That doesn't make sense, by the time you get the bat the riots should be over. Are the local sporting good stores all sold out?
5000% Increase in the sale of baseball bats on Amazon.co.uk
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#12Are the rioters buying these or the people and shop owners who want to protect their property?
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#13Are the rioters buying these or the people and shop owners who want to protect their property?
Surely rioters? I find it hard to believe a shop owner is seriously going to try and hold the line by themselves against a mob. Also, a baseball bat is a classic disguised weapon but a shopkeeper will have no justification in having one so it is probably an offensive weapon in UK law. I've heard it said that D-cell Maglite torches are used by security guards not because they necessarily need a torch (a headtorch is g…
I find it hard to believe a shop owner is seriously going to try and hold the line by themselves against a mob
Groups of shop owners are defending themselves. See this video http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2011/aug/09/london-riots-...
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#14Might become a Business Ethics Class classic. From my point of view, Amazon should not deliver. It is obvious the bats are intended to be used as weapons, which is illegal at least in Germany, no matter what circumstances.
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#15I would expect Amazon to make a statement saying they wont ship them, now this has hit the press. EDIT judging from hullo's comment above they have pulled all these products. Not sure why this comment is getting so many downvotes, it is a PR issue not a law enforcement issue, if the press are calling the company over this and it is going to be in the papers they will do this.
Yes, it would make perfect sense for Amazon to cancel thousands of orders because they could be involved in some kind of ongoing riot. Great idea. /s
This isn't thousands, it's only a few hundred. Remember, the British don't play much baseball so they would normally only be selling a handful of any given bat per day.
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#164000% increate in the sale of Coleman PefectFlow 1-Burner Stoves on Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/gp/movers-and-shakers/sporting-goods It must be significant.
Well people in England are burning cars. Also they're poor. Surely they must have US-based backers ?
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#17Are the rioters buying these or the people and shop owners who want to protect their property?
(UK poster here - living away from the riots though, thankfully)
There was apparently a decently large group of Turkish business owners in London last night who got together with baseball bats to protect their businesses (which apparently worked).
I'd say it's a bit of both.
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#184000% increate in the sale of Coleman PefectFlow 1-Burner Stoves on Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/gp/movers-and-shakers/sporting-goods It must be significant.
No, you picked an outlier. OP pointed out a trend -- 8/10 of the top "Movers and Shakers" are bats/batons. That is significant.
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#194000% increate in the sale of Coleman PefectFlow 1-Burner Stoves on Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/gp/movers-and-shakers/sporting-goods It must be significant.
27,000% percent increase in flashlights in Japan. Clearly the rioters threaten our power plants.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/movers-and-shakers/378-9075017-80...