on 6/4/2008 23:16, atec77 Blathered on in Re: Good grief ...:
> Toby wrote:
>> 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.
> I know several Islanders I would pay to watch you try castration on
poncy .
**** eh - and here's me believing the legend that they were so vewwy
vewwy tough they wouldn't notice.
BTW, I know a bullock who could beat the **** out of the best of them.
So there.
--
Toby


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