Posted on 01/23/2013 6:21:29 AM PST by Uncle Chip
Police have revealed the chilling array of deadly weapons they seized in just four months - including a crossbow and a traditional samurai sword.
The fearsome arsenal, which even includes a gold-plated axe, was put on display yesterday by West Midlands Police as part of a new anti-weapons campaign.
Other dangerous arms featured in the grim haul are nunchuks, knuckle dusters, a giant flick knife and crude planks of wood with nails hammered into them.
The force, which is the UK's second largest, has launched its campaign alongside doctors and the families of victims of knife crime.
Superintendent Basit Javid said: 'It is illegal to carry a knife in public and if, like me, people believe that one knife related crime is one too many, they must make a stand and come forward with information which will help us tackle the problem.'
West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner Bob Jones added: 'The deaths of two Big Issue sellers in Birmingham last week are a stark reminder of the seriousness of knife crime, and this campaign couldn't be more timely.'
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***and crude planks of wood with nails hammered into them. ***
Was the serial number also removed from this deadly weapon?
I purchased an Egg McMuffin to share with my wife and asked the cashier to cut it in half.
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Back when plastic knives were ‘LEGAL’, I was at a McD’s in a truck stop and this elderly couple were sitting at a table.
He got up and ordered and came back with a hamburger and french fries and a coke, all from the Dollar Menu.
He sat down, and carefully dumped the French Fries, giving one to her, one to him etc. He then pulled out a pocket tape and measured the top of the bun and cut it perfectly in half.
He split the coke and she proceeded to eat and we figured he was going to make sure she had enough to eat before he started.
Well, we kind of passed the hat and took up a collection, purchased a couple of Big Macs etc and presented the food the couple and the remainder of the money.
They thanked us profusely and said they had money, just watched their diet with the fast food and he was waiting for her to finish as it was HER TURN for the false teeth.
Lord help you if you have cut any threads on the end of the board.
Seems like the perp was a "homeless" bloke who musta done in the other two homeless paper sellers.
We have gone over the edge to the ridiculous. Once again. DUMB! Stupid!
I see a picture of a baseball bat, but I see no cricket bats. If one is a “weapon”, why not the other? Clearly anti-American....!!
Big issues of newspapers will be next. Rolled up newspapers can be used as weapons and do almost as much harm as when they are not rolled up.
These guys would excrete masonry if they saw an average FReeper gun safe.
I couldn't imagine having only one.
Safe that is.
Ha ha! Now that is beyond thrifty!
The more hospitals a country has, the more people die in hospitals. Millions die in hospitals every year.
We can stop all those hospital deaths if we simply ban hospitals.
The Simpsons did it first.
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!" - Kang
How puny? The board with a nail through it was the superweapon that humanity developed to successfully defeat the alien invasion which took advantage of an Earth which had had been pesuaded to disarm iteslf by ...Lisa.
Lennie: They're conking us with a club!
Man: Wish we'd saved an A-bomb or two
The once mighty British Empire reduced to this. No baseball bats, no kitchen knives.
I wonder if their masters will stop them from practicing martial arts, like we did to Japan at the end of WWII.
When those who want the world population reduced down to ‘manageable’ numbers they will be utterly defenseless.
“Next thing you know, ATF will be raiding Spatula City.”
Now I don’t care who you are. That there is some
funny s—t!
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