{"id":3315,"date":"2014-03-18T15:51:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T20:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2014-03-18T15:51:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T20:51:53","slug":"youths-with-spoons-the-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=3315","title":{"rendered":"Youths with spoons!  The horror!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently a store in merry old England had their system require an age check that thwarted a young ruffian from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-lancashire-26574789\" target=\"_blank\">purchasing some tea spoons<\/a>, which I&#8217;m sure would have then used them to cause mayhem.<\/p>\n<p>I will have to say that the store management did apologize, and agreed that it was a bit ridiculous.\u00a0 Although&#8230; why the hell were teaspoons tagged as requiring age checks to begin with?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know which is worse, the fact that the teaspoons were tagged in the first place, the fact that the clerk didn&#8217;t quickly say &#8220;this is ridiculous&#8221; and let the kid buy the damn spoons, or the fact that the mother of said terror maker stated &#8220;Knives, <strong>forks<\/strong> I can understand but teaspoons?&#8221;\u00a0 It&#8217;s a well known issue that minors in the UK can&#8217;t be trusted with knives, but apparently forks are also highly suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently a store in merry old England had their system require an age check that thwarted a young ruffian from purchasing some tea spoons, which I&#8217;m sure would have then used them to cause mayhem. I will have to say that the store management did apologize, and agreed that it was a bit ridiculous.\u00a0 Although&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}