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Modified EDC for knife phobic area

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marki3boy
Wales, UK
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I've had to modify my EDC for a knife phobic environment. The attitude around knives in the UK is getting very alarmist. A senior manager saw me cut a bagel with the blade on my Leatherman PST2 (legal to EDC in the UK), freaked out and imagined it was a bowie knife.

I've switched to carrying a Victorinox Spartan, as it's a familiar object that people recognise as a tool rather than a weapon, which hopefully won't freak people out.

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Zach Groenewald ·
It's alarming how paranoid people become around a pocket knife, when they handle a chef knife at home. Double standards abound...
Somebloke ·
It's entirely different. The chef's knife is at home. Carrying it on the street will (quite rightly) get you arrested. Cooking knifes are some of the most commonly used weapons in knife crimes in the UK.
Using the chef's knife as a weapon at home will also get you arrested, of course.
Garrick Zinecker ·
Completely absurd that people are so afraid of a piece of steel that is not even designed to be used as a weapon.
Somebloke ·
Not really. Try having someone attack you with one
marki3boy ·
Quite right Somebloke. With wrong intentions even the most innocuous seeming objects can be deadly. In a school near me (thirty years ago) a pupil was stabbed in the kidney with a cutlery knife (aka butter knife), he survived but was in intensive care for weeks.
Garrick Zinecker ·
That is frightening that someone could become that upset over something as simple as a picket knife.
Rite in the Rain ·
Nice book; thanks for carrying our stuff!
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