Man with a knife

plenty of country folk carry, because its handy, but there's a difference between country folk carrying in case they need to cut rope/open meal sacks/ scrape some rust off something [you can usually tell because the knife is normally a simple blade battered to bluntness] and a chav stuffing a 9" kitchen knife down his trakkies before going out on the town of a saturday evening.

the way the law works is if it's 3" or longer with a locking blade then you'll need a valid reason for carrying it, commonly accepted criteria are chef's transporting their work knives, sikh's ceremonial knives, fishermen with a filleting knife, or hunters [who lets face it, generally have guns too].

its possible he may have wanted to fashion a walking stick [on the basis i know people who do this when out walking in forests and such]
 
I grew up in the country, I think I was given my first pocket knife when I was about 10. I have carried a (small) knife in my pocket ever since, comes in very handy for all sorts of things. Only place I don't have one is if I'm getting on a flight.
 
Isn't that exactly why full galore of small blades from "swiss army" pocket knifes to Bear Grylls or Leatherman all in one multitools etc can be acquired from most high street shops? So one always has right tool to strip the bark off and/or sharpen one's randomly found stick with?


For protection against vampires, strigoy and the like, of course, what else?
 
BusError said:
I've had a knife in my pocket or bag since I'm 11 or so. It's pretty common in france. It's a tiny thing these days, perhaps 2inch blade?
I open parcels, strip wires, cut my nails, occasionally cut cheese with it in the car on long journeys, sharpen pencils, use it for lunch at the shooting ground and that sort of things...
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*Sniggers* :D
 
I carry a small (very small) penknife day to day on my keyring (mostly for the scissors as people keep "borrowing" mine at work and not bringing them back).

I have a slightly under 3" non-locking folding knife I use sometimes for splicing wires, etc. that occasionally I forget to take out of my pocket before leaving the house but don't tend to carry it normally day to day.
 
sprite1275 said:
I was enjoying a walk round the gardens/grounds of a hall the other day with my family. There was a foreigner in front of us when all of a sudden he grabbed a big stick, whipped a knife out and started stripping the bark off it.

I didn't know what to think of this. Why is he carrying a knife around with him? Does it really matter? Is it What he's used to in there own country?

Either way it was a bit freaky as it's not something you see every day and not when there's just a lot of family's walking about.

anyone here carry a knife around with them?
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You should have contacted Special Branch.
 
I'd say him being a foreigner is relevant as maybe where he is from whipping your knife out and sharpening sticks is part of a family day out.

Like I say I didn't know what to think about it really but personally I would feel uncomfortable getting a knife out in that situation.
 
He was probably sharpening that stick to go and spear a wild goose or duck . As a fisherman i have witnessed it many times on the thames and park lakes .
 
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