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2006-12-06 -Lurid Crime Tales-

PCness run amok : Cricket fan is caught with 'lethal' ball

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-12-06 10:07|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "'Ere! That's an offensive weapon, that is!"

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-12-06 10:47|| 2006-12-06 10:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Dear God... is this the terminal phase of Socialism? A nation which doesn't trust its citizens to walk around with sharp or hard objects, as if they were mewling infants in some nursery, with the Government acting as nannies?

This both sad and alarming-- because I think in their descent into the abyss, the Brits are only about a decade ahead of us.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-12-06 12:26|| 2006-12-06 12:26|| Front Page Top

#3 is this the terminal phase of Socialism?

Nah. The terminal phase is when all of us have to wear helmets whenever we leave our homes 'cuz we might trip and suffer a head injury.

Posted by Dreadnought 2006-12-06 15:38|| 2006-12-06 15:38|| Front Page Top

#4 This doesn't surprise me at all. The descendants of the men who fought off the Zulus at Rorke's Drift and who held the Residency at Lucknow against overwhelming odds from May until late September of 1857 have built a nanny state in which one cannot openly carry a 3" pocketknife. They're a hell of a long way down the tubes and moving at ever faster speed. It's very sad and frightening to watch. Their decline is a cautionary tale we on this side of the pond better pay damned close attention to. It CAN happen here.

Posted by mac 2006-12-06 16:58|| 2006-12-06 16:58|| Front Page Top

#5 I think the policewoman in question was brought to the verge of frothy hysterical petty tyranny by the sight of a man with, not just two, but nay three balls. Just having two makes any man dangerous enough as it is in this testosterone-phobic world.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-12-06 18:06|| 2006-12-06 18:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Pencils can be used as knives. You can run people over with your car. A credit card can make a nasty slash wound. Keys can poke out eyes. You can make a garotte out of your underwear. You can make a garotte out of Gwyneth Paltrow's underwear. A briefcase can crush a temple. Forks, knives, spoons, loose masonry, teeth, and broken glass can be used to injure, maim, or kill someone. I can use a pencil to write a news article that ends up with many people dead by revealing methods used to capture terrorists.

is this the terminal phase of Socialism?

No. When we vote away our ability to change out the government, then it will be all downhill from there until everyone you know including all your descendents are facing east to pray.

Posted by gorb 2006-12-06 18:44|| 2006-12-06 18:44|| Front Page Top

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