Blog ≫ 2008 ≫ Fareham plays its part in the war on tourism

A local story that was doing the rounds yesterday 1 about a couple being banned from Fareham shopping centre for life (for taking photos of their grandchildren) was picked up by Boing Boing 2. Apparently the guard who threw them out said they posed a terror threat, I suspect he thought they were nonces but was afeared of starting another angry mob so thought the terror card was a safer one to play. Anyway, as someone on Boing Boing 3 points out, terrorists would be better off downloading the building plans 4 instead of relying on someone's holiday snaps.

Our snow had all gone by the time I got home yesterday.

Thanks to Ro for the Boing Boing 3 link.

  1. Removed old portsmouth.co.uk/latest/Guard-stuns-couple-with-ban.3632767.jp link here.
  2. Removed old boingboing.net/2008/01/03/uk-mall-bans-grandpa.html link here.
  3. Removed old boingboing.net link here.
  4. Removed old fareham.gov.uk/council/departments/planning/design/assessment19.asp link here.

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Paul Clarkeʼs blog - I live in Hythe in Kent. Married + dad to two, I'm a full stack web engineer, + I do js / Node, some ruby, other languages etc. I like pubs, running, eating, home automation and other diy jiggery-pokery, history, genealogy, Television, squirrels, pirates, lego, + TIME TRAVEL.