soon they'll make carrying anything weighing more than a few kilos and longer than 2/3 meter (i'm thinking a pipe or a hammer) illegal.
A few years before I left England, there was an armed robbery/assault in battery case in Stevenage, the town in which I lived. An enterprising ne'er-do-well had observed that at a particular time every business day, one particular store in Stevenage town center that took in a fair bit of money would courier the day's takings to the night depository at Lloyds' Bank, about a five-minute walk away, in a canvas money bag, always carried by the same shop girl, at the same time, by the same route, unescorted. So this mountebank procured a hammer and laid in wait for her one day (several witnesses later reported having noticed that he had a scarf "draped strangely over his hands" but thought nothing of it), waited for her to round the corner, smacked her in the head with the hammer, dropped the hammer, grabbed the bag and ran.
The police didn't get any prints off the hammer, because he'd thought to wear gloves, but they got several good descriptions from witnesses and picked him up within the week. The girl, although taken to hospital unconscious with a depressed skull fracture, made a full recovery.
You probably won't be too surprised that in the aftermath of the incident, there was some amount of public outcry from the brainless-ninny set, saying that hammers should be banned except for licensed contractors. In that day and age, though, the vast majority simply told them to shut up, stop whining, and go away.
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The police didn't get any prints off the hammer, because he'd thought to wear gloves, but they got several good descriptions from witnesses and picked him up within the week. The girl, although taken to hospital unconscious with a depressed skull fracture, made a full recovery.
You probably won't be too surprised that in the aftermath of the incident, there was some amount of public outcry from the brainless-ninny set, saying that hammers should be banned except for licensed contractors. In that day and age, though, the vast majority simply told them to shut up, stop whining, and go away.