"At last, my arm is complete!"
Posted on 07/30/2008 10:24:45 AM PDT by BGHater
A 90-year-old woman handed in a set of valuable ancient cut throat razors during a police operation to curb knife crime.
The pensioner, one of Croydon’s first traffic wardens, approached her Safer Neighbourhood Team in Purley after seeing their knife arch operation in the town centre last month.
The woman was worried the razors could fall into the hands of gang members and spoke to PC James Bland and PCSO Nigel Bond to arrange their collection.
But a surprise was in store for the officers when they arrived at the lady’s address to find an old suitcase filled with a collection of razors and antique barber’s equipment.
Both officers researched the items and they discovered that they belonged to the woman’s deceased husband who was a Regimental barber for the Irish Guards between 1925-1953 at a local army barracks in Caterham.
PC Bland called the Guards Museum in central London explaining the finding and arranged a visit so both officers could show the items to the curator for evaluation.
The curator was delighted to accept the donation to the museum and is now carrying out research into these items so he can display them in the Museum for future generations.
A police spokeswoman said: “This course of action has not only prevented these cut throat razors from getting into the wrong hands but has also restored the items of historic military value to a place of education and allowed the elderly widow to have pride in the knowledge that personal belongings of her late husband have been returned to his old Regiment, which is something she believes he would have been happy with.”
WTH? The same Nanny stuff happens here during gun turn in at some citys. Old, artifact guns get turned in that are worth lots of money.
The difference is that here those classic guns are melted down anyway.
Makes all the sense of burning down the house a criminal was arrested in.
Well, she’s 90. England is so crime ridden in areas they could fall into the wrong hands. And at least they went to a museum.
We had a story here in FL a while ago where someone turned in some valuable antique firearms, and they were going to melt them down. I think they were saved at the last minute.
sweeny todd ping....
The cravenness of the law is pathetic.
Is this a commonly-used description in the U.K. (akin to "straight razor"), or is the press indulging in needless fear-mongering?
I think I read about one and it might have been a former gun of Teddy Roosevelt.
It's so extreeeemly difficult to just make a knife.....
Apparently, what were once common, barber tools are now 'dangerous weapons'.
Slight cultural shift noted.
/sarc
Occam’s Razor
My bad. Bad memory. Anyway, good ending.
http://msn-list.te.verweg.com/2006-July/005612.html
"At last, my arm is complete!"
“Is this a commonly-used description in the U.K.?”
I myself have heard the term used in New Zealand. Google says it’s a common term used also in the UK and Australia.
Once the UK gets knife crimes under control, then what's next? Will they ban all sticks and clubs? I think a cricket bat would be a perfect weapon, and don't get me started on golf clubs. Hell the sport makes people crazy anyway. A perfect breeding ground for nutters with weapons.
Oh the inanity!
Alien: "Kneel before my slingshot, puny Earthling....
(Moe enters) Ah, he's got a board with a nail in it!"
Moe: "Enslave humanity, willya?"
Alien: "Run, Kodos!"
“ancient?” ?????
Since when does somethin’ from the pst hundred years qualify as “ancient?”
an·cient1 Audio Help [eyn-shuhnt] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. of or in time long past, esp. before the end of the Western Roman Empire a.d. 476: ancient history.
2. dating from a remote period; of great age: ancient rocks; ancient trees.
3. very old; aged: an ancient folk tale.
Never bring a razor to a gun fight.
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