Scissors, Paper.... Oh never mind.

[Agelastus]

As an aside, the above is why you cannot buy spoons or scissors in local branches of the Co-op, as I found out a few months ago.

[grumbler]

Since (and I kid you not) in some stores, if you look too young, you need an ID card that proves you are 21 (or possibly even 25 by now) in order to be able to buy spoons (due to there possible use as a weapon) I can well believe it - scissors have been classed as a potential offensive weapon in some shops for years.

Dunno about spoons as weapons, but if run-on sentences can be weapons, this one is a 10kt nuke.

[Agelastus]

Since (and I kid you not) in some stores, if you look too young, you need an ID card that proves you are 21 (or possibly even 25 by now) in order to be able to buy spoons (due to there possible use as a weapon) I can well believe it - scissors have been classed as a potential offensive weapon in some shops for years.

Dunno about spoons as weapons, but if run-on sentences can be weapons, this one is a 10kt nuke.

Only 10kt? I shall have to try harder in future.

[dps]

Are there more libraries than stores that sell scissors?

Since (and I kid you not) in some stores, if you look too young, you need an ID card that proves you are 21 (or possibly even 25 by now) in order to be able to buy spoons (due to there possible use as a weapon) I can well believe it - scissors have been classed as a potential offensive weapon in some shops for years.

The amusing thing is that despite stores requiring this card, even if spoons are classed with knives, it is still legal to buy them at 18...

I had figured that the problem was that, being as this happened in the UK, you have pay a special scissors tax to get a scissors license, and the cost of the license was prohititive for small businesses. 

[grumbler]

Only 10kt? I shall have to try harder in future.

It had megaton-level clauses but not megaton-level length.

[sbr]

Since (and I kid you not) in some stores, if you look too young, you need an ID card that proves you are 21 (or possibly even 25 by now) in order to be able to buy spoons (due to there possible use as a weapon) I can well believe it - scissors have been classed as a potential offensive weapon in some shops for years.

Dunno about spoons as weapons, but if run-on sentences can be weapons, this one is a 10kt nuke.

[Martinus]

I think they missed a very important threat. Millions of pages of paper. Massive potential for a paper cut massacre.

[Martinus]

I have to say that I think this is really about one of those crazy ladies that goes around tormenting public institutions.

She is 26. Isn't "crazy lady" a more appropriate term for an elderly woman?

[Eddie Teach]

Some women are precocious.

[Strix]

"I then asked to borrow a guillotine to cut up my leaflets but she refused again - because she said I could hit her over the head with it!"

Not the first thing I would think of doing with a guillotine.

I think she was referring to what we call a paper cutter in the US. You find them in most classrooms and offices i.e. the flatboard with the big blade used to cut the paper on an exact edge in large quantities.

[jimmy olsen]

Are there more libraries than stores that sell scissors?

Since (and I kid you not) in some stores, if you look too young, you need an ID card that proves you are 21 (or possibly even 25 by now) in order to be able to buy spoons (due to there possible use as a weapon) I can well believe it - scissors have been classed as a potential offensive weapon in some shops for years.

The amusing thing is that despite stores requiring this card, even if spoons are classed with knives, it is still legal to buy them at 18...

What has happened to English liberty?

[garbon]

What has happened to English liberty?

You have to do the same for spray paint in New York City. Oh noes!

[garbon]

Since (and I kid you not) in some stores, if you look too young, you need an ID card that proves you are 21 (or possibly even 25 by now) in order to be able to buy spoons (due to there possible use as a weapon) I can well believe it - scissors have been classed as a potential offensive weapon in some shops for years.

The amusing thing is that despite stores requiring this card, even if spoons are classed with knives, it is still legal to buy them at 18...

Yes, the fear of showing ID necessitates that one visit 3 other libraries with the same request.

[garbon]

She is 26. Isn't "crazy lady" a more appropriate term for an elderly woman?

You can use "crazy lady" to describe crazy women of any age.

[merithyn]

Yes, the fear of showing ID necessitates that one visit 3 other libraries with the same request.

I would guess that she was trying to prove a point by then. I'd go to another library, too, trying to find out if it's a policy across the board, or simply that first librarian's paranoia. After the second, though, I'd have just asked and then gone and gotten my own damn scissors.