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4000% 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...
"Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind. Sick Boy, "Blowing It: Deid Dugs" (Chapter 4, Story 3)"
These loathsome people have no respect for Britain's glorious history or traditions. Real British patriots use cricket bats on their looting spree.
Might 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.
Ah, so upstanding citizens should have no tools for defending themselves, loved ones, homes & businesses? Business Ethics Class classic indeed, and with no clear-cut answer. I'd contend that anyone ordering such products online under such circumstances is not part of the criminal element (who would instead just raid a sporting-goods store, or pick up any comparable object) ... and thus Amazon would do customers well…
Are 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…
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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.
A handful of bats = one?
Are 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.