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.”
Yes, "Cut throat razor" is a common description in the England for a straight razor
If they take away the razors, the yobs will just find other scooters or revert back to skateboards. Perhaps they should also remove bicycles as a precaution, and eventually outlaw the wheel.
The wardens are missing entire categories of weaponry that endanger the community. Belts can easily be used as garrotes. Brazierres can become slingshots, with buttons as projectiles. Spectacles contain glass which can be broken to produce a sharp weapon, and the stems are by their very nature sharp pointy objects. Modern baths and commodes provide an expedient means of drowning intended victims. Modern feminine products are a simple means of inflicting airway obstruction.
The only way to truly make society safe is to revert to an earlier lifestyle. One without all of these dangerous modern objects. We all know that life was much safer and more civilized in the 1300s — perhaps that should be our goal.
/sarc
Clearly, the English should simply hand in to government authorities their t*sticles and be done with it. FUBAR - the nation is utterly FUBAR.
I don't know where your 'here' is, but in my 'here' classic guns aren't melted down. They end up in some cops gun collection.
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I notice that there was no mention of compensation to the widow for the donation of these valuable cultural artifacts.
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