nofarkenway@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
> Depends on why you are carrying a knife. Put a Swiss army knife in
> your pocket with the specific intent of using it to peel your lunch
> time apple and you don't have a problem. Carry the same knife to
> "defend" you and your girfriend and you are, in the eyes of the law,
> "going armed in public," and could be dragged in front of eh
> magistrate to face the music. This happened to one well intended young
> bloke in Brisbane a few years ago. Some cop decided to poke his snout
> into the contens of teh young fellows pocket and IF said young bloke
> had said the knife was to peel lunch time fruit he would have been
> safe. Instead he claimed the knife was for self defence.
Quite a few years ago, me and one of my mates decided to go
visit canberra and went into parliament house. The alarms
went off so we both emptied our pockets into the little
trays they have. Car keys, wallets, a bit of loose change,
pocket knives, cameras, mobile phones... POCKET KNIVES!!!
FAAARK these blokes are here to kill Johnny and take over
the country in a coup! We got ushered into another room and
were questioned for a while - they soon realised that we
were just a couple of very naive bu****es who meant no harm.
After a stern warning about the dangers of carrying our
knives in the city, they sent us back to our car with the
pocket knives, then we returned without them and they let us
through without further incident. Since then though I no
longer carry it with me everywhere I go.
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