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London Mayor Sadiq Khan is cracking down on the carrying of knives in response to a spate of stabbings that pushed the city's murder rate past New York's for the "first time in modern history."
Khan deployed an additional 300 Metropolitan Police officers over the weekend to work exclusively against knife crime, urging them to be more "confident" in their authority to stop anyone suspected of carrying a weapon.
"What you will see over the course of the next few weeks and months — is what we have seen over the last few weeks and months — which is stop-and-search based on suspicion of carrying an offensive weapon going up, more arrests as a consequence of this intelligence-led stop-and-search going up and hopefully our city becoming safer," the mayor said Saturday, according to The Telegraph.
Khan also issued a warning to would-be knife carriers, saying they should think twice before bringing one out in public — whatever the reason.
"No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife," Khan said on Twitter. "Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law."
Source: http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/08/london-murder-rate-knives/
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MostCynical on Monday April 09 2018, @06:05AM (13 children)
sharp sticks
Then
All sticks
Then walking sticks
Crutches
Brooms
Rakes
Chop sticks
Tooth picks
Hair pins
Coat hangers
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 3, Informative) by Bot on Monday April 09 2018, @06:28AM (6 children)
what if the attacker has a pointed stick?
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Monday April 09 2018, @06:32AM
Or a blunt, rusty spoon? Won't somebody think of the children?
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday April 09 2018, @07:18AM (3 children)
Damn, left bananas off my list!
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @08:18AM
Then don't blame me, when some homicidal maniac comes at you with a bunch of . . .
http://www.montypython.net/scripts/fruit.php
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday April 09 2018, @03:39PM (1 child)
Please don't forget the evils of Tea Cups. Vin Diesel showed the evils thereof.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @06:25PM
Do you want English anarchy? Cause they is how you get English anarchy.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Monday April 09 2018, @03:16PM
Let him attack you. Seriously. See here: https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=24987&cid=664479 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @08:15AM (3 children)
Don't forget pens and pencils. Deadly things .. think of John Wick and The Joker.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @12:09PM (2 children)
At the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, an individual later discovered to be a public school teacher was arrested by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) while attempting to board a flight.
In his possession they found a ruler, protractor, set square and a calculator. Authorities believe he is a member of the notorious al-Gebra movement. He is being charged with carrying weapons of math instruction.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @02:45PM
He was a Mathochist.
(Score: 1) by Kalas on Wednesday April 11 2018, @10:02PM
Beyond just modding that funny, I feel the need to say that you made my day with that comment.
(Score: 2) by Zinho on Monday April 09 2018, @02:14PM
You laugh, but: Shillelagh [wikipedia.org]
Given the history between England and Ireland, I'm surprised Irish walking sticks aren't already illegal in London.
"Space Exploration is not endless circles in low earth orbit." -Buzz Aldrin
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday April 09 2018, @04:07PM
Yes all eating implements including forks and spoons after upticks in spoon related violence. After that everyone's fists will have to be wrapped in huge cotton wool boxing gloves, then their entire bodies wrapped in the stuff, then their teeth behind muzzles and their hands tied behind their back whenever they want to go out in public. All eating and drinking will be done by bending forward and sucking through a collapsible cardboard straw (with blunted edges to avoid paper cuts). Oh and no gatherings of more than two people will then be allowed (one if male). Each person must carry 1000 miniature body mounted cameras that record them constantly at 950 frames per second at hundreds of different angles and scales, right down to the molecular level. All audio will also be recorded at frequencies ranging from 1 cycle per age-of-universe to 1 cycle per Planck time. All this captured data will be constantly uploaded to all IPv6 IP addresses, except the Russian ones obviously.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?