More UK silliness

[mross]

This article appeared in Blade Magazine, they are going a bit daft over there.
Any spelling or grammer errors are probably mine. I'm posting the article and some comments at the end.

British Go Overboard on Bat'leth
The pointy-eared Mr. Spock of Star Trek fame would sum it up in one word: "Illogical."
In the latest in a long series of irrational reactions to knives and swords by the British media, law enforcement and lawmakers, local police confiscated a reproduction of a Klingon "bat'leth" blade from a home in Gloucester, England.
One of several pieces originally designed by Blade Magazine Cutlery Hall-Of-Famer Gil Hibben for the Star Trek; The Next Generation series of the 1980s-'90s, the 5-foot-long bat'leth is the traditonal "sword of honor" prefereed by TNG's Klingon warriors adept the martial arts. Who made the confiscated bat'leth was unknown at press time.
A story on the Internet from the England-based Online Sun is typical of how the British seem to have somehow granted knives and swords the ability to wreak havoc entirely on their own. For instance the story stated that the confiscated bat'leth is "capable of beheading a man." Wow! All by itself? The story added that the inspector on the scene said the bat'leth " had been sharpened to kill" So does that mean the kind of stone used to sharpen it was a gravestone?
Seriously, folks, if you plan to visit England. leave your knives at home, If you carry a knife there, you risk fine, imprisonment or both.

That's the article. I hate to see what would happen if they raid a sushi place all those razor sharp knives are just murders waiting to happen. And if a UK collector is unlucky to have a knife from Jimmy Fikes, well off to the gallows with him he must be a homicidal maniac.