There is no effing way Beyonce would get away with this at my Hospital

[rustydog]

http://omg.yahoo.com/blogs/goddess/beyonce-birth-lap-luxury-192004098.html


"..When Beyonce checked in -- under the pseudonym Ingrid Jackson -- her demands were definitely diva-ish. Hospital staffers were forced to turn over their cell phones (to avoid any unauthorized picture snapping) and instructed to cover the lenses of the floor's security cameras with tape..."

There is no way a credible hospital secuirty department would allow anyone to circumvent or impede secuirty being provided every occupant of the FMC unit.
Beyonce is not any better or valuable a human being as any other person on the unit. For anyone to capitulate to an asinine demand to tape video lenses should be terminated for sabotaging security measures.
There is no way her private security could confiscate cell phones (who do they think they are, police?) and there is no way in-house security would attempt to confiscate cell phones, we don't have and THEY don't have the right or authority to do so simply because Beyonce's security turds say so.

[rustydog]

3. Actually, in a way I do...It is part of a Healthcare district funded by taxpayer dollars!

[rustydog]

28. Wow, I got what you were saying...It looks like you met someone a tad hyper sensitive

[rollin74]

2. I agree. this is insane

she should not have been allowed to inconvenience and infringe on the rights of others.

[TalkingDog]

56. I think it's more of a safety issue. If the security cameras are all blacked out....

that's inviting all kinds of chaos.

Babies being kidnapped, muggings, rapes... all possible because BeYONce couldn't do the midwife thing at home....

[virgogal]

4. The arrogance of many celebrities never ceases to amaze me.

[pipoman]

19. Only to be rivaled by federal politicians

for arrogance.

[Bucky]

5. one percenters

You'd think a privacy obsessed celeb couple with billions of dollars at their disposal would be able to arrange for a home delivery.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

27. exactly. the dumbasses.

[riderinthestorm]

6. Brooklyn Dad says Beyonce's security team stopped him from seeing his preemie twins

An earlier link to an even more outrageous action if you ask me....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002170664

[nineteen50]

7. Likes the money that comes with stardom

now get lost everyone.

[LiberalFighter]

8. If a baby was stolen from the hospital and they couldn't determine

who or what route they took because of these security measures what would be the repercussions to the hospital?

[Charlemagne]

36. exactly

[David__77]

9. I'm sure she paid a lot of money for these services.

I'm not making a positive or negative statement about the actual accommodations. I don't really have an opinion.

[JI7]

10. if this is true, i don't know why they didn't have the baby at Home or some other private place

they have the money to bring in the doctors, nurses, equipment and whatever else is needed.

[rustydog]

16. They secured a suite (similar to presidential protection..you empty the floor or wing)

Anyone who tried to enter her reserved area would naturally be confronted by her private security, and rightfully so.

They do not have the right to dictate security that conflicts with or circumvents standing hospital security.

[Mojorabbit]

55. In the day, I took care of a Saudi princess

and nothing even close to this was done. Never would have happened anywhere I worked as a nurse either. I was amazed when I read what her security did.

[DJ13]

11. Sounds like she has signed an exclusive for the baby pics

[rfranklin]

13. That's what it's all about...

Making money off your infant by selling the photos to People Magazine or the National Enquirer.

[book_worm]

14. too bad. They have no right to tape up security cameras or take away employee property.

[book_worm]

12. I wonder what would have happened to the employee who decided they

didn't have any reason to give their cell phone away. Fired? if so, the hospital could be sued. I would like to think I would have told them to go to hell, or if they really wanted it I wanted a check for $100,000.

[rustydog]

20. By all rights, with a VIP, hospitals should have a standing protocol they enact.

You meet with the concerned parties: soon to be mamma and pappa, their security representative, your Hospital FMC director or designee, Security Management, Risk Management etc.
You develop a plan to activate upon admission.

There is no way my facility would agree to disabling surveillance cameras. There is no way their security would replace hospital security and no effing way we'd let their security confiscate cell phones or cameras (4th amendment anyone?)

Beyonce and her Husband were born on planet earth...they walk the same surface as we do, they breathe the same air and one day they will DIE just like all of us. They need to get over themselves.

[spanone]

15. and no way would i give them my cell phone.

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. Me neither.

No freakin way.

[Aerows]

22. Won't be taking mine either

I have more important things to do on the job than take pictures of celebrities, and if my family needs to call me in an emergency, that's way more important than some celebrity wanting to throw their importance around.

[JSnuffy]

44. You might not...

... but someone trying for a nice check would jump at the chance.

