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Originally Posted by HardDrive

Of couse were not talking about here in the US, its another wonderful example of life in the Nanny State.

Batman knife lands man in prison - Wigan Today

Incredible.

Wait, did you read the article? It sounds like a 19 year old kid was carrying a knife like the one in the picture below "for protection".


It's a "real" knife in that it's made of sturdy metal (not a kids plastic batman knife) and is sharp and the kid was carrying it to potentially use.

It's not really the same as a 13 year old with a plastic knife getting 4 months or a 70 year old knife collector on the way to a knife show getting arrested.

I'm not commenting on the punishment, what I'm commenting on is that it sounds like this kid was asking for trouble and got it.


Here are some stories that are actually ridiculous.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,565520,00.html

Fortunately, it sounds like the school board changed their mind about the 6 year old Cub Scout that was headed to Juvie.
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/33289924/ns/today-today_people/

Yesterday he faced 45 days in reform school. This morning, Zachary Christie is on his way to school for the first time since he made the mistake of taking his favorite camping utensil to school and ran into his Delaware school system's zero-tolerance policy.

On Tuesday night the school board made a hasty change to its code of conduct. The seven-member board voted unanimously to reduce the punishment for kindergartners and first-graders who bring weapons to school or commit other violent offenses to a suspension ranging from three to five days.