Babies Making Babies ...

[TeslaRecoil]

So I get paged to the photo lab last night. The tech hands me a recently developed roll and asks me to take a look. I know when he asks me to look at something, it's gonna be interesting, to say the least ...

I'm going through the roll, and it looks like a few high school kids screwing around (at the beach, drinking beer, playing with a combat knife) ... I don't think much of it at first. Until I get to the end of the roll ...

I won't go into detail, but the same 2 guys and 1 girl that had been appearing throughout the roll (fully, or at least partially clothed) seemed to have misplaced their clothing. In addition, the girl was being very "accomodating" towards the 2 guys ... at the same time. What a great thing to take pictures of, right? That's just the kind of thing you want to photograph and have someone else, namely, a complete stranger working in a photo lab, see.

I started laughing when I saw that (don't know why it was funny), and one of my cashiers came over to see what was going on. She looked at the last few pictures, and rolled her eyes. Then she looked at the rest ... as it turns out, the girl was in her graduating class (class of 2006), and lives across the street from her. I don't think she's ever gonna look at that girl the same way again.

I followed standard procedure, which is to shred the questionable photos, and to put a standard note in the envelope explaining why certain pictures weren't developed.

I think everyone had a good laugh when one of the guys from the roll came in to pick up the pictures ... :)

What gets me about this is not what they were doing. Who am I to judge anyone? I don't care what goes on in your bedroom, unless you want me involved ;) . What bothers me is that they photographed it, and not only that, but with a disposable camera that someone else was going to have to develop. I mean, if you want to make homemade porn, at least use a digital camera and print the pictures out at a self-serve kiosk. Jeez. Amateurs!

[Bugg]

when I worked at the photo lab at my job we used to get alot of the same stuff....and it was never anyone who should ever ever be photographed nude:eek: one of my biggest joys was handing them the photo envelope with the big 3x5 blaze orange sticker on it, that said objectionable material..blah blah. It may have well just said in big letters YOU'RE DUMB:D

[Bugg]

Ha, I just noticed you were from LI, what town did this happen in (the lab, not the shenannigans

[Ryu]

this is why im glad i dont work in a photo center :p

[Bugg]

yeah you get to see all kinds of stuff, especially when the police precinct is up the road, and they need stuff done right away

[TeslaRecoil]

I mean, it's nothing new. I could go on and on with some of the stuff I've seen. In my first store, we had a very voyeuristic biker couple ... lot's of interesting stuff there.

I guess what bothered me most is that:

a) they were 17 year old kids
and
b) that they used a disposable camera

But whatever. I was kind of hoping the guy who picked up the pictures would come back to complain. I would have loved to have heard what he had to say.

Oh, and apparantly, everyone that works in my store is pissed that I didn't either save copies of the photos, or at least show them to everyone before shredding them. I promised the next time we got free porn, I'd share ;)

[Linda]

I want some of these orange stickers!
I've seen some really...interesting...photos like that as well. We have a guy who comes in quite often with a penchant for ladies underwear.

Worn on his head...

[Yossarian]

Oh, and apparantly, everyone that works in my store is pissed that I didn't either save copies of the photos, or at least show them to everyone before shredding them. I promised the next time we got free porn, I'd share ;)

Better not. Since they were 17, you could have gotten arrested for kiddie porn. :eek:

[MadMike]

Better not. Since they were 17, you could have gotten arrested for kiddie porn. :eek:

That's what I was thinking as well.

Just out of curiosity -- does your store have a policy of not printing nudity, or is it only if it's sexual?

The reason I asked is because I'm pretty sure that at one time, none of these places would print any kind of nudity, but that apparently changed somewhere along the line. This story goes back to my college days...

Some girls that I was friends with were having a birthday party for their one roommate. They asked her what she wanted for her birthday, and she jokinly said, "A male stripper." Shouldn't have done that, since one of her male friends (me) was a smartass and had no qualms about doing something like that. :devil:

Her roommates knew this too, and when they invited me to the party, they asked me to oblige. None of the other guests were in on it, and it was hard to keep a straight face the whole time. At some point, one of them gave me the signal, and I quietly got up, went into the bathroom, and came out wearing nothing but a towel. I smiled, and said "Happy Birthday" as I dropped the towel. At that same instant, one of the girls took a picture. I wasn't expecting it, but I didn't mind. It was all in fun. Everyone's eyes got as big as saucers, and then they all started laughing.

After it was over with, I was talking to the girl who took the picture, and I told her I couldn't believe she did that. She didn't think it was a big deal, since she had snapped it just before I dropped the towel. I was pretty sure she snapped it after I dropped the towel. She said no, she was sure she got it before, and even if she didn't, they wouldn't print it anyway.

Well, when she got the pictures back, it turned out she was wrong on both counts. There I was in my naked glory, a huge grin on my face, holding the towel open. The birthday girl had her hand over her mouth, and her eyes were practically popping out of her head. The guy who was sitting on the couch next to her hadn't seen yet, and he was looking at her like, "What?"