[boppers]

31. "Cold dead hands"?

What is this freaky attachment people have to their cell phones?

[DJ13]

47. I really think its an addiction

[Zalatix]

49. Same here. Over my dead body would they take that from me.

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. Why didn't she just have her baby at home?

What about the other patients in the hospital? Aren't those security cameras there to protect THEM?

Geez. My opinion of Beyonce just dropped a couple million points.

[dballance]

21. Why the hell does she think she's better than everyone else?

The hospital should be fined for acting irresponsibly. I would tell her to go f herself and if she did not like it I'd call my union rep. I'm going to bet she's a member of the SAG. What an overpriveleged cow. I hate people who think they are entitled to privileges.

[Ecumenist]

24. Amen

[Zalatix]

30. She could have paid for services at home. n/t

[rustydog]

32. Actually, being famous does put her at risk of an infant abduction...

Even though hospitals have vastly improved their maternity wing security procedures over the years and the risk of abduction is low, there is still a risk that needs be addressed. And it is every day.

The risk increases when your patient is a Very Important Person.

It sounds like Beyonce's private security teams actions went way too far overboard.

I don't recall hearing about any heavy-handed security when Bill Gates kid was born...You can bet your bottom dollar there was heightened security at that facility.

Some people seem to think they are better than the little guy, more important because they can sing or dance, read lines in a movie....
You are still living on the same planet as me, you will live, get sick and one day die just like me. You are a singer, get over yourself.

[boppers]

34. FWIW, DU is usually pro-Union

I'm guessing Beyonce thinks she has a right to privacy, even if she sings and acts.

[Warren DeMontague]

25. yeah, well, in 10 years people will be like "Beyonce who"?

At some point she'll be begging people to chase her with cell phone cameras.

[boppers]

35. Yeah, she's already had her 15 years of fame.

A flash in the pan, surely.

[Warren DeMontague]

41. 15 years is nothing.

Sorry.

[boppers]

42. Well, she's only 30.

The Dead had a 16 year head start on her before her *birth*, and if she works until 65, she'll get a good 50 years in her career... *shrug*. Cab Calloway got 64 years. Point being that she's not exactly, oh, Kei$ha or Rebecca Black.

[Warren DeMontague]

43. Fair 'Nuff. I'm not real emotionally invested either way. However, I do believe that if he liked it

then he should have put a ring on it.

[boppers]

46. She well get by. She will Survive.

[Warren DeMontague]

52. !

[Politicalboi]

53. Oh but don't you know

According to her, she's more famous than The Beatles. LOL! She is delusional.

[Warren DeMontague]

54. For all I know, she may be. And at this point, Paul McCartney may be able to go to the store and buy

a muffin without anyone noticing. That's my point; fame, like everything else, is temporary.

[LoZoccolo]

33. They may have been trying to protect themselves from a lawsuit.

There'd be a big incentive for some employee to snap a picture, but then the hospital might get sued for her privacy invasion.

[Charlemagne]

39. If I was a parent there

I would sue for making putting my newborn at risk by covering all the security cameras. If the child was stolen, well you are fucked.

Fuck her, stupid sack of self centered shit.

[joeybee12]

37. My understanding is this hospital is known for catering to celebrities...

Although Bouncy and Jazz apparently were more diav-ish than others...by far.

[TheDebbieDee]

45. Bouncy and Jazz.......I like that. :-)

[Terra Alta]

38. Beyonce can go to hell

and so can any other 1 percenter who think they deserve special treatment.

She puts her pants on the same way we all do. She should be treated the same as anyone else. And don't even get me started on the name she bestowed upon the poor child.

[Texasgal]

51. I think she PAID

for extra treatment.

I have seen no item in which she was given anything free or special.

Is there a link? I could be wrong?

[Dawson Leery]

40. Too many celebrities think to highly of themselves.

With all of her money, she should have had the baby at home, instead of harassing the general public.

[Alenne]

48. The hospital has denied this

Until someone besides a gossip blog has proof it happened, I'll believe the hospital.

[Texasgal]

50. Let me premise by saying that

I have no love for Beyonce and her beau... Not a big fan or anything.

But they PAID for the hospital and extra security. It's most likely good for the hospitals bottom line. Perhaps they kept... with their payment people employed down to nurses, assistants and janitorial services for many months.

I see no issue for the them being able to pay no doubt it was a large amount. Insurance dosen't tend to pay much for births or for mothers to stay a few days.

If extra security was an issue I am sure it was paid for handsomely.