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[Haloman]

I would like to get myself a new Leatherman to replace the one I lost. Personally I think the Wave it the best one they do, BUT because it's got a locking blade, which actually makes it more useful and safer to use, it's deemed an arrestable offence to carry one outside your house in the UK.

It's a multi tool FFS !!

It's a wonderful piece of design and this law is just plain stupid, stupid WRONG WRONG WRONG !!!

[Riversiderontour]

I would like to get myself a new Leatherman to replace the one I lost. Personally I think the Wave it the best one they do, BUT because it's got a locking blade, which actually makes it more useful and safer to use, it's deemed an arrestable offence to carry one outside your house in the UK.

It's a multi tool FFS !!

It's a wonderful piece of design and this law is just plain stupid, stupid WRONG WRONG WRONG !!!

Ohhh its a tool

I thought you were starting a Village People tribute band or something

[l'angelo mysterioso]

Ohhh its a tool

I thought you were starting a Village People tribute band or something

or a chat show host.
if you buy one from a shop and are taking it home and you can account for it in the unlikely event you are stopped there's no problem.

[Haloman]

or a chat show host.
if you buy one from a shop and are taking it home and you can account for it in the unlikely event you are stopped there's no problem.

Well done. Pointless answer of the year award goes to.....................................

[l'angelo mysterioso]

Well done. Pointless answer of the year award goes to.....................................

thanks
that'll teach me to try and be helpful

[Haloman]

thanks
that'll teach me to try and be helpful

I'll leave a note for the postman if I decide to order one. He'll be the one carrying it using your helpful example.

Now, leaving planet Angelo and returning to the real world and the bit where I would like to carry it or have it available in my car, caravan or my motorbike jacket as a useful tool.......................................?

[bowes]

Slip it in someone's pocket as a prank

[guess who]

Simple answer.
When you get it home take the knife of

[Maximus Decimus]

I'll leave a note for the postman if I decide to order one. He'll be the one carrying it using your helpful example.

Now, leaving planet Angelo and returning to the real world and the bit where I would like to carry it or have it available in my car, caravan or my motorbike jacket as a useful tool.......................................?

Mines not quite a stupid law but maybe a stupid rule. I've just got back from asda after having been refused beer because of their under 25 rule. I'm nearly 28 and most people would say I look my age, there is absolutely no way anybody would think I was 17 yet I cannot get beer without ID. I think the whole reason for doing it has been somewhat lost in needless pedanticism. I'm 10 years over age and find it silly that I should have to carry ID with me all the time.

[Bedford Roughyed]

I carry a Wave (sometimes a Skeletool CX...) in my back pack all the time. Never give it a second thought to be honest. It's in there with a headtorch, loop plugs, rollover cable and gender benders. All tools and less to carry than a screwdrivers, pliers, etc.

[Bitofaboogie]

I would like to get myself a new Leatherman to replace the one I lost. Personally I think the Wave it the best one they do, BUT because it's got a locking blade, which actually makes it more useful and safer to use, it's deemed an arrestable offence to carry one outside your house in the UK.

It's a multi tool FFS !!

It's a wonderful piece of design and this law is just plain stupid, stupid WRONG WRONG WRONG !!!

The law is clearly correct regarding what constitutes and offensive weapon and I am pleased that it forbids people like you from owning such an item.

Although I have to admit that a far greater danger comes from people with your kind of attitudes who just want to do as they please as individuals without any regard for the effect on society in general.

Here's hoping Santa hasn't put one of these things in your Christmas stocking.

[Haloman]

The law is clearly correct regarding what constitutes and offensive weapon and I am pleased that it forbids people like you from owning such an item.

Although I have to admit that a far greater danger comes from people with your kind of attitudes who just want to do as they please as individuals without any regard for the effect on society in general.

Here's hoping Santa hasn't put one of these things in your Christmas stocking.

"people like you"

What a load of sanctimonious self superior cobblers. It just goes to show, they're not all locked up.

There are a lot of grown up people out there, it's about time "people like you" stopped trying to infantalise them and let them behave as such. Personally, I think it's "people like you" who are the dangerous ones in society and are complicit in the ongoing destruction of our civil liberties.

I'm glad Ken Clarke has had the common sense to appreciate that not everyone carrying a knife deserves to be thrown in prison for 3 years. I'm hoping that this clear thinking will continue and indeed spread throughout policy.

Oh, by the way, the Leatherman is already in the post.

Edited by Haloman, 25 December 2010 - 05:53 AM.

[Haloman]

I carry a Wave (sometimes a Skeletool CX...) in my back pack all the time. Never give it a second thought to be honest. It's in there with a headtorch, loop plugs, rollover cable and gender benders. All tools and less to carry than a screwdrivers, pliers, etc.

I know, marvelous things for any telecoms engineer who has to travel about a bit. I used mine all the time and still would over here if I hadn't lost it. (or had it lost for me by a luggage transfer which didn't). In fact most poeple I've worked with in telecoms have one tucked away somewhere in their laptop bag, or something very similar, such as a Gerber.

But be careful, cos Bitofaboogie will have you locked up forever as Satan incarnate and a threat to all the ickle wickle kiddywinks in "society", you nasty evil man. Hanging's too good for "people like you", who think you can go around recklessly working for a living by using useful tools, contributing, standing on your own two feet and paying tax.

How dare you !!!

Edited by Haloman, 25 December 2010 - 06:33 AM.

[bowes]

I know, marvelous things for any telecoms engineer who has to travel about a bit. I used mine all the time and still would over here if I hadn't lost it. (or had it lost for me by a luggage transfer which didn't). In fact most poeple I've worked with in telecoms have one tucked away somewhere in their laptop bag, or something very similar, such as a Gerber.

But be careful, cos Bitofaboogie will have you locked up forever as Satan incarnate and a threat to all the ickle wickle kiddywinks in "society", you nasty evil man. Hanging's too good for "people like you", who think you can go around recklessly working for a living by using useful tools, contributing, standing on your own two feet and paying tax.

How dare you !!!

Based on some of his other posts I get the impression he's a bit of a Communist so of course he wouldn't value those things.