nunchucka's
About ten summer's ago, a Croatian friend of my mine had a job in a very busy pub in London. One evening he was clearing glasses in the pub garden when he found a pair of nunchuka's in an unassuming plastic bag. Deciding it would be a nice birthday present for his fifteen year-old brother back in Croatia, he put them to one side and when no one claimed them he took them home.

Whilst walking home through the streets of London at 1am he decided to 'test' them out and walked down the street giving it the Bruce Lee.

After about five minutes of twirling the batons three unmarked police cars screeched to a halt around him, he was forced to the ground, hand-cuffed and taken to kennington cop shop for interrogation.

In the interview room two CID officers tried to give him the third degree and ask him why he was walking down the street using a dangerous weapon in a threatening manner to which he replied:

"Dangerous Weapon?? Don't make me laugh. It's a fucking toy. I'm from Croatia where we've just had a war. I'm going home to a wedding in Croatia next week and after the ceremony someone will go outside and fire rounds into the sky where every third bullet is a tracer-bullet and lights up the sky. My grandfather lives in the countryside and has an anti-aircraft gun in his shed which he found after the war along with missile launchers, bombs, grenades and many other guns and weapons. I did two years national service in the army. I was going to give these nunchucka's to my fifteen year brother as a birthday present. They're not a weapon - they're a toy."

They totally agreed with him, let him go and even gave him a lift all the way home in a patrol car.
(twistngo, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 0:42, 6 replies)

The third degree by the CID?
Bit premature that. Doesn't he have to be an enterered apprentice or fellowcraft before he can go up for the third?
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 1:07, closed)

buffet^^
quite

nudge-nudge
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 9 Nov 2008, 16:24, closed)

*Offers silly handshake*

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Sun 9 Nov 2008, 17:35, closed)

In a strange way,
this is very sad. What kind of a home can you build in a place that is haunted by so many weapons?

Clicking for the humanity of it.
( Rev. Jayneflakes Buy my book, I need the cash for drugs and hookers, Sun 9 Nov 2008, 19:15, closed)

but this isn't Croatia...
... and one of the reasons is that even nunchucks are (might be) considered dangerous by the police.

If I was carrying an AK47, Croatian style, or knew that my family/ gang/ militia friends would sort any assailant out, I might well laugh at some idiot waving nunchucks in an indeterminate but perhaps threatening manner.

However, this being London, I'm probably only carrying something like groceries, a wallet, and maybe my lunch (or a kebab, if at 1am).

Also I have not recently fought in an ugly civil war in which numerous atrocities were committed.

These things mean that some guy waving nunchucks at 1am on the other side of the road isn't necessarily such a joke.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 15:13, closed)

I find it more likely, given that you have only his word for this,
that he apologised and explained in a less belligerent tone, after which they let him go. Unless you know something to the contrary, of course.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Mon 10 Nov 2008, 16:37, closed)