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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 ...
When teaspoons are outlawed....
I don’t know, it’s getting too bizarre to even be able to make fun of it. Steyn was saying something like that on Rush’s show this morning, that it’s getting hard to even parody stuff anymore.
Oh come on,... we all know teaspoons are heroine paraphanalia! I’m not sure what good PLASTIC teaspoons are, but I’ll think of something.
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Some of them. About the same number of $hit for brains there as here.
You have got to remember that the Brits have had over a thousand years to collect weird stuff together.
For instance there is still an ordnance on the books of the City of Chester that gives any English citizen leave to shoot with a bow and arrow any Welshman inside the city walls after sundown.
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