Important lesson learnt: screwdriver is better post-apoc handcrafted weapon then a crappy kitchen knife

@arya31ful

11 ай бұрын

Icepicks can also work in that configuration.

@angelichero6236

11 ай бұрын

it makes me wonder how a roofing hammer would compete with the screwdriver

@badnewsBH

11 ай бұрын

@@angelichero6236 I think the Zombie Go Boom guys tested a framing hammer as a Walking Dead tie-in. Pretty damn devastating, if I recall. Edit: Here it is, and this isn't even the full framing hammer. kzread.info/dash/bejne/l4Gm0q-ymrybdKw.html

@angelichero6236

11 ай бұрын

@@badnewsBH I was more wondering how the back half would compare to the screwdriver. Which they don't test in that video

@badnewsBH

11 ай бұрын

@@angelichero6236 Oh, like the claw? Yeah, I bet that would be devastating. Bring us another video, Skall! :)

This is literally how farm tools became tools of war. Farmers didnt have the money for weapons, so they made them.

@1337billybob

11 ай бұрын

Farm tools are bad weapons. Thankfully weapon laws reduce violent crime regardless of what this KZread think about them

@ArariaKAgelessTraveller

11 ай бұрын

That's what Billhooks are in medieval era

@geraldfrost4710

11 ай бұрын

Whenever the mob goes after the monster, pitchforks, torches, and cans of petrol. So ban farming and fuel. An improvised hally? We need to ban duct tape and sticks!

@StickySauce101

11 ай бұрын

actually that and the lords banned them from owning weapons, only nobles and knights were allowed them - look how well that ended for them during Peasant Revolts etc.. funny how history repeats itself.

@derekcox543

11 ай бұрын

Now you got me wondering what would we do if we had to fight a rival army with improvised melee weapons if they also could only use them. Kinda like a widespread civilian version of the India/China Galwen clash. I've always wanted to put a sharpened railroad spike in a metal baseball bat to make a warpick club.

It's one of those classic situations where lawmakers wants to show they are doing something about a problem, even if it's completely ineffective. It's the strange idea that doing anything is better than doing nothing

@6FEEC8E3

11 ай бұрын

If you do nothing you do not get re-elected. You can instead do some thing ineffective and just proclaim loudly how well it works and if the mass media is on your side nobody will be told how worthless it was unless they go looking for the information - which most people will not take the time to do.

@Gapis321

9 ай бұрын

Sad that hobbyists and law abiding citizens have to pay the price each time

@captainloggy140

9 ай бұрын

"Politicians like activity, it's their substitute for achievement" - Sir Humphrey Appleby

@josephperez2004

9 ай бұрын

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." -Attributed to Theodore Roosevelt.

@stevenscott2136

8 ай бұрын

Their whole job is to convince people that they are "leaders" and thus necessary. If they don't step up with a show of confidence and "do something", people might start getting the idea to stop giving them half their income. Then how would they embezzle??

So my UK politicians thought about banning anything without a point... until they realised it would mean making themselves illegal

I love that lawmakers think criminals are going to listen to their laws.

@underarmbowlingincidentof1981

11 ай бұрын

I mean it kinda works doesn't it? If it didn't here in Germany we would have the same gun crime as in the US. But we don't. By your logic we could just throw all laws into the wind because "criminals don't listen anyway", what are ya? An Anarchist???

@TheWheelsMaster

11 ай бұрын

Yeah I know right, why have laws at all! Criminals will break the law regardless! This is obviously incredibly sarcastic, because lawmakers are supposed to assume that the MAJORITY of people will abide by their laws as long as they’re reasonable.

@tiagorafael169

11 ай бұрын

@@TheWheelsMaster banning common objects for the population because "they're used by criminals, so you can't have it" is punishing the law abiding for the acts of those that disregard the law

@TheWheelsMaster

11 ай бұрын

@@tiagorafael169 That's not what he said tho, and that's not what I said either. He's implying lawmakers' efforts are futile because criminals will break the law regardless. That's a dumb position to hold

@SirPraiseSun

11 ай бұрын

​​@@TheWheelsMaster paid agent / lunatic the more u ban weapons the more the people get hurt against criminals and gov. Enslaves them easier, infact sometimes criminals get released easier so thet can implement more technology and "security" on the populace and control them

wonder if governments have considered researching why people get desperate enough to use these sorts of things and fix it, instead of ignoring the actual problem to keep blaming inanimate objects.

@marocat4749

11 ай бұрын

I mean the uk has healthcare too thats mostly working, which might help. The real solution, social nets. Is already i think explored enough to show, yes

@GuitarsRockForever

11 ай бұрын

That would be real work, gov cannot do that.

@HRRRRRDRRRRR

11 ай бұрын

@@marocat4749 But then they're getting things for free that I'm not getting! Unacceptable! Ban all the things!

@alexanderstrickland9036

11 ай бұрын

Poverty caused by a difficult labor market, where labor is abundant and cheap. All largely due to massive immigration(diluting the existing labor forces value). Can’t talk about that or you’re racist though. The government and its corperatocracy demand MORE cheap labor.

@SpaghettiAutist6988

11 ай бұрын

@@alexanderstrickland9036 While large immigration is part of the point, it's far from the decisive one. Due to massive increases in productivity brought in by computers, robotics and the internet, there are more workers than there is demand in private businesses. That, plus a weak social net and demand that you take literally any job, no matter how shitty, if you are unemployed, gives businesses a lot of leeway to exploit the shit out of workers, who now have much weaker bargaining power. It is true though, that if businesses still get pushback from the workforce, they just get people into the country or outsource their work, which gives them even more of an edge.