She gave me one of the pictures and kept the other one. Not sure where mine ended up, it got lost years ago one of the times I was moving. I might be on the internet somewhere, who knows? :p

[Ocelot Girl]

What bothers me is that they photographed it, and not only that, but with a disposable camera that someone else was going to have to develop. I mean, if you want to make homemade porn, at least use a digital camera and print the pictures out at a self-serve kiosk. Jeez. Amateurs!

Perhaps they didn't mean to exhibitionists and were simply ignorant of the developing process.

Tee hee hee...I vividly remember nearly giving an acquaintance cardiac arrest a few years back. Young lady was telling me how she and her boyfriend took some sexy pictures on a disposable. The look at her face when I informed her that some guy/chick in the photo lab would be witness to their activites was priceless.:roll:

[Jet]

Oh yes, my joyous days of working at the one hour photo lab. We actually had a guy who worked in the grocery section of the store bring in photos of his underage girlfriend. I went to the same highschool, knew he was 18 and knew she was a freshman(like 14). So me and A promptly took him to the back and chewed him a new one for the likes of 30 minutes or so. I honestly believe that alot of people don't realize we have to check the photos for things like these. *sigh*

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I used to have this roomate who was dumb as a sack of hammers and a habitual drunk. Yeah, that was fun. This was when I worked at a film lab (no I don't jump jobs every three months. I'm probably way older than most of you.)

Anyway, this little fool let her equally charming boyfriend take questionable picture of her and sent them off to a labl. Then she asks me "You all don't actually LOOK at this stuff, do you?"

I said, yeah, we look at it. How could we print it if we didn't look at it (this was in the days before digital).I said not only do we look at it, but if it's particularly good we show it around the lab and to the counter guys and everyone gets a good laugh. I'm dead serious.

What was she thinking we did?

[Becks]

If you can't afford a digital camera, how about getting the old Polaroid out of the attic/basement?

Photo lab workers, could this stuff fall under kiddie porn laws? I mean, by people over 18 looking at nekkid pictures of jailbait? Even if you HAVE to, because of your job?

[AmericanZero8503]

Seriously, buy a digital camera if you're going to do that stuff. That way if they ever become famous, you have the pictures and will make a shload of money! We went down to FL on spring break and had some 'Girls Gone Wild'-esque pictures. Walmart slapped the ol' orange tag on it, so we took the negatives to friend at CVS and got the pics developed no problem.

[Gurndigarn]

If you can't afford a digital camera, how about getting the old Polaroid out of the attic/basement?

With the cost of Polaroid film? Just save up a bit; it's not like they're terribly expensive any more.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Here's how we differenciated between "nude" and "legal". A nude person is just a nude person. A nude person being touched by another person could be considered porn, even if it's really non-sexual touching.

As for underage nude persons, I fortunately never came across that. Had I, I would have called the cops. Obviously, no one is going to arrest someone taking naked pictures of their baby in the tub, although a lab worker is within their rights to refuse to do the job on the grounds that they find it offensive or questionable.

I've printed plenty of nude people, and some risque shots in some cases. I've never had anything that might be considered real porn come through my lab, but it's been close in some cases. I know the mini lab processed porn. I do not believe it's illegal if the people are obviously consenting and of age.

Underage kids in sexual situations, were I working in a lab, would warrent a call to the cops. Who took the pictures? I would be afraid that I could be busted for possession of child porn, and possibly as an accomplice were I to process such a thing.

[TeslaRecoil]

Yeah, the kiddie-porn thing could be a problem ...

Although, the age of legal consent in New York State is 17, so I don't think it would have incurred any criminal penalties.

The store policy isn't very specific. It says we are not to develop anything vulgar or tatseless. But that's really up to the person developing them to decide. The only thing it mentions specifically is that photos of people "in the act" are not to be developed.

Basically, as long as no one's getting hurt (i.e. no kiddie-porn, no abuse, nothing dangerously criminal), I'll turn a blind eye to it. If you want nude photos of yourself or your girlfriend, take as many as you want. If you want a picture of yourself smoking the fattest blunt in the history of weed, snap away. I really don't care. If you're taking pictures of you and your friends bashing car windows (which has happened), or pictures of naked kids (which has happened), then we'll have a problem.

You really do have to use common sense, though. I had a lab tech that wanted to call the cops because someone dropped off photos of naked kids. The pictures were of twins (a boy and a girl) who couldn't have been older than 18 months. Taken out of context, that could have been a problem. The rest of the roll showed the kids' mother giving them a bath, playing around the house with them (fully clothed), and of them sleeping in their parents' arms. No reason to call the cops there.

Hell, if that were reason enough to call the cops, my parents would be in jail, because there's all kind of pictures of me as a baby, in diapers ... or less.

