Posted on 05/07/2009 7:16:22 PM PDT by Momaw Nadon
A shopper was left baffled after she went to Asda to stock up on picnic equipment and was asked for proof of age to buy a set of teaspoons.
The shop assistant reportedly informed the customer that someone had once been murdered with a teaspoon, and therefore age identification was now required.
That the woman had also bought plates and picnic ware at the Halifax branch in West Yorkshire did not appear to reassure the shop assistant as to her innocent intentions.
The receipt for the bizarre sale was published on the website nannyknowsbest.blogspot.com, a website set up by an internet entrepreneur Ken Frost to "expose and resist the all pervasive nanny state that is corroding the way of life and the freedom of the people of Britain".
The site was subsequently bombarded with comments and suggestions for other items that could cause harm.
One posting read: "Tea towel and a couple of bottle of diet cream soda and you've got all the equipment for waterboarding an Asda manager."
Another reader remarked: "Seemingly Asda believe that nobody over 18 ever murdered anyone."
"If the Government are going to try to take away my constitutional rights this way, I'm going to carry the biggest calibre teaspoon I can find," another commentator added. "I will give up my teaspoon when they prise it from my cold, dead body."
Peter McCarthy, the Asda Halifax store manager, said he was unaware of the spoon ID rule.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
It’s England, that’s why. No explanation needed .....
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LOL!
A “Knork”
Handy tool!
The wider, thicker knife edge could be a bit more tapered for steak, etc
Find a hometown everything. Old school doesn’t card anything after they know you.
Yeah, plastic forks stink on road trips, that’s when I wish I would’ve thought to bring a real fork.
Sporks are special though. They are like a spoon with a serrated edge on the tip so they don’t break off like a flimsy plastic fork. I tell you, they are deadly, LOL.
We’re never without wooden toothpicks. They have to be the round kind. If anyone watched ‘My Name is Earl’ last week they know toothpicks can be dangerous too. Randy was pretty upset. “Some people just want to pick their teeth.” :)
Lol, I never forgot about your Knorks, just forgot the K!!
Ahaaa! I got what you mean now! When you first wrote I thought you meant plastic toothpicks, lol.
Yes, I've seen what you are talking about.
Toothpicks are handy for many things in cooking too. When the grandkids are here, the chili dogs with the toothpicks DON'T have onion, lol.
I'm doing that more and more. I wish some chains like Food City, Ingles, and Krogers, would drop the blasted discount cards though. That too is a huge invasion of privacy and actually back door carding. That is if someone is naive enough to put their real name and address on the form to get the card. As for me I'm known as shoppers Elmer J Fudd, Gomez Addams, & Herman Munster. :>} No ones questioned it yet.
And they won’t. I go to FC from time to time and they have a card attached to the keyboard. Just tell em’ to swipe it. Same with the others also. I use local hardware stores and local vice stores. I seldom show an ID. :^)
“Peter McCarthy, the Asda Halifax store manager, said he was unaware of the spoon ID rule. He said: “The customer will have been asked for age identification by the assistant when prompted by the till. I’m not aware of an age restriction for spoons. “
Check the register to see if it does indeed trigger a check ID when the spoons are scanned. If not 10:1 the cashier was a guy and the spoon buyer was a good looking woman. Convenient way for a stalker perv to get a lady’s address.
>>They are like a spoon with a serrated edge on the tip so they dont break off like a flimsy plastic fork.
That is called a runcible spoon.
When it’s plastic, it’s a spork. :)
That's exceptionally important at the local vice store.
My beer and tobacco store will match any local price. That’s Priceless!
"The Owl & the Pussy-Cat", Edward Lear, 1871
OOh, You reminded me of something with toothpicks and hotdogs. Split an Oscar Meyer hotdog down the middle, though not quite all the way through, insert a couple of slices of Velveeta, wrap with bacon and anchor with toothpicks. Broil until the bacon is crisp and the cheese has a few blackened and bubbly bits. Love ‘em!
Tell the grandkids, no onions, just good.
Target carded us when buying lighters and another time for a video game. We are old coots in our 50's.
Wow, death by teaspoon.
Who needs guns now?
I once got carded to get into an R or NC-17 movie, can’t remember which rating.
British police uncover arensenal!
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