Parents Buy Stab-Proof Uniforms for Schoolkids

Paranoid parents in Britain are "outfitting their children with stab-proof school uniforms, lined with Kevlar, the same kind of material found in flak jackets worn by U.S. troops," CBS News says.

Casual clothes are getting the treatment too." (Check out these knife-resistant hoodies) "And Internet orders have been flooding in, including hundreds from the U.S."

But how necessary is the gear, really?  I mean, this isn't New York.  And it ain't 1989.  "Around 1 percent of crimes either have a knife used or intimated, so it is a tiny proportion of total crime," said Deputy Asst. Commissioner Al Hitchcock.

But it is good business.