Shopped my sister

[Janet Snakehole]

Ah gee, wow.
Harsh.

[LoveToStack]

To be honest I'd be annoyed if I were in your sister's position but given who she was hanging around with don't totally disagree with the outcome.
It is also 100% illegal tho to take photos of ANYONE, child or otherwise, without their consent and that's probably another reason why the police took the photos.
An alternate scenario could also have been you threatening to fire @ the 'yobs' with your paintball gun while they held your sister at knifepoint, maybe next time eh...

[Corporal]

I hope your UKARA if you got your crappy JG bar 10 after oct 1st 2007

[Barmi]

It is also 100% illegal tho to take photos of ANYONE, child or otherwise, without their consent and that's probably another reason why the police took the photos.

No.

Someone put together a handy quick-flick guide to your rights as a UK photographer. You can view it here if you want to: http://www.sirimo.co.uk/media/UKPhotographersRights.pdf

As to the OP: I'm sorry you are receiving so many insulting comments. I wouldn't resort to taking photos – because I don't have the capacity to do that – but I would be extremely concerned if any member of my family behaved like that.

People can justify her actions how they want by saying "oh everyone does it, let her learn", but it doesn't stick. Just because a number of visitors to this forum may have been through that process themselves doesn't mean other young people have to. Yes, learning from your own mistakes is good. Learning from the mistakes of other people, whenever possible, is even better!

There is nothing wrong with you being protective over your family. I'm sorry that she was roped into such bad circles. Although you might be on the more extreme side of rational, kudos for having those good intentions.

[Niall!]

You snitch, you must be 12

let your sister do what she wants to do, none of your buisness

stop being such a snitch!

[Barmi]

You snitch, you must be 12

let your sister do what she wants to do, none of your buisness

stop being such a snitch!

By your logic, you must be 11 for not understanding collective responsibility.

[Indie-Dan]

Fair enough you care about your sister and fair enough you are just trying to keep her out of bother but dressing up as a bush and spying on her for four hours like some SWAT survaillance team is a bit drastic. I agree with the others - you need to let her make her own mistakes and leave it to the Old Bill to catch them.