I'm British. My government thinks I can't be trusted to own a certain number of objects. It's for my safety. My wife carries a whistle for self defence.

@badasmbadadog

9 ай бұрын

well at least she had something to tape to the stick

@poppers7317

9 ай бұрын

I hope it has no sharp edges.

@thegrim418

8 ай бұрын

If that whistle is too loud and damages the hearing of an assailant you better believe she'll be charged and whistles will be banned.

@Great_Wall_of_Text

8 ай бұрын

You might also consider a very bright flash light with a strobe effect, though not for self-defense because that might hurt somebody : ) On my recent trip to Britain I was politely asked to leave my firearms, pocket knives, pepper spray, and Cold Steel walking club at home, so I bought an oak cane and a very bright flashlight with a strobe (a ThruNite TS1). I have a bum hip and bad night vision, so the cane and flashlight were useful regardless of mugging : ) I thought the flahlight would sit on a shelf when I got back, but it turns out I love the stupid little thing. I use it all the time now. I like the cane better than my walking club too. Super handy, but not as sturdy. Anyway, food for thought. Your wife might consider developing a limp and bad night vision as well. I noticed dozens of women, especially young women in London and Cardiff, who also needed a walking aid, so your wife shouldn't stand out. It's weird. I virtually never see men or women under 70 with a walking aid in the U.S. I wonder why I saw five or six women in their twenties with a cane every day in London...

@perpetualconfusion5885

8 ай бұрын

​@@badasmbadadogwhistle on a stick

8:21 Their boss: your still coming to work tomorrow right?

As a semi-retired mechanic, almost every tool I own could be a weapon.

@remiscott7759

11 ай бұрын

Almost?

@S.ASmith

11 ай бұрын

Breaker bar moment

@MolecularMachine

11 ай бұрын

Zoning out on the job and imagining fighting off a squadron of ninjas

@SwordsMaster7.

11 ай бұрын

@@remiscott7759 I don't see a level or a tape measure being the deadliest tool.

@Bacteriophagebs

11 ай бұрын

There's a reason hammers kill more people in the U.S. than rifles.

The problem with banning knives in the UK is that the people who are currently using them for violent crime will just move to the next weapon down. Sooner or later they'll have banned everything except for sticks and rocks, and the gangs will still be attacking eachother with those. They need to address the route causes that lead people to a life of crime rather than banning the tools used for crime in the first place.

@RobinTheBot

11 ай бұрын

It's about creating additional ways to convict criminals. It's not a law that gets enforced nearly as much as people complain, but like Tax Evasion in the US it's a way to build a case against poorly you otherwise can't convict.

@datadavis

11 ай бұрын

@@RobinTheBot screw those poorly!

@Mechmaster0

11 ай бұрын

I suspect that the people using knives for violent crime will simply ignore the ban, after all, they aren't exactly law abiding citizens.

@shawn6860

11 ай бұрын

Bans don't work in general with weapons. In America if you make something illegal it will still be obtained somehow. the idea of removing points is a step foreword, but not a solution.

@datadavis

11 ай бұрын

@@jonathanzentelin2815 having gotten an axe and hammer in the head and a knife in the shin by foreigners like that, i wholeheartedly agree.

Here in the UK, a sharpened pencil is regarded as an offensive weapon. This is not a joke. If the police search you and you have a pencil on you 'without a justifiable reason' you will be charged with carrying an offensive weapon. Which is why real unarmed self defence, especially against a knife is so popular in the UK. Because of course as you say, the criminals don't care what the law says.

@perrolokofan2011

7 ай бұрын

A sharpened pencil anywhere: NERD A sharpened pencil in the UK: John Wick

@user-vu4xr4ej7x

6 ай бұрын

i am quite sad this country bans law abiding citizens from defending themselves from criminals

@mattredfern1339

6 ай бұрын

not quite. the offensive weapons act basically reads that literally anything becomes an offensive weapon depending on how it is presented. i pull out a sharpened pencil and twiddle it around my fingers while we chat, no problem but if i point it at someone in a threatening manner it becomes an offensive weapon. if a copper tries pulling that on You then You're being stitched up, read the act and then read on so You can lawfully spank him, her, they, them or it in court the precedent is any fines come out of the copper's own pocket the constabularies stopped paying them out years ago.

When I lived in Central Europe I, as probably half the guys, carried some sort of foldable knife. I personally mostly peeled fruits with it. Sure, some crime existed, but stabbings etc. were relatively rare and "big news". Now, in the UK, I cannot have anything more than non-locking keychain thingy that's only good for opening packages. There have been dozens of bladed weapon murders in the area in the past decades.

@kongbanana8947

7 ай бұрын

The upside of living in a dangerous area is that if you defend yourself using fatal force law enforcement won't know because they don't care to check on that area.

@JesusIsKingMyLord

7 ай бұрын

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Someone told me: “if you can’t make anything in to a weapon, you are not being creative enough”

@anadice-nemo

11 ай бұрын

Anything can be a weapon, just sometimes your bare hands make better weapons.

@thenoneckpeoplerepresentat8074

11 ай бұрын

That’s it, you nailed man.

