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March 17, 2014 04:00 pm PDT
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On knife-crime island, teens are not allowed to buyspoons
The UK tabloid press spent a decade drumming up hysteria about teenage knife-crime, and MPs responded on cue, passing a series of meaningless, overbearing feel-good measures that require shops to refuse to sell anything knife-like to teenagers -- meaning that seventeen-year-old art students can't buy xacto blades, and 16-year-old carpenter's apprentices can't buy utility knives.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/BQscmHvHRfQ/story01.htm
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