BoarSpear

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006240126,00.html

THIS five-foot martial arts sword capable of beheading a man was recovered by shocked cops in a house raid.

The terrifying Batleth weapon is identical to one wielded by Klingon aliens in the Star Trek sci-fi films.

Officers seized the three-handled sword — which has huge pointed blades at either end — at a home in Gloucester.

It was shown yesterday at the start of a five-week national knife amnesty. Cops hope 30,000 blades will be handed in, with owners free from prosecution.

Local Insp Mac McGarry wielded the sword, which he said had been sharpened to kill.

He said: “It is a particularly nasty weapon which could easily take someone’s head off.”

Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker launched the amnesty in St John’s Wood, North West London. He said: “We are determined to get the scourge of knife crime off our streets.”


But Victims of Crime campaigner Norman Brennan, a serving cop, branded the initiative a “futile PR stunt”.

He said: “It is likely to be supported by the law-abiding public and not those who carry knives for criminal activity.

“Knife crime will only get worse if we don’t introduce a five-year mandatory sentence for anyone carrying a knife.”

THE Queen’s grocer Fortnum & Mason was fined £2,000 by Horseferry Road Magistrates in London for selling a knife to a child under 16.

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What will these idiots claim is deadly next? What a circus, they also announced a 10 YEAR jail penalty for possesion of a bowie Knife in Australia today!!

Hardball

Thus we go back in History to the invention of Martial Arts. In Ancient Japan (Somewhere around the 12th century) all swords and other weapons were banned. You had to be royalty or work for a ruling family to carry or own a sword. People started training in unarmed combat; mostly in secret.

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Tant01

What a bunch of CRAP!!!


"For men of understanding do not say that the sword is to blame for murder, nor wine for drunkenness, nor strength for outrage, nor courage for foolhardiness, but they lay the blame on those who make an improper use of the gifts which have been bestowed upon
them by God, and punish them accordingly."
St. John Chrysostom (circa 341-410 A.D.), from "Treatise on the Priesthood,"
via B.T. Carlin, M.D.


As the 19th-century jurist James Paterson remarked in his Commentaries on the Liberty of the Subject and the Laws of England Relating to the Security of the Person:
"In all countries where personal freedom is valued, however much each individual may rely on legal redress, the right of each to carry arms - and these the best and the sharpest - for his own protection in case of extremity, is a right of nature indelible and irrepressible, and the more it is sought to be repressed the more it will recur."

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While the old form, jujutsu, was studied solely for fighting purposes, Kano's new system is found to promote the mental as well as the physical faculties.

T. Shidachi, 1892

stabbychick

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BoarSpear

OMG!! And they all speak klingon!! It'll be like the Navajo code talkers from WW2 we wont have a chance.

Mike Brewer

Words fail...

velcroninja

hey, I've got EXCALIBER...I am the king now...come and get me!!!

velcroninja

WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO USE NOW TO CUT OPEN THIER cROSSANTS???

BoarSpear

heheheheh someones bored on thier new assignment I see I passed the UJI up the chain of command so to speak, but the boss seemed to feel you had enough toys with you... I didnt figure you wanted me explaining all the fun tests you could do there you cant do here.