Someone just sent me this by email:

Hi. You probably saw this, but tie it with ID cards and you get a recipe for disaster…

A deer hunter who took his photographs to a supermarket for processing was shocked to find himself reported to police.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/30/ntesco30.xml

Sir Terry Leahy, the chief executive of Tesco, replied that staff had acted appropriately: “On being asked to view the prints, our store’s management team decided that there was cause for concern and as such contacted the police.”

A second letter on behalf of Sir Terry said: “Tesco does not discriminate against any lawful section of the community? We are confident that the actions of our staff were? within the law.”

Yet they set the police on someone who had not broken any law merely because the store’s management team decided there was cause for concern?

Imagine what they could do to you if you had to have your ID card scanned when you dropped off the film. […]

Imagine indeed. Someone of the level of a Tesco’s checkout counter staffer being able to affect your NIR record detrimentally. This will happen, there will be no avenue of redress, and the boss of Tesco thinks its ‘appropriate’.

It’s your own fault if this happens to you. First of all, you should not be shopping at Tesco. Secondly, if you are INSANE enought to enter the NIR, this and much worse will happen to you and it will be YOUR FAULT for OBEYING LIKE A SHEEP.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006 at 2:21 pm and is filed under Insanity, NIR.