the_dawggie wrote:
> On Apr 6, 10:13 pm, Albm&ctd <alb_mandctdNO...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> In article <efagv31ik2m4vkcrpsmo857dbqlcuqv...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> john4...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>>
>>> the_dawggie wrote:
>>>> Watching the UK cop show Road Wars.
>>>> It appears even the most innocent of knives can not be
>>>> carted about in a motor vehicle.
>>> You can't in Oz either if the cops reckon you're carrying it as a
>>> weapon. Same would go for tyre levers and screwdrivers, plus a heap
>>> of other essential objects.
>>> The relevant laws were introduced, or changed, as part of the
>>> agreement between the commonwealth and states when the so called
>>> 'uniform firearm laws', were introduced back in 1996/7. However,
>>> there's a considerable variation in the relevant weapons acts in the
>>> various states as to what's legal and what isn't.
>>>> Fecked if I know how you are allowed to cart kitchen knives
>>>> you buy at the store home.
>>> If they're in the original wrapping, accompanied by a current receipt,
>>> you'd probably be OK in most states.
>> Mmmmm strange days indeed. I had a machete as a child... 1 penny
>> explosives, homemade cannon, corrosive chemicals, toxic mercury, darts
>> (one hit the sister in the arm.. ooops don't run in front of the dart
>> board lesson) matches, hooks, fi****ng knife, slingshot etc etc.
>> I did have an injury with nasty lead, moulding in sand and touched it
to
>> see if it was cool... nope.
>> As a child I'd qualify as a modern day terrorist.
>>
>> Al ert not armed
>
> At school I knew someone with part of one of their fingers
> cut off by a brother using an axe cutting wood.
>
> However this is getting insane. I have no injuries, however
> as a kid played about with explosives. Yep melted lead, had
> slingslot my grandfather made for me.
>
> One thing I did do is decide if plastic would burn, it did and
> dropped a burning drip on my toe - it was OK, likely better
> than when I scraped a lot of skin of the side of my foot on
> a dirt bike.
>
> Other than that not damaged myself. Exploding car battery
> I was fecking about with left some t-****rt holes, other than
> that kinda did OK.
LOL - there's a few of us obviously of about the same
vintage who got up to the same sort of stuff - I've done
pretty much the same as you and al, and no injuries to show
for it.
There were other things we did in our day too - things like
walking a couple of mile to school when we were 7,
Saturday's would find us out the door by 6am, not to return
home til sunset - we'd be off catching tadpoles, fi****ng,
riding our bikes around the bmx track, playing footy or
cricket, etc. None of this sitting around the house playing
xbox. Holidays and we'd go out with our parents camping, do
a lot of fi****ng and a bit of shooting. We played on real
see-saws, that occasionally some other kid would jump off at
the wrong time and you'd go cra****ng to the ground. Our
slippery-dips were stainless steel and hot in summer and
cold in winter, the stairs were just steel bar with no
safety rails. Occasionally a kid would fall off and break
their arm - 6 weeks later they'd be back on it.
Everything now seems so safe, and maybe not as much fun. I
wonder if the growth of extreme s****ts in recent times, is
partly because as kids they never got to experience the
thrill of watching a line of gunpowder that they mixed blow
an ants nest up, or the thrill of jumping off a tree above a
creek. As kids we got our thrills in, and became well
balanced adults. Perhaps these kids had a boring childhood
and now feel the need to jump off cliffs as adults to get
the thrills they missed out on as kids.
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