Sharpe's Opinion
Saturday, 25th Jul, 2009
It’s the Nanny State Gone Mad!
Don’t you just love local news?
A 28-YEAR-OLD shopper who went into Marks and Spencer to buy a pizza cutter said she was stunned when she was asked to prove her age.
Jenny Palmer, of Gower Street, Derby, went into the chain’s Westfield store to buy the £1.50 item.
But when she took it to the checkout she was asked to prove she was over 18, despite being two years shy of her 30th birthday.
Miss Palmer said she was shocked.
Truly shocking, eh?
My wife assures me that if the same happened to her she’d be awfully pleased to look under 18…
Comments
Well, it’s possibly she was part of the infamous Derby Pizza Cutter Clan, who roam the streets after dark armed with rollers, slices of sharpened pepperoni and the occasional metal tray, searching for unfortunate souls to attack. You can always tell their victims by the distinct pattern of cheese burns across their fingers…
I wonder when a pizza cutter was deemed a weapon of choice for the stabby (or in this case, rolly?) contingent of society.
Perhaps somebody of import was on the streets one day and misinterpreted “I’m gonna slice you up!”
Mo
July 25, 2009 at 10:21 am