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Machete sold to 15-year-old boy (OH NOES!!!)

Apex

Somewhere Around Nothing
BBC NEWS | Business | Machete sold to 15-year-old boy

Trading standards officers have called for a ban on online knife sales after a machete was sold to a 15-year-old for £1.50 over the internet.
The potential weapon was delivered in the mail in bubble wrap and cardboard to the teenager who was testing under-age sales for trading standards.

I have a real hard time reading that article without laughing.
 

Father Heathen

Veteran Member
I owned a hatchet when I was a child, and shockingly enough possessing something that could potentially be used as a weapon actually didn't warp my psyche and fill me with bloodlust. :eek:
 

Apex

Somewhere Around Nothing
I owned a hatchet when I was a child, and shockingly enough possessing something that could potentially be used as a weapon actually didn't warp my psyche and fill me with bloodlust. :eek:
Oh the horror!!!

I had a machete when I was in middle school. The worse thing I ever did with that was go chop down a few saplings in the forest. Oh, and I went on a murdering rampage at school one day, but that is a whole other story.;)
 

3.14

Well-Known Member
if i want to kill someone i could do it with a toothpick, kids these days can't even kill without there fancy smancy manchete's
 

Father Heathen

Veteran Member
Oh, and I went on a murdering rampage at school one day, but that is a whole other story.;)

That was obviously the fault of videos games and rock music! Playin' DooM, listening to Marilyn Manson, sippin' tea.... ;):p

I wonder what the target of outrage and blame would be if someone when on a killing spree by bludgeoning people to death with a waffle iron.

Anyway, regarding the OP article. I wonder if the UK will try to pressure foreign online merchants to cease selling knifes and such. A few years back France tried to get Yahoo to ban Nazi paraphernalia from it's online stores just because it was illegal in their country. So in other words they thought a merchant based in the U.S. shouldn't be able to sell WW2 memorbilia, regardless of their right to free speech, just because a frenchie could possibly get to it.
 
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Sundree

Heart
LOL I am reminded of the parody of Walk The Line, called "Walk Hard"...you would have had to have seen it for for this thread to be HILARIOUS !!! :)
 

Valjean

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Are we eventually going to ban all sharp or pointy things? Will possession of sticks or stones by underaged persons soon be an offense?
 

Smoke

Done here.
The law states that it is illegal to sell a knife or bladed article to anyone aged under 18
That amazes me. We owned knives from very early ages -- I can't remember not owning knives -- and machetes by 10 or 11.
 

darkendless

Guardian of Asgaard
We wont, but I bet England soon will.:rolleyes:

Knife crime is scarey in England. I saw a report here about knife crime showing CCTV of a guy walking up to some innocent guy he didn't know and knifing him about 6 times in the neck, eventually killing him. It sends shockwaves down my spine to see such disregard for human life.

They can't stop weapons sales, if kids can't buy butterfly knives and the such, there is always kitchen utensils which are equally effective.

Personally i own about 11 knives/swords, all of which are sharp enough to injure. I don't ever remember not owning weapons.
 

methylatedghosts

Can't brain. Has dumb.
I wonder what the target of outrage and blame would be if someone when on a killing spree by bludgeoning people to death with a waffle iron.
One of the latest zombie-killing games where you can pick up and use any object as a weapon, I suppose.

it's always the video games..
 

Zardoz

Wonderful Wizard
Premium Member
That's sooo stupid. Almost anything can be used as a weapon maybe they should watch 'Slingblade' then they will ban lawn mowers too. Idiots. :rolleyes:
 
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