It’s funny, I remember a good few years ago @Zed mentioned his boy could see the repeating nature of history, and he was right. This time the only real players I can see are the climate disaster people and possibly AI. The New Religions.
I blame the people who have actually read and filled in the Scientology questionnaire that they were handed back in the day when we did high street shopping.
I don’t know about that. It makes me laugh though, when I am watching YouTube vids, a lot of them are firing off semi automatic machine guns and the like, and over here, we can’t carry a locking penknife over 2 1/2” long. The one I take camping is longer than that, and if I was to get caught chopping up a steak or something to eat, it’s illegal.
I did one of those once (although I don't remember the questions being quite like that, I think they've modernised it!)..... it was raining - not unusual in Plymouth - and I thought they might make me a cup of tea. It whiled away a couple of hours when I was bored and my giro wasn't due til the end of the week.
[‘ I think the most important part of the questionnaire is the bit where you put your payment details the rest they throw in the bin
You can legally carry a non locking knife as long as the blade is less than 3 inches and non locking or flick knife etc and if stopped you do not have to provide a reason. Anything other than that is illegal to carry in public without good reason. So a chef carrying a knife roll to work is fine Taking a large knife out of a bag in the back of your car to use for a task whilst camping on land you have permission to use is fine. When your wild camping your effectively trespassing And because you have a large fixed bladed knife it’s classed as armed trespass Tresspass is a civil matter, armed trespass is a criminal offence carrying a fair sentence.
I don't think the issue was with the bridge itself. That huge ship punched out the entire support pillar, nothing is going to withstand that. The design should have incorporated massive concrete structures sufficiently ahead of the bridge supports to intercept and stop stray shipping from hitting the supports head on in the first place. But hindsight and all that...
I realise that. The trespassing bit. I also realise that as a gardener, I am well within my right to carry a machete in my van for hacking down brambles. But my point is, I can’t have a decent sheaf knife on my belt, but I could when I was 14. I always carry a knife. It’s a tool. It’s just stupid rules, in our country. A screwdriver is just as lethal.
see to me a a screwdriver doesn’t look a scary Both of these men could be handy with building the bridge back up though
And that’s the whole point. A screwdriver or a knife dosnt look scary. It’s all down to who is holding it and the situation. Guns and knives and tanks and bombs and dynamite and broken bottles don’t kill anyone. People do.
Your missing the point, it's not draconian rules now, its responding to modern day society. It was lax when you were 14 because people generally didn't go about stabbing each other like they do nowadays. Criminalising a tiny proportion of people who go wild camping if they take a sheath knife is a reasonable measure if it also criminalises yoots carrying them on the streets of every town and city. A screwdriver is not just as lethal as a sheath knife.
This is my work knife. Both blades lock but are short. When I was a kid I used to have pen knives and a sheaf knife that I wore on my belt. If I did that now as a kid Social Services would probably be involved. My parents were pretty strict though and no-one ever thought about stabbing each other. Knives were for making camps and playing Splits.
Things change There’s no real reason most of the population need to carry a sheath knife in public and the law makes good allowances for people who have a genuine need for one. A shot gun license used to be just bought from the post office nowadays there’s quite a background check . Im yet again trying to make you aware of the amount of trouble you could possibly drop yourself in. I was once stopped by the police coming out of a woodland onto the road I had a Laplander folding pruning saw on me and the police deemed that as a locking over 3 inch bladed article I was arrested and taken down the station and held whilst they conducted further enquiries If it wasn’t for the fact that I had permission to use that land via the gamekeeper I could have ended up with a custodial sentence for a saw. Thankfully I just lost the best part of a day down the station Id only gone out to cut some coppiced hazel rods for the garden.
