[OT] Carrying a knife

[Maitre Du Donjon]

From the Stupid Dept.:

Me and a couple of friends were arrested (and risked jail) because we carried plastic, cow-boy, kiddie guns that shoot blanks (I can't find the right word in english). We were fooling around in a neighborhood, shooting stupidly at each other when we were reported by concerned citizen.

Oh yeah, we were 18. And the only thing we had absorbed that evening was candy.

On the knife at work debate: In Canada, IIRC, a knife who's blade fits in the palm of your hand isn't considered a weapon, but any place of business can disallow whatever they want on their premises. If your boss told you you couldn't wear bright purple pants, then, hey, don't come in with bright purple pants.

Maitre D

 

[Zhure]

1- cap guns
2- I have freakishly large palms, silly Canadian rules

 

[Maitre Du Donjon]

1- cap guns
2- I have freakishly large palms, silly Canadian rules

1- ARGH thanks
2- I think the rational behind it is if you have big palms, you're probably a big guy anyway, and would pose a bigger threat, so they don't see it as a problem to let you have a sligthly bigger knife that the average person.

Maitre D

 

[Kahuna Burger]

From the Stupid Dept.:

Me and a couple of friends were arrested (and risked jail) because we carried plastic, cow-boy, kiddie guns that shoot blanks (I can't find the right word in english). We were fooling around in a neighborhood, shooting stupidly at each other when we were reported by concerned citizen.

Just for clarification purposes, who are you considering stupid in this story?

Kahuna Burger

 

[Maitre Du Donjon]

Just for clarification purposes, who are you considering stupid in this story?

Kahuna Burger

Mostly us.

the Laws a little bit (since we were warned that we could face prosecution). Of course, it probably didn't help us that a week earlier, a couple of guys in the same town had walked into a bar with sawed-off shot guns...

Maitre D
Night Manager of the Stupid Dept.

 

[Enceladus]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Dealing with the situation in a mature manner-

Of course, not recognizing a deep thoughts reference is something I shoud be terribly embarrassed about... And of course I wasn't joking about there being cheaper ways to go to jail... I mean, most don't involve spending any money and even have a chance at making some.

Kahuna burger

*ALERT* Thread hijack imminent *ALERT*

Bailed my old man out of jail once. That's a surreal experience I can tell you, bailing a parent out of jail.

Thankfully the old guy has straightened out his life.

 

[med stud]

Unless you live in a risky neighbourhood and need the knife for some kind of security, I cant see why bringing the knife should be that much of a deal not to bring it. Living with people means compromises, and by making your manager happy you essentially dont lose anything.

I can understand it better if the manager told you not to bring the knife in a rude fashion, but still a) the company dont want you to bring it, and they can fire you and b) carrying a weapon without reason is kind of suspicious (even though the pizza knives would maybe make more dangerous weapons).

 

[Emiricol]

Well, in Britain, you'd be the criminal. Knives come under the Offensive Weapons act, and you can serve a jail term just for carrying one.

OTOH, A court recently overturned an Offensive Weapons charge on the grounds that Spiked Flails are not offensive weapons. Neither are Nunchaku.

Sounds like California with its infamouse "hot coffee lawsuit." Makes zero sense to me.

 

[djrdjmsqrd]

Got arrested....

Was arrested for posseion of my knife and the manner it was in my pocket...it was .05mm over the legal limit....

grrr...

Conc. Deadly Weapon
Poss. Deadly Weapon

djordje

 

[Sixchan]

Sounds like California with its infamouse "hot coffee lawsuit." Makes zero sense to me.

AFAIK, the Judge asked for an example list of offensive weaopns, and since "Flail", "Nunchaku" and the other items weren't on the list, he dismissed the case. Now I really need to find the shop (it's somewhere in town, I believe) and buy me a spiked flail.

My days of harrassment by neds will finally be over. Mwhahahaha.