A judge has proposed a nationwide programme to file down the points of kitchen knives as a solution to the country’s soaring knife crime epidemic.
Last week in his valedictory address, retiring Luton Crown Court Judge Nic Madge spoke of his concern that carrying a knife had become routine in some circles and called on the Government to ban the sale of large pointed kitchen knives.
[...] He said laws designed to reduce the availability of weapons to young would-be offenders had had “almost no effect”, since the vast majority had merely taken knives from a cutlery drawer.
[...] He asked: “But why we do need eight-inch or ten-inch kitchen knives with points?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by captain normal on Friday June 01 2018, @06:21AM (4 children)
They'll have to pry my J.A. Henckels chef's knife, deboneing knife and my Black Tip filleting knife out of my cold dead hands.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday June 01 2018, @09:50AM
At a minimum, you either have huge hands or three of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @01:47PM (2 children)
You Nazi bastard.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 01 2018, @04:39PM (1 child)
You rich [zwilling-shop.com] Nazi bastard.
FTFY.
(Score: 2) by Rich on Saturday June 02 2018, @12:29AM
Who? Me?
Actually, I got my large Zwilling Chef Knife with a bonus-point collection rebate from a local supermarket. At not quite the going rate for the damascene version. Still, a hobby-chef friend of mine praised it greatly when he got to use it. For me, it sits in the drawer most of the time and I do all the kitchen work with a Santoku knife from the same Zwilling series, which was (up)sold to me (literally) decades ago by a salesman at a kitchenware store. No regrets about the upsell, though. My then girlfriend put it into the dishwasher repeatedly, so its blade isn't as sharp as it should be anymore - but I get along really well with it.
Also, as far as the bastard part is concerned, neither of them has "Meine Ehre heisst Treue" engraved, they just have the works laser marking. ;)