"Doug Jewell" <ask@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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.
It reminds me of the ole "That's not a knife. This is a Knife" line but
here
men, women and children go around carrying "Bush Knives" between 60 and
120cm long a lot of the time. Not everyone in town but still quite a few.
It
is usually considered a farming implement but are used to trim grass and
anything else that needs chopping. When hiking in the mountains (real ones
unlike in Oz) you will see groups of women carrying their garden produce
home and their 4yo behind them carrying the machete, after a while it
doesn't even phase you.
The sling shots are popular too, at the village I stay in while on
holidays
all the kids get excited when they see me come out of the house with a
slingshot, I use it to distribute lollipops and other lollies, they make a
great game of it. My adopted brother Bill who is 5 did most of the
shooting
this trip, he is a really god shot for his age. We drove down to a church
gathering and I got out and open fired into a crowd of kids, the first one
they just about pooped themselves but after they saw the projectiles were
treats they warmed up to the idea. This idea comes about because if you
try
and hand them out you are swamped by kids and hands. The kids that get
more
than one usually give one to their younger brothers/sisters. Wonder what a
lollies pop doing about 60
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