Couldn't make it up.

This story has a certain resonance with the one about Asda the other week. A father took a picture of his son on a ride at a shopping centre, and was then challenged by a security guard who insisted that he delete the picture as he might be a paedophile. When told the child was his son, the security guard asked him to prove it - which of course he couldn't, there on the spot. Tempers flared, the police were called and eventually everyone went on their way. So what's bad about all this? Firstly, it's part of this modern approach of turning the burden of proof on its head - it's now more often than not up to you to prove you're innocent. And secondly, as with the Asda story, legislation has produced a climate of fear in which organisations are terrified of making a mistake and being pilloried for it, so they tend to go over the top and lose their sense of proportion.