Christmas crackers dangerous

fosterscan


Joined: 27/02/2010
Posts: 541

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 16:53

crackers are classed as fireworks so no one under 16 can buy them how stupid http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/article-1336785/Christmas-crackers-Cashiers-sell-16s-face-months-prison.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

yrret


Joined: 17/08/2010
Posts: 761

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 18:15

Good to see the asylum still working well.



I wonder how the sentence for selling a cracker to an U16 will compare with loosing your Tazer you Plod pillock.

shrimp


Joined: 01/09/2010
Posts: 939

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 20:56

cant take them on an aeroplane either, firearms.........

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 21:42

If gets more like scrooge every day now xx

Blackbird



Joined: 11/08/2009
Posts: 1432

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 21:54

This is MADNESS?

Pugwash


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 1797

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 22:09

This is what Ryanair say, funny really,



WHAT ITEMS ARE PROHIBITED FROM BEING CARRIED IN THE CABIN OF THE AIRCRAFT?



Passengers are not permitted to carry the following articles into the security restricted area and the cabin of an aircraft: Guns, Firearms & Weapons; any object capable, or appearing capable, of discharging a projectile or causing injury, including: All firearms (pistols, revolvers, rifles, shotguns, etc.) Replica and imitation firearms, Component parts of firearms (excluding telescopic sighting devices & sights), air pistols, rifles and pellet guns. Signal flare pistols, Starter pistols, Toy guns of all types,ball bearing guns, industrial bolt and nail guns, cross bows, catapults, harpoon and spear guns, Animal humane killers, stun or shocking devices, e.g. cattle prods, ballistic conducted energy weapons (laser), lighters shaped like a firearm.



Pointed/edged Weapons & Sharp Objects; pointed or bladed articles capable of causing injury, including axes & hatchets

Pugwash


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 1797

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 22:09

arrows and darts, crampons (grappling iron, hooked bar of iron, or plate with iron spikes used in mountaineering), harpoons & spears, ice axes & ice picks, ice skates, lockable or flick knives with blades of any length, knives, including ceremonial, religious and hunting knives, made of metal or any other material strong enough to be used as a potential weapon, meat cleavers, machetes, open razors and blades (excluding safety or disposable razors with blades enclosed in cartridge), sabres, swords and swordsticks, scalpels, scissors with blades of any length, ski and walking/hiking poles, throwing stars, tradesman's tools that have the potential to be used as a pointed or edged weapon, e.g. drills and drill bits, box cutters, utility knives, all saws, screwdrivers, crowbars, hammers, pliers, wrenches/spanners, blow torches.



Blunt Instruments: any blunt instrument capable of causing injury, including baseball and softball bats, clubs or batons - rigid or flexible - e.g. billy clubs, b

Pugwash


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 1797

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 22:10

blackjacks (truncheon of leather covered lead with flexible shaft), night sticks & batons, cricket bats, golf clubs, hockey and hurley sticks, lacrosse sticks, kayak and canoe paddles, skateboards, billiard, snooker and pool cues, fishing rods, martial arts equipment, e.g. knuckle dusters, clubs, coshes, rice flails, num-chucks, kubatons, kubasaunts.



Explosives and flammable substances; any explosive or highly combustible substance which poses a risk to the health of passengers and crew or the security/safety of aircraft or property, including ammunition, blasting caps, detonators & fuses, explosives and explosive devices, replica or imitation explosive material or devices, mines & other explosive military store, grenades of all types.gas & gas containers, e.g. butane, propane, acetylene, oxygen - in large volume, fireworks, flares in any form and other pyrotechnics (including party poppers and toy caps), non safety matches, smoke generating canisters or cartridges, flammable liquid

Pugwash


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 1797

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 22:11

fuel, e.g. petrol/gasoline, diesel, lighter fluid, alcohol, ethanol, aerosol spray paint, turpentine & paint thinner, alcoholic beverages exceeding 70% by volume (140% proof)



Chemical and Toxic Substances; any chemical or toxic substances which pose a risk to the health of passengers and crew or the security/ safety of aircraft or property, including: acids and alkalis, e.g. spillable "wet" batteries, corrosive or bleaching substances - e.g. mercury, chlorine, disabling or incapacitating sprays - e.g. mace, pepper spray, tear gas, radioactive material - e.g. medicinal or commercial isotopes, poisons, infectious or biological hazardous material - e.g. infected blood, bacteria and viruses, material capable of spontaneous ignition or combustion, fire extinguishers (excepting as authorised by fire protocols and as aircraft emergency equipment)



Guns, firearms, ammunition and weapons (including replica items), paints, Christmas crackers, items with internal combustion engines such as c

Pugwash


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 1797

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 22:12

chainsaws, model aircraft, lawnmowers, etc., may not be carried in any baggage (whether checked or unchecked)



Not much you can take anymore



Crackers certainly not anywhere on the plane.

lovingcyprus


Joined: 02/03/2007
Posts: 1272

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 22:32

But you can buy a bottle (glass) of wine in departures and then take it on to the plane

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
08/12/2010 22:37

Or any bottle of spirits in duty free. Or go in one of the restaurants and have a meal and nick the knife. pugs one year i went back before xmas, i bough a load of M&S crackers luxury ones for our xmas day meal at the brasserie . Had the lot confiscated. x