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[Closed] Age discrimation in the making??

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8407754.stm

Is it just me or is the implication here that we should discriminate on age? i.e. only young people should be made to remove hoods?

I didn't realise that there was an age limit on antisocial behaviour? While an 84 year old isn't likely to commit an offence, though it does happen, how an earth is a shopping centre supposed to set an age limit on their hood ban without falling foul of age discrimination laws?


 
Posted : 11/12/2009 6:34 pm
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That pair look like trouble to me


 
Posted : 11/12/2009 6:35 pm
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Agism - its worse now than when I was younger
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Posted : 11/12/2009 6:36 pm
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Do they also make muslims take off burkas?


 
Posted : 11/12/2009 6:37 pm
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Haha, yeh I know, they aren't exactly a troublesome pair, but how are the shopping centre supposed to make a distinction? seems a bit unfair on the centre to me


 
Posted : 11/12/2009 6:37 pm
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Well..... shopping malls are private property, they don't have to have any reason to not allow people in. If it suits them to ban people with hoods, that their privilege. If they want to make distinctions with regards to age, thats their call too.

The security guard could have used some discretion in this instance but perhaps his instructions didn't give him room to use discretion. They might do now.

"No children allowed, [u]all[/u] dogs welcome" as they say in Bristol


 
Posted : 11/12/2009 6:43 pm
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so because it's "private property" they'd be entitled to exclude black people or fat ones ?


 
Posted : 11/12/2009 7:27 pm
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your allowed to exclude people for no reason what so ever

there are plans to demolish social housing in glasgow to make way for a shopping mall, the aims and ambitions of that mall are stated by defining the people who won't be welcome there


 
Posted : 11/12/2009 10:24 pm
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If you need to wear a hood viel etc are you that fugly??

Should you realy be out in public scaring folk?


 
Posted : 11/12/2009 10:31 pm