Slowly but surely.....

**Sniper** · 11th April 2006, 16:32

Our govt is leeching all the fun out of our everyday lives.

Today I went into a hunting and fishing shop to enquire about throwing knives. Where to buy then and who makes them. Instead of the, "Hey, well you know......" salesman pitch, I got a deathly stare and complete silence of the rather mature gentleman behind the counter. Of course I was thrown a bit off balance by this cause Im usually a nice polite guy. I showered and shaved this morning and I was wearing my work uniform so I know I wasn't that repulsive.

"Are you mad", was the exact reply I got back from him. Anyway, that made my day just a bit cause I tend to get a bit aggro when my nice demeanor and friendly nature are put into question and challenged from an aged geriatric put in charge of death blades and boom sticks. So after walking away and calming down, I went to the next saleman (All the time, the creepy old dude was watching me) and asked him the same question". At least this guy had popped his happy pills (In the correct dosage. You wouldn't want a guy high on happy pills working in a gun shop) and he politly informed me that NZ has banned throwing knives as they are dangerous. Fair enough.

But after having a wee think. I went into a shop that effectively specialises in selling weapons to cause death. We buy screwdrivers for "fixing" things. Hunting knives for "skinning" things. Guns for "killing" things. We can buy craft knives, blades, machetes, sharp pointy sticks and various other oddities and dangerous things to maim or kill.

I wanted a couple of throwing knives to practice with as I used to have a set in SA that convienietly went "missing" when I moved here. And I was hoping to continue to hone the skills I had and also maybe stop losing so many screwdrivers and destroying so many kitchen knives. Unfortunatly the govt thinks Im going to use these to end the life of some unsuspecting victim who has managed to offend me in some way.

What I don't get is that Im stopped from buying these (with a good enough reason I think) but we can still happily buy other sharp pointy objects to do the same job without the precision I require. Why don't they start issuing us with cottonwool jumpsuits and give us our own personal minders.

ARGH, IM ANNOYED AT MY MISFORTUNE!!

**WRT** · 11th April 2006, 16:49

Agreed - that sucks. However, would it be possible to manufacture, well, lets say not thowing knives as such (as that would be illegal), but some sort of flat metal plate with a handle at one end to hold on to, and a pointy bit at the other end that allows it to stick to a dart board? Kind of like a spinning dart, rather than the kind that flies level?

You know, just so you can practice that spinning dart game that you used to play back in SA??

**Sniper** · 11th April 2006, 16:51

Hmmmm, Im with you now. That could be a possibility too. Although if Im caught I can be charged with an illegal weapon I think.

**MSTRS:Me** · 11th April 2006, 17:17

I'm not surprised. Nasty dangerous things, nearly as bad as plastic toothpicks....

**kickingzebra** · 11th April 2006, 17:23

You got plastic toothpicks? I was made to buy the rubber ones, on threat of being sponged down!!!

No secrets my views on labour Governerment, they want to protect us from ourselves, but who will protect us from them???

**sAsLEX** · 11th April 2006, 17:30

Originally Posted by Sniper

Hmmmm, Im with you now. That could be a possibility too. Although if Im caught I can be charged with an illegal weapon I think.

Define a throwing knife compared to a normal knife? The only way you would be caught is if you did something dumb with them.

**MSTRS:Me** · 11th April 2006, 17:32

Originally Posted by kickingzebra

You got plastic toothpicks?

SSHHHH...keep your voice down....

**Squeak the Rat** · 11th April 2006, 17:38

I was at the wellington 7's and saw a guy dressed as rambo have a small plastic pretend knife taken off him by the cops. This thing was obviously plastic, and about 10-15cm long. Twas a trick blade that dissapeared into the handle.

On the other hand, the chick dressed up as Uma Thurmans character from Kill Bill had a a huge sword, got on tv and everything. And of course no cops confiscated the sword.

So Sniper, what to learn from that random thought? Probably nothing, but perhaps one or more of the following:

You look like a psycho rambo type
You are not attractive with big firm breasts
Your knives are too small and you need to think bigger

**metric** · 11th April 2006, 17:39

Originally Posted by Sniper

Our govt is leeching all the fun out of our everyday lives.

Today I went into a hunting and fishing shop to enquire about throwing knives. Where to buy then and who makes them. Instead of the, "Hey, well you know......" salesman pitch, I got a deathly stare and complete silence of the rather mature gentleman behind the counter.

...come on, with a name like Sniper what kind of response were you expecting?

jokes

nah, I agree - too much cotton wool bro... waaay too much

**sAsLEX** · 11th April 2006, 17:43

Originally Posted by metric

...come on, with a name like Sniper what kind of response were you expecting?

And with these socks on! http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/at...9&d=1132992341

**WINJA** · 11th April 2006, 17:52

maybe its the way you asked did it sound something like this "yah im from sout aafrika have you got trowing nives for me to trow at the flet nose blecks? yah"