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Wednesday May 15, 2002 13:49
by Jon Wilde
Arkaos at subdimension dot com
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6This is stupid, if they are going to charge evryone who carries a penknife then there is going to be a long list of us. If he gets charged with carrying the swiss army knife I will have to turn myself in too and make sure I get charged.
Hopefully the judge will see how stupid this is. I know I know but I am an eternal optimist.
Further to this charge being loaded on the others "unlawful possession of a card-type Swiss army knife". Seriously does anyone know how to LAWFULLY passess a card type Swiss Army Knife?
Is this a charge that anyone carrying a penknife could have thrown on them in the future?
Same type of bullshit used against Joe Moffatt by Fascist Italian coppers (well more serious in fact) they didn't get away with it neither should the Irish ones.
and the knife itself is about the length of my little finger - and half of it is handle.
Unlawful possession? Mine's stamped with a company logo - corporate doodad a step up from the usual leaky biros they give out.
They will always try to claim a knife is a weapon no matter how innocuous it is. I was arrested in Scotland years back and when processing my property the copper wrote down 'Stanley Knife'. It was a normal Swiss Army knife. I pointed this out and the copper tried to pass it off as a mistake. However if I hadn't spotted it would a Stanley have appeared?
Since that incident I do not carry any knives on protests, even little wee keyring ones. Just gives them another excuse.
Someone was convicted recently in Limerick Circuit Court of carrying a concealed weapon. The weapon? A Stanley knife/carpet knife. Its location? The carrier bag of his bike. His profession? A fitter - someone who would actually have use for a Stanley knife in his daily job or might just leave it in his carrier and forget about it. He just happened to be stopped by the Gardai - not under suspicion of anything. The judge ruled that he could be convicted for carrying a concealed weapon as the judge believed it was carrying it "at an inappropriate time"