Former Lancastrian

THROWING a biscuit at someone or brushing them with a stinging nettle are now considered violent crimes, it has emerged.
The Police and Crime Commissioner for Norfolk, Stephen Bett, was trying to get to the bottom of what was behind a 14% rise in violent crime in the county when he uncovered the bizarre string of banal 'crimes'.
Mr Bett disclosed a number of cases recorded as instances of actual bodily harm (ABH) included a young child who swung round a boxing glove and caught his smaller sibling with it, a woman who threw a biscuit at a man that left a small red mark and a child who brushed a stinging nettle across a playmate's arm.

I said pass the digestives love
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Tirytory

Ooh I remember stinging nettles as a kid... Serious crime? Absobloominlutely.... They really hurt

magnumpi

See what happens when we have gun control in the UK, even our crimes are a world joke now

mikelincs

29th of May, Royal Oak day. If you didn't wear a sprig of Oak leaves, then others would hit you with nettles across the arms or legs. Childhood tradition.

Former Lancastrian

What god forsaken county was that prominent in Certainly no childhood tradition in Lancashire.

BristolUK

Thank heavens for dock leaves.

I was just reading people saying it's a myth that they help and that it was just a cool leaf helping.

Personally I found they only 'worked' if I spat on them. They wouldn't have been cold then so I'm not convinced it was a myth.

Pica

Spit plus dock leaf-yes it worked every time

BristolUK

Funny thing...I only just discovered it was dock rather than doc.

KuroKuro

Are there stinging nettles anywhere in Canada like we have back home?

I visited the UK with my Canadian bf last month and took him walking through "the countryside". I had to explain to him to avoid the nettles and it seemed like he didn't have a clue about the concept of getting stung by a plant!

Pizzawheel

Yeah pretty sure I found some nettles on the scraborough bluffs a few weekends ago- got once zinging sting!

mikelincs

Here's the Wikipaedia entry about it... also known as Oak Apple day..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Apple_Day