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Why so extreme? At most it should’ve been confiscated and given a small fine.
With a bit more self-awareness, Bray could have avoided contact with us completely.”
With a shred of brain matter, Sgt Spellman and the bastards he works with, could have not pursued such a ridiculous “crime”.
This is not a ridiculous crime, that guy is dumb af and dangerous.
This is a bot account folks.
Bot, or just a troll? Been seeing a lot of them recently.
True, I’d still give them partial credit for the dumb statement.
Law says you can’t carry a knife bigger than 3 in. He carries a knife twice that size.
Does he carry concealed in his pocket?
No, He’s walking around carrying it openly pretending he’s a blade master, oh sorry that’s he claims it’s a fidget toy.
4 months in jail seems a bit excessive, but when the law says don’t carry a weapon and you carry a weapon…
The image in the article shows the entire thing being 20cm and the actual ‘blade’ portion of the toy being around 13cm long. a little longer than the blade on a pretty standard multi tool like a Leatherman.
Is this seriously what the police were actually concerned about, I understand that it’s different in the UK vs the US, but this is definitely overkill. This thing would need to be pinched between your thumb and index finger like a cigarette to be wielded and is arguably less dangerous than a fork.
They’re only allowed to have 7.62 cm, so from a legal standpoint it’s almost twice the legal limit.
If the law doesn’t make sense you don’t challenge it by breaking it.
The police don’t carry guns there so yeah they’re concerned.
Running around twirling a clearly illegal item in public is pretty good logical grounds for police intervention. If the law says 3 in when do you actually stop them is it 4, 10, 12? If he was just transporting it from one house to another they might have let it go. But he’s walking around fidgeting twirling it in the open. I suspect he was performing twirls and dagger tricks. So the general public is probably also a little concerned. If he’s walking around his neighborhood twirling it around all the time it might even been a neighbor that called the police on it.
The fine is reasonable, getting locked up for 4 months is probably a bit much.
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Removed, civility.
Modlog is public… you don’t need to announce the reason separately.
Not everyone knows the modlog is a thing or how to access it.
How else can one react to a person defending a violent criminal? Maybe you should remove such comments instead.
First, a guy carrying a toy sword is not “a violent criminal”.
Second, even if they were, defending them doesn’t break any of the community rules.
First of all, it’s not a toy sword according to the law. Second, that guy was carrying it unsheathed. Third, he didn’t have a good reason to carry. But fourth, the most important thing, that guy is a known criminal who already served four years for burglary. He broke not a “community rule”, he broke multiple laws and is a known offender.
We aren’t talking about what the guy did, we’re talking about you wanting to remove another users comment for imaginary reasoning.
Nothing in the comment broke the rules, that comment stands.
The reply to it broke the civility rules, it was removed.
You should re-read the original comment then.
Damn, Act Man really let himself go.
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The blade was only 6 inches that’s a master dagger at best lmao
But beware of the master claymore
That’s called a Biggoron sword
The handle is just 4cm or about 1.5 inches, so a grown man can’t even hold it in his hand properly, it is clearly a kids toy. He may have used for role playing, although he called it a fidget toy?
dammit i said the same thing independently, but you were first by 12 hours. hats off to you, sir !
Four months in prison for getting caught on CCTV fidgeting with a sheathed letter opener
Some NotTheOnion type shit.
That old man lying motherfucker…
Should have carried the gun blade from FF8 and it be protected under the 2nd amendment.
2nd amendment of what? The Magna Carta?
I mean that’s what the US Supreme court cites when overturning our rights so why can’t the UK do the same?
In the UK?
To be fair they used to have a right acknowledged in the 1689 Bill of Rights
Its amazing how the colonists were basically just “Lets be Englishmen…but over there instead. And we’ll do all the same stuff, but also totally different.”
And John Adams said “Will there be alchohol?”
And then George Washington said “One day we’ll even name a beer after you.”
Then Benjamin Franklin went off to France to get laid a whole bunch. It was pretty easy to get laid in France in the 1770s if you just showed up, and said you’re leading a revolution against the British, and overthrowing monarchy power. Just tons of pusspuss and fine wine to go around.
…what were we talking about?
They considered themselves to be Englishmen, and have the rights of one, even after the Battle of Bunker Hill for some time. Also you’re thinking of Sam Adams, who was a brewer. But Franklin is pretty much dead on the money. Didn’t even wear a wig just showed up all slovenly and slayed.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A man has been jailed for brandishing a replica of a sword from the Nintendo game The Legend of Zelda on the streets of a Warwickshire market town, which he said was a “fidget toy” to keep his hands busy.
Anthony Bray, 48, of Nuneaton, was sentenced to four months in prison after being found in possession of a bladed article in public.
The article in question was a replica of the “master sword” from The Legend of Zelda series which had a total blade length of 6in, Warwickshire police said.
On 8 June, officers were made aware via CCTV of a man, Bray, walking down Queens Road, Nuneaton, with the sword in his hand.
Sgt Spellman, of the patrol investigations unit, said: “We take a zero tolerance [approach] to bladed articles in public, and Bray has fallen afoul of this.
Police said Bray admitted that the sword could be perceived as threatening if someone else had seen it, but he insisted in interviews he would not have used it as a weapon.
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Prison? For this?
Just take it away and warn him. How did no one along the way protest the heavy handedness of this?
I agree with your point seeing as how the article dosen’t have this info, but the context that He’s a known burglar, has done at least 4 years in prison and ‘but it’s just a novelty item’ has been a tactic of criminals in England for a long time, it makes more sense why he was busted.
Oh, I guess I was assuming it wasn’t even sharp, like an actual novelty item.
It’s sharp metal, 6in. So roughly hand size, it’s more like a custom figurine type of deal.
They jailed my man Link smh
Anthony Bray the convicted burglar?
you are never gonna let him forget that are you
Leave this old nerd alone
Have police there never heard of a “letter opener”? 🤔
There’s a reason “zero tolerance” is also called “zero intelligence”.
Have police there never heard of a “letter opener”? 🤔
At this point, a significant number of them are young enough to have never opened a letter in their lives, so possibly. But this is still extremely stupid.
