sorry to hear about your friends JQ :group_hug

its been around for years (my sisters boyfriend at the time got a ‘chelsea smile’ on her doorstep in some gang type thing 13 yr ago) but it seems to be getting more and more frequent with younger people carrying blades and more seemly unprovoked attacks happening

So sorry to hear bout your friend Jonny. That’s really fucking awful. When is this country gonna wake up and sort this fucking stupid knife culture out. My Condolences mate:group_hug

Shit man that’s terrible. Have the police got the cunt that did it?

Thats shit man, fucking coward’s walking around with knives.

I’m sorry to hear about your mate.
a good friend of mine was stabbed through the heart and died a few years ago.
Every time i think about it i get wound up and upset.

its a different kind of “pre meditation” though.. not as if they are looking for a known individual target, but how soldiers would always have their weapons to hand – seems like nearly everyone there had a knife because they knew it may kick off or expected it to do so..

its actually society regressing, as there was once a time when every young man had a sword or pistol (well into the 1900s in some areas) and the most “civilised” form of fighting was duels, (but of course there were also large scale brawls, particularly around inns or where university students gathered)

there was a knife amnesty in my high school in 1986, but there was only one stabbing in that year (at a notorious nightclub in the area, not the school) and I never saw any knife violence.

I used to carry not just a knife but a entire kit of various tools which were used for all sorts of (slightly illicit) purposes, but never violence. My mates did so as well – they were part of equipment we’d use to explore the entire school (including attics, basements what you weren’t supposed to get into, sometimes locks needed a bit of “persuasion” as you didn’t take the routes teachers / technical assistants / janitor took or you’d get trouble)

If an Asian lad did that today he’d probably get hauled up by anti terrorist police.

there was hardly any fighting though at school, it wasn’t perfect by any means but way more peaceful than what all the younger lot on here mention. I suppose though a lot of money was pumped into this school particularly for stuff like IT (a lot of it is why I did well today)

oh and we didn’t stab people not because we didn’t have disagreements or were pacifist hippies etc, but because we all knew prison was shit and our normal lives (even with the usual teenage troubles) were better than being locked down in HMP..

yep some people do carry them for “self defence” but unless you know how to use it its more dangerous, and if you do use it even in self defence you’re gonna go HMP for a bit even if its just remand

also even if you get off in court scum have family/friends too who will want to avenge the death so you will have to move away anyway

on a lighter note, me and my mates did a squat party in Reading in 2001.

one young lad (we knew him and was he was no violent thug) had taken to carrying a knife as he had just got jacked. Anyway we found this knife on him , and confiscated it – he was warned about it (and discouraged from carrying knives) but told he could have it back at the end of the party.

Now it just happens we had also acquired loads of rolls of ropey parcel tape (the brown stuff) what had been slung out the back of a office supplies place. We soon found out why it had been dumped as the stuff didn’t stick properly but oozed nasty glue everywhere. it was totally useless for its intended purpose. when you tried to remove it, you got covered with more glue…

Anyway my mate who was on the door looked at this knife, and said to the lad “this is a dangerous knife. someone could hurt themselves on this blade looking after it when it is in store, I must make it safe”

So he proceeeed to cover up the knifes blade (and the handle) with metres of this dodgy parcel tape. I’m not even sure if the lad claimed it back afterwards, I think we offered it back to him but he decided he didn’t want it any more :laugh_at:

Up north i carried a knife … then i realised the world isnt so bad …