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Tyrannical Thinking.

Tyrannical Thinking.

Based on an incident in a local shop it would seem the jurisdiction of UK government legislation knows no bounds and has no limits.

A regular customer whilst browsing in her local ‘friendly’ Off-Licence asked her fifteen year old son what drink he wanted. He chose, she took one from the display and placed it with her choice on the counter whereupon she was informed she would not be served because she was buying alcohol for a minor.
The shop assistant was asked if he would serve her the same goods if she were on her own. Based only on the assumption that one of the products may be intended for consumption by a minor, the answer would again be “No”.

I clearly remember regularly collecting three bottles of “Mackeson” milk stout, one quarter bottle of brandy and ten “Cadet” cigarettes from an off-licence shop on London’s South Circular at twelve years old. Although this was also illegal, it certainly wasn’t unusual. So where has it all gone so wrong?

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Permalink Reply by Azzami Bell on June 10, 2008 at 10:18am: Yet another 'police-state' issue occurred when a 25yr old girl was at tesco's checkout. She was asked for ID to prove she was old enough to buy a jar of "Jack Daniel's BBQ sauce"!

Her 27yr old brother offered to buy it but was refused because he 'might' give it to her'!

Can anybody explain what is going on here? And why?; ▶ Reply to This