Nice65
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Luckily all Stanley knives will be banned as they’re serrated and over 8”…oh hang on.
Aye. They're in every toolbox in the land too
Just don't carry them in Lanarkshire....or Ayrshire it seems.
Those two incidences, yes, you are correct....but knowing that this is the way that they're viewed, would you carry one around with you ? or even leave it in the car ?
Those are the latest two, knife crime here is an issue. It is improving, but it's still an issue.
I saw an apprentice refused a set of chisels at a checkout in B&Q in Motherwell (town up the hill from Hamilton) a few years back. He couldn't prove he was over 18. His foreman came to the desk and said he'd buy them, but the cashier refused saying that obviously he was going to give them to the 'child'.
I jest you not, it happened right there in front of me. It was a piece of nonsense, complete and utter nonsense.
I always feel mildly offended when shop assistants don't check when I buy age restricted goods. I may be 81 but I don't like being reminded that I look it.
I always feel mildly offended when shop assistants don't check when I buy age restricted goods. I may be 81 but I don't like being reminded that I look it.
That was still a tradition when I turned 18 in the 80s. They didn’t give the ID card, but the received wisdom was that you then went out drinking afterwards and because you had just given blood you got wasted much more easily! 😊It was the custom of the 'office girls' in Glasgow in the 1970's to go and give blood on their 18th birthday. That wasn't altruistic, but in those days the Blood transfusion service issued wee identity cards, and one could use them to 'prove' that you were old enough to get into the pubs and to buy booze, and to drink legally. Only passports were better than a BTS card, but no one carried those around. The card is a neat wee folded thing, easy to slip into a handbag.
I still have mine
Reading the news tonight brought this thread to mind.
Police have tasered a knife wielding boy in Ayr.
He was eleven years old.
Boy, 11, Tasered by police after knife stand-off in South Ayrshire
Officers used a stun gun on the boy after being called to a caravan park in South Ayrshire.www.bbc.co.uk
Aye, indeed.
I think you're right about the eleven year olds...takes some gallusness to face off the polis with a knife when you're just eleven though.
I feel the Police are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Damned if they do and damned if they don't, kind of thing.
Tasering an eleven year old though, even if he was being a total fundamental orifice, there's no way that wasn't going to raise questions.
Right enough the first one a lot of folks are going to ask (especially here) is what was an eleven year old doing with a 'knife' in the first place ? secondly, who bought it for him ? and then they'll think to ask what was the Policeman thinking when he tasered a wee boy ?
MaCs pic is from Heinnies where it’s in the UK legal edc listings.Whats the legal situation on flippers now? Werent they added to the banned list after the last round of "fuck you".