Most dangerous "weapon" that ever got you in trouble for.

[basm321]

The topic from Kwaku Avoke sparked this because of a few comments.

Just post a bit about how you have gotten in trouble from having a "dangerous weapon".

Well I know I have a couple but can only think of one.

Seventh grade I was almost sent to the office because I bent a paper clip and it had an "appropriate handle" with a "needle tip".
What it really was a paper clip with a loop and a straight end that one could put on their finger.....

The most dangerous weapon I never thought about as a weapon was when me and my friends sharpened ski poles on the pavement until they were like spears. I got one stuck so deep in a tree my did had to remove it for me. (still somewhere in the 7/8th grade age)

 

[Slaanesh]

I actually got into trouble once for using one of those pocket knives that had other tools as well, like a screw driver, bottle opener, etc.

I went to this place where I play one of my favorite sports, and my equipment needed some maintenance. So I go to a table, pull out the tool and use the screwdriver to take it apart and use the knife to pry out something and some douche-bag employee yelled at me, took it from my damn hands and said I couldn't bring a "deadly weapon" into the establishment. He went to the desk and talked to the manager. I could hear the manager calling the guy a few nasty words, and a minute after, the manager walks over to me and hands me my tool and apologized for the inconvenience and offered me a free Gatorade.

Heres the kicker: You want to know what sport we play in this place? Paintball. With paintball guns. Guns that are considered a lethal weapon and could easily kill someone if they aren't wearing protective equipment. And I was yelled at for a tool that had a knife that wasn't even longer then an inch.

 

[teqrevisited]

*Snip*

At least the manager had some sense. We've got similar rules down at the airsoft site I play at. Locking blades & bayonets (You'd be surprised what people try to bring in... I saw a kar98k with a bayonet that looked awesome, the guy was understandably not allowed to use it with it on) are banned, but swiss army knives and other multi-tools are allowed so long as you aren't running around with them.

I've never been in trouble for any kind of weapon myself, though. The closest would be when my Grandad was stopped by the customs officers in Beijing because he tried to board the airplane with his knife on him. A life-long advocate of the utility knife. Always has one with him.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

If you're getting in trouble for weapons so often that you can actually rank them in terms of how dangerous they are, you MIGHT have some issues worth exploring.

 

[Hitokiri_Gensai]

Ive never gotten in "Trouble" with like an authority, but i was asked to leave a shop a couple weeks ago.

I open carry a handgun, specifically an Ed Brown Kobra Carry 1911, and i had worn it into a shop. Which, i might add, is completely legal here, and i was doing nothing illegally. However, by law, if a private shop owner requests, you must leave the premises.

Thankfully, the shop owner just asked if i could leave my sidearm in the car, which i did.

In other places, ive had people threaten to call the cops and so on. Generally, they're told that i am within my rights. I have had an officer question me and ask to see my ID (not required to have a permit here). They were very polite and thanked my for my cooperation. Although some people would refuse, as carrying a handgun in a holster, and not doing anything with it, is NOT a threatening situation and technically the cops have no right to question you about it. Personally, id rather just get things done quietly and politely when dealing with the law.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Ive never gotten in "Trouble" with like an authority, but i was asked to leave a shop a couple weeks ago.

I open carry a handgun, specifically an Ed Brown Kobra Carry 1911, and i had worn it into a shop. Which, i might add, is completely legal here, and i was doing nothing illegally. However, by law, if a private shop owner requests, you must leave the premises.

Thankfully, the shop owner just asked if i could leave my sidearm in the car, which i did.

In other places, ive had people threaten to call the cops and so on. Generally, they're told that i am within my rights. I have had an officer question me and ask to see my ID (not required to have a permit here). They were very polite and thanked my for my cooperation. Although some people would refuse, as carrying a handgun in a holster, and not doing anything with it, is NOT a threatening situation and technically the cops have no right to question you about it. Personally, id rather just get things done quietly and politely when dealing with the law.

Personally, I think concealed carry should be outlawed, and open carry encouraged in its place. I have no idea why advocating to be able to see exactly who is packing is considered an extreme position, while making it legally acceptable for people to carry a gun without letting anyone but the government know is considered standard practice. It just doesn't make sense.

OT: Believe it or not, I've had several warnings for keeping Nerf guns (yes, the bright yellow things that shoot foam darts) in my on campus apartment, at a university. For some reason, the powers that be on campus consider it acceptable for students to use them for games of HvZ and capture the flag, but unacceptable to actually keep them in the dorms; we're supposed to store them in our cars, as if everyone living on campus at a school with free public transportation and not even enough parking space to properly support the commuter students would have a car.

You know what else I have in my apartment? Quite a few knives, including one that's got to be five or six inches long. I can have that (and there would be trouble if I couldn't; I need it for cooking, and I'm paying extra to get a kitchen), but I can't have a Nerf gun. Makes perfect sense to me.

 

[Hitokiri_Gensai]

Personally, I think concealed carry should be outlawed, and open carry encouraged in its place. I have no idea why advocating to be able to see exactly who is packing is considered an extreme position, while making it legally acceptable for people to carry a gun without letting anyone but the government know is considered standard practice. It just doesn't make sense.

