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When do you know that our topsy-turvy PC world has gone too far? When a dad is told to stop taking photos of his own children at a fairgrounds.

Gary Clutchey was at the Wolverhampton Show in England — with his wife — taking photos of his two sons when a fair worker told him he had to stop, the Telegraph reported. He countered that he was only taking photos of his own children, but then another parent chimed in, saying he could be putting the pictures up on the internet and called him a pervert.

Clatchy’s wife said she was “annoyed, extremely upset and embarrassed,” noting that it’s a sad state of affairs when “every man with a camera enjoying a Sunday afternoon out in the park with his children is automatically assumed to be a pervert.”

Fairground officials say it’s policy to question anyone taking photos of the rides to determine if they have children there. When Clatchy asked police to weigh in, they said what he was doing was legal but “that’s the way society is these days.”

If that’s the case, society is depressingly paranoid, rigid and uptight.

Article from the Telegraph.

TOTH to Ben.