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Remember my naked photograph incident at my local pool? Well............

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Northerner · 11/08/2006 11:05

The council have responded to my letter and are basically fobbing me off. They say it is impossible to man the changing rooms as they don't have teh staff or the money, they can not ban mobile phones as it is too difficult and I was not offered any support or comfort by their staff because I didn't appear to be upset.

FFS my son and I had just seen a man peering over our cubilcle and take a picture of me naked - did they think I'd be delighted FFS.

They have not mentioned any procedure being implemented to prevent this in future and still have not offerred me my money back. So i STILL paid for the pivelage of being perved on.

I am so

What should I do next because I simply can not let this lie.

TIA

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NotQuiteCockney · 11/08/2006 11:05

Local papers? If you could stand it. They'd be all over this one, I think.

acnebride · 11/08/2006 11:07

My God I didn't see this originally. A lot of horrifying posts this morning!

I'd go to the police. Now. Even if they can't catch him, a police investigation should get their collective arses in gear.

hulababy · 11/08/2006 11:08

Police to report it; in case it happens to others. At least it is then on record.

Local paper?

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Northerner · 11/08/2006 11:09

OK I'll recep. The poliec are involved. The swimming pool reported it 4 hours after it happenned because my dh insisted it should be reported. POlice too busy to attend at first, but they have investigated CCTV but not updated me.

Local paper ran a piece last week that it had happenned.

I am now so pissed off at the pool's/council lack of concern. Particularly about me not being noticbly upset.

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yorkshirelass79 · 11/08/2006 11:10

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SoupDragon · 11/08/2006 11:14

It's "easily" solved by placing a roof over the tops of cubicals and ensuring the walls go down to the ground.

Tw*ts.

zippitippitoes · 11/08/2006 11:14

perhpas you get local radio to do a phone in around the issue of security at the leisure centre

throckenholt · 11/08/2006 11:14

go back to the local paper and tell them the response you have had - if they were interested enough to run the original story - they should be interested to run the follow up about the lack of interest by police and swimming pool.

I guess bad publicity like that won't do them any favours and might kick thier @rses into gear.

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Northerner · 11/08/2006 11:14

LOL Yorkshirelass.

Am I over reacting or would you be cross?

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SoupDragon · 11/08/2006 11:15

I'd be furious. Not so much of a photo of me as the fact it could be a photo of my children.

zippitippitoes · 11/08/2006 11:16

what about your local councillor they are sometimes quite proactive

WideWebWitch · 11/08/2006 11:17

I'm sorry but I think you're over reacting. Presumably this was a one off, worse things happen, and if it is a one off then surely they shouldn't have to change things as a result of it? Most people are only completely naked for acouple of minutes aren't they? Sorry, appreciate this isn't what you want me to say but you did ask!

yorkshirelass79 · 11/08/2006 11:18

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Northerner · 11/08/2006 11:23

WWW, I appreciate where you are coming from, but I can't help feeling what if it was a young girl on her own?, what if it was a peodo tyring to get pic's of naked kids?, is the next step someone climbing over into a cubicle and sexually assaulting someone?

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NomDePlume · 11/08/2006 11:23

I don't think that making changes to the cubicles is necessary BUT I DO think that Northerner deserved a bit more courtesy and grovelling from the manager.

zippitippitoes · 11/08/2006 11:25

of course in the olden days there were changing room attendants..must say I've never been to a poll with mixed changing rooms

NomDePlume · 11/08/2006 11:26

There's a mixed system in place at one of the pools we go to. I think it works pretty well for families

donnie · 11/08/2006 11:27

not an overreaction at all! could you maybe print off some kind of poster or information sheet then plaster it up all over the leisure centre and annoy them into taking some kind of action?

this is a security issue and not to be taken lightly.

SoupDragon · 11/08/2006 11:28

WWW, is it a one off incident or simply the only time it's been noticed?

batters · 11/08/2006 11:28

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WideWebWitch · 11/08/2006 11:30

Ooh I don't know, Northerner, what do yout hink? Is it a reg occurance or a one off? I know it could have been a child but it wasn't afawk.
Sorry, I wouldn't have even bothered reporting it. So there you go, maybe lots of other people felt the same way and didn't report it.

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Northerner · 11/08/2006 11:33

I did have my 4 year old ds with me at the time www.

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LIZS · 11/08/2006 11:33

agree with throckenholt. The paper may be interested again particularly if the pool is so apathetic about the incident or what about a local radio station. People using the facilities have a right to be made aware of the incident and judge for themselves if any precautions are necessary, even if the pool don't think so.

zippitippitoes · 11/08/2006 11:36

at the very least i would ask for a warning notice in the changing rooms along the lines of no camer phones or cameras iin the changing rooms and please be aware of your personal safety in this respect at all times and report any incidents with the above to pool staff

yorkshirelass79 · 11/08/2006 11:40

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