{"id":229,"date":"2006-05-03T14:21:24","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T14:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=229"},"modified":"2006-05-03T14:21:24","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T14:21:24","slug":"tesco-policing-hunting-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"Tesco Policing Hunting Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone just sent me this by email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Hi. You probably saw this, but tie it with ID cards and you get a recipe for disaster&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-gb\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A deer hunter who took his photographs to a supermarket for processing was shocked to find himself reported to police.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-us\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2006\/04\/30\/ntesco30.xml\"><span lang=\"en-us\"><u><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\" color=\"#0000ff\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2006\/04\/30\/ntesco30.xml<\/font><\/u><\/span><\/a><span lang=\"en-us\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-gb\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Sir Terry Leahy, the chief executive of Tesco, replied that staff had acted appropriately: &#8220;On being asked to view the prints, our store&#8217;s management team decided that there was cause for concern and as such contacted the police.&#8221;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-gb\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A second letter on behalf of Sir Terry said: &#8220;Tesco does not discriminate against any lawful section of the community? We are confident that the actions of our staff were? within the law.&#8221;<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-us\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Yet they set the police on someone who had not broken any law merely because the store&#8217;s management team decided there was cause for concern?<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-us\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Imagine what they could do to you if you had to have your ID card scanned when you dropped off the film. [&#8230;]<\/font><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine indeed. Someone of the level of a Tesco&#8217;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 &#8216;appropriate&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s your own fault if this happens to you. First of all, <a title=\"Boycott Tesco\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boycotttesco.com\/\">you should not be shopping at Tesco<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}