Carrying a knife . . . .

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SteelJunkee said:
Yes... 3 officers, 3 time big as me in body armor with their gun against a cat frame with a 2.5 inch slip-joint, I can imagine my face hitting the hood of their car :)
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I agree that it was unreasonable that those cops took away your Cadet, but even if the cops were 3 men much larger than you, it doesn't exactly take a hulking brute to present a potential danger. A skinny little 12-year-old kid could kill or seriously hurt a WWE wrestler if he has a firearm or a blade. I'm not a cop, but I've known people who are (one was a neighbor and another is a friend). A person's outward physical appearance isn't always an accurate indication of how safe or dangerous they might be. Putting your hands in your pockets around cops would be a big no-no, even if it's done innocently or subconsciously.

Jim
 
James Y said:
I agree that it was unreasonable that those cops took away your Cadet, but even if the cops were 3 men much larger than you, it doesn't exactly take a hulking brute to present a potential danger. A skinny little 12-year-old kid could kill or seriously hurt a WWE wrestler if he has a firearm or a blade. I'm not a cop, but I've known people who are (one was a neighbor and another is a friend). A person's outward physical appearance isn't always an accurate indication of how safe or dangerous they might be. Putting your hands in your pockets around cops would be a big no-no, even if it's done innocently or subconsciously.

Jim
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Yes I understand perfectly, but still I wasn't arrested for something involving any king of violence nor didn't need any to get out of and, yes they pulled out my file before arresting me and don't have anything against me, except speeding tickets.... Most of the experience I have with LEO is overreacting at best, sometimes, it`s worse.

Oh and yes I don't forget the ones that seem to get out of another world, they are too cool to be policemen but still are, and I never had any problems when I meet them. Why, because they are rational thinking peoples who doesn't overreact for nothing.

My father was a screw and He sure told me a lot about where overreaction can lead you.
 
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I always carry a knife where legally permitted. I have be "talked to" by police officers on a few occasions, on these occasions the officer was aware of my knife and either held it until we were done or just let me keep it on me. I once had to talk to an officer and by the end of the conversation to my wife's surprise; I had let the officer handle my knife, I handled his knife and his firearm (after he carefully unloaded it). I don't commit crimes in general but have been suspected a few times and it was my demeanor that served me in those times.
P.S. I am a bigger, some might say meaner looking guy and I have been told I can be intimidating and so far all is well. Just act right and hopefully you come across honest,decent law enforcement officers.
 
Yeah like many other people said, you never know when you might need it, maybe there's a emergency or maybe you encounter a cheesecake that needs cutting:)
you just never know
 
thebrain said:
I always carry a knife where legally permitted. I have be "talked to" by police officers on a few occasions, on these occasions the officer was aware of my knife and either held it until we were done or just let me keep it on me. I once had to talk to an officer and by the end of the conversation to my wife's surprise; I had let the officer handle my knife, I handled his knife and his firearm (after he carefully unloaded it). I don't commit crimes in general but have been suspected a few times and it was my demeanor that served me in those times.
P.S. I am a bigger, some might say meaner looking guy and I have been told I can be intimidating and so far all is well. Just act right and hopefully you come across honest,decent law enforcement officers.
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You earned your moniker, Time passed when I was arrested for speeeeeeding, and the policemen asked me to open my hood :cool:
 
Funny thing my brother raised by the same parents in the same house never met a cop he couldn't piss off.
 
poking_stick said:
Roger's point is that on this planet we often come upon materials that need to be split apart, and sometimes that need is both time-sensitive and severe, therefore even minimal forethought and consideration would lead the reasonable man or woman to at the very least secure a $12 blade to his keychain or clip one inside her purse.

A tool so simple, but that has saved life, limb, and property everyday during crises and emergencies around the globe over the past several thousand years -- one might even think of carrying a knife as a civic duty. Roger is finding that his society doesn't embrace tools for their utility, rather it villifies the knife, even making it taboo to carry one outside the home.

I blame Bambi. Sure, the published version left out the gut-and-drag and the butchering scenes, but kids know that venison steak doesn't slice itself!
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I'm Canadian, but I heard some Judge in the USA did something which I'd expect from the UK. An illegal deer hunter was convicted, but on top of that, the Judge thought it was a good idea to force him to watch the Bambi cartoon monthly during his year long prison stay. It truly boggles the mind...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/17/poacher-ordered-judge-watch-bambi-month-jail/

anyone else think this will help or make him more likely to re-offend?
 
Roger Kipwell said:
Wouldn't know.
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I work for a remote accessible security system firm, our customers includes Pharmaceutics, Schools, Transport, recycling, Manufacturing ect... And Many of them are starting to install them, in my region many schools have them already and some of these schools are already using 3rd party security agency guards, because of the level of violence actually going on there.... The quantity and size of the blades we have contributed to seize.... Is just plain scary alarming.... I mean, not a classic SAK was found only Big a$$ Freaking things... And now we are working on cheap costing scanners that will enable a teacher to see all pointed metal parts moving in his classroom on his computer screen :D in real time. just cant stop it... and even if I was caught and stripped from that same law... I cant bare these knives entering a school and I`m all with the government to stop that kind of behaviors. but thats it... You have a sak in your pocket in a mall... Nothing should happen... Well, thats my toughs, But someone who edc a machete in school has got to be talk to....
 
To Serve and Protect :)

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Ok Lets get back on... Before the threadminator strikes.

I EDC ( or at least they are reachable ) 4 knives all the time. A large sharp prybar, a medium fixed blade, a large folder, and a small folder.
abiding or not of any laws in my country and they have never been used for other task than what they where inteded for.

And please make the next LOE I encounter a cool one....
 
We muse not forget cops have to deal with low forms of society acting even lower than that when they get involved,not the most pleasant people to deal with.As for being prepared I have at least 3 knives,ccw and 1 knife has a screwdriver and my keys has 1 old 3way pocket screwdriver a dedicated Phillips straight blade a small tool to increase leverage along a note eye doohickey
 
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