Ungland...
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.
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One can only imagine how they’d construe a tossed Key Lime pie!
Keep disarming yourself UK....Meanwhile the Koranimals are building bombs. To quote Zell Miller “WHat are you going to fight them with...Spitballs?”
What about the evil grapefruit. How many eyes could get squirted with those big things? Can you only buy 2 1/2 sections of grapefruit? It’s way past time they banned banana peels for falls! Oh, the huge manatee!
“’They vetted me and let me buy them. I clearly don’t look like I’m going to carry out a drive-by fruiting any time soon’”
LOL
ludicrous
I suppose a bartender is considered a mass criminal and accessory, if he sells Carona beer with a twist of lime.
The UK is getting nuttier by the day.
Rocks and sticks are also illegal in the UK. There is pending legislation to make sand and soap illegal as they could be used as eye weapons.
Brits have lost their minds.
The RN’s “limeys” will be surprised to hear this..
Life imitates Python. Again.
“Brits have lost their minds.”
They have, they really have. They don’t need to throw the bums out, they need to put them in straightjackets.
Ungland...
When limes are outlawed, only outlaws will have limes.
This is one supermarket, not UK-wide and it’s a stupid rule made up by one private business, not legislation.
On the upside we in the UK don’t have to suffer those patronising messages on car door mirrors mandated by the US nanny govt, so I call evens. :D
They’ve already outlawed pointy sticks, so it stands to reason that fresh fruit would be next. Hopefully the Brits are taking self defense classes to learn how to protect themselves from such dangerous weapons.
I was gonna say, wasn’t there an especially silly Monty Python sketch built around the theme “What to do if someone attacks you with fresh fruit”?
Fortunately, such classes are already available online, courtesy of Monty Python:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bCyIAsSid8
Key Lime pie = WMD
What about a halibut? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3qOYfbrBfQ
What about a halibut? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3qOYfbrBfQ
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