on 6/4/2008 21:07, Doug Jewell Blathered on in Re: Good grief ...:
> 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.
Well, you should.
The correct use of small sharp knives is castration of security jerkoffs.
--
Toby
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