RE: turn in your knives!

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Fri, 26 May 2006 Blanchard_Michael () emc com wrote:

>  boy do I feel safer knowing that the evil Batleth is off the streets.  There are oh so many people that are getting 
> hurt, mamed, killed with those things....  After all it's capable of BEHEADING SOMEONE!!!!!
>
>   The swords too!  WOW!  I feel so much safer now!!!!
>
>
>   </sarcasm>
>
>    ok, really, how is getting that Batleth off the wall of some Star
> Trek fan making England safer?  And the swords on that table too, come
> on, how many people are even getting so much as a cut finger by one of

We have, in my memory in the last year or so, had at least one incident of
a guy running amok with a samurai sword.

> those things....  A pocket knife, stilleto, switchblade (flip knife I
> think it's called in UK),

Flick knife.

> I can see... But how many thugs are actually
> walking around with a full hand and a half sword, machette, or Batleth!

We've had two well-publicised incidents recently.

1) A special constable, female, was stabbed to death outside her home when
she was investigating a possible crime. It looks likely that the knife
used, was one she'd grabbed from her kitchen, and the attacker used it on
her.

2) A 15 yo kid was killed outside his school, with a knife. It seems he 
was trying to break up a fight.

So when the fuzz raided a house (for reasons we don't actually know) and
came across this huge great five-foot steel weapon, which apparently was
kept nice and sharp (which you wouldn't need if you just wanted it as a
prop at trekkie meetings), they could hardly ignore it.

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