Madness, Or Lack Of Common Sense,

still stalks our stores,

when Elinor Zuke, 25, was told by the self-service checkout at Sainsbury's that she needed age verification as she tried to buy a £1.19 pack of spoons she was naturally somewhat taken aback, in a blinding lack of common sense a shop worker claimed they could be used as drug paraphernalia,


after recovering from the shock that the worker had virtualy called her a user of a illegal Class A drug - so it is irrelevant whether someone is over 18 - the spoon should not be used for that purpose anyway, she waited to see what would happen next, a call to the drug squad perhaps, maybe a raid on her home?


but it was a mistake, a spokeswoman, (person, please be PC!) said: 'the self-scan system recognised the spoon's SKU as one for a knife, this had now been rectified', but what a lack of common sense in the first place, still it all ended well, 'we are very sorry for any inconvenience caused, our Think 25 policy is designed to ensure age-related products are sold safely,'


age related products at 25 years old? I did not think there were any products you have to be 25 years old to buy, I always thought the legal age for buying alcohol is 18, but not living in the UK I must have missed the change of law.