In what you could call inner city higher crime areas, policing might be called more intense. But it's difficult to see a valid reason to carry a bladed implement in those parts. I'm glad to say my connections there do not carry, (but have been mugged for their phones.)What’s more common in London?
I live and work in London, you hardly see the police let alone get stopped by them
That's some right dirty tactics,That is exactly my interpretation of the law unless things have changed. Its classed as a tool and no valid reason is needed or can be questioned-
However as has been already said they can ask if you think it could be considered a weapon, and the answer should always be a firm no, otherwise you are admitting it could be such and this *may* lead to confiscation and/or a trip to the station
Not been stopped since I was a young man some forty odd years ago when I would walk home from the pub with a legal knife in my pocket, even then that was considered acceptable and I was left to go my way in peace.May I ask:
How many of us have been stopped by any authority who questioned us concerning or took exception to a knife?
Funnily enough, I have just had to switch to cutting up all apples with my knife rather than biting chunks off with just my teeth. I have a tendency to bite the inside of my lips and cheeks, then get ulcers, figured out the most common culprit is big bites of apple. I might not have changed anything, but I damaged a saliva gland inside my lip, then badly bit the resulting cyst twice, a week apart, while eating apples. Ended up having a surgical procedure to remove the damaged gland. Learned my mum has a similar problem, and the same solution.Needing a knife to eat an apple?
I'm 52 and still have all my teeth (three fillings though so its not all perfect) and I don't carry an apple as an excuse to carry a knife. Have you no teeth?
Reminds me of the W.C Fields quote.
"Always carry a flaggon of Whisky incase of snakebite. Also carry a small snake"
I do have a sub 76mm blade slipjoint knife which I carry most of the time but I'm just not making up silly reasons to have it.
Its legal to carry, it lives in my back pocket.