@skipperg4436

11 ай бұрын

it's like if human basic instinct is to use stuff from the environment as weapons and tools... =)

@BradyBubbuhgum-fh4ny

10 ай бұрын

​@@skipperg4436using random things within immediate reach as a weapon has literally saved my bacon. Well more specifically stopped my buddy's dad from stealing his computer for drug money after assaulting him.

@hor1zonstr1der9

8 ай бұрын

Anything can become a weapon with sufficient velocity

While making reactionary laws, parliament got sick of hearing "what's the point?" The simple solution is to ban all points. From now on only government officials and licensed citizens will be allowed to own a registered and government sanctioned point.

@BlooCollaGal

11 ай бұрын

That's pretty *poignant,* _comrade..._

@randombystander991

11 ай бұрын

What it really does is make people used to shut up and obey without asking questions; minor, easy-to-follow pointless bans become the norm and open door for real oppression.

@RobinTheBot

11 ай бұрын

​@@randombystander991 This is one of the most complained about topics on the Internet. I'm not sure who you think is "shut up", but you're literally sitting in front of a highly successful video of a FOREIGNER complaining about it. Literally international whining. But sure Tom, minor safety regs are tyranny... Banning doctors from using science and teachers from teaching the facts is real tyranny. Maybe go put your doomsaying on one of those.

@houseofosborne1173

11 ай бұрын

@@RobinTheBot Hey! Someone verbally attacking a Random Bystander! Why should I be surprised that left-wing wackos do that?

@randombystander991

11 ай бұрын

@@RobinTheBot I live in country where it came to logical conclusion. Complaining and doing exactly nothing is the problem - government f*cks people over in most creative ways and all they do is whine.

I'm gonna attempt this with a railroad spike and mechanics wire. Thank you for showing me, a london criminal, the difference in effectiveness and that maybe a blade isn't as important as we previously thought. Thank you!

I really appreciate this video. Where there's a will, there's a way. I'm lucky to live in one of the more free States of America so I don't have to get this creative with my self-defense. But it just goes to show that there's no stopping anybody who has the intent to kill. Bans are useless

I remember reading an article from the UK where they were so proud about the "weapons" they had confiscated from some guy and it was literally a tool bag full of electricians tools and the guy was actually an electrician on the job at the time. I wish I could find that article again bcs they also had a butter knife and a handful of other random crap they were calling weapons. In the photos these cops were smiling and looking so damn proud. It's just stupid at this point.

@Blindscout91

11 ай бұрын

Hah! I remember seeing that article too.

@cattysplat

11 ай бұрын

They'd rather criminalise normal people than chase criminals, because citizens are compliant and non threatening.

@NickDaGamer1998

11 ай бұрын

I think I might have found it, it's a Tweet from MPS Regents Park back in 2019, I'll post it in a separate comment so that if it gets deleted you can all search for it yourself.

@pharros2645

11 ай бұрын

@@NickDaGamer1998 Thank you

@fss1704

11 ай бұрын

@@NickDaGamer1998 didn't came trough, post something i can google

Every British citizen must now wear plate armor and chainmail 😂😂

@greysson2933

11 ай бұрын

As the founding Kings intended.

@elio7610

11 ай бұрын

In this heat? No way.

@colorfulbleeding

11 ай бұрын

I read that chainmail is forbidden to wear in some european country lol

@colorfulbleeding

11 ай бұрын

European Union, ballistic protection that is considered 'for main military usage' is forbidden to civilians. Ha it was bulletproof vest not chainmail, still stupid

@elio7610

11 ай бұрын

@@colorfulbleeding It is not stupid, it is just not about protecting civilians.

"you be the judge, ill be the executioner" & i start busting a gut, "were skipping the jury" lol man you got me laughing thanks.

Watching this I remember seeing a similar weapon at the museum at the battle site of the Little Big Horn or Custer's Last Stand. It was a Native American weapon, either Lakota Sioux or one of their allies, it was a stick with three blades attached to it. I also recall a drawing from a warrior who fought in the battle which showed that sort of weapon being carried during the battle.

People getting angry at equipment durability in video games and Skall is breaking knives in three swings.

@darekbaird

11 ай бұрын

true...BUT COME ONE THE MASTER SWORD SHOULD BE UNBREAKABLE!!!

@elowin1691

11 ай бұрын

@@darekbaird It is unbreakable. It just runs out of batteries and needs a recharge

@cahallo5964

11 ай бұрын

​@@elowin1691 that is inmensely stupid

@bongibot1104

11 ай бұрын

​@@elowin1691 worthless for different reasons lol.

@mielipuolisiili7240

11 ай бұрын

I mean an actual weapon should be a bit more durable than a crappy kitchen knife

It's almost like, if someone really wants to hurt someone, they'll find something to do it

@SwagHyde

11 ай бұрын

​@@BlackEpyon i don't think banning useful tools is good tho

@BlackEpyon

11 ай бұрын

@@SwagHyde If you're walking around with a kaybar in your pocket, you're not carrying a "useful tool," you're carrying a weapon.

@PhoenicopterusR

11 ай бұрын

​@BlackEpyon the list of "easy to acquire items that can be used as or turned into lethal weapons" is very long, there's going to be a lot of bans on everyday items before it becomes even close to slightly inconvenient.

@korbetthein3072

11 ай бұрын

​@@BlackEpyon Do you know how many people are killed every year on impulse with things like lamps, cars, kitchen knives, ect.? It's a lot of people.

