Knife Crime

[Jamie Bennett]

This is an alarming issue that we need to do something about! There seems to be too many people standing by whilst many members of the public suffer! I'm not sure how strongly you feel about this issue but I know it worries me every time I step out the house and I want to do something about it! How does the whole situation make you feel?

 

[Badgers]

It has never come up..

Do you have suggestions about how to change things?

 

[Termite Man]

It has never come up..

Do you have suggestions about how to change things?

you could super glue rubber bungs onto all the knives in the world, it would support the rubber industry (make sure we buy shares in rubber companies first though) and knives would become useless.

 

[Jamie Bennett]

What campaigns are around? How can we support them? What are peoples thoughts?

 

[past caring]

This is an alarming issue that we need to do something about! There seems to be too many people standing by whilst many members of the public suffer! I'm not sure how strongly you feel about this issue but I know it worries me every time I step out the house and I want to do something about it! How does the whole situation make you feel?

You could go round various ironmongers/hardware stores/cutlery outlets and rub a whetstone on their knifes the wrong way round!

This will continue!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

This is an alarming issue that we need to do something about! There seems to be too many people standing by whilst many members of the public suffer! I'm not sure how strongly you feel about this issue but I know it worries me every time I step out the house and I want to do something about it! How does the whole situation make you feel?

Are you sure it's knives that are the problem in your life rather than overuse of sharp pointy exclamation marks?

 

[5t3IIa]

I think boycotting Tesco special offers on homewares would help a lot.

 

[colacubes]

What campaigns are around? How can we support them? What are peoples thoughts?

Dunno. But you're clearly very concerned about this. How do you think we could support campaigns and what are your thoughts?

 

[5t3IIa]

Do you have a blog we can read?

 

[Termite Man]

What campaigns are around? How can we support them? What are peoples thoughts?

theres the whetstone campaign which while it has it's benefits is far inferior to the superglued rubber campaign which is really starting to capture the imagination of women aged between 89 3/4 and 89 7/8 years old, a key demographic in the knife crime prevention game. There has been talk of joining up with the whetstone brigade but quite frankly they are a bit rubbish.

The other tactic that is coming up is free guns for inner city youth, get them away from the knives and there is no more knife crime.

 

[IC3D]

Why do they keep making them so damn sharp, its madness!!

 

[purenarcotic]

What are your thoughts on knife crime? Clearly you've not done a lot of research on this matter.

http://www.knifecrimes.org/

http://www.stoptheguns.org/

Nearly every youth and community centre in an area with knife crime will be doing something with the kids who attend.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Need to encourage knife crime really, planet's overpopulated as it is.

 

[kittyP]

What is going on?
There have been quite a few lazy students or journos or whatever around recently.

 

[Crispy]

Tough on knives. Tough on the causes of knives.

 

[joustmaster]

I too worry about knife crime, every time I leave the house.
thats why I have taken to carrying a dog that has a gun for a mouth, that shoots knives.

Its an arms race.
and I intend to win it

 

[5t3IIa]

Look at this!

oOnly £49.99 (plua VAT)! Down from £55! You could seriously have someone's eye out. I don't understand how it's allowed to be on sale in Britain????!

 

[Ranbay]

You think thats bad? you should move to East London.

 

[fractionMan]

Those crappy cheap knives then bend when you stab things, they're the real crime. Shouldn't be allowed.

I might start a petition.

 

[mattie]

I just nicked the work surface cutting some bread.

It's absolutely criminal. We've only just had it fitted.

 

[Dhimmi]

I'm more worried by forks... typically four times the stabbing with each thrust. You suggest they should be banned and folk look at you as if you're a loon.

 

[Badgers]

I'm more worried by forks... typically four times the stabbing with each thrust. You suggest they should be banned and folk look at you as if you're a loon.

Where do you stand on the spork or spnork issue?

 

[Dhimmi]

Where do you stand on the spork or spnork issue?

It's a safety fork and much less likely to harm as seriously.

Of course this is why Asian nations are so much more civilised with their use of chopsticks, the prodded to death killing is very rare in those societies. Typically the attacker gets armache or bored long before serious harm is possible. Korea might be an exception though, with their metal chopsticks.

I used to think that India and the neighbouring nations were similar with their use of bread as cutlery, well until my brother got run over by a Pataks lorry. Savages!

 

[Termite Man]

It's a safety fork and much less likely to harm as seriously.

Of course this is why Asian nations are so much more civilised with their use of chopsticks, the prodded to death killing is very rare in those societies. Typically the attacker gets armache or bored long before serious harm is possible. Korea might be an exception though, with their metal chopsticks.

I used to think that India and the neighbouring nations were similar with their use of bread as cutlery, well until my brother got run over by a Pataks lorry. Savages!

a chopstick can be quite deadly if the user has been trained sufficiently. I think your probably safe from the type of reprobate who commits knife crime as they are unlikely to put the effort into perfecting chopstick death.

 

[Badgers]

a chopstick can be quite deadly if the user has been trained sufficiently. I think your probably safe from the type of reprobate who commits knife crime as they are unlikely to put the effort into perfecting chopstick death.

Whittling

 

[Mrs Magpie]

....as a moderator I have been trained in the ancient art of killing with a wet paper bag. I laugh in the face of knives and chopsticks.

 

[pogofish]

We have not had a good knife crime thread for a wee while now - Tobyjug days perhaps?

Maybe the OP should peruse a few of the existing threads on the subject?

 

[pogofish]

Look at this!

oOnly £49.99 (plua VAT)! Down from £55! You could seriously have someone's eye out. I don't understand how it's allowed to be on sale in Britain????!

Take a trip down to TK-Maxx then. They had some cracking and bloody sharp knives/weapons for far less than that the other week!

 

[JimW]

It's a safety fork and much less likely to harm as seriously.

Of course this is why Asian nations are so much more civilised with their use of chopsticks, the prodded to death killing is very rare in those societies. Typically the attacker gets armache or bored long before serious harm is possible. Korea might be an exception though, with their metal chopsticks.

I used to think that India and the neighbouring nations were similar with their use of bread as cutlery, well until my brother got run over by a Pataks lorry. Savages!

You do have to watch out for the kung-fu monks armed with their scoffing sticks:

 

[quimcunx]

I'm sure i read in a book somewhere about someone killing with two knitting needles through the eyes into the brain. It might have been a Stephen King. What are youth services doing to combat that?