03-10-2010, 06:30 PM
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Anything can be used as a weapon and will be classified as such if:
It's not in it's usual natural location, not being used for it's said purpose or not in the hands of a professional.
So unless the attacker was a Chef, in food demonstration and it 'slipped', then it's a weapon.
Mark is a chef, he carries his tools of trade in a *rigid box in the boot of the car to and from work. If I then jumped in the car and drove it to the shops, and the box had been left in there, I would be causing an offence. Whether the police would take action, maybe if I decided to use the meat cleaver to get to the front of the check-out
Most likely if I got stopped and it was discovered I'd get a ticking off (and so would Mark for leaving the box 'unattended').
It would be the same for my friend whose husband is a Chippy with all his tools.
*Mark used to keep his knives in a linen roll, made for the purpose until 2 years ago when a friend of his (also a chef) got rear-ended in stationary traffic by an Audi (the driver had fallen asleep). The impact was at 40mph and cut his car cut in half. He was sat still strapped in the drivers seat slightly bruised in the central reservation, his car all over the dual carriage way. The knives in the boot (aka trunk) flew everywhere and the police were still finding them the following day, stuck in trees and other cars.
It was so luckly non flew out and hurt anyone. Maybe the Audi driver could have been a victim if Ray could have got out of his car seat though....................
It's not in it's usual natural location, not being used for it's said purpose or not in the hands of a professional.
So unless the attacker was a Chef, in food demonstration and it 'slipped', then it's a weapon.
Mark is a chef, he carries his tools of trade in a *rigid box in the boot of the car to and from work. If I then jumped in the car and drove it to the shops, and the box had been left in there, I would be causing an offence. Whether the police would take action, maybe if I decided to use the meat cleaver to get to the front of the check-out
Most likely if I got stopped and it was discovered I'd get a ticking off (and so would Mark for leaving the box 'unattended').
It would be the same for my friend whose husband is a Chippy with all his tools.
*Mark used to keep his knives in a linen roll, made for the purpose until 2 years ago when a friend of his (also a chef) got rear-ended in stationary traffic by an Audi (the driver had fallen asleep). The impact was at 40mph and cut his car cut in half. He was sat still strapped in the drivers seat slightly bruised in the central reservation, his car all over the dual carriage way. The knives in the boot (aka trunk) flew everywhere and the police were still finding them the following day, stuck in trees and other cars.
It was so luckly non flew out and hurt anyone. Maybe the Audi driver could have been a victim if Ray could have got out of his car seat though....................
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