@davijazzz

11 ай бұрын

​@@BlackEpyon and beer bottles inside bars should be banned too, right? many people use it to kill others

I have seen a steel landscaping spike used basically the same way... A guy drilled a hole through a pipe and stuck the spike through the pipe and used jb weld to hold it together. Zombie spike he called it.

@charlesquick3091

7 ай бұрын

@@sarahmellinger3335 really? Surprised to hear that, I mean jb weld has been used for a very long time and it's not very easy to break.. so how do you figure that it will break easily?

@charlesquick3091

7 ай бұрын

@@sarahmellinger3335 lol... You I take it are not in construction or mechanics field. Do you even know what jb weld is?

A perfectly innocuous review and testing of harmless kitchen knives and other kitchen utilities for kitchen-related purposes only.

"I'm not going to show you how to tape a knife to a stick." The quotes you get when discussing European bans. 😂

@Wyzai

11 ай бұрын

irony being apparently that part isn't relevant. Bad tape lasted longer than the knife. Not that the victim cares.

@davedavids57

11 ай бұрын

Less of the "European bans" it's like saying just because certain knives are banned in New York City means they're American bans. Here in Austria we don't have any knife bans or laws against carrying anything (unless your recklessly causing fear). It's only Britain, Ireland and the Netherlands that have crazy laws in Europe.

@Seelenschmiede

11 ай бұрын

@@davedavids57 nah, we germans have our bunch of idiotic laws, especially knife laws, too

@christianterrill3503

11 ай бұрын

Its more so for youtube, your not allowed to show the manufacture of weapons.

@Hypershell

11 ай бұрын

@@christianterrill3503 Touche, sir.

Years ago, I temped at a magistrates' court. I remember one charge sheet which read: "Possession of an offensive weapon, namely, a leather belt . . . "

@judgedrekk2981

11 ай бұрын

well....yeah, I'd be very offended if someone came at me with a strip of leather....cus my sword would easily cut em in half! but seriously, that's insane lolz [oh, should say, American here]

@marcusc9931

11 ай бұрын

The former strongman/MMA star Mariusz Pudzianowski was once accused of armed robbery for taking a man's jacket by threatening him with his fists... kind of justified in his case...

@fish3977

11 ай бұрын

Dunno how it works there, but I can see a belt becoming an "offensive weapon" the moment you unbulcke to beat someone with it. It makes no sense to classify basically anything as "inherently a weapon" but on the flip side depending on one's actions nearly anything could be defined as a weapon.

@EGRJ

11 ай бұрын

I had no idea my mother went to court.

@graveperil2169

11 ай бұрын

@@fish3977 and that is how it works just ignore all the YouTUBE hype

Great content as always. Love your outlook on things, cannot help but to agree with the silliness of some laws.

Screwdrivers are usually properly hardened steel, which is why it didn't bend or anything.

Anything is an effective weapon if your have murderous intent.

@judgedrekk2981

11 ай бұрын

and if you're creative enough....it doesn't take that much creativity though

@The23Anonymous

11 ай бұрын

​@@judgedrekk2981 Well, it depends. If you manage to kill someone with a FFP2-Mask for example, i would be impressed.

@Dojibu

11 ай бұрын

Information as a weapon can potentially drive people to self termination, Can't forget about John Wick and his tea cups/pencils. Any vehicle or cart given enough speed can cause harm. Blunt objects are literally everywhere (chairs, tables, books, rocks). And that's just scratching the surface of possibilities.

@Walter-wo5sz

11 ай бұрын

Idle hands are Skallagrim's workshop.

@wroberts1707

11 ай бұрын

John wick pencil, ban them all now

Honestly, the weird thing about this knife stick existing is that you can buy a pickaxe just fine in the UK.

@howHumam

11 ай бұрын

You can buy a variety of items that could be used as weapons, they are all just as illegal to carry around as a kitchen knife or pick axe.

@oxenford539

11 ай бұрын

you can buy a crossbow, too.

@GreatSageSunWukong

11 ай бұрын

The thing about that, is it looks like its made from things bought in Poundland, so its about £3 or so rather then about £10+.

@rayanderson5797

11 ай бұрын

I'd say I'd rather use one of these than a pickaxe in a fight, though. I use a mattock at work a lot and it's really heavy. I could swing it at someone and hurt them pretty bad, sure, but if I had to fight multiple people, or if I missed the first strike, I'd be in trouble.

@Ithirahad

11 ай бұрын

A better-braced version of the screwdriver Stabby McStabface device is actually a more effective weapon (especially in random criminal activities) than a pickaxe. Those things are heavy and unwieldy, and cost a bit more.

This is the first video I’ve gotten recommended of yours and I find this really interesting. You’ve gained a subscriber

in a Finnish prison two inmates killed a third one with a cheese slicer, so they better ban those as well.

Holy crap. This performed way better than expected. When screwdrivers are outlawed, only outlaws will have screwdrivers

@Oddmanoutre

11 ай бұрын

No no, When screwdrivers are outlawed only the well-connected elite can get home repair and remodeling.

