Why are nail clipping files considered weapons?

[Warforger]

I recall someone getting their nail clipper confiscated because of the fact that the file has a blunt blade at the end like this one

Yet this blade is so blunt it'd be much better to use your actual nails, that said why don't they just handcuff everyone if they're afraid they'll hurt each other with nail clipper files? That always perplexed me how paranoid of a lawsuit some places are.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Wow....people can't we just use them for our nails?

 

[dududf]

Give it to Demented Teddy, expect a corpse in an hour...

Just kidding, love you Noelle!

It'd take an hour? I bet you I could get a body in 30 seconds. 5 seconds of dealing with blood to the brain, and 25 seconds for it to die.
Just kidding. Teddy would beat me to it.

 

[Eekaida]

Don't have that kind of paranoia here in UK. It does sound offensively retarded, but some people can make anything into a weapon if they're determined - there are sick people in the world. In my opinion people inclined to stab people in the eye with nailclippers shouldn't be in mainstream education - they should be sectioned.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

Have you seen that file? I tore off half of my skin with it on my toes! All dead skin though.

I don't know. Safety? That Edge can be sharp? Why won't they let me take my Oasis on there? I am quite happy to drink a bit in front of them! And finally, the idiotic method of finding metal. When I had some change in my pocket... My god... I don't even want to go into detail.

Calumon: They can be weapons when Jack fires his nails across the room! >.<

 

[eggy32]

Because people are idiots, that's why.

 

[Guitar Gamer]

Nail clippers in capable hands (such as my own) are an amazing tool of information extraction and self defence.
Therefor lesser men see it fit to have them removed from the general public, for reasons less than the desecration of such a holy tool of battle.

 

[eggy32]

Nail clippers in capable hands (such as my own) are an amazing tool of information extraction and self defence.
Therefor lesser men see it fit to have them removed from the general public, for reasons less than the desecration of such a holy tool of battle.

Fists and arms are dangerous weapons too you know. Not to mention elbows, teeth and feet.

 

[Blueruler182]

It's not hard to use that as a weapon. It's as blunt as a fingernail, but the difference is that the fingernail has the finger to stop it from going in. That's thin all the way through. I've stabbed someone (he's fine) with a pen before, that would be considerably more difficult than the nail clipper. That thing has a point, it's made of metal, and it's long enough to get into the throat's major areas (wind pipe, jugular) without much difficulty. That's just me passing ideas around based on a few things I've read, if someone were, say, trained with the nail clipper, he could do a lot more. See Russian chef in Ratatouille.

Or, because I just remembered this comedian...


The related bit starts at 3:55 and goes on for a few minutes.

 

[mad825]

becuase it can penetrate skin and cause some serious damage (to the organs/circulatory system) if it hits in the right place.

scissors or anything similar can be lethal however it all comes down to the over protectiveness of society (law, authority, peer groups, ect) on how people intent to use the objects.

 

[Guitar Gamer]

Nail clippers in capable hands (such as my own) are an amazing tool of information extraction and self defence.
Therefor lesser men see it fit to have them removed from the general public, for reasons less than the desecration of such a holy tool of battle.

Fists and arms are dangerous weapons too you know. Not to mention elbows, teeth and feet.

Yes but they are rather hard to conceal so I think they over look them

 

[Vrach]

It's not hard to use that as a weapon. It's as blunt as a fingernail, but the difference is that the fingernail has the finger to stop it from going in. That's thin all the way through. I've stabbed someone (he's fine) with a pen before, that would be considerably more difficult than the nail clipper. That thing has a point, it's made of metal, and it's long enough to get into the throat's major areas (wind pipe, jugular) without much difficulty.

This pretty much, not to mention, a single person merely grabbing a flight attendant and holding that thing to her jugular could make a hell of a lot of panic in a plane and panic is a hugely useful weapon, especially as a distraction.

I do however agree with that comedian (she's brilliant btw) on nail clippers, but I guess you could unscrew them apart somehow and get a small blade... maybe connect both blades next to each other... yeah it's a stretch, but see shivs for what people can do to make a weapon >.<

 

[The Procrastinated End]

Have you ever taken the tip and jabbed it into your leg? It really hurts.

 

[Blueruler182]

It's not hard to use that as a weapon. It's as blunt as a fingernail, but the difference is that the fingernail has the finger to stop it from going in. That's thin all the way through. I've stabbed someone (he's fine) with a pen before, that would be considerably more difficult than the nail clipper. That thing has a point, it's made of metal, and it's long enough to get into the throat's major areas (wind pipe, jugular) without much difficulty.

This pretty much, not to mention, a single person merely grabbing a flight attendant and holding that thing to her jugular could make a hell of a lot of panic in a plane and panic is a hugely useful weapon, especially as a distraction.

I do however agree with that comedian (she's brilliant btw) on nail clippers, but I guess you could unscrew them apart somehow and get a small blade... maybe connect both blades next to each other... yeah it's a stretch, but see shivs for what people can do to make a weapon >.<

That's the thing, I guess. Everything can be used as a weapon. Like I said, I stabbed a guy with a pen, and the whole thing was accidental, I was just trying to poke him away a little harder than I should have. That can be used as a weapon, a book can be used as a weapon (as Bourne has shown us), headsets can be used as a weapon if you really want to challenge yourself. Hell, just get a sturdy shoe and go for the throat, that could do it.

I do think it's perfectly reasonable to take away any metallic object that one owns when they go onto a plane though. I mean, it's not difficult to use them as weapons. Maybe it's just my upbringing, but whenever I'm in a room I find something I can defend myself with.

And that comedian is one of the few funny female comedians. And she's a lesbian, so I'm on the fence about including her. To any aspiring female comedians out there, making fun of men has been done. Find something else to do because it got old years ago.

 

[Jamash]

I think it's because while they're pretty innocuous on their own, but the actual clippers can be used to put a crude, yet sharp edge and point on another object, such as plastic cutlery, toothbrushes or lollipop (popsicle) sticks.

In a less than a minute you could use them to turn a lollipop stick into a shiv that would easily penetrate someone's neck and sever their jugular.

 

[snowman6251]

Airlines don't want nail clippings in their cabin. That's gross.

 

[Just_A_Glitch]

The fact that you have to ask I think is kind of odd.

They're sharp. You can stab people with them. You can kill people with them. Not much more to it. Sure, you can kill someone with pretty much anything, but nail clippers can break skin surprisingly easily.

 

[teqrevisited]

In what scenario? It'd be pretty stupid if they confiscated it in a shop or w/e.

Saying that, my mother works as a prison officer at a Category A prison and you might not believe some of the things that have gone on there. Toothbrushes sharpened to a point and used as weapons. Razor blades melted into the aforementioned toothbrush handle or into plastic cutlery.

A man even melted dozens of blades into a deodorant can and shoved it where the sun doesn't shine to get revenge on one of his shower-room 'buddies'.

 

[Kpt._Rob]

They're not weapons any more than pencils or pens are weapons. Because, seriously, anything can be a weapon if you want it to be. Of course it's silly to ban them, but we're talking about the same group of people who put me on a terrorist watchlist just because my remarkably common last name is shared with a terrorist.