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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?
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Knives are too Sharp and Filing Down their Points is Solution to Soaring Violent Crime, Judge Says
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Now KEN and BARBIE are PERMANENTLY ADDICTED to MIND-ALTERING DRUGS ...
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday June 01 2018, @04:36PM (2 children)
All this piercing and scoring that you talk about with pointy knives in the kitchen is being done to poor animal flesh! Dead animals!
Next you'll be using facts and stuff like that to argue our teeth are evolved to eat animal flesh, cooked or not. But we don't believe no evolution hear. No.
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: 2) by Fluffeh on Sunday June 03 2018, @09:47PM (1 child)
Oh... I see. Well clearly you would agree with me to say that our teeth were designed intelligently (see what I did there!) to be the most efficient at devouring and cutting through meat like the good lord intended for us to do.
*sips coffee*
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday June 04 2018, @01:33PM
:-)
Heh, heh.
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.