Bad news for UK cops and bondage fetishes

Times:

Police officers may have to be a little more restrained about restraining prisoners, because of a looming shortage of handcuffs.

The company that makes cuffs for the majority of Britain's police forces is closing down this week, prompting something of a short-term supply problem.

Hiatt & Company, which has been making handcuffs, leg-irons, manacles and other gruesome devices to shackle humans for more than 200 years, will shut its Birmingham workshops within days.

“It's not going to be a problem, it already is a problem,” one police source told The Times. “I called the other day to buy in some stock and was told: "We can't do your order, we're closing'. It was the first I'd heard of it.”

Another police procurement official said: “I'm thinking of looking on eBay if I can't get any cuffs in the next day or two.”

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OK guys just go to the home or auto supply store and get the plastic binders used to wrap wire. The military calls them flex cuffs. You just put the two wrist together and pull the plastic ties tight. You will need to cut them off when your are finished transporting the perp. You can also order them online at places like this.

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