The World Has Gone Mad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kat1]

Bought a Poppy in Boots The Chemist & asked the assitant where the pins were? They are not allowed them due to Health & Safety!!!!!!!!!

[zzxxee]

my boots supplied me with a pin for my poppy yesterday how weird health and fooking safety gone mad !!!!!!!!!!!

[lumination]

you having a laugh? thats beyond crazy

[kat1]

No i just laughed & so did all the customers in the queue!

[cazzz1975]

how are you supposed to attach it then?

[kat1]

I stuck it behind my ear!

[zzxxee]

how can you "wear your poppy with pride" with no bloody pin ???

[cazzz1975]

I thought safety pins were okay to use? is that what they have banned?

[Robinia]

lol Kat..it's ridiculous, some of us grew up eating pomegranates with a pin :o)

[kat1]

Yes Robina my mum gave us needles to eat them with!

[stewey]

Steve has a pin on his poppy.

[zzxxee]

you should go back and ask for some velcro !!!!!!!!

[fredpuli47]

Happened to me one year. No pins because 'they are not allowed' !. All very odd. A moment's thought would show the vendor could not be liable for anyone hurting themselves, or anyone else, with the pin unless, perhaps, the sale was to a child so young that it shouldn't be trusted with a pin. Other vendors offered pins at the time, so it must have been a private, not the charity's, decision

[factor-fiction]

It's not really a matter of health and safety.
Is this a true story or an urban myth?
Maybe they are afraid of litigation but I bet they sell sharp knives (to adults) so it seems silly not to offer pins.