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WHSmiths goes crackers

In a bold move, WHSmiths have banned the sale of Christmas Crackers to under-age customers as they contain 'dangerous explosives'.

18-year-old Hannah Thomas of Weymouth, Dorset, was told she could not buy a box of the festive party things, as she could not prove she was over 18.

Technology site, The Register, reckons it would take nearly 20,000 crackers to create some kind of thermo-nuclear device capable of startling an old person.

Smiths have called the ban 'responsible retailing' but why they don't just stop people buying more than 500 crackers at a go is beyond us.

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