UK PDA Police
p2pnet news | Off Topic:- Britain’s Alton Towers Resort in Staffordshire says it offers Fantastical Family Fun.
But this year, police will be in force —- PDA Police.
However, it’s not because the owners have suddenly gone anti-personal digital assistant.
Rather, it’s because they say they want to, “encourage parents to disconnect from the office and reconnect fully with their families”.
PDA police will be onsite to enforce the ban and any adult caught using a PDA will be asked to report to one of five “PDA Drop Off Zones” where they’ll be asked to leave their PDA’s for the day, says the Alton Towers site.
If the scheme is successful, it’ll be introduced full time.
But for the moment, the PDA Free Zone will be enforced only between during May Half Term (May 25th – June 1st inclusive), it says.
“We are prepared to take drastic action to ensure that parents really leave their work behind!” – according to the company’s Russell Barnes.
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May 27th, 2008 at 6:48 am
parents do ignore the kids and let them run riot in Alton Towers but its mostly texting on mobile phones, talking amongst themselves and sunbathing on the lawn. Not executive PDA’s.
p.s wait till the law suit when a kid gets hurt and a witness dose not have his PDA/mobile to call for help.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
“p.s wait till the law suit when a kid gets hurt and a witness dose not have his PDA/mobile to call for help.”
Actually it looks like all phones and communications devices are exempt, so that should be no problem.
Just my two cents