@seldonwright4345

11 ай бұрын

I don't drink vodka. 🍷 yes

@Infantry492

11 ай бұрын

It worked as well as I expected. This kinda thing is only barely removed from medieval farmers turning their tools into weapons, like warpicks or even more primitive, a sharp stone tied to a stick

@Eduardo_Espinoza

11 ай бұрын

"let's ban right to repair" 🎯

@Xoruam

11 ай бұрын

And then you start to understand why Eastern Europe acts the way it does. And how various insane legislations from the Soviet era came into existence.

You know... a few years ago, I said to my friends on weapons banning, is that it's pointless. If people wanna go out and harm people, they're gonna find a way to do it. I always joked "what's next, you gonna ban kitchen knifes and hammers?!" And here we are today.

@samuelbell2321

11 ай бұрын

Except they arnt, pointed knifes were only mentioned in parlement not added to any bills/pushed as a motion.

@Daniel-yy3ty

11 ай бұрын

It makes sense once the complexity and lethality of the weapon are high enough It doesn't matter how enterprising people are, homemade tanks are not a thing A modern rifle can wound or kill tens of people in a very small time frame with little chance of escape Once you reach white arms though, the effect of a proper weapon vs stick + tape + random garbage is not that far apart, so why bother... Hell, even just rope + small weight can easily cave a skull EDIT: ok, since you people are incapable of reading past the first 2 replies let me expand this You are not the 1st, nor the 3rd, nor the 10th that thought killdozer and went for the reply button Initially I just accepted the "exception" that was and moved on, it was an interesting story after all, but the more you morons keep hammering it the less reasonable it seems Would you face an actual tank with killdozer? No? Why is that? Is it because a proper tank has both good armor and good offensive capabilities, while the killdozer doesn't? Do we have a general name for something that's armored, regardless of anything else? OMG we do! They are called armored vehicles! Is killdozer an armored vehicle? Sure! Is every armored vehicle a tank? Nope, go look up basic set theory >_> FFS someone said that he tried to kill some kids, but luckily failed. Would that be the outcome of tank vs kids?

@mekhane.broken9678

11 ай бұрын

​@@Daniel-yy3ty "homemade tanks are not a thing" Boy do I have a story for you

@3dw3dw

11 ай бұрын

Suppose criminals began assaulting people with frozen wheels of cheese.

@taviusf9502

11 ай бұрын

@Daniel Lol, sorry but you’re already totally wrong in every regard. You’re the kind of person to ban cars because cars cause accidents. Here’s the truth. When you leave a loaded gun, sitting on a table, and never touch it, nothing happens. When you leave a parked car to sit, that car will stay parked and rot away. People are in control of their actions. The issue, is the person behind the action. Guns aren’t the issue, the mental health of our general population is. Don’t blame an inanimate object. Blame the individual using it. Take responsibility for your own actions instead of trying to run away from the inevitable destruction you’ve caused. Simple.

This is a great argument against the ban of guns. It's pretty clear that violent offenders will take whatever means necessary. Including taping crooked knives to sticks.

This is super informative and well made and videos like this need to be promoted more.

To be honest, I'd rather be held at gunpoint than to be held in swinging range of this abomination.

@seekoutguy

11 ай бұрын

I'd rather be held at gun point than knife point in general. Knife fights fucking suck

@Cheesepuff8

11 ай бұрын

From what I’ve seen most of the time you’re more likely to get stabbed in American cities of similar population sizes Also I’m pretty sure most of the stabbings in the UK are amongst gangs where both people have knives

@garyblack8717

11 ай бұрын

@@Cheesepuff8 We used to lock up violent criminals and crime, while still present, was much more rare. Now we turn violent criminals lose and ask them politely to stop their criminal behavior and blame society for their behavior. Still pretty rare to meet anyone who's been stabbed.

@DiscountSupport

11 ай бұрын

the loser of a knife fight dies on the scene, the winner dies in the ambulance

@mcgoodle

11 ай бұрын

@@seekoutguy I was gonna write the same thing but you beat me to it.

I hear rocks are also capable of being used as projectiles. In fact rocks are amazingly effective against armored glass.

@6FEEC8E3

11 ай бұрын

A HIND-D helicopter is almost impervious to machine gun fire. The Afghanis downed three of them in the space of 30 seconds using brake drums.

@mrnice7570

11 ай бұрын

Slingers from Rhodes

@physics3632

10 ай бұрын

Ban ‘em

@engelsseele2

9 ай бұрын

@@schimtumacher Depending on the tpye of drum rotor. Those things can be heavy as fuck.

@kennydoggins1712

8 ай бұрын

@@6FEEC8E3 from what I hear if your facing off with a helicopter you shoot the rotary because they're not capable of being armored by much and all you gotta do to screw with a helicopter is to chip a little weight off of one, so you don't even need a rotary blade to fail just to be shot

As much as the UK has a reputation for knife crime, knife crime and knife homicides are actually higher per capita in the US. There's too many confounding variables that differ between the two nations to say that tighter knife laws in the UK are responsible for the lower rate of knife crime however, though.

At the start of the video, even at the thumbnail, I was thinking of a 12" ardox spike (spiral wound nail) fitted through a handle literally like a warpick. No knife or tool required, literally an already sharp piece of metal stuck through a random length of wood. It would perform similar to the screwdriver except be even more economical. Also, the knife with the tape wrap fastening it to the stick is similar to that medieval implement that has a brass fist on a stick holding a separately forged knife or spike. I don't remember its name.

I don't know what's more stupid these weapons bans or the people who actually think said ban will reduce violent crime.

