I was told I couldn't take a picture of Donald Duck!

[Phibbles]

And now she is sending me PMs on the issue. Oh boy.

 

[missj1975]

Perhaps I just didn't get the 'child stealer' feature on my camera. It seems like I'm finding something missing with my 20d almost every day.No judge in this country is going to take the position that there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in any public, non-restroom area at WDW.

Sbell

"One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach, all the damn vampires."

 

[missj1975]

I have known lots of foster children and I have never heard that I wasn't allowed to take photos of them. Is that a Canadian thing?

Merryweather20, I think you are missing most everyone's point that they don't intentional take photos of other people's kids. It is just hard not to have random kids in the background at a place swarming with kids.

 

[LilGMom]

"One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach, all the damn vampires."

Great movie and wonderful soundtrack!

 

[Taterella]

Merryweather, I think you should realize that the children you are speaking of have a very unusual circumstance, that it isn't even the norm for foster children, and that your perspective is therefore skewed. No one here is out to hurt anyone by photographing them.

 

[Phibbles]

No one here is out to hurt anyone by photographing them.

Unless they are vampire children. Then we want them all on a stake.

 

[JESW]

I still can't figure out why foster children can't be photographed?
How could taking a picture of them with a Disney character be harmful to them? Even if there are people from their past life who might bring them harm, how would a photograph help them? I really can't understand. I would think that the foster parents would want photos of them. My brother and his wife have 4 foster kids in their house right now and they take pictures of them ALL the time! They are on vacation right now (not Disney) and I am sure they will come home with a ton of photos. These kids have very rough birth parents and need to be kept away from them - but I still can't figure out how they could hurt them if they saw pictures??

Jill

 

[dburg30]

And now she is sending me PMs on the issue. Oh boy.

CC me!!! and I'll post it one a website! lol

 

[inkkognito]

Excerpt from the Paranoid Parent's Guide to WDW, coming from "To Catch a Predator Books" in 2009:

Proper WDW attire for children:

(That one girl looks like she tried to make Mickey ears with her headpiece!)

 

[sbell111]

I was just pointing out that she was referring to the country, NOT insinuating that Canada has states like the U.S. Therefore the constant reference to the "'state' of Ontario" didn't make you look witty or her unintelligent.

I think that you are ignoring one other option.

 

[Emagine]

well here is my persmission to take photos of my kids if for the right reasons, just please do not post it with glory if my eldest is digging in his nose for gold just as hard as he can cause as much as I try to curb this new habit he wont stop!!!

 

[bullcat_02]

This upsets me greatly. As a 24 year old female that is going on her first solo trip soon, I really don't want to stand in lines just to get pictures of characters. I have no interest this time around of having myself ruin pictures with characters. And I do understand that there are pedos out there that might like little children but I think Disney is taking this a little too far. Just my two cents.

 

[Robo]

This upsets me greatly. As a 24 year old female that is going on her first solo trip soon, I really don't want to stand in lines just to get pictures of characters. I have no interest this time around of having myself ruin pictures with characters. And I do understand that there are pedos out there that might like little children but I think Disney is taking this a little too far. Just my two cents.

No need to be upset...

I wouldn't say that "Disney" is doing anything like is described in many of the more "agitated" posts in this thread.

You'll be able to take lots of character pix.

Have a magical trip!

 

[livie1205]

please come up to me and ask me to delete my photos because your kid MAY or MAY not be in the background.......I promise you will not get to far on this...My dh is a police officer here in good ol florida and I promise you you CAN NOT go up to someone in wdw and tell them they have to delete their photos! I promise you a cm CAN NOT demand you to hand over your camera! It will never happen....as far as the black eyes are concerned, they are more than happy to TRY, but NO ONE will or has the right to make you delete your vacation photos UNLESS you are taking them in forbidden areas or taking photos of naked or semi naked children (and no that is not bathing suits at the pool) UNLESS you are a reg sex offender....GOOD LUCK WITH THAT THOUGH.

 

[MonicaInFlorida]

The way I piece it together, If they are photographed standing in front of the Turkey Leg kiosk, that may be one remaining piece of the puzzle needed for Suddam's (still-in-hiding) rebel forces to locate the Canadian vampire offspring and send them a threatening candy-gram via the care of Donald Duck's CM handler.

