UK knife amnesty nets rocket launcher

With knife-crimes becoming rampant in the UK – we were hearing of someone, or more, being knifed on a daily basis – the police here decided to offer a knife amnesty as a measure to cut the number of these crimes.

Thus at the end of a 35-day amnesty, a total of 89,864 blades were collected in many of the amnesty blade boxes all across England and Wales. In Scotland, a further 12,645 were handed in.

Even as the amnesty was on offer, the police recorded 91 serious knife attacks including 19 fatal stabbings in the five weeks.

Out of the thousands of knives taken off the streets, one stood out. It was not a knife but still a dangerous weapon indeed. You see, one bloke had turned in an anti-armour rocket launcher!

What do you say this? As one British media commentator asked – did he think that was a knife? Or has it become so easy that anyone can now walk around Britain carrying a rocket launcher?