@tuseroni6085

11 ай бұрын

the answer is never "we were wrong" it's always "we just didn't do it hard enough"

@angelichero6236

11 ай бұрын

i think the answer to that is just yes

@graveperil2169

11 ай бұрын

you reduce the nummber of people with knife you reduce the chance any 2 people in a fight will have one

@MyAramil

11 ай бұрын

Furthermore laws are meaningless if they do not enforce it. if you have a rule for a child of "don't eat a cookie" and every time the child goes to grab a cookie and you just stare at them, say their name and nothing else. why would they not grab the cookie and eat it?

@erebostd

11 ай бұрын

Yepp, it’s hard to find a middle ground between „pencils are dangerous weapons!!!“ and „oh, another school shooting? Well, there’s nothing we can do about that!“. Extreme positions are always insane…

Well... You gotta admit, those bans are inspiring a lot of advancements in the zombie apocalypse type weapons that you can just tape together!

@diegolunar7022

11 ай бұрын

As seen in The Last of Us franchise. Especially in Part 2, where you can improve damage by taping scissors to any kind of weapon

@DangerB0ne

11 ай бұрын

Frank West wants to know your location

@DonVigaDeFierro

11 ай бұрын

Pffft. The "zombie apocalypse" won't last an hour. If humanity has perfected something, is the art of creating weapons that can destroy masses of unarmed human bodies.

@justadummy8076

11 ай бұрын

@@diegolunar7022 well tape *can* add extra reinforcement to points of failure, so you can reliably put more effort into each strike, therefore (technically) increasing the damage

@RogueWraith909

11 ай бұрын

@@justadummy8076 It also adds a little extra mass so you could potentially make a mace out of tape? That'd be a fun experiment... how effective is a mace made entirely from tape?

The thing about laws on weapons and what should be banned or not, is that people will never stop finding ways around it in the name of being able to protect themselves or worse. There's really not much point. If people feel the need to carry a weapon for any reason, the law merely acts as a guideline on what not to carry with you if you don't want to be prosecuted when using whatever dangerous item you carry. The only thing these laws are really doing is shifting the defence/offence methods possible with whatever tools are available by law. The true danger isn't the weapons, it's the people using them.

thank you scall,now i know how to make an improvised warpick :3

The worst thing about the British law is that they banned even the defensive weapons, such as a taser or pepper spray. That means a woman who doesn’t feel safe on her street cannot have anything to defend herself with…

@lukeskywalker8543

11 ай бұрын

Why women specifically. Anyone who doesn't fell safe on the streets would not be legally able to have something to defend themeselves.

@TheAchilles26

11 ай бұрын

​@@lukeskywalker8543because people tend to assume men can/should be able to defend themselves unarmed. It's easier for the average idiot to realize that a woman needs a force multiplier to defend herself from a man, who is pretty much guaranteed to be larger and stronger than her

@Dovakhin94

11 ай бұрын

Get a decent screwdriver... Good defense weapon

@Boosher_

11 ай бұрын

who goes around walking with a taser and pepper spray

@sirvelociraptor2590

11 ай бұрын

​@@lukeskywalker8543The second most important reason for the citizenry owning weapons is so that the physically weak can protect themselves effectively, where they would otherwise be easily overpowered.

I find it weird that governments thinks banning weapons means they won’t exist when the prisons of the same governments can’t keep weapons out of a far more controlled environment

@alastairbrewster4274

11 ай бұрын

This is an utter fallacy , the govt doesn’t think like that at all. Trust me as brutal as that demonstration was these DIY weapons are not as deadly as a crafted weapon. There’s a very good reason why there’s gun control and why ppl can’t buy a gun in the U.K. without stringent tests. “ anything is a weapon” every idiot knows this but there’s a massive difference between a military grade sabre and a screw driver . I mean fists are dangerous but in a fight to the death , what you gonna choose ? Your fists are ah uzi ? You’re stating the obvious.

@Menuki

11 ай бұрын

@@alastairbrewster4274 not what we’re talking about. Kinda extrapolating beyond what the video is talking about. The UK is making laws that make it difficult for law abiding people, chefs and tradesman, to carry around their tools. What’s the rationale there? It’s hamstringing the function of society for an impossible goal. Weapon bans of this type aren’t stopping crime, just changing the method of it.

@alastairbrewster4274

11 ай бұрын

@@Menuki what a load of garbage. Im a fitter ( and I don’t mean I go to the gym) and it’s never stopped me at all. It’s like you’ve all made this nonsense up. I bet youre not even British and if you are I bet you’re like 12. It’s a complete exaggeration. Another internet meme that’s exaggerated.

@darthid77

10 ай бұрын

By that logic we should allow proper weapons in prison, because after all we can't stop them making their own anyway

@alastairbrewster4274

10 ай бұрын

@@darthid77 exactly

That was surprisingly educational!

It really shouldn't be so hard to talk truth these days without getting demonetized I wish we could go back 10 yrs but here we are

Once you're reaching the point where you're banning pocket knives, you've got to admit that the problem might not always be the weapons.

@Spartan322

11 ай бұрын

It never was, but its all about control and to remove any threat to the government stepping over the line. The biggest reason they do it is because they fear the people, the second biggest is because its really easy to sign a paper that says "all your weapons are belong to us" instead of actually fixing any problems, and if you brainwash people into believing people are inherently and naturally good, its no surprise they can't argue against those who do wrong.

