Warning! Christmas Crackers!

mike65

Health and safety fascism, again.

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A 22-year-old was banned from buying a box of Christmas crackers because shop staff feared she was too young under the 1875 Explosives Act.

Art student Heather Welsh was stunned when she was told the crackers were classed as explosives, reports The Sun.

She had picked out a box of ten crackers at Marks & Spencer in York and was amazed to be asked by check-out staff if she was 16 or over.

Heather said: "The member of staff looked at me for a moment before asking for ID. She refused to believe that I was 22 even though I have nearly finished a degree course.

"As if that wasn't bad enough, she said that she was protecting me by not selling me them. It's as if she was suggesting that if I was left alone with the crackers I couldn't be trusted and might blow myself up."

M&S revealed under-16s are barred from buying party poppers too. The York store has two signs near its cracker displays explaining the age rules.

But York MP Hugh Bayley said: "The law is crackers."

Ba humbug?

javaboy

A friend of a friend of a friend of a sister of an aunty of a guy who used to live down the road but has since moved knew someone whose cousin lost their eye in a Christmas cracker incident. :eek:


The only thing they are protecting people from with this law is the god awful jokes inside. "Why did the teacher have to wear sunglasses?" **** off that's why!

Danbo!

Cue some dirtbag, akin Shannon Matthews' mother, seeking compensation for kids blowing their faces off with a M&S Christmas cracker, after reading this.

themadchef

Plastic cutlery for everyone under sixteen incase they cut themselves.

Maybe we can get cool bubble wrap suits for everyone under sixteen to wear, just in case they fall.


Aren't crackers for kids in the first place!

M+S looking for publcity.

SpookyDoll

noblestee wrote: »

Cue some dirtbag, akin Shannon Matthews' mother, seeking compensation for kids blowing their faces off with a M&S Christmas cracker, after reading this.

I doubt that scrote would ever get her mitts on something as "posh" as M&S crackers, unless she mugged someone for em!

Sharpshooter

Any more of this health and safety malarky and Ill snap.

javaboy

sharpshooterH wrote: »

Any more of this health and safety malarky and Ill snap.

Boooooooooooooooooo! I should have made that challenge last until New Year's.

Fizman

javaboy wrote: »

"Why did the teacher have to wear sunglasses?" **** off that's why!

A: Because she was ashamed to show off her scabby eye as a result of a cracker accident.

:pac:

Mimikyu

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SoWatchaWant

Most of it was she obviously looked like a 12 year old. Just bad luck, if you wanna buy drink here, you bring ID, you can't expect them to tell.

But that about crackers being explosives is barmy. Are they speciak crackers?