Amazon boss Jeff Bezos could face prison over knife sales to children

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/19/jeff-bezos-could-face-prison-amazon-knife-sales-children/

Harsher sentences will also apply to bosses of online stores who let under-18s buy deadly weapons in Home Office crackdown

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250219072429/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/19/jeff-bezos-could-face-prison-amazon-knife-sales-children/

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greenshirtdenimjeans@sh.itjust.works · 110 pts · 1y (2 replies)

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WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 1y

This headline is so far from reality it should be institutionalized as a danger to itself and society.

nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 1y

Odds are actually less than a meteorite randomly killing him , and those odds are literally astronomical.

ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org · 44 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Billionaires don't go to prison, silly. Billionaires are above the law.

QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 1y

But not above a guillotine

jagged_circle@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 1y

But billionaires are below the blade of the guillotine

JJROKCZ@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 1y

lol like hell he will. The oligarchs are clearly in control of the US

TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 22 pts · 1y (2 replies)

that's a pardoning

blakenong@lemmings.world · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

That’s an appointment to a cabinet position.

aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Chief Secretary of Knife Sales to Minors

jjjalljs@ttrpg.network · 17 pts · 1y

I don't think we should be posting such pornographic fictions in this community.

Juice@midwest.social · 17 pts · 1y (4 replies)

As an American: lol. Lmao even. The European mind cannot comprehend the unvarnished corruption of the American legal system

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I can't help but picture some stereotypical British street urchin child (think Oliver Twist) buying a knife from Amazon.

Juice@midwest.social · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

And the avatar for Amazon just carelessly hands a child a long jagged grooved blade that serves no apparent purpose but gleeful, sadistic murder

SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

long jagged grooved blade that serves no apparent purpose ~~but gleeful, sadistic murder~~ sitting on a shelf and looking cool

Mall ninja shit, my friend.

Juice@midwest.social · 3 pts · 1y

Sometimes the solution to all our problems is a 10" 440A steel knife modeled after the one used by the sadistic villain in the 1986 action thriller "Cobra" starring Sylvester Stallone at his Stalloniest

NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y

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jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 1y

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ColdWater@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 1y

I'll bark like a dog for 7days if he spent even a single day in jail

rumba@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)

0.00000000000% Chance.

He'd buy the Judge, the Jury, the Courthouse, The News.

More likely, it'll become retroactively legal to sell katanas to newborns.

friend_of_satan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

He doesn't have to. He already paid off Trump, who will pardon him.