Posts Tagged ‘Knife’
Before health and safety: The Candy Knife slices like a razor
WOWZA! Life before health and safety: A cheap cut-yer-legs-off razor-style blade and candy bars! What could go wrong?
Jolly Rancher Crunch and Chew sweets come with free shank knife
TO Santa Clara, where Amy Hu is retrieving her free shank knife from a bag of Jolly Rancher Crunch and Chew sweets. Says Hu of her surprise gift:
“I was all excited to try them out. Opened it up, ate two pieces first, went back in for my third piece and pulled this right out of the bag and was just in disbelief.”
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Posted: 31st, July 2012 | In: Strange But True, The Consumer | Comment
Knife Crime: Snith On A Switch And Gnarls Barkley
HEY, kids! Wanna get revenge on a classmate? Here’s how. It’s easy:
Youngsters will be urged to email tip-offs on classmates carrying knives to the police in an initiative starting today.
The new warning service comes via the Crimestoppers’ youth website www.shadowcs.co.uk and will allow them to keep their identity secret.
What you do is text or call the police and tell them who is carrying a knife. Be precise. Give an address.
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Travel Bag With Free Knife
IT’S a travel bag. And – look out! – it’s got a knife…
Posted: 18th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Mr Sick Joker: Children Stick Knife-Sharp Pins In Babies
THE Sun says HMV is glorifying knife crime – by selling Batman badges featuring the “deadly weapons”.
For £2.99, children, adults can buy a badge of The Joker “framed by a circle of 12 blades”.
“Yet the only warning on the packs said that the pin on the back could hurt babies.”
While Anorak puts that warning to the test, showing a picture of knives to babies and then testing their sensitivity to pain, shopper Nadia Cooke is in a branch of HMV with her 11-year-old sister and 15-year-old brother.
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Paedo Knifers Fight The Taliban
KNIFE crime. Joe Lappin lies dead. The innocent 16-year-old was murdered by a gang, and a knife.
The Star wants to know if National Service is the cure to the knife culture plague?
YES – says actress Brooke Kinsella, whose brother was murdered by a knife.
“If these evil people want to fight so badly, let them fight for their country.”
(Image: Beau Bo D’Or)
As ever the tabloids solicit the opinion of someone still grieving. The idea that murderous lunatics would be welcome into the armed forces is one that should appeal to our enemies.
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Posted: 23rd, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
A Free Knife With Every Box Of Cereal
YOU’VE knifed your T-shirt. You’ve knifed your Anorak. Hey, you’ve even knifed your kebab.
Now you can knife your milk.
And with the new strawberry flavour, you can watch the milk turn a satisfying blood red…
Spotter: Brighton Belle
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Posted: 15th, October 2008 | In: Photojournalism, Strange But True | Comments (2)
Sir Ian Blair Knifed
“STOP KNIVES, SAVE LIVES,” says the Mirror, which also reports on the parting of Sir Ian Blair. Was he pushed, or did he fall down the stairs?
Sir Ian Blair is deposed as “Britain’s top cop (all papers) and how does the Mirror, annonce the departure?
“PLOD OFF. Knifed by Boris…”
Police are looking for Boris, an IC3 male who went that way…
(Image: Beau Bo D’Or)
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Posted: 3rd, October 2008 | In: Tabloids | Comments (5)
A Free Knife With Every Hoodie
THERE’S a great twofor deal at TK Maxs: shoppers can buy a hoodie and get a free knife stitched into the lining.
The Sun gives its front page over to the news that: “T.K Maxx sell jackets with knives sewn in.”
For just £59 shoppers can buy a jacket that doubles as an urban survival aide. Says one kebab shop regular:
“It’s great. If the boffins can put an optic of curry sauce in the zip, it will be greatest invention since the chainsaw.”
Inside and in “FOOL METAL JACKET,” the Sun shows a youth in school tie done up to the neck and clean blue jumper pulling the knife from his coat’s lining.
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Posted: 3rd, October 2008 | In: Tabloids | Comments (4)
