Child banned from buying crackers.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...ld-banned-from-buying-festive-favourites.html

A shop assistant refused to let a six-year-old girl help her mother buy a box of Christmas crackers – because of laws banning the sale of "explosives" to children.

The cashier told Lisa Innes, 36, that taking the box from her daughter Tia-Rose for scanning at the till was illegal due to the "snap" in the crackers.

Mrs Innes was told that the rules still applied even though she was the one paying for the £4.99 box of ten crackers at the QD store in Stowmarket, Suffolk.
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I am more shocked every day by the crazy laws that we have in this country, it's a Christmas cracker not TNT. As a teenager I made nitrocellulose at home without harm yet we can't trust under 16's with crackers these days!

Jobsworth shop assistant should have shot herself, it's one thing not to accept the cracker so she doesn't lose her job, but to whine about her breaking the law as if any sane person would care is intolerable, the customer should have the shoved the cracker up her ****. Personally though I would rather risk my job than embarrass myself by complying with such a ridiculous law.
 
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If I was in charge, I would ban Children, can't sell them Matches, Knives, Guns, Lottery Tickets, Glue, Aerosols, Cigarettes, Alcohol... What's the point having the little buggers if they can't be sent down the shops to buy you anything!?
 
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If I was in charge, I would ban Children, can't sell them Matches, Knives, Guns, Lottery Tickets, Glue, Aerosols, Cigarettes, Alcohol... What's the point having the little buggers if they can't be sent down the shops to buy you anything!?
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Whats the world coming to if you cant send your sprogs to the shop to get you a six pack of stella and a copy of Razzle!
 
16? Thought it was 18 according to the sgn I saw a couple of years ago in M&S. Yes, this has been going on a lot longer than just this year... :confused:

(The sign even had the two relevant acts printed on it, sure one of them was from the 1800s as well:D.)
 
Its crazy, how can a cracker be explosive??? Jacobs would have serious lawsuit on their hands for being so ignorant if it were true.... there would be cream all over the place....
 
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16 for Christmas crackers...

I sort of understand the logic when it is an 21 year old buying booze with a 16 year old.

This is a different story - and is quite mad! Obviously not going to be used before Christmas.
 
Whats silly in my work is it's 21 for 'kids christmas crackers' :P

Common sense, if the parents with them not a big deal. If it's a 10 year old on their own then no.
 
Crackers are not classed as "adult explosive" much the same as caps, throwdowns, sparklers etc hence the lower age than things like fireworks...
 
yeah its sucks,, but they have to comply with policy weather they like it or not,, u should try working in a supermarket
 
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