Originally Posted by
John F Collier
After the war, like most boys my pen knives were prized possessions Doc, the best one was an ex army Jack knife, it had a heavy blade and a spike,
it was a folding knife with black criss cross pattern on the casing, we used to collect a lot of ex army stuff, I had a olive green bike lamp that could
switch colours from white to red and green. I remember somebody buying a sword stick from the bum boats, but personally never had any inclination
to own any sort of knife or other weapon come to that, I once found a stiletto in dads shed, when I asked him about it, he said it's just something from the war, like many others he didn't talk about it, I read that 10,000 nives were taken off the streets in a nation wide police crack down, the knife culture is terrible in the UK and sad to say, London seems to be the worst affected, the knives they carry today remind me of Crocodile Dundee, I think time for a rethink on capital punishment, cheers