A shopper was left baffled after she went to Asda to stock up on picnic equipment and was asked for proof of age to buy a set of teaspoons.
The shop assistant reportedly informed the customer that someone had once been murdered with a teaspoon, and therefore age identification was now required.
That the woman had also bought plates and picnic ware at the Halifax branch in West Yorkshire did not appear to reassure the shop assistant as to her innocent intentions.
(ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW)
The receipt for the bizarre sale was published on the website nannyknowsbest.blogspot.com, a website set up by an internet entrepreneur Ken Frost to “expose and resist the all pervasive nanny state that is corroding the way of life and the freedom of the people of Britain”.
The site was subsequently bombarded with comments and suggestions for other items that could cause harm.
One posting read: “Tea towel and a couple of bottle of diet cream soda and you’ve got all the equipment for waterboarding an Asda manager.”
May 5th, 2009 at 11:02 am
It’s about control people, it doesn’t really matter what they are doing, it’s WHY. they desperately NEED you to become used to this.
May 5th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
This is the craziest article yet. Teaspoons don’t kill people unless a person intentionally modifies it such to be used as a weapon. But, still the shopkeepers’ idiocy is astounding.
May 5th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
register liberals , not teaspoons. lol
May 5th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
we obviously need protecting from ourselves. last week i let my 10 year son pull the handle and pump petrol into the car and the stupid bitch in the garage stopped the pump and came running out screaming he cant do that hes not old enough!! i was stood right by him. it was tesco’s. unbelievable!!
no wonder kids dont know shit when they leave school.
Dave Reply:
May 5th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
We shouldn’t try to protect ourselves from us, rather, we should encourage one another to be more sane. No amount of running away from your neighbor is going to make you sovereign, in fact, you’d essentially be adding to the problem if you react in the same way an ignorant person does.
May 5th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Why is everyone believing this story? The source is someone’s blog and you haven’t even got the Asda location or date of the event.
Just because things appear on Prison Planet doesn’t make them true.
A Friend Reply:
May 5th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....poons.html
Of course once again this is concrete evidence of control and a secret plan.
Not some dumb check out worker, thats not possible because of all the special training and qualifications they need for the job.
Opie Reply:
May 6th, 2009 at 4:39 am
Boy did you make a fool out of Darren, maybe while Bewitched wiggles her nose he can blink after my registered thumb exits his eye!
bob Reply:
May 5th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
right on!
KFC Reply:
May 6th, 2009 at 2:12 am
Listen Darren,
Stop piss-balling about.
The ASDA store was in Halifax
The store manager is Peter Mccarthy
Why dont you phone him and ask?
May 5th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Simple answer,…when met with idiots like these,…get a couple of trolleys ,go round the store collecting ALL the items that have a potential for murdering people with, and demand the manager remove them from the premises,…or have him put them all in a ’special murderers’ section,…with appropriate signs stating that these items require ID to purchase them,….simple!
Play the fkwits at their own game!!
May 5th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Ask the manager to list all the potential deadly weapons on his premises…so that you can post it on the net,…so that people can decide if ASDA is the place they REALY want to shop at..!
May 5th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
First of all…… what age do you have to be to buy Spoons from Asda?
Secondly…. “someone had once been murdered with a teaspoon”….. How old was this suspect?
May 5th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Let me set this straight.
Once again a fluff piece has been twisted into a conspiracy theory by the woowoo’s here.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new.....poons.html
We have had a spate of knife crimes here, in an effort to curb the sales of knives to youngsters supermarkets have strict orders on age limits when buying knives and they must show ID.
A logical step in my oppinion.
Although arent kids supposed to be docile and unable to do these things because of all them poisons and chemicals that the public is sprayed with, injected with and drink in tap water?!?!
Anyway.
The people working on the checkouts are not exactly holders of PHD in physics so just scan and have to follow alerts that register as a long beep, they then read the screen and do as it says.
The barcode showed as cutlary, now I doubt I need to point out the obvious mistake any further.
If you still dont get it then it was because that woman is watched by the nwo and they are scared she will use spoons as mini satalite dishes to intercept secret conversations.
STOP TURNING EVERYTHING INTO A CONSPIRACY THEORY!
It should be embarrassing for all of you when they do this.
darsie Reply:
May 5th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
FACT ONE: There was an electronic alert when the shopper attempted to purchase the spoons. ( “It’s most likely a mix-up with the bar codes.” said the manager – which is proof that the sales assistant was alerted to something.)
FACT TWO: At the time of purchase “the shop assistant reportedly informed the customer that someone had once been murdered with a teaspoon, and therefore age identification was now required.”
FACT THREE: The manager of that particular store said:”The customer will have been asked for age identification by the assistant when prompted by the till.”
So there you have it. Asda has a policy of not selling metal cutlery -spoons – together with knives – to underage persons.
The sales person at the time of purchase knew the score and the company’s policy – and the fact that the manager subsequently said:”"It’s most likely a mix-up with the bar codes” gives the game away.
It seems to me with this feeble and wishy-washy excuse that ASDA are back-pedalling and have realised the absurdity of there being an alert on ALL cutlery – in general – when it can also include such innucuous items as spoons.
Darth Chaos Reply:
May 6th, 2009 at 9:11 am
You’re the only woowoo I see around here. Anybody who loves their enslavement is a “woowoo”.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
FIGHT BACK /SEND IN DONATIONS TO HELP ALEX
Goober Reply:
May 6th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
TOTALLY WITH YOU BEAR. WHERE TO SEND. I GOT AN EXTRA 100.00 ANYONE ELSE???
May 5th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
when confronted with this crap……put down ur spoons…and walk away
May 5th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Hmmm…. they should ID me. I can’t cook without inadvertently poisoning people.
