Posted on 07/06/2018 8:20:12 AM PDT by davikkm
Britain’s Poundland discount chain has announced it will stop selling kitchen knives in all of its stores to help tackle soaring youth violence. The company, whose stores have been a major fixture on UK high streets since 1990, is the first major retailer to go ahead with the anti-knife measure recently recommended by a judge, and other brands are expected to follow suit, according to the Birmingham Mail.
As of Friday, kitchen knives are no longer available at any of its 59 West Midlands branches, Poundland said, noting that the ban will be extended to all 850 UK stores by the end of the year.
Reportedly suffering “epidemic” levels of violence, the West Midlands has the fastest growing rate of knife crime outside London, where the company banned blade sales in April after the capital saw 35 deadly stabbings in the just first few months of 2018.
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Saw the Monty Python thing last night, and now this. If those boys (or anyone else for that matter) had an ounce of energy and funny left in them, they would make a movie mocking the sorts of things that are going on in their country today, much like back in the 70’s they had such fun mocking Christianity and traditional ‘values’ and such. But no, they won’t do that.
They’ll just whine about how the crocodile has finally gotten around to eating them.
Usually when a person posts an article from “The Onion” the fact it is satire gets a mention.
Oh wait.
Gonna be fun watching the UK go down. The Trump baloon put up by the muslim mayor. The prime minister may doing nothing about it. The UK keeping Robert Spencer and Michael Savage out, but inviting millions of shreiking savages in. 4 years to go before they rip the St George Cross out of the flat.
Now to be serious. They would be better off banning the sale of all sharp pointy objects to certain members of the population. But that common sense solution will never happen.
Or sharp wit?
Didn't they try that in Guy Fawkes' day? Chop off the middle finger of the archers so that they couldn't use a bow?
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Your Mum will have to do that for you. You'll be eating it with a spoon, too, not one of those dangerous forks.
British food is so lousy there’s no reason to eat anyway.
That would be like Dollar Tree stop selling knives...how stupid...
If y’all don’t think we don’t have Knife control here in the US, you are sadly mistaken.
then they’ll just stick a fork in it. So shall we ban forks, too? I don’t recall London having a knife problem before say, 2000, so how’s about deporting the knife and acid cults instead?
I guess Britons will have to use bananas to cut their food now?
Brits have Gone BANANAS!
lol, the UK has some serious issues it needs to address like pronto, yo.....
They murder people every year too!
Feed they all Soylent Green tablets. Problem solved in 2 ways.
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