Well, i have no problems with concealed carry, i think its effective in the right situation, just like carrying open is effective in the right situation as well. Ive been told by police officers before, they prefer to see open carry, because its a type of situation in that, a criminal wouldnt be allowing their weapon to be seen, and generally speaking, someone open carrying is a law abiding citizen.

Personally, ive been to places where carrying open is just not "acceptable", like going to the movies, or something, Im in a nice dress then im not gonna be wearing a shoulder holster with my gun in it. I prefer to conceal a smaller sub compact in my purse. On a general day, i wear a t-shirt and jeans, and i have my gun in a paddle holster at my side, with a spare mag in a mag holster on my support side. But i dont always dress like that, somedays ill wear a skirt and a cute blouse or something, and theres no real way for me to openly carry in that outfit, so i conceal, because carrying in my purse, is concealed carry.

Yes, open carry is probably a "safer" mode of carry, but its not practical to deem it the only way to carry a firearm. We're all different shapes and sizes, so we have to carry in the fashion that is most comfortable to each individual.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

If you're getting in trouble for weapons so often that you can actually rank them in terms of how dangerous they are, you MIGHT have some issues worth exploring.

Depends on where you're from and what situation you're in. In the US, as gun happy as we are, we also have a huge problem with people flipping out at the sight of something that even remotely looks like a weapon, or like it could be used as a weapon. A few years back, a kindergartner was expelled for making the shape of a gun in his hand and making shooting noises while playing a game of cops and robbers. In schools, students frequently get in trouble for having small, utility pocketknives -- small enough that killing anyone with it would be a challenge, and a sharp pencil would be a much deadlier weapon; there was even a student who got in serious trouble because there was a steak knife in the trunk of her car. It fell out of a box while she was helping her family move.

It's not just public schools, either; as my post about Nerf guns shows, even Universities tend to jump all over people with toy weapons. It's just this weird American dichotomy; on the one hand, we love guns. Our right to own them is enshrined in our constitution. On the other hand, we can't let people have toy guns or anything that looks like a gun -- that would be dangerous. I don't know if there's similar problems with this in other countries, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were an American thing, mainly because of all the actual school shootings we get. Remember Columbine? Well, it had implications for more than just gamers; it was after that massacre that all the zero tolerance policies started being enacted. The current university policies mostly trace back to the Virginia Tech shooting. In every case, concerned individuals start banning things to make themselves feel better, while ignoring the actual causes of the shootings -- for example, how did the Virginia Tech shooter, a person who was known to suffer severe mental illness, manage to pass the government background check and legally acquire the guns he used to shoot up the school?

 

[Chemical Alia]

When I was five I got in biiiiig trouble for using a pair of Crayola safety scissors to cut off one side of my cousin's hair. I got yelled at and my mom made me get my hair cut, too. It still gets brought up at family gatherings, 24 years later.

Pretty heinous, I know.

 

[DementedSheep]

Never had the cops involved but a few times at school I got in trouble for ?weapons? tho none of them had ever been intend as one. I got screamed at for having craft knife, I needed it for art but of course it was assumed I was going to stab someone. That one I can kind of understand tho.
The most ridicules one was when I was bored so stuck a whole lot of pins thru and eraser (don?t ask). Apparently that was a weapon. What were they expecting me to do? Throw it at someones eye? I would be better off with a pair of scissor.

 

[Anarchemitis]

My mouth has gotten me in more trouble than anything the rest of my body has ever done.

 

[VincentR]

I brought a .22 round to school once in.. I think it was the 2nd grade? So, this was about eleven years ago. There was no fake/real gun; just a single .22 round I brought to school to show off at show and tell. And I got in trouble for it. Granted, it wasn't serious trouble - my parents were simply called, and later they explained to me that I needed to ask before I bring things like that to school.

 

[Wyld Fyre]

Studded leather coat, the arresting officers even took the time to "demonstrate" how it was usable as a weapon, buy beating me something fierce outside a concert. Though this was L.A. in the 80s anyone who is old enough to be part of the west cost punk scene at the time can tell you that things got wild. The arresting report even reads "possession of 1 knuckle duster style knife, 1 weaponized leather coat featuring chains and steel studs".

 

[emeraldrafael]

I had a police officer ask me for my car keys, and not cause I was drunk.

 

[Sandernista]

Brought a water gun to school. Almost was expelled. (This was in kindergarten in the late 90s)

 

[Tyburn Cross]

I have a concealed carry permit, and I have actually been slammed into the side of my friends car from an edgy cop at a routine traffic stop (I wasn't even driving at the time). As soon as I let him know I was carrying (Always do this as soon as possible), the cop dragged me from the car and slammed me into side panel, and cuffed me. Back-up arrived, and in a few minutes it was obvious they didn't know what to do with me. I hadn't broken any laws and I had let them know immediately, so there wasn't anything they could charge me with, even though the original officer obviously wanted to. The back-up apologized to me and sent us on our way.

 

[Gyrohelix]

A Daito, my neighbor had a shit fit when she came into MY yard and yelled at ME for slashing at MY thorn bushes.

 

[Mace Tulio]

A friend of mine got kicked off a train for sorting his knives. He's a chef, he was catching the train to work and decided to use the time to sort his chef's knives. Someone called the security detail claiming that he was 'waving knives around'. He was kicked off the train, luckily he was where he needed to be.