Cracking down on tools
Investigators in NY go under cover to arrest people for illegal knives. In the fine tradition of going after business, they go to the Home Depot and determine that those knives that are sold in 50 states are too dangerous for NYC residents. And this:
The stores – and four others – have already agreed to stop selling them, relinquish their inventories, turn over all profits from selling the illegal blades over the past four years and contribute to a public awareness campaign.
Seems a big steep.
June 21st, 2010 at 10:28 am
Thats NYC for you.
June 21st, 2010 at 10:33 am
Notice how they threw in a good old fashioned money grab also… Good old politicians. It never fails.
June 21st, 2010 at 10:55 am
The NY Times is reporting the city is going to clear cut Central Park because the trees could be used to make pointy sticks.
June 21st, 2010 at 11:12 am
Different in style, but not in substance, from Obama’s “BP Shakedown 2009”.
I wonder if ACORN (or whatever they’re calling themselves these days) will get a piece of that “awareness” campaign?
June 21st, 2010 at 11:18 am
Wow! thats a fold of epic proportions.
June 21st, 2010 at 11:26 am
None of those are switchblade or gravity knives. They’re easy opening knives that can be opened with one hand by 1) pushing up the blade about a 1/4 of the way and flicking your wrist or 2) by moving a button in the handle three inches or so to push the blade out. Are there going to be no utility knives or drywall knives in NYC after this?
June 21st, 2010 at 1:55 pm
I got a kick out of the video linked from the *NYT* article on same. (Snowflakes in Hell has the link.) Especially the undercover purchaser asking “Is it dangerous?”
Is knife! Is not safe!
June 21st, 2010 at 4:30 pm
I love the picture showing all those super dangerous box cutters
June 21st, 2010 at 4:40 pm
The phrase “good corporate citizenship” makes me feel sick for some reason, but I can’t place exactly why.
June 21st, 2010 at 5:36 pm
Now I have to scour the internet, to see where and when NYC auctions off those knives. I know for a fact they won’t destroy valuable property. I suppose they might sell the stuff under the table, or give the knives away to city employees.
June 21st, 2010 at 6:47 pm
If I’m the owner of Home Depot, not only do i fight this, i disappear any politician in favor of it.
June 21st, 2010 at 9:40 pm
I hope the drywall workers of New York start a protest; and the warehouse workers; and the glaziers and the…..
June 22nd, 2010 at 12:03 am
Noticed that the Manhattan DA who decided to rid New You is Cy Vance, son of Jimmy Carter’s Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, and some of us remember how well Carter’s Foreign Policies worked. Blood will tell out…
June 22nd, 2010 at 1:07 am
Shakedown baby!
Yah, Its a shakedown! Yay, baby!
June 22nd, 2010 at 1:21 am
Gotta love that police state smell. God help me, I pray I never get orders for Ft. Drum.
June 22nd, 2010 at 12:11 pm
KnifeRights.org is on this – http://www.kniferights.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=114&Itemid=1