howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 720- Registered: 20 Jul 2011
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That's horrific, isn't it! All those kids walking around our streets armed to the teeth ready for battle. We might start thinking twice before going out into our towns. And just look at the photo of all those horrible weapons. It's really frightening. Thank God we have our excellent local journalists to bring these matters to our attention.
Oh, hold on a minute. I'm just looking at that photo again - one, two, three ... 18, 19, 20 - there's more than 20 knives, machetes and goodness knows what in that picture. Yet the police only seized 11 knives. So, I presume, that photo has nothing to do with the weapons seized.
And hang on, there were only two incidents in Dover in the past year, so that's one incident every six months. Such "shocking statistics".
Let me read it again - the number of Dover incidents (two) is fewer than the number of spelling and grammatical errors in this single story. Shocking!
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Ah, the good old days...when every boy carried a knife. Those innocent afternoons playing a two-man *knife throwing game, such fun.
[* two stand face to face five feet or so from one another and throw the knife to 'stick' into the ground to the right or left of ones opponent's foot, the opponent then has to open their legs so that their foot touches the 'stuck' knife. Players taking turns about.]
Come to think of it we used to make our own bows and arrows and catapults.
I wonder what has changed?
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Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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We used to play ''split the kipper'' with our scout knives but never considered using them on each other. A good old knife was in every school boys kit along with a piece of string,empty match box for bugs,marbles and old keys that fitted bugger all. Oh nearly forgot the obligatory elasticated snake belt.
Marek
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Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Split the kipper was a regular game when we were kids, as was making pretty effective bows and arrows as well as a bigger type of arrow with a home made flight a weight at the front and launched by a loop of string at the back the rest in your hand and thrown, the string propelling it forward at great speed, living near a wood we had a never ending supply of wood. Nobody ever got hurt and it filled our days without any expense to our parents.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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halcyon days, i can remember my very first flick knife and the hours of harmless fun slashing cinema seats.
in later years a broken bottle took over when engaging with millwall supporters before games at upton park.
brings a lump to the throat.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Howard, you have come a long way. (I trust)
Upton Park? I know it well. The home ground of West Ham.
We would never have dreamed of damaging cinema seats...the fleas were best left where they were.
Perhaps the youth of today would benefit from hearing about your Damascene moment?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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thankfully the youth of today keep up the old traditions in games involving west ham and millwall.
i still get nostalgic tom my monogrammed machete is still treasured to this day.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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I always carried a small pen-knife when in the Girl Guides. Don't laugh ! Here is a photo, with pen-knife hung on belt !
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Hopefully knife and gun crime won't spread over Kent. In London it's a nightmare. Lower the guard, and in no time it could be too late.
We should have very strict laws with heavy prison sentences for knife/gun carriers.
Children caught carrying weapons should be taken to a youth school for correction, for at least 3 months, where they would be taught day and night to keep to strict discipline with absolute zero tollerance for any kind of bad behaviour.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i didn't lauugh at the photo kath.
honest.
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