I would just like to say

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I think it the phrase "made or adapted" in the offensive weapons act is what gives the police such wide scope to interpret items as "offensive weapons". For example, as pure bit of fun I made myself a cosh with a bit of 8mm steel wire as the core, 2" wrap of lead glued to one end and then covered with braided and woven Paracord outer sheathing. It would definitely inflict injury I you were struck with it, and it has been "made" by me. It never leaves the house.

Conversely, a large M22 stainless steel nut can reside in one pocket of my jacket, and a loop of paracord can reside in the other. Separately they are benign items. If one were fearful of attack one could put one through the other and you have another very effective cosh, that doesn't exist until you put the two together. I wonder how these discrete "separate pocket" items would be viewed in a random stop?
I was once told that having a piece of strapping tape in your car was "going equipped".
 
Ordered a new O2 sensor.
Typically there was a choice of two, easily decided if you had seen the plug, which I haven't
so 50:50 chance.
I have a funny feeling this may be the one I changed before but the symptoms are different.
Hey ho, Valentines day tomoz.
Fisrt time I will have celebrated it in hospital. :(
 
Is it possible to find someones name if you only have an address?
Been looking on line but reluctant to put bank details in for 50p and risk getting nowt
Yes, you can often find someone's name if you only have their address by using online people search directories, like Whitepages, Zabasearch, or 192.com,
Edit, forgot to search using "in the UK" so forget Whitepages. And prolly Zabasearch.:(
 
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I was once told that having a piece of strapping tape in your car was "going equipped".
One of my IBM engineer colleagues was stopped on the road and charged with "going-equipped" because he had short lengths of rubber 3 core power-cord in his boot. The charge failed because we were doing a safety changeout of power-cords on IBM 029 card punches from India where they had used dodgy cords where the conductors were poking out of the power-cords as little tiny spikes. IBM wrote to the police and they dropped the case.

However, this same guy ended up in the Old Bailey on a charge of attempted rape and impersonating a police officer after he stopped a lady driver in his IBM Co Car and flashed his badge and told her she was in serious trouble but if she got in the back seat with him "we can forget all about it". She started screaming and he scarpered. She wrote his reg # down and drove home and told her dad. A real dodgy bloke. He didn't go down for it but he was taken out of all customer/public facing roles and made to work in the IBM data centre ....... he then quit of his own accord.
 
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