Baby photo rejected for passport - hair too spiky.

[mondo joe]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=443514&in_page_id=1770

Kate Lurie thought the photographic assistant was joking when he pointed to her daughter Eden's three-inch hair in the portrait and said: "It's too spiky."

She was even more amazed when the child was given a 'virtual haircut' on a computer to trim her flyaway hair.


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Eden had fallen foul of the strict regulations brought in by the Identity and Passport Service for the new biometric passports.

Thousands of pictures have been rejected by the service because they do not meet the guidelines.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Eden is absolutely adorable....

Lots of static in the air, obviously. Jeez.

[mondo joe]

2. I would sell my own mother into slavery to have that hair.

Just sayin'.

[karlrschneider]

3. That's what happens when you allow a tyke to see a picture of Chimpy.

;-)

[liberal N proud]

4. So they are photo-shopping passport pictures?

Think of the possibilities

[mondo joe]

5. More from the story: they say they do not alter the face in any way. (Altered image here.)

"We do not alter the face in any way, but the rules say the whole head has to be in the photo and 65 to 75 per cent of the photo has to be the face."

[babylonsister]

9. That's b.s. You can see as much of her face in the first shot; this looks

like a mug shot. x(

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. The first shot is one taken by a newspaper

the Copyright MEN in the lower right corner refers to the "Manchester Evening News".

[originalpckelly]

10. That isn't the same picture. The baby is wearing something different...

unless this has been significantly altered.

[Atman]

17. That is absolutely NOT the same picture

Someone's pullin' something on someone here.

.

[DawgHouse]

6. Her cheeks are too pudgy and adorable too!

I just wanna pinch 'em!

[babylonsister]

7. How adorable, and how dumb of the passport service! What will be

prohibited next? :thumbsdown:

[malaise]

8. What a beauty

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

[Skinner]

11. She's got the same hair as my kid.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. My oldest son had hair like that, too. It didn't matter what you

did to it or how much you wet and combed it, within a few minutes the hair on top of his head was standing straight up and waving at you.

[Vadem]

13. He is sooooo gorgeous!!!! He'll be a model someday!.....n/t

[waiting for hope]

19. Ahh, the sleep of the innocent....

Precious. Hold on tight to these times, they go by fast.

[babylonsister]

20. Way-y-y cute, Skinner! nt

[Maat]

21. Wow, what a cutie!

I agree - they grow up WAY TOO FAST!

Mine's 10-1/2, and I'm trying to figure out how the years flew by!

[MadHound]

14. Geez, if this is being rejected due to matters of biometrics,

It just goes to show you how reliable that "all Powerful, all Seeing" biometrics techonolgy really is. If it can be fooled by an adorable kid's spiked hair, gee, just think of how it could be fooled if somebody really put their mind to it:eyes:

[Berry Cool]

15. LOL. The kid looks like she put her hand on a VandeGraaf generator. n/t

[NastyRiffraff]

16. both the spikey haired babies in this thread are adorable!

Those chubby little cheeks!