DANG!
Posted on 09/16/2015 9:40:48 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
BROOKSVILLE, Fla. — Authorities have arrested a Florida woman who they say tried to stab a deputy with a large sword or machete inside a mobile home filled with thousands of knives, swords and bladed instruments.
Deputies said they had removed more than 3,500 “bladed instruments” from the home.
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I do not get it either. Maybe the British were offended.
I have to admit I almost called on one of those knife show ads. But then I snapped to. “Okay, at $6 a knife that’s a good deal. But what will I do with 36 of them!?”
Over 3500 knives in a manufactured home! In a 14 X 80 or a double wide? This makes no sense. Sounds like someone had a real flare for knives!
I hate to think what all else it could be. When I first read the headline, I thought maybe someone had a fancy house and collection, like a personal museum, but this doesn’t sound good.
Years ago, my wife at the time worked for the state dept of health with the “severely and persistently mentally ill” as it was classified. We had two large dogs and she came home one day with an Irish Wolfhound that had lived inside a trailer for over two years, along with scores of other pets from snakes to cats to dogs. None of which were ever let out. We fostered the Wolfhound for two years until we had a child, and didn’t want it around a newborn. That damned thing would chew rocks into gravel, ate a pair of my glasses, chewed up cds, razors from the bathroom trash, and ate about two feet of pink fiberglass insulation. Came running up to me in the back yard one day, chewing on a squirrel. Sweet dog, but craziest thing I ever encountered. She would plop down on the dirt or hard wood floors and build up fluid in her elbows the size of tennis balls, which we had to drain. Goofy and sweet as all getout, but insane.
They’re horrible knives that are cheaply made and are dangerous quite often.
If you’re interested in cooking, invest in something like a Wusthof. I worked in professional kitchens for 15 years and have one chef’s knife that I bought in 1989 that is every bit as good as it was the day I bought it.
DANG!
Frankly, I’m envious.
:P
Or Cutco.
Expensive, but great knives.
Treat yourself to at least one. : ^ ]
My wife’s aunt bought a big set of Cutco knives and the wood holder for our wedding - that was 26 years ago. They are still like brand-new. They wouldn’t look too cool for slicing up zombies, but the chef/butcher knife would sure do the trick. Just yesterday my young daughter was calling it a “chef’s knife”, and my wife and I were saying it is a butcher’s knife! I’m guessing my teen daughter is correct - but she’ll never here it from me! (It has a broad blade but curved and pointed at the end. The more I think about it - a butcher’s knife is probably the rectangular blade?)
I’m beginning to suspect that this bust was legit.
I watched it. Could not really see anything.
Did he stab himself near his armpit? That’s what it looked like.
The British are always offended about everything, that is their thing.
Well...you can if they are taking valuable space for guns and ammo.
I did attend a Cutco demo a few years ago, and bought one (small) knife only - white handle. I like it a lot. Spouse annoyed I did, because of the price.
I understand one can pick up Cutco knives on a web-site or two.
I don’t remember blade shapes now.
‘Chef’s Knife’ may be ‘easy’ to think of because of the TV show ‘Chopped - ?’
I just became aware of the ‘byline’ city on this story: ‘Brooksville. Fla.’
I visited there years ago, as my parents had moved from Long Island, New York, to Spring Hill, Florida, near Brooksville - - -
As many know, there are a lot of mobile home parks in (parts of) Florida.
I have no idea how many of these ‘parks’ have no rules and regulations, thus, anything goes.
(No, parents bought a lot on a very nice street, and had a modest custom home built on it. It’s so long ago that it seems like a dream . . .).
I remember staying at Lake City, FL in 2006. White woman begging for money (in violation of state law), white guy escorting his pregnant white girlfriend at Subway. It was like a real-life version of Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim.
Cutco are kind of like Amway. Which some people do very well in. They make a good knife, yes, but those types have always bothered me. They are vector marketing types. I don’t like the shady business model, but the knives are good.
Just be wary of those types of people. It’s like the truck selling steaks that are from some farm in Montana, and it’s all just marketing.
Thousand dollar vacuums that work really well, but they are just doing creepy marketing to people who can’t afford it, and then they get them signed up on loans, and they make profit off of selling the loans. At 19 I applied for a job with a place like this, and they were ponzi schemes and very shady. I quit as soon as I saw his bullshit. I stay far far away from multi-level market type of people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketing
You can get much better knives for the same price from companies who actually make good knives.
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