{"id":970,"date":"2009-09-13T20:12:25","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T00:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=970"},"modified":"2009-09-13T20:12:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T00:12:25","slug":"pond-fish-now-protected-from-boys-toy-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/13\/pond-fish-now-protected-from-boys-toy-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Pond fish now protected from boy&#8217;s toy boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you guessed from the headline that this was another little tale from Britain&#8217;s burgeoning &#8220;Nanny State&#8221;, you&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1213156\/Security-guards-ban-boy-9-sailing-toy-boat-pond-frightens-fish.html\" target=\"_blank\">quite correct<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Security guards ban boy, 9, from sailing toy boat on pond because it &#8216;frightens the fish&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Security guards reduced a nine-year-old boy to tears after banning him from sailing his toy boat on a pond because it &#8216;frightens the fish&#8217;.<br \/>\nNoah Bailey was distraught after staff at Chiswick Business Park, in west London, stopped him playing with his model of the German battleship Bismarck.<\/p>\n<p>His grandfather Paul Fabricius, 57, said that when they went to complain about the draconian rule the guard refused to tell him the name of the manager for &#8216;security reasons&#8217;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So the fish are being protected from model ships run by nine-year-olds, but you can&#8217;t complain because the names and contact information of the &#8220;authorities&#8221; must be concealed from the public. Don&#8217;t you feel safer now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you guessed from the headline that this was another little tale from Britain&#8217;s burgeoning &#8220;Nanny State&#8221;, you&#8217;re quite correct: Security guards ban boy, 9, from sailing toy boat on pond because it &#8216;frightens the fish&#8217; Security guards reduced a nine-year-old boy to tears after banning him from sailing his toy boat on a pond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-bureaucracy","tag-absurd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-fE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}