Hoodie Ban

[Angel]

This is just crazy!

:you_crazy:you_crazy

I know we have hoodie ban in Denmark too,and I have more that one myself. But I have never been asked to leave a shop because of it...

Are things really so bad in the UK that a shop owner do that?

:you_crazy

Jay was wrapped up against the cold for the shopping trip

A toddler has been banned from a North Yorkshire shop for wearing a hoodie.

Two-year-old Jay Cowper was wrapped up against the cold in a brown jacket with a furry hood when he went shopping with his grandfather in York.

Jay was asked to remove his hood by staff at Monkton Road Stores because of a "no hoodie" policy designed to tackle problems with troublemakers.

His grandfather refused out of principle and the pair were forced to leave the store.

'Will not rob'

Jay's grandmother Brenda Cowper branded the decision "ridiculous".
She said: "As soon as he walked in he (the owner) said 'do you mind asking the little boy to take his hood down'.

"My husband looked at him and said 'he is only two-and-a-half, he is not going to rob you'."

"The shop owner said 'well, it's my policy that nobody comes in and gets served with a hood up'.

"So my husband said he would go somewhere else and with that he just walked out."

The owner of Monkton Road Stores said his shop had been a constant target of crime and he could not afford to make any exceptions.

[Techno4yourhead]

That's fuckin ridiculous. :hopeless:

[kaito]

It is ridiculous, but hardly worth a slot on the BBC national news like it had last night - basically just an over-zealous corner shop owner being a tit - happens all the time really, its just that there's currently loads of shit in the papers about hoodies and the extreme young age involved makes it seem like a news worthy story i.e. it can be given the angle 'look how ott the hoodie issue has got', ironically by the same media that a few months ago were using the angle 'dangerous hoodies everywhere' and creating the public outcry that has led to this one over-zealous individual being such a tit.

[Techno4yourhead]

Well fair play to the kid's Grandad for phoning up the BBC newsdesk so that everyone can now see what an over-zealous tit the shopkeeper is.

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[General Lighting]

Its daft but its the shop owners commercial decision. As long as the corner shop owner isn't discriminating on race, gender or sexuality they can choose whom they do business with.

IME most small British businesses try and cherry-pick their customers which is why a lot of them fail..

[BioTech]

Nuts! Good on the grandfather too. Although the report seemed to suggest the child was banned, it doesn't mention that this was the action taken by the store manager. A bit of a distortion of the truth there maybe, to make the story more shocking.