Ban Coin Operated Tanning Salon!

[Oakey]

This story is great and pretty much highlights everything wrong with certain parents in this country:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2...

So, to sum it up. 10 year old is let loose with 'older cousin', given money to go to the fair which she instead spends at a tanning salon. The result is she gets burnt and the mother, rather than taking responsibility herself, calls for this place to be banned.

I don't even know where to begin witrh this one.

• The place has a huge sign on the door stating 'Strictly Over 16s' yet the 10 year old ignored this and went on anyway.

• The mother claims this place is unsupervised. Where was the 'older cousin' during all this? I notice they omit 'older cousins' age, so they too can shirk responsibility no doubt?

• "She was under-age but there was no staff there to stop her from using it". Um, so? If she saw a car with a key in the ignition does that make it okay for her to drive it? If she finds a packet of fags and no one around to stop her smoking them should she start puffing away on them? FFS

• "The only way we can protect young people from this sort of self-inflicted damage is to control the use of sun tanning faculties by legislation." Why yes, of course. The obvious solution. How about we protect young people from this sort of st by not letting our ten year olds do whatever the hell they pleaase and actually take responsibility for their actions?

Edited by Oakey on Friday 1st May 17:53

[Big Al.]

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