We're through the looking-glass here, people!

 

[Tio Marco]

If I was not allowed to have strangers in my vacation photos, I don't think I would have many photos.

LOL....so true. In fact, the ONLY character pics i have are with other people's kids in them. No way am i standing in those lines....

 

[teach22180]

Okay, as a foster mom for over 10 years, I've never been asked not to take pictures of my girls. I had to give you the first hand info. I don't post pictures of them, but that's because they are teens and young adults, and they would not be happy with me! Now, when years ago, a birth mom was living in my community, I was on alert in public places just because meeting up with her wouldn't have been a happy scene. It's all about common sense.

For the solo PP, we got a GREAT picture of Pooh and Tigger where they were greeting kids just by timing it as one child was leaving and another was coming up. That's what I like about digital cameras, we can take lots of pictures and not worry about them being perfect. I just deleted the bad ones.

 

[JenniBugInPink]

Where a burka(sp?) for all I care. Then it would be real hard for the kid to be recognized by someone.

I think this is an excellent solution, as long as it's applied to both sexes of course. I hated that concept long before we actually invaded Afghanistan, but now it makes perfect sense. We don't have to hide many of our foster children down here in Tennessee, but if we do, we generally wouldn't worry about them being in total strangers' pictures. It's the family members we worry about - not the strangers. And I just want to say that this has been one of the STRANGEST threads I've ever read here...

 

[marivaid]

BTW, how did you go about getting permission to take these foster children across international lines? It's also too bad that the 'state' of Ontario didn't have the foresight to hold onto the parents passport while you were out of the country, if they are such a danger. That would seem like a simple solution to your problem.

I've been wondering the same thing. One of my friends lost her kids for almost a year, they were taken into foster care (she was living near Toronto then). The foster parents were not even allowed to drive them to their grandmother's 50 miles away, so cross the border with foster kids ?? HIGHLY unlikely, especially since those kids apparently are in such danger they can't have their photo taken.
Sorry, but I don't buy it.

I take pictures of the characters all the time without standing in line. I just stand a ways off and use my zoom. I just get the character. I wait until the child walks away. I know the CMs are touchy about this, but I'm not standing in line to take a picture of the character by him or herself. I certainly don't want pictures of other peoples' kids.

Personally, I think it is a total over reaction. I guess it is possible that someone bad could take a picture of a kid at WDW. That could happen anywhere. Most people just want a picture of the character.

I do it all the time too. I stand far away and zoom in, so only the character is in my pics or maybe sometimes the top of a kid's head. I don't WANT somebody's kid in my pics.

 

[Mr. & Mrs. Smith]

Seriously? Okay someone walks up to you and your dog for no reason and starts taking pictures out of the blue. You don't think this would make you feel weird and creeped out? If you wanted a pic wouldn't you say something like hey cool dog I used to have a Lab myself, can I take her pic?

As for your second comment scroll yourself back a few pages those two posters were making light of wanting to protect abused children's privacy. I mentioned the kids would wear hats and sunglasses so as not to worry about showing up in crowd shots, and to flag a CM in order to avoid pictures at the rides with cameras and they turned it into a joke. All of a sudden the kids need to be in a witness protection program.

I'm not talking about walking up to you and getting in your face with a camera and not saying a word. I'm not sure it would be "rude" but it would be strange. I'm talking about me sitting on a park bench and noticing a really cute dog across the way, taking my expensive camera and zooming in on him for a couple of pics. It's pretty hard to ask for permission first in the case of candid shots. That's what makes them...well...candid.

I've read the whole thread and NOBODY ever made fun of abused children. They were making fun of you overreacting to the situation.

I thought Canada had provinces. You learn something new every day. Even if the 'state' of Ontario deemed it to be a danger for the children . . .

I know someone pointed this out already but there are other definitions of "state" besides divisions of a country.

Can't say I'd want pictures of strange children myself... but to each his own.

Because some of us enjoy photography - capturing life's beautiful, funny, bizarre, etc. moments on film. What's so confusing about that? And furthermore, we don't need to justify why. It's not against the law.

I have known lots of foster children and I have never heard that I wasn't allowed to take photos of them. Is that a Canadian thing?

No. It's not a Canadian thing. I'm quite familiar with our foster system, having a job that requires such knowledge, and I can't tell you what that poster is going on about.