@richtheunstable3359

11 ай бұрын

I hope they don't come for my pocket knives next

@etherealhawk

11 ай бұрын

@@richtheunstable3359 has to be non-locking, folding and under 3 inches. Literally that's what pocket knives need to be in the UK

@gruffrossi5420

11 ай бұрын

im a brit IT HAS GOT STOOPID HERE IN UK I CAN USE A PEN ANY THING CAN MADE INTO A WEPON but cant walk arourd in uk with this carp like yer proof werk and do more damage than a knife ITS SO CHEAP MEANT FOR SINGEL USE AND BE CHUCKED AWAY

@karanaher5030

11 ай бұрын

They don't wanna solve crime. That's the simple truth. Since solving crime means they can't use "I'll reduce crime rates" anymore.

police: i mean let's just ban anything with a sharp point, right? literallly historically accurate medieval round-pointed swords with half a meter blade: 🗿🗿🗿

@Dovakhin94

11 ай бұрын

So can I run around with an axe?

@szylaj

11 ай бұрын

@@Dovakhin94 axes are pointless

@somechinesedude5466

11 ай бұрын

Anybody forgot blunt object are equally dangerous?

@DaN-ri7eh

11 ай бұрын

litteralllllllllly broooo

@chrisg9274

11 ай бұрын

The police don't ban anything, politicians make the laws

"Not the strongest tape." one second later "The knife broke, but not the tape."

We tried this strat once in Poland, it works flawlessly!

It's almost like this has been done before.... Like the Japanese to the Okinawan's. Resulting in the Okinawan's using everyday items, especially farming tools, as weapons. Or the well known ability of prison inmates to fabricate "shivs" and similar weapons from intentionally limited supplies. Before long, some enterprising UK criminal is going to buy (steal) a bench grinder and a couple wrenches and will be able to make crude replicas of medieval weapons.

@JohnnyMaverik

11 ай бұрын

Sure but those crude replicas will not be legal to carry around and you will be arrested for the possession of an offensive weapon. There's a chance you will get off because the weapon in question will not fit into the legally agreed definitions of what can be classed as an offensive weapon, but if it's a crude replica of a medevil weapon then I highly doubt that.

@jorionedwards

11 ай бұрын

@@JohnnyMaverik Don't treat cops like omnipotent beings. It not like they'll just know you're concealing a inconspicuous tool for use as a weapon.

@kirill2525

11 ай бұрын

i mean 3d printers exist and u can print guns. some printers print metal

@underarmbowlingincidentof1981

11 ай бұрын

so? Whats the alternative? Just letting them use it? By your logic we could go "Ah, banning knives in prison doesn't work anyway so lets just let them run around with em. Send em in. Any length any shape any handle."

@thesugardaddy7037

11 ай бұрын

​​@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 This might legitimately be the worst take I've ever seen. Im mean seriously, did you even think about this at all? Your average citizen isn't a prison inmate for one and alot of the time prisons are filled with hardened criminals who have proved dangerous to those around them so it makes sense to not give them weapons. Why are you treating a person who has done nothing wrong like a criminal behind bars? What did they do to deserve this kind of treatment? The problem with banning things like this is its treating the symptoms as opposed to the disease. The disease is crime. Criminals aren't going to stop being criminals just because you banned one of their preferred tools. If you ban guns, they'll move on to things like knives, bats, IEDs, and acid. If you ban those they'll move on to big sticks, 2x4s, crowbars, tire irons, and homemade spears or warpicks like in the video. If you ban those people will make clubs out of fucking rocks and sticks if they have to, crime isn't gonna stop just because you banned things. If politicians would actually focus on trying to lessen crime, this wouldn't be a problem in the first place.

I saw a fight just last week outside my house (South East England) where two blokes were fighting with sharpened hockey sticks. Not ice hockey, the hockey thats played on grass. They were hacking at each other, there was a lot of blood. Many years ago, when my house was broken into, I used the bar from a dumbell as a tool. Anything is a weapon in the hands of someone willing to use it. John Wick with his pencil, Riddick with his tea cup. You could strangle someine with a sock if you're motivated enough.

@Nesseight

11 ай бұрын

"You can choke one out with a sock." - Martyn

@aluminumfalcon552

11 ай бұрын

Scotland Yard: we need to keep an eye out for people with socks now.

@samconduct1356

11 ай бұрын

Don't give them ideas, next the police will confiscate socks.

@sergeikuranov7033

11 ай бұрын

You can also put a handful of coins(or anything else moderately heavy and hard) into a sock what would give you a decent flail. Also works with a weight and a piece of rope.

@DefenderoftheTrees

11 ай бұрын

Hardware stores are gonna need to be banned…

Just looking around my garage for “non-weapon” tools and things: saw blades, woodworking chisels, screwdrivers, fire axe handle, gardening spade, weeding claw, various hatchets and tomahawks, plastic rebar of various lengths, wooden dowels, various lengths (1-4ft) of high voltage electric cable (rubber coated copper wire about 3/4 of an inch thick, large ball bearings, hundreds of feet of paracord , iron spikes about 6 inches long, assorted scrap wood and metal, hammers, nails, drill bits of various lengths, assorted types of tape and other adhesives, automotive wrenches and tools…. Most of these you don’t even need to “get creative” with, you can just pick up and swing or stab an be devastating. IMO what separates a tool from a weapon, apart from the obvious, is mainly the weight and balance. Tools tend to be heavy and clumsy compared to purpose built weapons but with some working knowledge of how to use weapons and a bit of practice a “tool” used as a “weapon “ will get the job done… generally speaking the outcome will just tend to be a bit… messier.

