Originally Posted by
ian gibson
One of my neighbours kids was caught with a blade in school last year, he is ten years old. When I think back to living on a council estate in the sixties, it seemed like every other kid I knew carried a knife, but for probably different reasons to today. If you went over the woods you would have a big feck off sheath knife for making spears, carving wood and playing that old favourite 'splits' where you throw the knife close to your opponents feet and he'd have to move his foot to where the knife landed. As daft as it seems we just carried knives to play with and not to harm, different times.