If you guys are nice, I might even post them ;)

[Barefootgirl]

If anyone was stupid enough to put child porn pictures through a commercial photo lab, it would be incumbent on the lab tech to call the cops, but I don't think the lab technician would be charged with possession ! Discovering the crime doesn't necessarily make you an accomplice, after all. Of course, if you made surreptitious copies before phoning the police, and kept them for yourself, then you WOULD be guilty of possession of kiddy porn and as such deserve a short sharp session as Bubba's new "friend".

Like Drugslinger's parents, mine also had an unaccountable urge to take pictures of me without my babygro on...including one very incriminating one of me and another baby, in the paddling pool, jsut in our vests :)

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Well, you're probably right about the lab tech being charged with possession, especially if all he did was find and report it. Were it me, I'm make sure I my butt was clean and clear on that, though. That's not the sort of thing you want hanging over your head for any reason.

[kerrisan]

That reminds me of a quote from Hope Floats:

(can't remember all of it but it went like this: )

Boss (teaching Birdee how to develop pictures): Now, sometimes we get pictures of a, umm, "questionable nature." Now when that happens, we just hand 'em over and don't say anything.
Birdee: Ohh . . . umm . . .
Boss: But first, we make a copy and put it in this drawer. You can look at 'em anytime you want, you just can't take 'em home with yeh.
Birdee: . . .

Where exactly is the line drawn? When people are COMPLETELY nude or . . .?

[Tria]

Obviously, no one is going to arrest someone taking naked pictures of their baby in the tub, although a lab worker is within their rights to refuse to do the job on the grounds that they find it offensive or questionable.


Don't be so sure, a young couple got arrested because of photos of the mother breastfeeding.... And if I could find the article I'd show you but it was awhile ago.

[Greenday]

I highly, HIGHLY doubt a photo lab would be brought up on charges if the pictures that came out were of kiddie porn. Just as long as you take certain precautions such as putting them in a secure area where no one would look at them, there would be no reason to get arrested. The worst that would probably happen is to be asked by the cops who was the person who owned the film.

As for deciding what is questionable, whether it is just skin or anything in the act, I'm guessing most places leave the choice up to the person developing it. So it really comes down to personal preferences.

[DerangedHermit]

A question that I didn't see answered:

Was she attractive?

[Bugg]

Lab Techs are clear when it comes to that, I had it happen, we called the police, somewhere along the line you fall into some type of law enforcement role in that situation (basically being honor-bound to deal with it properly if the situation arises)

[Jester]

I live in one of those tourist towns where Girls Gone Wild stuff, and THEN SOME, goes on...and people love taking pictures of such extracurricular activity.

There used to be a photo lab down here (since gone out of business) who had a very simple policy. They would print your pictures for you and be very professional about anything..."as long as it doesn't involve children or animals." And that worked for me...er, uh, for people who engaged in such extracurricular activity. :angel:

[TeslaRecoil]

A question that I didn't see answered:

Was she attractive?

Not to be crude, but not from the point of view of the pictures :puke:

[Barefootgirl]

Don't be so sure, a young couple got arrested because of photos of the mother breastfeeding.... And if I could find the article I'd show you but it was awhile ago.

I think this is the story;
http://www.dallasobserver.com/issues/2003-04-17/feature2.html

It sounds like a case of an over-cautious lab tech (which I don't criticise, i'm glad he was concerned enough to ask someone better qualified), meeting an over-enthusiastic prosecutor and Social Services dept.

The circumstances of the story do sound a trifle odd, but certainly not pornographic. Incidentally, my sister still breast-feeds her son, and he was 2 in February.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

This makes my blood boil.

Yes, how sick and perverted of them to have a baby suckling on a woman's breast. Don't they know that tits are only to be used as sex objects? What's wrong with these weirdos? I mean, wouldn't breasts have milk in them or something, if that's what they were meant to be used for?:pissed:

You know, I have a baby, and I am feeding her the way nature intended, and I have considered taking similar pictures of her for my own personal use. Thank God for digital.

[TeslaRecoil]

Don't they know that tits are only to be used as sex objects? What's wrong with these weirdos? I mean, wouldn't breasts have milk in them or something, if that's what they were meant to be used for?:pissed:

They have MILK in them???? :eek: And I just thought they were fun to play with (kind of like the stress balls on the counter in the drug store), and could serve as pillows, if need be ... :confused:

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I have just one word for these morons that want to take such pictures:

Polaroid:eek:

I mean, who wants to include those pictures in their family album anyways? Could you just see them showing their kids photos of way back when they were young and dumb . . .

*grabs brain bleach*

[Gurndigarn]

Don't be so sure, a young couple got arrested because of photos of the mother breastfeeding.... And if I could find the article I'd show you but it was awhile ago.

The one I really though bad... like you, I wish I could find the article... was about a woman who called [memory blanks here, but it was someone who dealt with pregnancy and early child care] to ask if she had a problem because she felt sexually aroused when breastfeeding her child.

Next thing she knows, there are cops at the door answering a call about child molestation.

BTW, the correct answer was: not, you don't have a problem. It's not a common occurrence, but it's not rare, either.