Single hen

[Egluntyne]

You couldn't make it up!

 

...This... was in today's paper.

[chocchick]

Noooo! we're all about to be injured by a spate of knitting needle accidents

[craftyhunnypie]

That is unbelievable! Just typical!

 

Emma.x

[chickencam]

Let's all sit in front of the tv eating ourselves to death instead after all we're not allowed to do anything else.

 

HELP THE WORLD IS MAD!

[Rhapsody]

Gotta love the Daily Rail !

[Paola]

You have got to laugh

[Sheilaz]

..or cry. We can't sell knitting needles in our Oxfam shop because they are a dangerous weapon.

Despite the fact that some people kindly knit for us, and also a charity shop would be the ideal place to go for something like that, you'd have thought.

Plus, there isn't a single shop in the City centre that sells them as far as I know. We could corner the market in them if they weren't so dangerous.

[The Dogmother]

Bit like a brain really - lethal in the wrong hands

[chocchick]

Well said.

My friend couldn't find a baseball bat either

[Paola]

..or cry. We can't sell knitting needles in our Oxfam shop because they are a dangerous weapon.

Despite the fact that some people kindly knit for us, and also a charity shop would be the ideal place to go for something like that, you'd have thought.

Plus, there isn't a single shop in the City centre that sells them as far as I know. We could corner the market in them if they weren't so dangerous.

 

I am gob smacked

[James H]

what is thw world coming to? oh yes injuring myself whilst knitting is one of my biggest concerns (i am being sarcastic in case you didnt notice)

really worring, whats health and safety going to be like by the time i am 30?

you wont be able walk outside because a brick might fall from the sky and hit me on the head

[James H]

..or cry. We can't sell knitting needles in our Oxfam shop because they are a dangerous weapon.

Despite the fact that some people kindly knit for us, and also a charity shop would be the ideal place to go for something like that, you'd have thought.

Plus, there isn't a single shop in the City centre that sells them as far as I know. We could corner the market in them if they weren't so dangerous.

 

I am gob smacked

 

that is really pathetic, i get really angry with this sort of stuff

[Geoid]

Its only so the hospatial dosent get sued, if someone injures themseves on the premises

[ali-s]

..or cry. We can't sell knitting needles in our Oxfam shop because they are a dangerous weapon.

Despite the fact that some people kindly knit for us, and also a charity shop would be the ideal place to go for something like that, you'd have thought.

 

So that is why I couldn't find any knitting needles in the charity shops on saturday.

[Jules.]

I call the Daily Mail (my parents read it) a comic.

[Chocobo]

that storys ridiculous

[Rhapsody]

Thing is, to put a stop toall this someone has to step in and shut down the ambulance-chasing law firms. I have actually seen reps for these firms touting for business out in the street in very poor parts of London, usually where there is lots of social housing; never once ran into them on the Kings Road!

Some folk may see suing a hospital trust as their way onto Easy Street, and they will have these kinds of firms queueing up to represent them.Why isn't the Daily Wail putting its journalistic weight behind the cause rather than the effect...?

[Couperman]

Knitting needles are a serious threat to safety.......

 

if you heat the end over an open flame till it is red hot and fire them at people from a cross bow.

 

They could do serious damage if thrust into someones eye, but i think you'll find pencils can be sharper thus more dangerous. And if you tried you could have someones eye out with a banana.

 

Oh and theres the threat from the wool too. Some one could get entangled and be scarfed fo life!

 

Ban all objects immediately, especially the non functioning ones known as 'Health and Safety officers'.

 

Kev.

 

They need a good smack with an oven backed, vinegar soaked conker...... oh hang on they are banned too aren't they.

[The Dogmother]

Too right Kev!

[Egluntyne]

They need a good smack with an oven backed, vinegar soaked conker...... oh hang on they are banned too aren't they.

 

Or a snowball with a pebble in the middle..........

[chocchick]

An icicle melts and doesn't leave your fingerprints

[Egluntyne]

You could bludgeon your other half to death with a frozen leg of lamb and then pop it in the oven and serve it to the investigating policeman if he called round to question you on a Sunday lunchtime.

[The Dogmother]

An icicle melts and doesn't leave your fingerprints

 

I'm worried Choccster; you've obviously put some thought into this

 

Wouldn't you get ice burns though?

[chocchick]

I watch a lot of murder mysteries on TV sorry, was in a flippant mood

I've no idea about the ice, but you can touch things briefly in a minus 50-70 degree C freezer (in the lab) without harm.

There's always gloves

[The Dogmother]

There's always gloves

 

But wouldn't they leave fibres?