Here's your Un-Knife Will

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peter nap

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1075 steel and will fit in a cigarette pack. Truck bed liner grip ridge and yes I smudged it.
If anyone asks. it's a scraper! :D

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:D ROFLMAO! the scary thing is they'd probably go for something like that long as it's got a razor edge so as to cut the crap out of you sitting in your pocket.

Neat Peter.
 
I'm going to add it to my collection of useless things, right between the switchblade comb and Wyoming Knife! :o
 
We're all in trouble now . There is an 8 year old kid in VA who was suspended from school since he brought a knife. It was a butter knife he had to assemble his peanut butter and jelly sandwich !!! Can he sue the principal for being stupid and paranoid ??
 
I don't know if you got that from my post about Will or if it made the national news and once again made us the laughing stock of the world Mete....but it sure makes me angry.

No, I doubt he can sue anyone because the damn Judges are stupid and paranoid and unfortunately so are a lot of the Soccer Moms (gender non-specific) who will make up the bulk of the jury. I was called for jury duty a couple of years ago and didn't think the guy was guilty. Everyone else felt that he wouldn't have been arrested if he were not.

Rather than declare a hung jury, the Commonwealth asked the Judge to disqualify me because of comments I made about the Deputy's ancestry and continued the trial.

The fellow was convicted and I still don't think he was guilty and I still think the Deputy is a son...well you get the idea.

That's Virginia, rural area justice.

Oh...one other reason that he can't be sued. Unless you can prove malice he is protected by sovereign immunity.
 
I think it's a cool knife! But, nonetheless, still a knife, which, by default, of course, make it, obviously, a weapon of, shall we say, great and, without a doubt, tremendous danger? (I was interested in putting a lot of commas in that statement. This is what happens between patients...)
 
Uh....I beg your pardon Chiro but the definition of a knife is:

A cutting instrument consisting of a sharp blade attached to a handle

Where is the handle?
 
Peter - this one is for you
Costume gets kid cuffed - Pine Bush senior had replica of Civil War musket for re-enactment

Pine Bush - Last weekend, Joshua Phelps was fighting Confederate soldiers with a Civil War-era musket in his arms, re-enacting the epic 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville. When the Pine Bush High School senior was done charging around the grassy fields behind Montgomery's Brick House Museum, he tossed his musket, a bayonet and Union soldier's blue uniform in his car and forgot about it. Yesterday, a security guard at the high school saw the butt of the musket. He called the cops. The discovery by the guard sparked a chain of events that got the B-average student arrested, suspended from school for five days and facing weapons charges. He could be expelled from school and even jailed. Phelps, 17, was sitting in study hall when the security guard told him to come to Assistant Principal Aaron Hopmayer's office. When he got there he was told that a rifle had been spotted in his car. He wasn't concerned. He knew they would understand.
"I actually thought it was kind of stupid, at first, when I heard it was about the musket," Joshua said. "I didn't think I'd get arrested over it."
He went with them to the parking lot and let them search his car. They pulled the musket from his back seat along with a uniform and Civil War-era accessories. Minutes later, he was arrested by Town of Crawford police, handcuffed, and charged with fourth-degree criminal possession, a misdemeanor. The cops confiscated the gun. His mother, Valerie Michaels, is outraged.
"They arrested my son for having a Civil War costume," she said yesterday. "The school district has blown this incident totally out of proportion. It's ludicrous."
The musket was part of the teenager's Civil War-era costume, which included his uniform - shoes, leather belt, jacket, hat, powder keg and a leather cartridge box. Over the weekend, Phelps participated in the re-enactment of the May 1863 battle of Chancellorsville at the Brick House Museum, an annual event hosted by the 124th New York State Volunteers, the famed "Orange Blossoms." The re-enactors model themselves after the original regiment, which was mustered into action from Orange County in the summer of 1862. The unit would take part in the battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg the following year - key conflicts in the war. Michaels said she understands how school officials would be concerned, in the post-Columbine era, after discovering the musket on school grounds. But she said once they learned the musket was a replica, they should have given him a break.
"I don't understand why the school wants to push this so far," she said. "There are bigger problems at that high school than this. It just doesn't make any sense."
Town of Crawford police Chief Daniel McCann disagreed. Replica or not, he said, the musket could have been used to fire a projectile, such as a small rock. He said officers found 14 to 15 rolled cartridges with black powder, and a bayonet.
"I know this might appear to be a minor thing, but it's not," McCann said. "The musket was found in his car on the high school grounds and could have been used."
Pine Bush Superintendent RoseMarie Stark called yesterday's incident a "student discipline matter" and declined comment. School officials say bloody massacres like the April 20, 1999, one at Columbine High School, have prompted state and federal governments to enact laws about weapons in schools. Many states have a zero-tolerance stance, meaning a fake musket that fires blanks carries the same penalty as a loaded AK-47 assault rifle. In New York, each case must take into account the weapon, the circumstances and the student's history.
"There is a concern among school districts, even with replicas or fake guns," said David Ernst, a spokesman for the state School Boards Association.
In Pine Bush, the high school had recruited students to become involved in the Civil War re-enactors club. Phelps, who joined the Civil War Club a few months ago, said he was looking to get more involved in extra-curricular activities, hoping it would boost his standing on college applications. He found an ad for the club in the school district's annual catalog. After joining, the Orange Blossoms, who are affiliated with the club, gave him a uniform, the replica musket that shoots blanks, a powder keg and a Union soldier's uniform.
"If they [the school district] were really so afraid that a replica musket could be used to shoot someone, then why are they giving them out to 17-year-olds?" Michaels asked.
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Town of Crawford police Chief Daniel McCann disagreed. Replica or not, he said, the musket COULD HAVE been used to fire a projectile, such as a small rock.
Well the kid COULD HAVE driven his car into a crowd of fellow students so shouldn't they outlaw them!?!?! :confused: :grumpy: :confused:
 
The Civil War reenactments have been going on there [not very far from me] for many years. It draws many tourists .If it goes to court I hope that every enactor appears in court in their uniforms [less weapons of course !!!! ]
 
For me it's this whole idea idea that something "COULD" be used "wrongly"
There is SO much that can be turned into a weapon if one chooses:
A pencil/pen becomes a stabbing weapon
A gallon of gas has the explosive potential of 6 sticks of commonly used dynamite.
Turn a bottle of gas into a fire bomb aka a molotov cocktail
and on and on and on.........

Crap the murder rate in prisons is way higher than that on the streets - yet all weapons are banned!
 
I saw it earlier Chuck. This country has just gone insane. When I was in high school they had a gun rack in the principals office so we didn't have to leave our deer rifles in the parking lot. I can't recall any armed revolts although there was the time we carried the Vice Principals VW into the school and left it.

I think he may have shot us if he had the chance! :D
We also got an excused absence on the opening day of deer season and if we were 16 and at least had a forged note from home, could smoke in the designated smoking area.
 
In Pine Bush, the high school had recruited students to become involved in the Civil War re-enactors club.

If the school wishes to punish the student, he & his family should turn around and sue the school system for promoting the activity. - Jim
 
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