You can't buy that lime... it could be classed as a weapon: Shock for chef shopping at Asda

Daily Mail UK ^ | 11-21-11 | Nadia Gilani

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A chef was stunned to find she was almost banned from buying two limes from a supermarket - because they could be classed as a weapon.

Marisa Zoccolan, 31, popped into the new Asda supermarket close to her home in Wallsend, North Tyneside, to pick up some groceries, including the citrus fruits.

But when she tried to pay for them at the self-service checkout, the message 'amount exceeded, authorisation required' flashed up.

An assistant then came over and told her that more than one lime was deemed a weapon - because the citric acid could be squirted in someone's eye.

Marisa, a self-employed caterer said: 'I thought they were taking the pip, but the assistant told me the same applied to lemons.

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On the upside we in the UK don’t have to suffer those patronising messages on car door mirrors mandated by the US nanny govt, so I call evens. :D

[Joe 6-pack]

I always considered limes more of a defensive weapon...

[M1903A1]

Which reminds me...how does one defend oneself if attacked by frozen or dried fruit? :-)

(That Python sketch was the height of epic silliness....)

[PGR88]

Don’t laugh. The USA is on the same idiotic path.

went to a football game recently. The concession stand wouldn’t give my young son the cap to his plastic bottle of water, because “he could then use the bottle as a weapon.”

[Hardraade]

Limey! Next, onions??

[ExCTCitizen]

Is there a 5 day waiting period on LIMES?? I guess the UK need a NLA (National Lime Association).

When Limes are outlawed only OUTLAWS will have Limes. LOL

[ExCTCitizen]

When limes are outlawed, only outlaws will have limes.

You stole my saying!! LOL... (of course you posted it before me...)

[thecodont]

I was gonna say, wasn’t there an especially silly Monty Python sketch built around the theme “What to do if someone attacks you with fresh fruit”?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWCBOsJr-w

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I'm amazed that after 28 posts, no one has posted any reference to "Self Defense Against Fruit".

Sgt.: Sorry, Mr. 'Arrison. Come at me with that banana. Hold it like that, that's it. Now attack me with it. Come on! Come on! Come at me! Come at me then!

[nd76]

This is a WAL-MART owned market (ASDA is Wal-mart’s UK subsidiary).