Knives the 'new' weapon of choice...

**Ixion** · 28th January 2008, 08:22

Originally Posted by sAsLEX

Well did you call the police? Or the Naval Base Officer of the Day? Or confront the yoof yourself?

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Oh oh oh oh. Please please, if you see them again, call the Base . Those MPs don't pansy around like civilian cops. Has flogging definately been abolished. But, unofficially, like ....

**jahrasti** · 28th January 2008, 08:59

Originally Posted by Ixion

Oh oh oh oh. Please please, if you see them again, call the Base . Those MPs don't pansy around like civilian cops. Has flogging definately been abolished. But, unofficially, like ....

MP's are bitches who pretend to play cop and have no power.

**Mr Merde** · 28th January 2008, 09:00

Knives are so easy to obtain and so easy to use.

You dont have to know a lot to be able to cut someone. To use a fighting knife properly one has to be trained and has to practice.

When I lived in the UK there was a concerted effort to stop people from carrying Stanley knives.

Why did they carry them? Because they caused maximum injury with a much lesser danger of killing anyone. If you have ever seen someone who has been slashed by these things the damage they inflict is horrendous.

So why are knives being carried by the arsehole? Because they are so easy to obtain, they think they look hard and they know that if caught just carrying them they will at worst only get a slap on the wrist.

I personally have always carried a pocket knife. It is always in one of my pockets, it is always razor sharp and it has been used for a multitude of tasks from cable work to box opening. The difference is I am not a street punk trying to look hard (and American). My knife is what it was designed for, a tool, not a weapon

**Hitcher** · 28th January 2008, 10:34

Nobody "wins" in a knife fight, no matter how skilled they may think they are. The chances of walking away unharmed are remote. That's why people invented personal projective weapons.

**Finn** · 28th January 2008, 10:40

Did you hear the one about the kid that went to a knife fight armed with a spray can?

**cruza** · 28th January 2008, 10:48

Thinking of all the shit we go through being a licensed firearms user, safe storage/ safes/ clubs etc, and the constant back lash of how dangerous they are in the wrong hands--- and jimmy r sole we read about all the time just uses a $5 kitchen knife, it comes down to the person in the end , I shudder at some of the things young people do today,respect for others- and I'm only in my 30's

**Macktheknife** · 28th January 2008, 11:28

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Nobody "wins" in a knife fight, no matter how skilled they may think they are.

Sorry Hitcher, have to disagree with you, sort of.
Winning in a knife fight is not about coming away without injury, it is about having minimal injury and your opponent neutralised as a threat. That might mean badly injured or possibly dead, but no longer a threat.
So someone should definitely win.

Personally, I say give them all knives and let them go for it. Whoever survives, should probably be shot on sight, because they will be dangerous buggers!

**HenryDorsetCase** · 28th January 2008, 11:38

Originally Posted by cruza

Thinking of all the shit we go through being a licensed firearms user, safe storage/ safes/ clubs etc, and the constant back lash of how dangerous they are in the wrong hands--- and jimmy r sole we read about all the time just uses a $5 kitchen knife, it comes down to the person in the end , I shudder at some of the things young people do today,respect for others- and I'm only in my 30's

A decent kitchen knife costs a LOT LOT more than $5

**sunhuntin** · 28th January 2008, 11:49

Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase

A decent kitchen knife costs a LOT LOT more than $5

craft/stanley knives dont.

i remember in high school, i nearly shredded someone standing behind me cos he dropped something down my shirt. i was sharpening a pencil at the time and lashed out without thinking. damn pity i wasnt a tad closer... might have made the rest of my school years easier.

**Grahameeboy** · 28th January 2008, 18:24

Originally Posted by sAsLEX

Well did you call the police? Or the Naval Base Officer of the Day? Or confront the yoof yourself?

As if you didn't you are escalating the problem through inaction.

People will take the law in to their own hands when the police repeatedly fail to deliver anything resembling justice other than tickets for 111Kmhr.

Mmmm....No, yes and yes. Now painted over.

Stabbing a tagger is not taking law into own hands.........the guy deserves jail time...........

**Brett** · 28th January 2008, 20:18

Unfortuanately there is bugger all we can do about these pricks carrying knive. That is why, either this year or early next year my brother and I want to go to the bloke in Dunna's who trains people in Close Quarter Combat, he trains the SAS and other special opps units and runs intensive courses over a few weeks. Best way of learning to defend yourself IMO. Currently I box and keep myself as fit as possible, this would be the next step. Want to get my wife to do a similar course also.

**Brett** · 28th January 2008, 20:20

Originally Posted by Finn

Did you hear the one about the kid that went to a knife fight armed with a spray can?

Yeah, he wasn't cut out for it.

**Finn** · 29th January 2008, 11:13

Originally Posted by Brett

Yeah, he wasn't cut out for it.

I heard he was badly burnt but I guess they don't fuck round at the crematorium.

**99TLS** · 29th January 2008, 11:17

another one on the news now and in manurewa also thats 3 there now

**Mikkel** · 29th January 2008, 11:48

Carrying a knife for your own protection is a really really bad idea unless you know how to use it.

If I had anyone pull a knife on me I'd probably try and evaluate whether the person knew how to use it properly. If he didn't I'd take it off him and show him why it's a bad idea.

And why bother carrying a knife anyway? The supply of improvised weapons is never-ending...

Originally Posted by Finn

Did you hear the one about the kid that went to a knife fight armed with a spray can?

spray-can + lighter = mini flamethrower...

As for taking hands off with a chainsaw - I'd say use a hammer I'm sure the memory would last longer!