Still, the story doesn’t surprise me. I’ve got kids in the public school system and I’ve heard just about everything. You wouldn’t believe the things they think are drugs (i.e. lemon drops) and weapons (empty air canisters plucked from the playground – my neighbor’s child was suspended for picking one up and throwing it away). Oh, yeah…in Colorado, they allow male security guards to pluck high school girls out of restrooms to make certain they are not ditching. The Principal and I went rounds on that one (and they wonder why sex assault is a problem -creepy).
Sometimes I think the rest of the world is slowly going insane and I’m missing the boat.
Cheers!
May 6th, 2009 at 2:39 am
Listen Darren,
Stop piss-balling about.
The ASDA store was in Halifax
The store manager is Peter Mccarthy
Why dont you phone him and ask?
Sorry, forgot to add great post! Can’t wait to see your next post!
May 6th, 2009 at 4:54 am
for me it was a pair of plastic scissors the night before Christmas Eve in Tesco’s, I’m 27! I was also buying sellotape and wrapping paper, it’s just totally ludicrous.
If you go on a plane you can’t have nailclippers or a razor in your hand luggage, and yet you can buy a bottle in duty free, if you intended to stab people on a plane, surely a smashed bottle is a little more effective than nailclippers or a safety razor don’t you think?
May 6th, 2009 at 7:00 am
Someone was once killed by a car, we need proof of ID to buy on. Someone was once killed by plugging in their toaster while in the bathtub, we need proof of ID to purchase a toaster or to take a bath. Soneone was once killed by someone choking them to death, we need proof of ID for you yo own hands. Someone was once killed by choking on a piece of steak at a returant, we need proof of ID for you to go out to a resturant, order food, and eat at said resturaunt. Soneone was once killed when they tripped and fell on their face, we need proof of ID to let you walk.
What’s next….?
May 6th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Pretty soon, you will have to be of “legal age” to buy ANYTHING. This is not about “proof of age”. This is about the incrementalization of forcing you to show your papers to buy anything and putting every single purchase in a database which can be used to build a psychological or terrorist profile. “No ID, no purchase.” This is the “Beast System” that AJ has spoken of for years.
Buy too much cold medicine? You must be an evil meth maker.
Buy too much cigarettes? You must be smuggling cigarettes and selling them on the black market to circumvent the cigarette tax.
Buy too many teaspoons? You must be planning on stabbing a bunch of people with them.
May 6th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Okay, bye, I take my money elsewhere…
Problem solved…;)
May 6th, 2009 at 10:33 am
I have become speechless. I do not know what to say anymore about this, or any other article I read. It’s become futile to rant about this stuff anymore. The NWO has been firmly established and we have all becomes serfs. The lockdown is only going to become more intense to the point where we are all tagged and every move tracked.
Soon they won’t need to ask for proof of age (or citizenship, criminal record, employment history, health, address, etc), this will all be conveniently stored in a microchip that you have been tagged with.
There will be scanners everywhere we go and if the information it reads triggers any red flags (determined by your loving government), you will be denied access to the service or product you are seeking.
I feel this is coming sooner than any of us realize. The databases that hold all out personal information are already in place, and have been for 30 years. Everything about you, including your DNA, has already been cataloged. The only piece left is to link that information to your physical body via RFID (Google: nanochip, biochip, and RFID Dust)
This may very well come during the current Swine Flu Pandemic or a future Bio-Attack via mass vaccinations. It would be very easy to slip a biochip into the vaccine that splices with your DNS to produce a unique ID to be used to link back to the master databases.
I guess I’m not so speechless, maybe just feeling a bit helpless to the what is being played out. Let’s face it, what can we really do the stop them? They have the military, they have the nukes, they have the Bio-Labs and they control the issuance of currency. Even if I was armed to the teeth and tough as nails, what could I do to stop them?
God Help Us…
May 6th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Here in Portland, Oregon, the Hollywood Rite-Aid drug store wants i.d. to buy a money order.
May 6th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
It’s about the coming police state giving people power over others with pontless rules so in the end everyone will report everyone else this is were it all starts
May 6th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Im a true beliver in…teaspoones dont kill people…people kill people….
May 6th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Today I went to ASDA and bought some spoons.
I wasnt asked shit so shut up with your damn idiotic conspiracy theories.
“It’s most likely a mix-up with the bar codes.” is where the official story ends.
But no of course there has to be more to the story lets do a google search and use all the extra added bits that turn it into a great big fucking conspiracy theory to satisfy my needs to believe there is more to it than a simple mistake.
With my shopping I also bought a tin of corned beef, it usually comes with a little key to open the tin, it was missing, I believe that they must have taken this off so that I then had to buy another tin to use that key to open both, is this a ploy by the supermarket that makes me buy 2 tins of corned beef? What is the game they are playing? Is the government behind it?
I also bought a huge batch of tin foil if your interested.
May 7th, 2009 at 12:43 am
When “we the people “rise up against the elites/bankers,strike the head first not the tail,don’t fight the police in large ‘riot’ numbers,just turn up to a large multi national company/bank with a gallon of gas on your own ,the next day others will see it on the news/smoke in the sky and will catch on[keep your mouth shut]and soon independent ,individual riots[which they are not expecting] will ensue.Stock up on gas now,and if you know one of the rockafellas bosses ,then show them what a noose is for,happy hunting folks.Guaranteed to be more fun than sitting in a concentration camp or watching re-runs of the brady bunch.Today spoons …tomorrow ….your privacy is in question,i’ve got nothing to hide,so why has the governance got soooo much to hide?…trust is a two way thing.
May 7th, 2009 at 3:09 am
this is what happens when you let human laws rule ur life instead of common sense and gods laws
May 7th, 2009 at 7:33 am
[...] Shopper asked for proof of age to buy Asda teaspoons [...]