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arrested for a fishingknife
Terranosaurus:
--- Quote from: topless matt on April 09, 2009, 09:25:25 ---Ive been stopped for carrying knives before.............. i told the officer to follow me to work and he will see why i have them with me. I went to work and the first thing i had to do was cut the netwrap on a bale of silage for some of the cattle, he left at that point saying he was very sorry for causing me inconvienience :dance:
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Never been stopped but I carry a small folding knive (one of those relatively new folding stanley type ones), just about all the time, like you I use it for work, but has more 1000 uses too - not sure on legal stand point but feel happy enough to justify my need to carry it, and I'm self employed so not set work times...
topless matt:
Im lucky he only saw the on sitting on my passenger seat, i think last time i looked there were 4 or 5 in and around my truck, including a sheath knife that i use to cut steel wire bound bales!
Like you, you never know when you need one.
That and i always seem to break them in general use :lol:
carbore:
A Yo are a victim of London lead media hysteria and policing by statistics.
I work in London and see a lot of london news and papers etc, to the London media Knife=Weapon and thats it. Now thats pretty bad if you live in London but as London news dominates "national" news those attitudes spread out across the country.
If, like me you live in a rural area knife=tool, but nowadays if you put on the wrong coat that has a knife in your pocket you are a criminal.
Hope you get off as you deserve.
Oh yes and the contents of my shed would qualify me as a bomb making factory, (Wire, nails Battery's etc, mind you no explosives but im not sure about my paint thinners or B&Q weed killer)
topless matt:
If youd get done for bomb making, you should see where i work........ hundereds of nails, 5000L diesel and over 20t ammonimum nitrate 8-[
T30CDB:
--- Quote from: stretchy on April 09, 2009, 02:48:06 ---
alrite guys I was just arreseted for carying a camping/fishing knife in my disco amongst all the other gear I have. Im on bail till next friday I will let you know what hapends. I have a feeling it will go to court as I had no real reasen to have it with me other than I ocasinaly go offrosding/camping and was just left in there. they also said they was going to check on here to see if I realy did do this type of stuf. just be carefull what you cary and when!
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The law says in general, it is an offence to carry a knife in a public place without a good reason or lawful authority(for example , a good reason is a chef on their way to work and carrying their own knives). However it is not illegal for anyone to carry a foldable, non locking knife, such as a swiss army knife, in a public place, as long as the blade is shorter than three inches(7.62 cms).
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