Girl Arrested for Eating Steak!

POSTED BY: AnthonyT
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From the age of 12 I've always carried a pocket knife. Even in school. Usually with a 3-inch main blade (always prided myself on its sharpness). Took it out a couple of times to sharpen a pencil or use the scissors. Never any intent to use it as a weapon; only as a tool. Some teachers knew I had it because they saw me use it but it. I think I even lent it to one or two. It was no big deal.

A steak knife is not a weapon. It might be used as a weapon but so could a chair or a calculus book.

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Hero,

What was the content of your broadsword presentation?

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It was during the public speaking section of 11th grade English. Did a speech on the evolution of the sword in Western culture. Had a Masonic cerimonial sword too (but it was hardly a weapon).

I bought the sword during a school trip the prior summer from the sword makers in Toledo (Spain, the ones in Ohio are hacks). Watched them make it and then bought it.

Its actually quite nice and fairly valuable. Its locked in my Gun Cabinet now (although I think that makes it a Sword Cabinet since I keep my guns somewhere else). If you load you salt shaker with pepper does that make it a pepper shaker?

H

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Hello,

It is a sad truth that 'Toledo Steel' means almost nothing nowdays. Most of the current makers in Spain are hacks, too, turning out wallhangers at an alarming rate.

There are too-few authentic smiths operating in the world. I know of perhaps a half-dozen places to get a quality blade.

One of the best in the U.S., Angus Trim, doesn't even use traditional means. However, at least he understands the principles of blade geometry and heat treatment. His swords are very, very effective.

One day I will get myself an Angus Trim blade. I'm not likely to be able to afford a quality forged piece.

--Anthony

"Liberty must not be purchased at the cost of Humanity." --Captain Robert Henner

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If memory serves when I was in High School there was a story just like this: the girl brought a knife in to cut her chicken, she was arrested. The moral of the story is to cut your food ahead of time and, should you feel the need, kill people with one of the many and varied potential weapons conveniently available in any given school.

Middle school was worse though, they classified book bags as weapons and outlawed them on school grounds during operating hours. You could take your bag from the entrance to your locker before school started, and from your locker to the exit after school ended but anything more than that and they were convinced you were going to kill someone. The result was that in the space between classes almost every student was sprinting to and from their locker while being simultaneously told not to run and not to be late for their next class. To my knowledge there was no reduction in fight related injuries.

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The nitpicking as to whether dinnerware is a weapon when a student could just as easily do damage with school supplies reminds me of something I heard from Arlo Guthrie. Apparently before being allowed on a flight a member of his party was relieved of new ukulele strings (because they were deadly weapons) but allowed to keep the old strings that were on the ukulele. The moral of the story was that terrorists only kill people with new ukulele strings.

Apparently elementary students, violent as are, hurt people only with dinnerware and not, say, craft supplies.

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I guess we oughta go ahead and ban the 1968 Silver Burdett Social Studies textbook too then.

Besides the fact that it's fulla crap, it was also nice and hefty, making a heck of a weapon if you got a full-body rotational swing into it...

Well, I guess that's two lessons I learned from it, not to trust what folk tell me, and practical physics, heh.

I've done more harm in my life with that monstrosity than any other single weapon I own, wouldja believe it ?

-Frem
It cannot be said enough, those who do not learn from history, are doomed to endlessly repeat it

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One day I will get myself an Angus Trim blade. I'm not likely to be able to afford a quality forged piece.

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YES! I have an AT1518. My fist real sword, it is a freakin lightsaber.

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