Christmas crackers: child banned from buying festive favourites

Christmas crackers: child banned from buying festive favourites - Telegraph

PC idiots........

Christmas crackers: child banned from buying festive favourites

A shop assistant refused to let a six-year-old girl help her mother buy a box of Christmas crackers – because of laws banning the sale of "explosives" to children.


Tia-Rose was told by a shop assistant she was breaking the law by buying a box of Christmas crackers as they were deemed to be explosives Photo: MATTHEW POWER






8:00AM GMT 08 Nov 2010

The cashier told Lisa Innes, 36, that taking the box from her daughter Tia-Rose for scanning at the till was illegal due to the "snap" in the crackers.

Mrs Innes was told that the rules still applied even though she was the one paying for the £4.99 box of ten crackers at the QD store in Stowmarket, Suffolk

The assistant insisted that the Deluxe red and silver crackers could only be bought if they were handed over by an adult for scanning.

 

That is a bit "over the top", but doesn't surprise me all that much. And not because it is the "new PC" crud either. Some people are simply "hard-nosed" rule followers. Back in 1970 when I came home on a leave, I wasn't yet 21. The age for purchase of alcohol here in Montana. The fellow who was going to be my best man in my wedding was a blind musician who was about two years older than I.

I took him down to a local store so HE could buy some beer, he had a Montana photo ID since he obviously couldn't have a driver's license. The clerk wouldn't allow me to push the cart out of the store, since Mike had made the purchase and I was "underage" (by about four months). So we put the brew in a cart, put Mike on the handle, and I "led" the cart out of the store to the car in the parking lot.

She wouldn't let me carry the brew or push the cart, but he could "appear" to be pushing the cart to the car and that was OK. Sheeesh.

 

This reminds me of that supermarket refusing to sell cuttlerly because they considered knives as weapons. Boycott the idiots and buy in the next shop.

 

The mother should had said, right then I shall take my business else with and spread the word your an ar**hole.

Watch them back down then.

 

I'd like to visit the shop - I've been looking for decent crackers for years. All the ones I ever get just go 'phffft'..... Fat chance of getting some 'explosive' ones.

 

Why are you guys coming down hard on the company when they are the ones OBEYING THE LAW! Stupid as it may be, IT IS THE LAW! And the sales clerk was correct in not selling the "crackers" to the little girl.

It is OK for you guys to complain or poke fun, but it is not your butt and job on the line if the "mother & daughter" are undercover law enforcement. Work retail selling tobacco or alcohol products and you will see what I mean. So, long as the letter of the law is followed, you are safe, however, if you stray from the letter of the law, you are taking your chance. I have known a few ex-coworkers who were "stung." They lost their job, got fined, and the company got fined.

@Richard

To which I would respond as I always did. "Your four dollars is not worth my job and getting fined. Please call the corporate office at 1-800-XXX-XXXX and explain to them how I would not break the law for you. There is the door and have a nice day."

 

:lol:

 

Christmas favorite? I honestly had never heard of Christmas crackers until a few years ago :lol:

 

Me too Lou. I really feel like a dumb American here sometimes.

I do remember Mr. Bean making a huge Chritsmas cracker now that I think about it.

 

Crackers blow up in England? Parties must be "the bomb" over there.

 

Why does it seem that the majority of stories like this come out of England?

No guns, no knives, no hunting, no Christmas Crackers, what next?

A shining beacon of what we should avoid.

KTK

 

Okay, I'll throw myself on the cultural grenade; what are these things? crackers, snaps,

 

They have a piece of cardboard about 1/4" wide running through the middle, this cardboard is of 2 pieces and is joined in the middle by something similar to a match and when 2 people grab the ends of the aforementioned cardboard and pull it comes apart with a snap. I'm not too sure if you have ever seen snap caps which we would give our kids to throw against the floor or wall and they too made a snap. Very similar. There are normally small presents in the cracker and a paper hat.

HTH

KTK

 

Nothing like a cherry bomb, an M-80 or a Silver Salute then. Those things would blow off fingers if cooked off too long before throwing them. Ah, the good ole days.

 

Oh good grief!!!!! Heaven forbid some little British child straps a thousand of them to their chest and walks into a class room; glee and happiness could explode everywhere, Oh the humanity!.

Sounds like the most possible injury could be a corneal abraision from a wayward peice of confetti.

Nobody partys like the Brits, "More tea please mummy and another slice of haggis?"

 

So, it's sort of like those things that go "pop" when you pull the string out of one end and confetti shoots out of the other end right? Those things are used a football games when the national anthem is being played, at the "when the rockets red glare" part is played. Oh yes, I can see the PC problem there. Can't have that. Zero tolerance you know. DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION FOR YOU....NO MORE FUN OF ANY KIND....

 

Just found the actual law over here;

http://www.inis.gov.ie/en/JELR/Guid...Distributors Fireworks 03 september 2010.pdf

So basically even though they aren't explosives, you can't buy them unless you're 16. I guess all the kids nowadays must be making their own explosives instead

sucks.

 

And the worst thing is - I agree totally and can't even begin to start arguing the point.