Christmas loopiness has produced another contender for the Equine Derriere Award, given to the most lamentable public utterance of 2002. Our nominee this time is a collective: the Edinburgh City Council which has banned video-taping Nativity plays in the schools they control. It seems that the protective tin-foil wrapping their heads was porous enough for them to hear messages beaming in from Planet Mungo, sinister voices that warned them that such videos could fall into the hands of paedophiles. To calm outraged parents who were being denied a precious record of their children's school life the Council suggested that the videos could be made professionally but with the faces of the kids digitally obliterated.
Posted by at December 24, 2002 01:51 PM