamount to assault. I can't imagine what the bus driver was supposed to do about it.

FFS, don't ever go on public if you feel that strongly about it.

I'd quite like to see all the holiday snaps that we have accidetally wandered into over the years.

I try to get in on other people's holiday photos on purpose!

Btw, has anybody brought up the fact that the title contains the word "shat"?

because I have been trying not to mention it but I find now that I just HAVE TO

Maybe that's her sisters name...

With ds1, i would have become shrill and hysterical if someone had started taking pictures of him

With ds2, I would merely warn him not to get used to it (poor baby has been photographed about 12 times in his life)

LOL powder

am sniggering unnecessarily about that

(apologies to juicy's sister )

I had not considered the blondness thing, I think you are right

Btw if you had never been to, say, India or Africa, before, would you not like to take some photos of the locals, especially the local children?

I expect someone will point out some reason that this is unforgiveably patronising or something, but I know I would want to

Children are generally nicer-looking than grownups. Nothing wrong with people taking pictures of them, imo.

Took dds to Christ Church when dd1 was about 18 months. Loads of Japanese tourists saw her sitting on the steps and took photos of her - I didn't mind, they were billing and cooing and she was a little blonde thing and I imagine they're used to little dark haired things.

I have no cause to complain - when I went to China I took loads of pictures of their georgeous children - mind you, this was 20 odd years ago when people weren't as conscious of the implications as they are now.