NY Post Knife Attack article

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Front page news on the post today.

Some maniac attacked a 10-MONTH old baby. 10 months for crying out loud.

But here's the catch: the front page actually shows the knife allegedly used in the crime.

Well here's the deal: It was described as a 5 inch kitchen knife, but I beg to differ.

It looks like it has ivory handles.

Has a thumb guard.

The blade looks pretty dark....like damascus.

What I'm worried about is that this knife might actually be a pricey knife, which negates our arguments that criminals tend to use cheaper knives like kitchen knives or jaguar knives to assist in their crimes.

But this knife does NOT look like a cheapie.

Can anyone identify this?

Also...if it's NOT a cheapie, how does this impact the knife community?

PS: prayers for the 10 month old child. It looks like she'll recover, though. But damn....
 
Unable to see really from the website but there is always the possibility the knife was stolen.

Thoughts to the child.
 
Remember that the NY Post is owned by Rupert Murdoch, a pathological liar who is more interested in sensationalism and advancing his political causes than in any journalism or accurate reporting.
 
Can anyone post the picture? I am not about to sign up at the site. :confused:
I wouldnt be suprised if they just grabbed a knife pic from the archives to illustrate the story.
 
stone knife:

oh I'm in total agreement.

But the cover is a bit disconcerting for anyone who owns an even slightly pricey-looking knife.
 
Remember that the NY Post is run as an independent newspaper, with Rupert Murdoch off somewhere doing his thing. Yeah, if he needs a story, he gets a story. But to think he micromanages something like this is beyond paranoia.

Anyway ... how times have changed. The incident happened half a block from where I lived when I was a kid. It wasn't that kind of a neighborhood. :(

The knifer had been living in a group home nearby for two months, had a rep as a flasher, looked desperate for something just before he stabbed the child -- drugs, maybe? :rolleyes:

"Police recovered a white-handled, 5-inch kitchen knife in a back alley near the building."

Why is it so important to put mentally unbalanced people in the middle of an otherwise quiet residential neighborhood?

My last place in NYC was on the Upper East Side. A couple of blocks away was a bus-in counseling center for the mentally disturbed, "ex"-addicts, and assorted out-of-area people. One day one of them approached a young woman for 'spare change'. She was carrying a baby and turned away from him. He stabbed the baby with a ball-point pen.
 
It's not a expensive knife, but a kitchen knife with a celluliod handle and chromed bolster. Ebay Carvel Hall, and you'll see similar. The blade has blood and grime on it that makes it look strange.
 
Thank the liberal left who petitioned years ago for the rights of people in the nuthouse from being held there. That’s how you see all these off-balance bums who perpetually decorate many a street.
 
I heard the news this morning. What a shame. Can't quite tell anything about the knife though.
 
Boink said:
Thank the liberal left who petitioned years ago for the rights of people in the nuthouse from being held there. That’s how you see all these off-balance bums who perpetually decorate many a street.
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Riiiight... The "liberal left" are responsible for the turnout of patients from the mental hospitals and the homeless problem in NYC. You weren't around NYC in the early Reagan years, I take it.
 
The Mario Cuomo years, you mean ... ? It wasn't a conservative government that decided to spread the mental cases around the city.

It's a great idea to run halfway houses to readjust people who are going back to being part of society, but halfway houses for people who are never going to be halfway there was a politicized mistake.

But not Reagan's mistake.
 
No political bickering here please.

Knife morons have been around since the beginning of knifedom, so we don't need to blame anybody on this thread. That's a different discussion.

I want this discussion to be about how an incident like this, published in the manner that it has been published, can affect our hobby?

I live in NYC, and it really is one of the most un-knife cities in the world. The freak out when they see anything sharp.

Plus, they search bag in subways now.

So a regular guy like me carrying a chinook II and an mnandi in THIS city will look like a mass murderer.

So again, my question is: what potential effect does an incident like this have on our hobby?
 
Its all about politics.The politicians are the one's making the knife laws.In Oregan you can carry automatic knives and not worry about it.In N.Y.C. I believe the limit is 3.5"for a folder.Go to England and I do'nt think you can even carry a locking folder no matter what size.This is why public perception is so important.The politicians are going to make laws that they will think will help get them reelected.
 
No, I mean the Reagan years. It was Reagan's slashing in the early 1980s that created the exact group of people you're talking about. If you think it's a great idea to drown the government in a bathtub, then you own up to what that produces. What carefully conceived social darwinism produces is no secret. If you're for it, then you're for its results.
 
4 Ranges said:
I live in NYC, and it really is one of the most un-knife cities in the world. The freak out when they see anything sharp.
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Sorry, but you can carry up to a 4" blade, fixed or folder, in NYC. It also has to be under your outside clothing ( no "flashing" the knife overtly). This is according the the Administrative Code of the City of NY. This is considerably more "liberal" than many other major jurisdictions. :confused:
 
There's a large mental illness facility here that is being turned into a condo. It's places like that the left forced to empty out. Not talking about regular folk who fell on hard times. Different folks, ones you have to worry will take a knife and stab someone with.
 
When government-funded mental-health facilities are no longer funded (Reagan), and are instead emptied out onto the streets to allow for real-estate development (Reagan), that's not "the left" you see in action. That's a combination of public-works cuts and free-market darwinism.

You identified the problem pretty accurately, but the blame doesn't lie with the social program-loving liberals who want to spend tax dollars on government programs.

Back to the NY Post article, though: The Post is a rag, and I have no doubt that the knife is just from stock photos (as someone else mentioned).
 
Boink said:
Thank the liberal left who petitioned years ago for the rights of people in the nuthouse from being held there. That’s how you see all these off-balance bums who perpetually decorate many a street.
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Well it was a predominantly republican act here in L.A.to cut spending on many of these shelters and treatment facilities and now we've got "off-balance bums" wandering around.
Stupidity doesn't vote one way or another.
 
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