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[mekender]

Wait, so you cant even carry a pocket knife in NYC?

I know they have laws against "switch blades" that they interperet quite liberally...

[Greg]

Wait, so you cant even carry a pocket knife in NYC?

I know they have laws against "switch blades" that they interperet quite liberally...

There are also laws against "gravity knives" (whatever the hell those might be, apparently they are undesirable ) that are worded so poorly and interpreted so, um, perversely... anyway the effect is that, if the cop can find a way to get the folding knife (ANY folding knife) open with one hand, then it's a gravity knife. Which means it's getting "liberated"^H^H^H^H ERR I mean confiscated.

Because pretty much the only way to have a folding knife that CANNOT be opened by a determined person one-handed is to weld it shut.

Moral of the story? Don't let the NYPD thieving nanny, er I mean the helpful LEO, know you have a pocket knife.

[308Mike]

Which means it's getting "liberated"^H^H^H^H ERR I mean [strike]confiscated[/strike] STOLEN.

FIFY. Confiscated usually means there's a procedure or some options to get it back, unless it's patently illegal to possess in the first place. But if it winds up in some auction box later on as unclaimed property, then you KNOW the whole thing was BS from the get-go (unfortunately, it wouldn't be surprising in the least either).

[Greg]

Which means it's getting "liberated"^H^H^H^H ERR I mean [strike]confiscated[/strike] STOLEN.

FIFY. Confiscated usually means there's a procedure or some options to get it back, unless it's patently illegal to possess in the first place. But if it winds up in some auction box later on as unclaimed property, then you KNOW the whole thing was BS from the get-go (unfortunately, it wouldn't be surprising in the least either).

Your sarcasm detector is out of calibration.

[308Mike]

Which means it's getting "liberated"^H^H^H^H ERR I mean [strike]confiscated[/strike] STOLEN.

FIFY. Confiscated usually means there's a procedure or some options to get it back, unless it's patently illegal to possess in the first place. But if it winds up in some auction box later on as unclaimed property, then you KNOW the whole thing was BS from the get-go (unfortunately, it wouldn't be surprising in the least either).

Your sarcasm detector is out of calibration.

Not really, I got it but the more I thought about it and recalled many of the confiscation stories I'd heard, I let it get under my skin, (especially since I've worked around some cops who could do such things and they wouldn't have a second thought about it). Abusive cops piss me off almost as much as dirty cops, and if they're keeping the knives instead of turning them in, that's just plain theft under color of authority. There's simply no excuse for it. Unfortunately, I understand it's getting worse and not better. We're slowly losing the battle to keep our freedoms, it's gotten wayyyyyyyyyyyy out of control.

[Greg]

FIFY. Confiscated usually means there's a procedure or some options to get it back, unless it's patently illegal to possess in the first place. But if it winds up in some auction box later on as unclaimed property, then you KNOW the whole thing was BS from the get-go (unfortunately, it wouldn't be surprising in the least either).

Your sarcasm detector is out of calibration.

Not really, I got it but the more I thought about it and recalled many of the confiscation stories I'd heard, I let it get under my skin, (especially since I've worked around some cops who could do such things and they wouldn't have a second thought about it). Abusive cops piss me off almost as much as dirty cops, and if they're keeping the knives instead of turning them in, that's just plain theft under color of authority. There's simply no excuse for it. Unfortunately, I understand it's getting worse and not better. We're slowly losing the battle to keep our freedoms, it's gotten wayyyyyyyyyyyy out of control.

There's a whole Internet meme, that generally only people who've been around long enough to have had issues with terminal settings (it's a side effect of termcap/terminfo type stuff) will understand. The "^H^H^H" indicate someone furiously hitting "delete". So it goes that you type something, generally some true statement but not one that should be said with the "outer voice", then a bunch of ^H^H^H^H, then the 'thoughtcrime-deleted PC version'.

"Liberated" means stolen, but we're not supposed to say that about our sticky-fingered brothers in blue, after all they're only stealing from us for our own good. Thus the switch to 'confiscated'. It's a shame (I know honest NYC cops) but it's nothing new- as a former coworker who grew up in the Bronx used to say- in his neighborhood growing up (working class Italian) you could tell who was who by looking at the cars... the most expensive cars you saw all belonged to cops or mobsters.

[308Mike]

There's a whole Internet meme, that generally only people who've been around long enough to have had issues with terminal settings (it's a side effect of termcap/terminfo type stuff) will understand. The "^H^H^H" indicate someone furiously hitting "delete". So it goes that you type something, generally some true statement but not one that should be said with the "outer voice", then a bunch of ^H^H^H^H, then the 'thoughtcrime-deleted PC version'.

You mean people who've been around long enough to remember using Zmodem, Xmodem or Ymodem for file transfers of 50k that took a couple of minutes? One of my absolute favorite programs using DOS at that time was XTree Gold (and ZTree Win for the Windows version). Do you remember a menu program called Direct Access (the last version I had was 5.1), using a menu program to create and handle the command line interface behind the scenes?

And I thought I was cutting edge after picking up a 16.8 external modem when most people were using 14.4.

We're showing our age.......