Grenade Oil Lamps - Controversy in the Netherlands Continues

Background Info: A tourist purchased a couple Hand Grenade Oil Lamps from a design shop in the Netherlands and was stopped at Schipol Airport (in The Netherlands) detained for 4 hours and his Grenade Oil Lamps confiscated while Dutch Customs was trying to figure out if the oil lamps should be considered contraband. He was released, and a couple days later the shop where he purchased the grenades (SPRMRKT) was raided by Dutch Customs seized their inventory of the lamps and placed the shop owner Nelleke Strijkers in a terrorist watch list.

In This Video: The host of this popular dutch news program argues with the top dutch celebrity lawyer about the legitimacy of the Dutch customs' claim. A comparison is made to Philippe Starck's gun lamps with the lawyers side claiming the gun lamp appears to be more of a lamp than a gun while the heavy gold plated iron grenade oil lamp is more easily mistaken for a real weapon. The host argues nobody can take a gold grenade shaped piece of metal into a bank and rob it. She builds the case that there is no difference between painting the grenade lamp black and sawing off the lampshade. The issue compounds further as it is illegal to own a fake/false/toy weapon in the Netherlands though real weapons are allowed. By the end neither side has a solid lead over the other and the issue of whether the Hand Grenade Oil Lamps are illegal in Holland goes unanswered.

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