UK baseball bat sales increase 6000% in the aftermath of the London riots

Forgoing the traditional, Shaun-Of-The-Dead-style bloody cricket bat self-defence technique -- the closest thing England's got to a martial art bar Conan Doyle's Bartitsu -- Blighty's scared homeowners and shopkeepers have been ordering thousands of baseball bats to help themselves sleep at night during the recent riots.

Well, help themselves sleep at night and waggle intimidatingly at passing yoofs, we're guessing.

Amazon.co.uk shows the rapid increase in baseball bat purshasing online, with the "60 cm Runacor Aluminium Baseball Bat" jumping up 6541%, the "Military Police Tonfa" baton shooting up 4291% and even the wooden "Bronx 32" Baseball Bat" seeing sales increase by 3263%.

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