Halloween display too frightening for children, police warn

• Ketchup wrote on 2013-10-18 03:16

  James Creighton, 25, was told that he had to tone down his macabre show, which is based on the cult movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, because some had been reduced to tears.
  Officers visited his home in Stevenage, Herts, following complaints from a parent about the collections of bloody corpses and gory skeletons.
  Mr Creighton, who had set up the display to raise money for charity, said: “I can’t believe it to be honest. I can’t see what I’ve done wrong.”
  He believes that if the parent had spoken to him rather than the police they could have come to a compromise, adding: “It’s so ridiculous it’s almost funny.”
  He has decorated him home to raise money for Cancer Research UK for the last three years after losing his grandmother

  
  
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10384940/Halloween-display-too-frightening-for-children-police-warn.html
  
  So much for the spirit of Halloween
• Natural Harmonia Gropius wrote on 2013-10-18 03:32
  Boo fucking hoo to the kids. It's Halloween, suck it up.
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2013-10-18 10:27
  This is the problem with America. Too many stuck up pretentious parents overly protective of their children.
• Arsik wrote on 2013-10-18 12:32

  Quote from Kingofrunes;1160505:

  This is the problem with America. Too many stuck up pretentious parents overly protective of their children.

  
  
  But... this is in Great Britain. D:
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2013-10-18 12:59

  Quote from Arsik;1160519:

  But... this is in Great Britain. D:

  
  
  God dammit and I liked the British so much too. This is the kind of thing I would have expected in the US QQ.
• Cynic wrote on 2013-10-18 13:14
  Why not just put a warning sign in the front? Problem solved.
• Aubog007 wrote on 2013-10-18 15:00

  Quote from Kingofrunes;1160521:

  God dammit and I liked the British so much too. This is the kind of thing I would have expected in the US QQ.

  
  
  Actually in America, stuff like this would be more tolerated.
  
  Ya see, America likes violence, Britain doesn't.
  As a wonderful converse...
  America hates sex, Britain doesn't.
  
  BOY WAS CHRISTMAS BROADCASTING AWKWARD THERE.
• Osayidan wrote on 2013-10-18 16:22

  Quote from Aubog007;1160540:

  Actually in America, stuff like this would be more tolerated.
  
  Ya see, America likes violence, Britain doesn't.
  As a wonderful converse...
  America hates sex, Britain doesn't.
  
  BOY WAS CHRISTMAS BROADCASTING AWKWARD THERE.

  
  
  The UK pretty much banned porn on the internet...
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2013-10-18 16:50
  the UK is super uptight compared to America.
  
  At least in the US you can shoot porn and there's a lot of US Porn Stars. Plenty of traffic...er I mean...I'm getting ahead of myself.
  
  I'll just shut up now.
• Aubog007 wrote on 2013-10-18 18:15

  Quote from Osayidan;1160566:

  The UK pretty much banned porn on the internet...

  
  
  Well, this was 4-5 years ago, i went there and there was very interesting things on the TV, just normal broadcasting like news with many tips for sex in standard 8-9pm slot programming
  
  Like how to spice up christmas day.
  
  I was legitimately weirded out. And then realized how close minded we are about sex.
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2013-10-18 18:20
  At least we haven't banned it from the internet like the UK has >.>
• Ketchup wrote on 2013-10-18 20:06
  inb4 Halloween ban
• Natural Harmonia Gropius wrote on 2013-10-18 20:10

  Quote from Ketchup;1160627:

  inb4 Halloween ban

  
  
  I say we should ban ketchup. It's red, like blood.
• Loopulse wrote on 2013-10-18 20:12
  I thought that in the UK, all one would have to do is get their name on a list so that they can watch pr0n.
  
  It prevents children from being molested over the internet.
  
  And LOL at him saying that getting scared is the point of Hallowe'en. Uhm, no. It was originally a day about children stealing things in costumes and burning them with their families. Nowadays, it's more about having fun and being festive, and, if one wants to, they can go to scary things. It never, however, should be shoved down someone's throat.
• RebeccaBlack wrote on 2013-10-18 20:24

  Quote from Kingofrunes;1160505:

  This is the problem with America. Too many stuck up pretentious parents overly protective of their children.

  
  The UK and Australia would be way worse to live in than the US. Other than maybe Canada we're (we're meaning USA) one of the least stuck up English speaking countries. America would go ape shit if they tried to pass some of those laws here.
  
  I know there's other places like India and Belize, but a lot of those places... really have some pretty strange laws <.<
  

  Quote from Loopulse;1160631:

  I thought that in the UK, all one would have to do is get their name on a list so that they can watch pr0n.
  
  It prevents children from being molested over the internet.

  
  WHAT?
  
  How?
  
  And how could you even say that? If anything, they're just going to divert their attention from porn to other strangers on the internet...