Posted on 11/25/2011 5:36:12 AM PST by radioone
A chef was stunned to find she was almost banned from buying two limes from a supermarket - because they could be classed as a weapon.
Marisa Zoccolan, 31, popped into the new Asda supermarket close to her home in Wallsend, North Tyneside, to pick up some groceries, including the citrus fruits.
But when she tried to pay for them at the self-service checkout, the message 'amount exceeded, authorisation required' flashed up.
An assistant then came over and told her that more than one lime was deemed a weapon - because the citric acid could be squirted in someone's eye.
Marisa, a self-employed caterer said: 'I thought they were taking the pip, but the assistant told me the same applied to lemons.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Which reminds me...how does one defend oneself if attacked by frozen or dried fruit? :-)
(That Python sketch was the height of epic silliness....)
Don’t laugh. The USA is on the same idiotic path.
went to a football game recently. The concession stand wouldn’t give my young son the cap to his plastic bottle of water, because “he could then use the bottle as a weapon.”
Limey! Next, onions??
When Limes are outlawed only OUTLAWS will have Limes. LOL
You stole my saying!! LOL... (of course you posted it before me...)
Sgt.: Sorry, Mr. 'Arrison. Come at me with that banana. Hold it like that, that's it. Now attack me with it. Come on! Come on! Come at me! Come at me then!
This is a WAL-MART owned market (ASDA is Wal-mart’s UK subsidiary).
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