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Man carrying home his gardening tools arrested by armed police in Manchester
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2025
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For those who may not know what a Hori Hori is:
To the cops I'm sure they saw:
Yeah, he was treated poorly but the concern is understandable IMO
You can’t walk around in public with what looks, to the untrained eye, a lot like a combat knife and then act surprised when the police show up.
he said the blade wasnt shown and he had a fucking basket with vegetables in his hand lol. the police can of course investigate and but then they took him and didnt even listen, that was retarded. they could have searched for a damn pictures online first.
im no english, so idk much about your butterknife license stuff but now i think its very more widespread than in my euroland, we never get bothered by police. (no im not from a shithole)