Ice Bear Japanese gardener’s sickle.
Posted on 07/28/2025 6:44:15 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A man who had returned home from his allotment with a trug of vegetables and gardening tools strapped to his belt was arrested by armed police, after a member of the public said they had seen “a man wearing khaki clothing and in possession of a knife”.
Samuel Rowe, 35, who works as a technical manager at a theatre, had come back from his allotment in Manchester earlier this month and decided to trim his hedge with one of his tools, a Japanese garden sickle, when police turned up on his doorstep.
“I just heard shouting behind me, and then two armed officers shouting at me to drop the knife,” he said. “And then they turned me around, pushed me up against my house, cuffed me, and then they arrested me, put me in the back of the van.”
The tools he had on his belt, he said, were a Niwaki Hori Hori gardening trowel in a canvas sheath, and an Ice Bear Japanese gardener’s sickle.
When he was arrested, Rowe said, the officer pulled the trowel out of its sheath, and said: “That’s not a garden tool.”
“I said it is, because it was in the Niwaki-branded pouch that you get at garden centres,” Rowe said.
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Going after the grower’s of food is now the thing in the UK , they must stop feeding people ,LOL
>> the officer pulled the trowel out of its sheath, and said: “That’s not a garden tool.”“I said it is, because it was in the Niwaki-branded pouch that you get at garden centres,” Rowe said.
Right outta Monty Python! 🤣👍🏻
Insanity. NWH for the UK. At least none that doesn’t involve great pain.
Ahh Soo, the dreaded weapon of the Niwaki Ninjas.
They’re a crafty lot. They’ll trim your hedges with such speed and stealth that you’ll never see it coming.
Makes you happy what happened in 1776...
First they came for their their handguns, now they’re coming for their gardening tools......LOL!
“””the officer pulled the trowel out of its sheath, and said: “That’s not a garden tool.”“I said it is, because it was in the Niwaki-branded pouch that you get at garden centres,” Rowe said.””””
You will get my Niwaki garden trowel when you pry it from my cold dead hands.
Ice Bear Japanese gardener’s sickle.
Had he yelled “ALLAHU AKBAR!” he’da been released immediately................
[truhg, troog] Phonetic (Standard) noun British.
a shallow basket for carrying flowers, vegetables, etc., made from strips of wood.
a shallow wooden milk pan.
a wooden tray for holding mortar.
From Dictionary.com
A word I'd never heard or seen before. I thought it was a typo. Well I learn something new every day on FR.
First it was guns when they came for you, now they come for your garden tools. England is such a damn joke!
Odd that they thought a trowel was a dangerous weapon, just because it had a pointy tip. While at the same time he possessed a gardening knife that looks more menacing.
Niwaki Hori Hori gardening trowel
I guess all those novels we’ve read about brainy British detectives aren’t indicative of the intelligence of their LEOs...
Can’t have the peasants revolting with their sickles...
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