Knife collection bin?

[Laceration]

Damnit, I thought this was gonna be a thread about pooling our old/unwanteds and dividing them up! Sorta like a white elephant deal, but sharper. This is the biggest dissapointment of my week.
And here I thought I had a chance to give away my 4 Kershaw Bear Hunters.

Don't feel bad. You can always send one to me!

 

[Andrew Taylor]

They put a similar, but smaller bin in Union Street, Plymouth, UK, a sizeable city in the southwest of England. Union Street is where all the clubs are. They netted a few rusty old kitchen knives, a couple of gardening machetes, a few homemade knives and a bit of assorted junk. Of course the criminals and thugs kept theirs.

The 'campaign' was started after a series of stabbing deaths, Stephen Lawrence a schoolteacher stabbed breaking up a fight, Damilola Taylor, stabbed with a broken bottle, a schoolboy stabbed by a classmate, a girl stabbed for her mobile phone and similar. The government decide to 'get knives off the streets', and hence the bins that you see..... totally ineffective. The problem with the UK is that it is small and the three main television channels share the same news, so a stabbing makes national news. That doesn't happen in the USA does it? If there are 10 stabbings a day countrywide, someone in Florida, doesn't hear about someone getting stabbed in New York city.

Talking of similar things, our international airports have 'sharps bins' for you to drop your knives, SAKs, leathermen, penknives, scissors, Ninja eyebrow tweezers etc that you have forgotten about before you board. I picked up a nice pearl handled penknife that someone had kindly NOT put in the bin, but placed it by the side. It never fails to amaze me of the quality of stuff in these bins. It must be like Christmas every month for the airport staff!

 

[madcap_magician]

They put a similar, but smaller bin in Union Street, Plymouth, UK, a sizeable city in the southwest of England. Union Street is where all the clubs are. They netted a few rusty old kitchen knives, a couple of gardening machetes, a few homemade knives and a bit of assorted junk. Of course the criminals and thugs kept theirs.

The 'campaign' was started after a series of stabbing deaths, Stephen Lawrence a schoolteacher stabbed breaking up a fight, Damilola Taylor, stabbed with a broken bottle, a schoolboy stabbed by a classmate, a girl stabbed for her mobile phone and similar. The government decide to 'get knives off the streets', and hence the bins that you see..... totally ineffective. The problem with the UK is that it is small and the three main television channels share the same news, so a stabbing makes national news. That doesn't happen in the USA does it? If there are 10 stabbings a day countrywide, someone in Florida, doesn't hear about someone getting stabbed in New York city.

Talking of similar things, our international airports have 'sharps bins' for you to drop your knives, SAKs, leathermen, penknives, scissors, Ninja eyebrow tweezers etc that you have forgotten about before you board. I picked up a nice pearl handled penknife that someone had kindly NOT put in the bin, but placed it by the side. It never fails to amaze me of the quality of stuff in these bins. It must be like Christmas every month for the airport staff!

NOT MY NINJA TWEEZERS!

And no, for the most part, if somebody gets stabbed in the US, it's rare to hear about it outside the local papers, unless it was a particularly gruesome case or involved out-of-the-area victim(s) or perpetrator(s). Certainly not out of the state, in most cases.

What are they going to do next, ban glass bottles?

 

[Krull]

I have a better question that's been bugging the s**t outta me.....when they get rid of all the "weapons" and crime is still rampant......what are they going to ban then?

 

[Temper]

I have a better question that's been bugging the s**t outta me.....when they get rid of all the "weapons" and crime is still rampant......what are they going to ban then?

Everything except Kleenex tissue, that will still be ok just as long as its a single sheet and not twisted and wet (Chemical treatment) to make it pointy.

 

[Krull]

Everything except Kleenex tissue, that will still be ok just as long as its a single sheet and not twisted and wet (Chemical treatment) to make it pointy.

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I suppose the fact that I can choke and/or snap your neck means I have to worry about becoming an amputee?

 

[Ryan8]

I have a better question that's been bugging the s**t outta me.....when they get rid of all the "weapons" and crime is still rampant......what are they going to ban then?

Privacy of course. Constantly surveil everyone and everything they do. They're already halfway there.

 

[Temper]

How to get rich in the UK. Throw away your passport after leaving the country. Claim assylum, get an allowance, house and car free of charge and live in the lap of luxury. Then when money is getting low and its a friday afternoon and you are needed in the pub by your mates. Go to the local benefits office and ask, nay, demand 'emergency funds' if you dont get it, throw a hissy fit, get led to a room and paid off like a bent copper.

This is going on in the UK, the knife bin thing barely makes the news.

My dad works at the benefits place, people come in smelling of booze and cigarettes with a mobile phone and arrive in a taxi, throw the afrementioned fit and get money for more ale. They should just shoot this scum and be done with it.
The UK has gone to the dogs.

 

[Knifeclerk]

How to get rich in the UK. Throw away your passport after leaving the country. Claim assylum, get an allowance, house and car free of charge and live in the lap of luxury. Then when money is getting low and its a friday afternoon and you are needed in the pub by your mates. Go to the local benefits office and ask, nay, demand 'emergency funds' if you dont get it, throw a hissy fit, get led to a room and paid off like a bent copper.

This is going on in the UK, the knife bin thing barely makes the news.

My dad works at the benefits place, people come in smelling of booze and cigarettes with a mobile phone and arrive in a taxi, throw the afrementioned fit and get money for more ale. They should just shoot this scum and be done with it.
The UK has gone to the dogs.

No, it's gone to the government. This is what happens when the government insists on solving everyone's problems. They get people who become completely reliant on them. And why not? It's not a fallacy, if the slope really is that slippery.

 

[fruitbat]

Very sad:barf: :barf: :barf:

 

[W.T. Beck]

So the British have figured out that getting rid of inanimate objects will abolish crime and violence. Now they just need to set out some disposal bins for the explosive vests worn by suicide bombers. Then they won't have to worry about any more bombs going off on trains and buses!

 

[Esav Benyamin]

I hope they make the bomb disposal bins a little sturdier than plastic, though.

 

[T. Erdelyi]

Please forgive me for changing a great poem about pacifism, as attonement I'll include the original, but first my take on it relative to this post.

When they came for the militia,
I remained silent;
I was not in the militia.

When they locked up the patriots,
I remained silent;
I was not a patriot.

When they came for the journalists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a journalist.

When they came for the gun enthusiasts,
I did not speak out;
I was not a gun enthusiast.

When they came for me, a knife collector,
there was no one left to speak out.

Here's the original in german.

Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Kommunist.

Als sie die Sozialdemokraten einsperrten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat.

Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten,
habe ich nicht protestiert;
ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter.

Als sie die Juden holten,
habe ich nicht protestiert;
ich war ja kein Jude.

Als sie mich holten,
gab es keinen mehr, der protestierte

Here's the english translation.
When they came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for the Jews,
I did not speak out;
I was not a Jew.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

 

[Andrew Taylor]

What are they going to do next, ban glass bottles?

You are not going to believe this... they banned glass bottles and glass drinking glasses in all the clubs in Plymouth... honestly, no joke!

 

[Paul Davidson]

Pens and pencils are bad! Crayons for everyone!

What I really want to know is how much of the nice stuff in the bins gets "confiscated" by the people in charge of emptying them.

 

[drano]

hey, i wonder if they just melt them down, or find some buyer that will pay so much for so-and-so tons and export them out of the country.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Send them to Pakistan and sell them to the mujahidin.