Have the British hoodie-phobics taken things too far by asking a four-year old to expose her face for the benefit of the CCTV cameras?

Tiny Karen Lewis was happily feeding 2 pence pieces (equivalent to 4 cents) into a slot machine when she was asked by a young male employee to take down the hood on her purple cardigan. On challenging this edict, the four-year-old's mother was told, "It's policy, they don't allow any hoodies in there."

When questioned, the manager said:

"If anything happened, I don't really want to see a hoodie with a hoodie. I want to see and be able to recognize him."

I suppose you can't be too careful nowadays.

BBC