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UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges

posted by martyb on Sunday January 19 2020, @07:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the pointed-comments dept.

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Sheffield-based company Viners has produced the "Assure" range, square-ended knives which are "shaped to reduce and prevent injuries, accidents and fatalities." With knife crimes in England and Wales at their highest in a decade, a 3% increase on last year and the highest level since 2009, this new knife is intended to not be used in crimes and only in the kitchen. While anti-stabbing messages have been left on fastfood containers and a crackdown on knife crime has been tried, for which included limiting the sale of knives, so far nothing has blunted the knife based problem.

When have social problems been solved by technical solutions?

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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday January 20 2020, @02:15AM (3 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Monday January 20 2020, @02:15AM (#945604) Journal

    Not bad for carving pumpkins, watermelons, or bodies, though.

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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday January 20 2020, @02:43AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 20 2020, @02:43AM (#945618) Journal

    Not bad for carving pumpkins, watermelons, or bodies, though.

    Have you tried a chainsaw? Environment considerations aside**, they work so much better for carving, especially in the latter case.

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    ** the environmental impact is going down too lately. Look mate, Bunnings carry a decent range of cordless chainsaws [bunnings.com.au], so if you have solar panels on your home (you have, haven't you?), carving becomes a carbon neutral operation.

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    • (Score: 3, Touché) by MostCynical on Monday January 20 2020, @02:55AM (1 child)

      by MostCynical (2589) on Monday January 20 2020, @02:55AM (#945626) Journal

      Really depends on your prefernce for speed over tidiness. This is why every trade needs apprentices- someone to clean up and clean the tools.

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      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday January 20 2020, @03:19AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 20 2020, @03:19AM (#945637) Journal

        With the note that both the machete and the chainsaw will need cleaning anyway, I concede the point that the clean use of a chainsaw requires higher level of mastery and, consequently, a longer practice to the artistry levels able top arrest the escalation of the mess.

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