U.K. sales of aluminum bats up 5,000%

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By David Edwards

Several days of rioting and looting in London have turned into a temporary boon for the sporting goods business.

Figures from Amazon.co.uk show that sales of self-defense items like bats have skyrocketed in recent days.

The Rucanor Aluminium Baseball Bat was at the top of Amazon's "Movers and Shakers in Sports & Leisure" list, showing a 5,149 percent increase.

Paywell's Military Police Telescopic Tonfa also saw a rise of more than 5,000 percent.

Some wooden bats were up as much as 3,664 percent.

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/09/u-k-sales-of-aluminum-bats-up-5000/

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Batter up!!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. How'd purchases of state weaponry do?

:think:

[GreenStormCloud]

2. Too bad folks there can't carry guns.

You don't see that sort of stuff in any of our shall-issue states.

[Orrex]

3. We should airlift a few crates of assault rilfes to them.

That'll fix everything!

[guruoo]

4. Which would of course, lead to

armed rioting.

[AndyTiedye]

5. They Don't Even Play Baseball in the UK, Do They?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

7. Some do.

[JVS]

6. These bats may be used for rioting as well.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

9. Brilliant!

[Shagbark Hickory]

8. Or they could just throw acid. The riots would stop in a nanosecond.

[GKirk]

10. Well that's a nasty thought...

...what made you say that?

[snooper2]

11. because you can buy muriatic acid at the local hardware store..

These are harder to come by...

[Shagbark Hickory]

12. Because there's so much talk about using guns, and blaming their sensible gun laws for the riots.

When in reality if they had as lax gun laws as we have, their riots would make post-katrina new orleans look like the Small World ride at disney world.

We don't think of violent gun crimes as gruesome because of how they're romanticized on the silver screen. Of course it's just as gruesome as an acid attack.