Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[Last Hussar]

Probably Sunjester - he's definitely to blame.

[Last Hussar]

Just had an email from the Parole Board about a case, saying they want previous decisions made by the Parole Board...

[Last Hussar]

Get home,do a YouGov poll.

Last question "do you wear cardigans?"

[Last Hussar]

Today's "No, really?" moment

It is contended that the car chase demonstrates further that the appellant was unwilling to be answerable for his role in the offending, or to co-operate with the investigation of these offences.

 

[Raider4]

Things that circle through your brain at 04:00 and you can't get back to sleep:

"When did croissants stop being, well, crescents?" 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

It's to do with fat content
All butter croissants are straight shape, mixed fats are the other.

[Last Hussar]

I've got that "new posts don't show up in The new posts bit" problem somebody else had a few weeks ago. Did anyone work out how to fix it?

[Raider4]

And this is why i do not frequent amusement parks:

People left dangling upside down

[Last Hussar]

Today's "What, really!?" moment.

Firearms are not defined as offensive weapons by English/Welsh law...

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Today's "What, really!?" moment.

Firearms are not defined as offensive weapons by English/Welsh law...

Offensive weapons are close quarters weaponry, bows and catapults.
A football rattle is an offensive weapon,
Any blade over 4" is

As I also found out while fencing, as long as it takes over a minute to draw your weapon in public, swords may be accrued in a suitable container. The 1" plastic pipe that mine were is was more of an offensive weapon than my foil and epee.

Fire arms are covered by the forearms act, and are licensed.

[FierceKitty]

I was stopped in Cape Town once for carrying my foil home. I think the cops realised they'd never get a conviction.

[Last Hussar]

forearms act

So just a slap on the wrist then? 

The firearm in question was a sawn off shotgun.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

The firearm in question was a sawn off shotgun.

In that case it's a prohibited weapon, same as all automatic weapons - shotguns must have a barrel at least 24" long (bout 60 cm).

An offensive weapon is defined as anything designed(ie Knife), intended or used as one.

[FierceKitty]

Rather tautologous, what?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Its designed to cover it all - Brit legalies

[FierceKitty]

"An offensive weapon shall be understood to comprise
i) an offensive weapon;
ii) an offensive weapon designed as an offensive weapon; or
iii) an item employed as an offensive weapon."

That will be 2, 000 pounds, please.

[Last Hussar]

I have had actual official guidance on this

Section 1(4) defines an offensive weapon as "any article made or adapted for use for causing injury to the person or intended by the person having it with him for such use by him or by some other person". The court have identified three categories of offensive weapons:
•   Offensive per se i.e. those items made for the use of causing injury to the person. Examples are a truncheon, a rice flail, a butterfly knife.
•   Adapted for use. Such as a bottle deliberately broken.
•   Intended by the person having it with him for use for causing injury to the person. This definition includes defensively as well as offensively.

The defined offence 'Possession of sawn off shotgun, barrel less than 12 inches' derives from non-compliance of the firearms act/certification standards. There is no intention to use the firearm to cause harm

[Orcs]

As I also found out while fencing, as long as it takes over a minute to draw your weapon in public, swords may be accrued in a suitable container. The 1" plastic pipe that mine were is was more of an offensive weapon than my foil and epee.

Fire arms are covered by the forearms act, and are licensed.

Yes and as long as the firearm is unloaded and any magazines do not contain rounds, you can walk down the high street with them as long as they are in a case.

Interestingly the police cannot ask you to show them what is in the case, as to open the case in the street is illegal. Obviously they can confirm you have the correct license over the radio, and ideally you should be carrying it.
They can request you come to the Police station to show them, but it is entirely voluntary, as you have not committed any offense.   

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

So just a slap on the wrist then? 

Didn't you know that's why all Americans wear T-shirts, they have the right to bare arms! 

[Ithoriel]

Didn't you know that's why all Americans wear T-shirts, they have the right to bare arms! 

Really? And there was I thinking the right they had was the right to arm bears which is why in the USA "If you go down to the woods today you're in for a big surprise!"