Fear the spoon wielding teenagers! O.o

[Becks]

I dare anyone to take a pair of safety scissors and a spoon to go and rob a betting shop.

I'll accept that dare if everyone promises to visit me in jail.

[Andara Bledin]

With the newspaper, I've noticed the british Sunday Papers seem to just be a distribution point for free stuff lately. Are they that desperate for readership?

Yes. Yes they are.

And while they whine about the internet causing them distress, it likely has more to do with regurgitated AP wire reporting than anything else.

^-.-^

[Boochan]

2. The spooooons! Fear them!

Teaspoons also have an age restriction; it is 18. Yes, you heard me. You have to be aged 18 to buy spoons at the supermarket. It has caused much merriment when I've been forced to ID someone buying teaspoons; so far I haven't had anyone be nasty, but I've had lots of people who didn't believe me and had to be shown my screen with the age restriction up. It's ridiculous. -.-

Cheap alternative for a crack pipe? I've seen this on various TV shows where they use a teaspoon for this purpose. Still stupid.

I love selling small, precise scales, because the people who buy them just make no attempt at hiding what they want, they know what they're buying it for, we know it, we sell it, we don't ask questions as they're generally good mannered. We have them all at a ridiculously huge markup ($90, $100 and $118), they buy them with cash, no questions asked. Of course one of our ditzy young girls who works part time decided to ask one time.. with one of my colleagues next to hear literally head-desking.

With the newspaper, I've noticed the british Sunday Papers seem to just be a distribution point for free stuff lately. Are they that desperate for readership?

[rerant]

Wow our regesters dont even prompt us to check id for condoms!

I should hope not. I would hate to live somewhere that allowed stores to only sell condoms to people 18 and older, as though they're the only ones who are having sex.
Protection and responsibility shouldn't have an age restriction.

But on topic of the post, I can't think of anything here that has as age restriction aside from paintballs.

[Gurndigarn]

So...was I the only teenager who bought the paper just to read the funnies?

Most of them are online now. Fewer dead trees, no cost... yeah, there's a reason the newspaper industry is in trouble.

[RetailWorkhorse]

It's the newspapers latest marketing trend. "If we make it age-restricted, all the teenagers who think they're more mature than they are will want to buy it..."

So...was I the only teenager who bought the paper just to read the funnies?

[Gurndigarn]

I've seen it at a number of locations recently, it appears to be spreading.

It's the newspapers latest marketing trend. "If we make it age-restricted, all the teenagers who think they're more mature than they are will want to buy it..."

[crazylegs]

Not sure if you work at Sainsbury's but that is the only place I have seen prompt for age restriction on newspapers,

I've seen it at a number of locations recently, it appears to be spreading.

[Fiyero]

Not sure if you work at Sainsbury's but that is the only place I have seen prompt for age restriction on newspapers, It is a prompt to staff though - if the newspaper doesn't have a DVD you can sell it to anyone.
Not sure the position on spoons. Legally you can sell them but of course it is up to the store what they choose to sell to anyone (hence some stores restricting alcohol to over 21s though the legal limit is 18).

[crazylegs]

Sherriff Of Nottingham :- I'm going to cut his heart out with a rusty spoon
Minion:- Why not use a knife?
S.o.N.:- Because it will hurt more you idiot!

[Lace Neil Singer]

Knives and group cutlery are age restricted; along with scissors of all kinds including plastic safety scissors. I dare anyone to take a pair of safety scissors and a spoon to go and rob a betting shop.

[Whyme]

I can only imagine the chaos that would erupt at my store if we started age restrictions on the Sunday paper and spoons. People still get pissed when we ID them for alcohol and cigarettes.

So, spoons can be used for no good but not knives? I find that odd. A brother of a friend of mine was killed by an 11 year old with a butter knife. It caused quite the hoopla of course and no one believed that a kid could murder anyone with a butter knife. Yet, butter knives were never placed under restriction. Plus, you can poke the hell out of someone with a fork. I guess I'm saying I think all cutlery should be treated equally

[iviles]

Spoons?!?!?!? Wow our regesters dont even prompt us to check id for condoms! Still it would be a kick to tell someone they were to young to buy spoons.

[SuperB]

You'd be surprised what ABC (Alcoholic Beverage Control) classifies as "selling drug paraphernalia".

• Scales and balances for weighing drugs
• Diluents and adulterants, such as quinine hydrochloride, mannitol, mannite,
dextrose, and lactose for cutting illegal drugs
• Blenders, bowls, containers, spoons, and mixing devices used for
compounding illegal drugs
• Capsules, balloons, envelopes, and other containers for packaging small
quantities of illegal drugs. Includes miniature plastic baggies designed to hold
jewelry or beads, but also used to hold illegal drugs
• Containers and other objects for storing or concealing illegal drugs
• Hypodermic syringes, needles, and other items for injecting illegal drugs into
the human body. These are intended for diabetics, but are drug paraphernalia
when made available to other customers
• Pipes made out of metal, wood, acrylic, glass, stone, plastic, or ceramic. They
may be with or without screens. Includes glass tubes commonly marketed as
a bud vase or air freshener. Also includes colorful marking pens which, when
taken apart, contain a pipe that can be used for smoking crack cocaine.
• Pipe screens
• Water pipes - also called "bongs"
• Roach clips (small metal clips used to hold burning material such as a
marijuana cigarette)
• Miniature cocaine spoons and cocaine vials
• A wiry sponge or scouring pad, made for cleaning, but when cut into pieces, is
used as a filter for smoking crack cocaine
• Drug "kits." Some stores sell a number of items packaged together, such as a
miniature flower vial (see photo below), together with chopped-up pieces of
wiry sponge and a butane lighter.

Some of these are obvious but others are legitimate items for any store. I have to wonder how they enforce this list. (they send it out every so often) I mean honestly, how am I to know what types of "bowl, container and mixing devices" are common to the drug users? We sell camping items which do include spoons, bowls and scouring pads "made for cleaning" and since we have so many climbers we sell small quantities (one sponge, one person sets of silverware, etc)

And those little flowers they mention, I could easily see my mother-in-law thinking such a thing would be a cute little counter-top impulse item. She wouldn't have a clue.

[aurelemsrealm]

I had to laugh about the Sunday Times being age restricted. The spoons I was thinking because they can be used to cook some drugs, but that's about all I could guess on that one. Still seems far-fetched to go to all that trouble because I use spoons for eating, and sometimes maybe to drum on the table in an attempt to annoy my wife or the dog.

Why would they put an age-restricted DVD in the Sunday paper, though? Not that many kids read nowadays, but the newspaper is supposed to be a public, family-friendly forum. I would never have considered that.