Ban the Stink Bomb!
Angry shopkeepers demand `Ban the stink-bomb!’
SIXTEEN High Street owners of shop and business premises have petitioned Skegness Council, asking for steps to be taken to ban the sale of stink-bombs from shops in the resort. They believe the “joke” stink-bombs are being sold mainly by a joke shop in High Street and a bazaar in Lumley Road; and that the two owners concerned are not likely to agree to voluntarily stop their sales.
The petition was presented to Skegness Council General Purposes Committee last week by Coun. Tom Senior, who said his own shop had suffered from ” these pointless and irritating so-called jokes.”
The committee agreed to recommend the Council to approach the County Council, to see if a bye-law could be framed to prevent stink-bombs being sold in any local shop.
Among the chief victims of stink-bombs, said Mr. R. G. Mitchell, are the amusement arcades opposite each other in Lumley Road, Mr. Mitchell’s ” Funfair ” and his father’s ” Daytimes.”
” It was bad enough last year, but has reached an absolute crescendo this season,” said Mr. Mitchell. ” We have had as many as 30 incidents in one day, sometimes with several of these beastly little things dropped at the same time.
Among others who readily signed the petition was Mr. Syd Rowley, secretary of the Briar Way Working Men’s Club. They have had tombola sessions interrupted in their spacious new clubroom by stink-bomb incidents. ” We found out who did it last time, and shot him out double quick. The next one might be very sorry for his peculiar sense of humour !” said Mr. Rowley grimly.
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What a load of tosh! The stick bomb has been around for years and years and is harmless fun! Better a stink bomb than a brick through the window!! Get over it – and stop being boring – you’re in skegness for crying out loud – lots of children (whom I might add will be propping up lots of businesses with their pocket money!!)who want to have some “fun”. If you want to ban the bomb, go and join CND. Let children grow up with a sense of fun and show them that adults can take it on the chin – children have enough aggro from adults these days anyway – give ‘em a little slack!