Soldato
Ah, agreed. Although running away won't work. You'll either freeze or be too slow. Best to complyI wasnt suggesting use a weapon just running away/cooperating
Ah, agreed. Although running away won't work. You'll either freeze or be too slow. Best to complyI wasnt suggesting use a weapon just running away/cooperating
You are using a major city, not everyone lives in a city where you are not far from a ****hole. Seeing as you have picked Pimlico as a "nice place" I also work for westminster council, the Churchill Gardens and Lillington Longmore Estates, and even the Grovesnor/Millbank estates are absolute holes.
My wit.
I'm also too lovely and good looking to get beaten up!That's all you need babes
A sock full of small change. Untold devastation will ensue.
"...Put them in your hand an make em count..."
I've carried a small Swiss Army knife on me for the past 6 years (on my keys though). Have been searched by police many times, never been an issue.
There is if you dint have a good reason. You've been lucky. Is it worth a criminal record. If you did use it in self defence you would have a massive issue with the law.
Thank you.Nonsense.
Your logic applies to things like stanley knives, fixed and locking blades etc.
Penknives with a non locking blade less than 3" in length, do not require 'good reason' to carry on your person. There is a big difference between a penknife and a kitchen knife/machete/flick knife/screwdriver etc which might need a 'good reason' to counter such a proscriptive.
Granted, if you tried to use it as a weapon, to defend yourself or otherwise, it'd land you in trouble. But the issue is most penknives are tools - mine is the most useful thing I own and lives in my pocket no matter where I am (except when flying).
No honest copper is going to try for a conviction, for possession of a dangerous weapon, of the carrier of a UK legal penknife, without prior evidence of it being used as a weapon.
But in answer to the OP, you are not allowed to carry anything to use specifically for 'self defence' in the UK.
It's not about being bothered. Its about being able to charge them with breaking a law. There's nothing illegal about simply carrying a small non-locking blade.
A sock full of small change. Untold devastation will ensue.
Nonsense.
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Newham. One of the, if not the, most "em" areas in the UK. Searched dozens of times.It's not nonsense at all.
Over three inch or lockable is just plain illegal.
Penknife can still be classed as an offensive weapon. You need good reason to carry it. But obviously depends on the copper at the time and to a certain extent when and where. See what happens in a really rough emarea at night.