Hilariously insane knife paranoia !

My how the world has changed. This use to be the "Land of the Free"....no longer. I remember being in college and keeping my Shotgun in the closet for weekend squirrel hunts (bought the same one that my RA had). My SAK was my favorite HS graduation gift that I used in the dorm and in labs.
 
This is basically a spill-over from typical abusive government policies working its way into the rest of society.
As the levels of power increase, all the way to the top, the levels of corruption increase.
Lord Acton was right. "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
 
How things have changed from my university days in the 70's when it was common to see many students not just in the Forestry and Geology departments carrying a buck 110 on their belts and nobody noticed anything. On field trips some carried fixed blades.
 
Now you know why i want to move out of NYS as soon as possible, after we retire. This is just one of the many, many reasons.
 
Sorry to disagree with so many of knife loving brethen here, but I find no humor in this whatsoever. This is serious, very serious and to act otherwise is simply foolish, in my opinion. Better stop laughing at start taking this stuff with the utmost seriousness and pushing back in the most professional, polite and political manner possible.
 
the people I live with used to be afraid of my 3-4" pocket knives... took time to get them used to it. Still can't get them to buy one.

My 8" kitchen knife that i keep a razors edge on is a lot more scary in my opinion.... :)

"do you really need to carry a knife"
"why do you carry a knife?"
-after i cut something open for them -_-
 
MikeC said:
Sorry to disagree with so many of knife loving brethen here, but I find no humor in this whatsoever. This is serious, very serious and to act otherwise is simply foolish, in my opinion. Better stop laughing at start taking this stuff with the utmost seriousness and pushing back in the most professional, polite and political manner possible.
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Guys, stop having fun dammit! :grumpy:

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A decade ago, I had a number of friends who were attending a SUNY campus in upstate NY. If they wanted to "inspect" a student's dorm room, absent an emergency, they were required to give 24 hours notice. CIA is a private institution, but for them to search dorm rooms and confiscate a small pocketknife that isn't even a lockblade is insane. Do they open drawers and peer in closets? What would they say about the female students who own "personal massagers"?
 
tyr_shadowblade said:
A decade ago, I had a number of friends who were attending a SUNY campus in upstate NY. If they wanted to "inspect" a student's dorm room, absent an emergency, they were required to give 24 hours notice. CIA is a private institution, but for them to search dorm rooms and confiscate a small pocketknife that isn't even a lockblade is insane. Do they open drawers and peer in closets? What would they say about the female students who own "personal massagers"?
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Lol, I don't think college students would stand for having their battery-operated battle buddies confiscated.
 
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tyr_shadowblade said:
A decade ago, I had a number of friends who were attending a SUNY campus in upstate NY. If they wanted to "inspect" a student's dorm room, absent an emergency, they were required to give 24 hours notice. CIA is a private institution, but for them to search dorm rooms and confiscate a small pocketknife that isn't even a lockblade is insane. Do they open drawers and peer in closets? What would they say about the female students who own "personal massagers"?
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This is freakin' awesome.

I'm actually heading up to ESF next year. You know, the oldest forestry school in the country, the one campus where you'd expect to find guns and knives and all that cool crap. I asked admissions whether I'd be allowed to bring knives and they said no (despite the fact that they have a woodsmen's team that carries sport axes around). Apparently they're less worried about us using the knives and more worried about sticky fingers attached to other people who don't know how to use knives.

Wanakena lets people have guns on campus, the only school in the United States to do so. Until then, though, I'll have to find a nice safe spot for everything...
 
Wow thank goodness this doesnt happen here at UT. They would be finding a lot more than just a pocket knife if they searched half of the dorms here. But like someone who said it before, living off campus like i do allows you to do anything you want (within reason...sometimes)
 
I remember rifles, archery gear, and one permanent female resident in my old all boys dorm. :D
 
When I was in college over a decade ago I would keep my knives and other things in a locked container. They could inspect the container all they wanted but couldn't require me to open it without a warrant. It was never an issue.

At public schools the inspections are for safety reasons; hotplates, candles, etc. They aren't allowed to touch anything, only look.
 
I carry my knife at work.
I didn't ask to.
I work in a small kitchen, alone, in a bar.
All day, I serve simple meals such as wings, and hamburgers.
If someone said "Hey! I didn't tell you that you could have that here!"
I would go grab the 8-inch chef's knife I was given to use and compare it to my pocketknife.

Luckily, noone cares. :D
But this is just downright pathetic.
 
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