Knives.
An iPM listener has emailed this:
"Much publicity has been given to the knives amnesty, and pictures of mostly kitchen knives. I have just received a mail order catalogue illustrated with pages of vicious knives designed to kill, which any teenager with access to their parent's credit card could obtain by post."
Have you discovered your child looking at knife websites or trying to buy a knife online? Or getting hold of a hunting or fighting knife in some other way? Drop an email to iPM@bbc.co.uk.
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They're appalling.
There's a shop near my mother's which sells similar stuff. Now, how can anybody really need any of that stuff without having some kind of menace in mind?
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Forgive me if this sounds stupid, but:
a) How many parents leave credit cards lying around the house rather than in a wallet/purse?
b) How many teenagers would be tempted to use their parents' credit card(s) to buy a knife?
c) If the parents read their credit card statements, might they be a little suspicious of an online transaction they don't remember making?
d) Most courier firms deliver during the daytime, so assuming the teens were at school and the parents at work, it's fairly likely the package would either be delivered to a neighbour and brought round to the house when the parents were back home, or a note would be left advising the teen to collect it from the courier company's distribution centre (probably several miles away!) - either of which would probably alert the parents to something suspicious happening...
e) What proportion of knife crime is carried out using such knives?
f) Do knife amnesties have any effect on crime?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6216118.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/5087802.stm
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Questions questions ;o)
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I've got knives like some of those in the kitchen, in the garden shed, and in my tool box. I'll bet lots of posters do.
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When you look at some of them, a comment from Willie Garvin comes to mind:
"My life, you'd 'ave to be bleedin' lucky, Princess."
Go-faster stripes in sharp form.
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