Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

phone cameras in the Gym

Options
  • 30-03-2015 8:06pm
    #1
    sohappy
    Registered Users Posts: 665 ✭✭✭


    Was in the Jacuzzi in the pool area of Ben Dunne Northwood gym today when I noticed 2 girls using a smartphone to video around the pool area, they then got into the jacuzzi with the phone and proceeded to take pics of lads comming between sauna steam room and pool, There are no signs regarding use of phones in the gym, Is this normal practice? Dont think if a man was taking pics of women it would be acceptable,


Comments

  • Options
    #2
    keysersoze1
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭keysersoze1


    You've answered your own question there .not acceptable.if a man did it might even be kicked out of gym


  • Options
    #3
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Not appropriate for either gender. No idea if it is in the member rules but as private premises the gym could tell them to stop and certainly would if a complaint was made.


  • Options
    #4
    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users Posts: 36,261 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    Did you tell them to stop?


  • Options
    #5
    Noxin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭Noxin


    Just report it to any one of the staff walking around Northwood.

    I'm always in the pool there and have never noticed it before. Will be watching for it now though.


  • Options
    #6
    guile4582
    Registered Users Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭guile4582


    sohappy wrote: »
    Was in the Jacuzzi in the pool area of Ben Dunne Northwood gym today when I noticed 2 girls using a smartphone to video around the pool area, they then got into the jacuzzi with the phone and proceeded to take pics of lads comming between sauna steam room and pool, There are no signs regarding use of phones in the gym, Is this normal practice? Dont think if a man was taking pics of women it would be acceptable,

    worth reporting
    i've seen a few girls doing something like a fitness shoot in sports bras on the gym floor, which I suppose we kinda have to accept, but around pool/jacuzzi area no way.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #7
    Alf Veedersane
    Registered Users Posts: 24,585 ✭✭✭✭Alf Veedersane


    Not appropriate if an agreement on image rights isn't in place.


  • Options
    #8
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Alf Veedersane wrote: »
    Not appropriate if an agreement on image rights isn't in place.

    From a legal point of view you can shoot and use photos for non-commercial purposes on private property without explicit permission, but you do have to stop if asked. You also obviously have to have permission to be on the property in the first place.

    There might also be an issue over the individuals in question: in public you can take a photo of anyone that you want, but you can't do it in a place where they have a reasonable expectation of privacy. Obviously the locker room counts, I have no idea if the pool/jacuzzi would.


  • Options
    #9
    guile4582
    Registered Users Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭guile4582


    do Ben Dunne gyms post etiquette rules anywhere? sounds like they'd want to

    seriously like another poster said, imagine the sh1tstorm if it was a couple guys doing that


  • Options
    #10
    Nate--IRL--
    Registered Users Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭Nate--IRL--


    They've signs expressly forbidding camera phones IIRC.

    Nate


  • Options
    #11
    Hanley
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,981 ✭✭✭✭Hanley


    guile4582 wrote: »
    do Ben Dunne gyms post etiquette rules anywhere? sounds like they'd want to

    seriously like another poster said, imagine the sh1tstorm if it was a couple guys doing that

    You shouldn't need it for something that f*cking obvious tho.

    Like what sorta knob brings a camera phone near a pool?

    Pedophiles. That's who.

    ...seriously - I remember signs in the NAC expressly forbidding camera phones, and its was for that reason.


  • Advertisement
  • Options
    #12
    Gummy Panda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Hanley wrote: »
    You shouldn't need it for something that f*cking obvious tho.

    Like what sorta knob brings a camera phone near a pool?

    Pedophiles. That's who.

    ...seriously - I remember signs in the NAC expressly forbidding camera phones, and its was for that reason.

    ... and it was right about this time the OP realised that they weren't actually girls but clones of Jimmy Saville.


  • Options
    #13
    sohappy
    Registered Users Posts: 665 ✭✭✭sohappy


    LuckyLloyd wrote: »
    Did you tell them to stop?

    yes I said to them it wasnt cool and if the men were doing it wouldent be acceptable, she did stop but her English wasn very good so I dont know if she fully got what I was saying, They then moved to the lie down jacuzzi area and continued with the phone. I did try to bring it up with the girl on reception but she was on her own and with the phone ringing and new members I got fed up waitin.


  • Options
    #14
    LuckyLloyd
    Registered Users Posts: 36,261 ✭✭✭✭LuckyLloyd


    sohappy wrote: »
    yes I said to them it wasnt cool and if the men were doing it wouldent be acceptable, she did stop but her English wasn very good so I dont know if she fully got what I was saying, They then moved to the lie down jacuzzi area and continued with the phone. I did try to bring it up with the girl on reception but she was on her own and with the phone ringing and new members I got fed up waitin.

    Fair play, 100% in the right imo.


Advertisement