Tools for grown-ups

[dom]

Anyone explain this:

all the others: have no such restriction?

[Cicero]

=========================== Possibly because the screwdrivers could be classed as 'stabbing' implements - i.e. knives. The recent 'Knife amnesty' was intended to take all dangerous knives out of circulation.

Cic.

[John Rumm]

A quick glance at other screwdrivers would seem to support this suggestion...

alternatively it is because they set contains a mains tester screwdriver, and everyone knows they are leathal! ;-)

[meow2222]

lots of tools in that catalog are potential murder weapons. Many far more so than a screwdriver.

NT

[Lobster]

That'll be it, for sure.

I hope everyone here took their screwdrivers down to the nick to hand in?

David

[dom]

Looks like you're right, however you can have one of these:

even just one of these:

you can't have these:

sale of screwdrivers to under 18's - I think we've lost the plot

[b33k34]

indeed. most kids have grown up with video nasties as well - how can we let under 18's get their hands on one of these?

you'll need one of these to dispose of the bodies (Fargo anyone?)

[Guy King]

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I've not noticed any restrictions on, for example, chainsaws. Perhaps we ought to launch a campaign. Won't somebody think of the children?

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember " [e-mail]" saying something like:

Safety Weasels and / or Legal Weasels advising them of potential liabilities. The same sort of weasel thinking that led to many charities refusing to take old PCs for re-use.

[Doki]

By far the most common murder weapon is a kitchen knife. Screwdrivers and penknives over 2 and 3/4 inches probably figure very low in the numbers.

[Colin Wilson]

The BBC had a report today where someone on the New York subway took powered saws of some sort to use to rob people - I think it said they swung it at the victim too, and the police are treating it as attempted murder...

[Andy Dingley]

[Grumpy owd man]

My daughter got asked to produce proof of age when buying a cheese grater from Matalan.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

A guy I work with - a props man - driving home after work work was stopped and subsequently arrested, for wearing a Leatherman in his belt, along with a torch and pack holding tape and scissors. He was held at a local police station for 5 hours before being released with no charge. Seems it was the locking blade on the Leatherman that caused the problem. I and many of my colleagues also carry them too and from work - although mine doesn't have a locking blade. Wonder if he had been white rather than black if the outcome would have been the same?

[John Rumm]

I am just trying to visualise the scene now... "give me your wallet, or else I am going to give you a nasty scratch really slowly!" ;-)

[Guy King]

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I've never actually bought anything from Matalan - they asked for my name and address, I could see why they needed it so I declined and left. Someone told me it had changed - so I went back but it was still the same.

[Guy King]

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Sounds like my then three year old daughter wandering round the back garden dressed as a dalek. She dumped the whisk in favour of a cheese grater and merrily threatened people with "EXFOLIATE".

[Owain]

Matalan staff really shouldn't threaten customers with the merchandise.

Owain

[Paul Andrews]

----- Original Message ----- From: "Grumpy owd man" Newsgroups: uk.d-i-y Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 10:10 PM Subject: Re: Tools for grown-ups

It's all for the grater good...

[Andy Dingley]

Apart from the racist aspect of this, there's also the issue that the UK knife law over "locking" knives is specifically stated as being based on knives that lock and are released by use of a button (lever locks are a grey area). A Leatherman, or similar tools with over-centre retention, are clearly not locking knives under the terms of this act.