Selling Knife Crime: Eros’s Arrow And Selfridge’s Red Hearts T-Shirts
THE Mirror is outraged. On sale in Selfridges, London, is a T-shirt for The Red Hearts, an LA punk band.
The T-shirt features a drawing of a blade on the wearer’s heart and some red ink that trails into the lettering “THE RED HEARTS”.
Janina Rout, 47, shopper, mother, was appalled:
“The shirt was among clothes aimed at young men around the age currently being killed in knife attacks…It’s not the sort of message they should be putting across at the moment when knife crime is such a problem. Even more shocking was that a lad was stabbed to death on Oxford street a few weeks before.”
A Crimestoppers spokesman, tells us: “This is fashion at its most reckless. We are amazed that a quality store like Selfridges could be so naive with its buying.”
Anorak agrees. If knife crime is to be stopped, we need to do the following and more:
1. Teach our young to stop holding knives like a cigarette
2. Adopt chop sticks as the UK table norm
3. Bring back Joe Brown and spoons playing
4. Start calling knives “fluffy bunnies”
5. Have a heated debate
6. Replace Eros’ arrows at Piccadilly Circus with a cotton wool bud
Says a spokesman for Selfridges said: “We can confirm that following a complaint the T-shirt was withdrawn.
“We apologise for any offence caused.”
July 30th, 2008 at 11:49 am
Clearly a dreadful mistake on Selfridges’ part; they were meant to have been on sale downstairs in the kitchen department, where they sell the knives…
July 30th, 2008 at 11:54 am
You mean the fluffy bunnies, as they have been rebranded
July 30th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Sorry about that.
As you can probably tell, I’m still trying to get to grips with not eating peas off the wrong side of the chopsticks…
July 30th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I saw some British blokes on the telly the other night; in somewhere called Afghanistan.
They all had guns, the irresponsible bastards!!!
What sort of a message does that send to our poor dear impressionable yoof?
July 31st, 2008 at 12:42 am
We should go further and ban all tshirts, until we ban all chest covering clothing this spate of tshirt crime will continue and our youth will be unable to go bare chested in public. In fact yesterday on the C10 bus I saw a youth blatently bradishing a tshirt and another with a spare tshirt in his bag out of fear of being disrobed.
I saw a book on tshirts in WH Smith, methinks its time for a book burning….anyone else outraged at the amount of Witch crime in London? We could see if they float in the Thames and burn them?
Knife crime is driven by a lack of respect for self, life and others…
July 31st, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Mic - the difference is surely that the irresponsible bastards are actually supposed to be carrying the guns….?