Banned Because You Are A Single Adult.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2828413/Theme-park-bans-single-adults-paedophile-fears-bird-enthusiast-grandfather-told-t-watch-falconry-display.html

It is illegal to refuse entry to public places if you are black or homosexual etc, but it seems it is quite in order to refuse entry to single adults.

Where is the danger, surely the children in this park are with adults to look after them so how could they be at risks from paedophiles?

[vulcan42]

Perfectly normal decision seeing as the doctrine these days is we are all guilty until we can prove we are innocent.

[-Talbot-]

http://www.puxton.co.uk/Home-Page/Entrance-Policies

[Sqad]

/////'I couldn't see anything about the rule on the brochure which I picked up at another attraction./////

If the ban wasn't clearly mentioned in the brochure, then that is an error on the part of the theme park, but if it was, plus the fact that it was clearly displayed on their website, then, it is a matter of "obey the rules"...............something the Brits find increasingly difficult to do.

[Zeuhl]

/I'm unsure the confession that they don't discriminate on all days so that's ok then, really cuts a lot of ice./

OG - not sure of your point?

A: The shows are aimed at and almost entirely attract 0-7 year olds (plus guardians)

B: Some aspects (eg falconry) also interest adults so they invite them to special 'open to all' events

as a single adult, what motive would one have for wanting to go to A rather than B?

[sp1814]

From the report in the Daily Mail:

When he complained, bosses at the tourist attraction near Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, defended the bizarre rule and insisted it is 'in line with other parks' - before sanding him away.

Sounds rather painful.

[Sqad]

sp.....LOL.

[Zeuhl]

The Daily Wail likes its protagonists to be abrasive

[sp1814]

Out of interest - do those who thought that the Christian bakery were within their rights to refuse service also think that the management of this park were within their rights to refuse service?

Or does opinion on this change, dependent on who is being rejected?

[Old_Geezer]

The point is that doing the wrong thing on one occasion is not made right because you claim to do the right thing on other occasions. Take an extreme example for clarity. Do you let a murderer off because he didn't kill anyone from Monday to Saturday ?

I can understand a park headlining that they are a kiddie park and adults (not just lone individuals) are not catered for. What I don't understand is headlining just that you are a park, giving the impression you are a normal park, and then "hiding" an unexpected, and for those caught a very aggravating and inconvenient, restriction in the small print somewhere.

I'd also question whether the "guilty until proven innocent" attitude is one that should be adopted anyway, but that's a more controversial issue.

[Old_Geezer]

There is no motive wanting to go to A rather than B, except here in this discussion. It's to do with going to an advertised event and then being unexpectedly refused without good reason.

[Old_Geezer]

Because, of course, there was another falconry holding an event just down the road he could go to.

[vulcan42]

There is nothing in the falconry section on line that states there are special open days,It also says, on the home page, they want every single person to enjoy themselves. A good lawyer could make something of that.

[Peter Pedant]

sqad really lovable as you are...

//Ask the McCannes or watch the serial on TV, "the Missing".....both indicate how children can be abducted even with their parents in close proximity.//

The McCanns as you are know are contentious -
they have repeatedly denied gving their children antihistamines which have sedative action:
http://madeleinemythsexposed.pbworks.com/w/page/39077700/Rebuttal%20of%20%22Fact%22%2013

but everyone knows they were metres away ( certainly not 'near') when the child was abducted

and Missing I regret to report is - - - drama

[hc4361]

The Christian bakery is in Northern Ireland where gay marriage is illegal so in my view they were right to refuse service.

A park advertising a falconry display for the public should make it very clear at the gate and all their promotional adverts that they do not allow adults without children.

[ummmm]

Yes...make it absolutely clear that is the same rule for all.

[anotheoldgit]

Sqad

/// Ask the McCannes or watch the serial on TV, "the Missing".....both indicate how children can be abducted even with their parents in close proximity. ///

Bad analogy, first the McCannnes they left their children alone, and "The Missing" was TV drama, not real life.

/// If all parks have this rule......then so be it.....it is the sign of the times ///

That doesn't necessarily make it right.

[Sqad]

PP.

http://ukpaedos-exposed.com/uk-child-abusers-named-and-shamed/facts-and-stats-on-child-abuse/child-abduction-the-stats/273-uk-kids-abducted-in-a-year/

get the idea?

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

How could a single adult with a camera take 'indecent' images of a child that was accompanied by an adult?

If this was so then all single adults carrying camera would be banned from everywhere where there was children, from town and cities, public parks, the countryside etc etc.

[janbee]

The Nanny State again