Tuesday - June 10, 2008

WHAT IN THE HECK IS WRONG WITH THESE JERKS?  oh, right. THEY’RE FREEKIN IDIOTS!

I would be sorely tempted to come back with a gun!  OK, I might not if I had time to think about it.  But this is so damn fuckin nannyish and stupid.
Are the Brits getting dumber?  And for the company to defend this is equally outrageous .

2 fuckin percent booze in a BB sauce?  This is maddening. Really it is.

Barbecue sauce madame? Do you have any ID?
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:34 AM on 10th June 2008

Controversial: The offending bottle of sauce

Cashiers at a Tesco refused to sell a woman barbecue sauce --because she did not have any ID.

Claire Birchell, 25, was told she could not buy the Jack Daniel’s sauce because it contains 2 per cent alcohol and she could not prove she was old enough to buy it.

Staff even refused to sell the bottle to her brother-in-law, Philip Dover, 27, who was with her at the time and did have ID, because they said he would just give it to her.

Miss Birchell had been hoping to stock up on the sauce while she was visiting her parents in Flitwick, near Bedford, as the shops near her home in Liverpool do not sell it.

So she was astonished to be told she could not buy the condiment because it contains a small amount of whiskey.

Mr Dover said: ‘We just could not believe it. It’s not as if we were going to go and sit down the park drinking it.

‘Claire lives in Liverpool and she can’t buy the sauce up there so she was really
disappointed she couldn’t get it in Flitwick. It just seems crazy over a sauce.’

Mr Dover added that he had gone back to the store a few days later and bought a bottle of the sauce without any problem.

It is not the first time Tesco staff have been accused of being overly-strict in policing sales to minors.

Last month the store stopped selling alcohol to parents if they were with their children in case they passed it on to them.

This meant many shoppers who took their children on their weekly shop found they were denied the beer and wine in their trolley.

At the time Tesco defended the move saying they preferred staff to ‘err on the side of caution’.

Supermarkets have become increasingly strict over the selling of alcohol as the Government has imposed tougher rules and penalties.

Any shop caught selling drink to under-18s three times in three months faces a £10,000 fine.

Find this story at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1025362/Barbecue-sauce-madame-Do-ID.html

Posted by Drew458     on 06/10/2008 at 11:15 AM   
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