Brickbat: Baby, It's Cold Outside

Paula Andrew and her family were walking along the promenade in Scarborough, England, when a police van pulled up and two officers demanded her name and address and began to question her about how warmly her nine-month-old daughter was dressed. They said that someone had called 999 to report the girl wasn't wearing a coat. Andrew noted that the girl did have on a vest and multiple layers of clothing and was quite warm.

Comments

[Dave Krueger]

Well, you know, it takes a village...

[Live Free or Diet]

In this case it takes a village idiot.

[BigT]

and the rain is pouring down
and the leaves are turning brown
can't you see
that now it's cold outside
and it's all because of you
'cause there's nothing i can do
to make you love me

[Snark Plissken]

Heh, I will often get some funny looks at the playground because my kid isn't wearing a hat--in the summer. He's usually the only one not wearing a baseball cap or something to shield his face from the blistering Northern European sun. No police questioning, yet.

[BigT]

Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun. If the sun don't come. You get a tan from standing in the English rain

[Ted S.]

Man you've been a naughty girl you've kept your knickers on.

[Steve G]

When we lived in the mojave for a couple years we'd let our 1-2 yr old play outside in his diaper barefoot on the crushed granite "lawn" in 40-50 temps. Of course the sun was shining and there wasn't much wind, but good thing we had a cinderblock fence otherwise i expected a visit from the protectors.

[Steve G]

Give it another couple years and there'll be a reversal on sunlight like what has been happening recently with saturated fat.

[Snark Plissken]

Already happening in some circles.

[Steve G]

Hell, wife and I just bought a tanning bed! Not for the color, but for the vit D. Mainly 'cause I work indoors all damn day long.

[Snark Plissken]

The problem with tanning beds is that they seem to peak at ~350nm so you tend to get more high-energy photons than from normal sunlight. I looked at them here. So I'd be careful. But certainly we are designed to manufacture Vit D from sunlight and avoiding that is going to have negative consequences. Vit D supplementation is another option, of course, but even that is artificial and might not have the same effects as the real thing.

[Steve G]

Oh yeah, we know the tanning bed is only a marginal sub, but better than nothing.

[Snark Plissken]

I wouldn't mind having one myself, honestly, but I'd have to be very very careful with my damn Irish skin.

[Ted S.]

You've got Irish's skin? What kind of freaks are the two of you?

[Snark Plissken]

He uses the lotion or he gets the hose.

[Steve G]

Any knowledge/suggestion on possible bulb swaps to get the profile closer to natural??

[Snark Plissken]

No, sorry, that was as much as I looked into it, and it was a few years ago.

[wareagle]

that's a good point. Vitamin D deficiency is rampant, for the very reason you offer.

Funny but today we're awash in ads and warnings about the need to slather sun block on kids. A generation ago, sunbathers used to put on baby oil, to intensify the sun. I fully expect the EPA/FDA to soon declare the sun an environmental hazard.

[Snark Plissken]

The problem with sunscreen is that it blocks the lower energy photons allowing one to stay out in the sun much longer and end up being exposed to more high frequency dangerous photons without the Vit D that works as a cancer deterrent. This is why skin cancers are increasing as people are told to use more and more of the stuff.

[Citizen Nothing]

That'll make for a hell of a warning label.

[Wasteland Wanderer]

Britain takes being a nanny state very literally.

[BigT]

British girls make the best nannies. Mary Poppins.

[Wasteland Wanderer]

Always the mom's maid, never the mom.

[db]

The Louise Woodward case may be more indicative all around of the character of the State Nanny.

[db]

Anonymous tips.for shit like this should.never be allowed. I understand the need for taking tips in racketeering cases and others where the tipster.has realistic fears of reprisal. But for things like this, the police should be required to take the name and contact information of the accuser and provide it.to he accused. Too many people use the.police when they wouldn't confront their own neighbors themselves.

Nosy people.who.call the cops on others for shit.like this need to.be publicly shamed as the disgusting worms they are.

[Matrix]

police don't care. they love the power that they get from harassing innocent people.

[Steve G]

http://siberiantimes.com/healt.....ian-style/

Maybe she's just working the baby up to cold showers.

[Ted S.]

In Finland it's common for babies to nap in sub-freezing temperatures.

[RishJoMo]

Sometimes mna, you jsut have to roll with it.

http://www.AnonPlanet.tk

[Rotbard]

Glad I'm not English.

The food sucks!
Har har.

[UnCivilServant]

I've been to England a couple of times, I have yet to run into this legendary bad food people keep talking about. Are you sure that stereotype didn't emerge from postwar rationing?

[Harvard]

It emerged for me the first few thousand times I ordered anything containing "meat". The term "meat" in the entire British Isles can mean most anything. The quality of beef ranges from horsemeat or mutton to fucking awful, except in the finest restaurants, who (I suspect) import theirs. A straight hamburger is as foreign as an orthodontist on British soil. If you require meat in your diet, stick to the meat pie, with the understanding that you are ingesting Trigger.

[ReconCornelius]

But was it a stab resistant vest?

[UnCivilServant]

No, but it was high-visiblity.

[Rotbard]

Someone had called 999 to report the girl wasn't wearing a coat.

Sounds like a concerned citizen to me...

With bad teeth!
Har har.

Har.

[Ted S.]

The State is the biggest bully of them all.

[Rich]

I see from the photos that Andrew makes a practice of elevating her *helmetless* daughter!

[SugarFree]

I bet if the busybodies had to use "0118 999 881 99 9119 7253" a lot less of the nonsense would occur.

[Rich]

"Busybody 911. What the fuck is *your* problem?"

[Spoonman.]

Did you know that babies have an ability to tell you when they're uncomfortable?

[UnCivilServant]

Yes. My problem is, it's not directed at the target audience alone and I have to hear it when someone else's spawn is howling.

[Doctor Whom]

Nonsense. Only the state and anonymous tipsters can determine that.

[VG Zaytsev]

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