A wonderful demonstration of how common items can be deadly. Well done Skallagrim.

Good thing the youtube community guidelines protected us from learning how to tie a knife to a stick. I mean, its not like humans have been doing that since the bronze age. Imagine if this knowledge got out. Next thing you know, people might even realize that if you tape them on straight instead of perpendicularly, you could theoretically throw these knife-stick hybrids over quite a long distance and then, where would we be?

@frontenac5083

11 ай бұрын

You gave way too much information on the way to assemble makeshift spears, I'm sorry but I have no choice but to report your potentially lethal comment. Hopefully, I'll have saved a few lives.

@Sableagle

11 ай бұрын

It'd be even scarier if people were allowed to play _Asheron's Call_ and got really curious about the Olthoi Atlatl and whether such a thing could really be made and used, or if anyone had seen any of the _Lord of the Rings_ movies and spotted that combination of a springy bit of wood and a string with two loops in it. Good job everyone was too busy salivating over Tauriel to pay any attention to Legolas, right?

@JustSpectre

11 ай бұрын

You underestimate humanity sir. They were practicing tying knives to a stick since they figured out it's possible to make a blade or a point from a piece of rock 😂 but it's good to know people are getting back to their roots

@Stalthdan

11 ай бұрын

@@JustSpectre That's... the point of his comment.

@smolkafilip

11 ай бұрын

@@JustSpectre I originally wrote "cavemen era", but then decided that chipped rocks dont qualify as proper knives and moved it up to bronze age, when they actually had an abundance of proper metal blades with actual cutting edges etc. But yeah, in principle you are right.

When the first blade broke I thought “I bet a screwdriver wouldn’t break” When the second blade bent I knew we were going to a screwdriver. When I get pulled over and they ask if there’s any weapons in the car I always say “yes! I’ve got tons of tools in here! Saws hammers knives pencils strings etc” and usually a pistol. Ironically the pistol is the only one I CANT be charged with.

@kurskfirebrand4494

8 ай бұрын

dude i remember when deadliest warrior had the ice pick used on a skull like this. a screwdriver's one step from that

@berserkasaurusrex4233

8 ай бұрын

@@kurskfirebrand4494 Not surprising really, an ice pick is just a dwarf stiletto, after all.

@user-mo8hk7vh9g

8 ай бұрын

Kitchen knives are not designed to be armor-piercing, but to cut flesh, so rather fragile.

@bloodleader5

8 ай бұрын

@@user-mo8hk7vh9g Kitchen knives are just cheap garbage, even the high end ones. That's the reality. They're all made of very low grade steels with poor construction, and even the "stainless" is often a lie.

A friend of mine had to remove all kitchen knives from her home as her son was arrested for carrying one

It's not about preventing crime, it's about controlling those who are not criminals, restrictive laws only take away freedom, I'm not saying there should not be laws, but taking away tools that could save your life or defend yourself from tyranny is the #1 thing corrupt governments do in the name of "Public safety".

I hope you learned a valuable lesson today. Electrical tape in many applications is way better than duct tape. Main reason is as you wrap, you can stretch it, creating a tighter hold. Apart from doing electrical work with it, it does come in handy for a lot of things and definitely will work as a temporary bandaid.

@foldionepapyrus3441

11 ай бұрын

Agreed. The one thing it doesn't at all do that gaffa's tape does is stick really really aggressively, and lacking the cloth reinforcement it isn't as good in many wear and strength applications either. But the more elastic nature of it for this job is actually going to help a great deal here - no major force concentration points so the blow is taken by all of the tape fairly evenly, where the cloth reinforced tapes its almost certain to be all the load on the tightest loops of that reinforcement until they break - which is why tough as it is you can tear duct tape.

@tillmen4444

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, I was surprised by his comment 😂. I was like he must not work with electrical tape

@The_Judge300

11 ай бұрын

Using both electrical tape and then reinforce it with duct tape on top is often the way to go. It is possible to make something very strong that way.

@FancyJesus666

11 ай бұрын

If you actually work with your hands you'll cut your hands and if you put a bandaid on it and keep working that bandaid will fall off in less than ten minutes but if you use electrical tape and a piece of a paper towel it'll last all day.

@ootdega

11 ай бұрын

I had to use it to tie some wires together once, before I had a soldering iron. The result was as hard as a rock and so strong that it ended up being permanent. I still have that cable around here somewhere.

Wait till they find out you can sharpen a stick on a rock. Or that any suffient mass can be used to bash someone's head in.

@marcogenovesi8570

11 ай бұрын

and harden the tip of the sharpened stick by heating it (like with a fire). Man these sticks are really dangerous weapons

@elio7610

11 ай бұрын

Time to ban trees.

@Alpha.Phenix

11 ай бұрын

@@elio7610 Oi mate, you got a license for that acorn? Sorry bruv, we can't have ye growin trees 'ere.

@greatestcait

11 ай бұрын

​@@marcogenovesi8570 Shadiversity has entered the chat.

@theredknight9314

11 ай бұрын

Wait till they learn about rocks and heavy books. Or spoons and cars.

Learning rondel dagger fencing atm and was thinking that ist basically learning to fight with a long screwdriver effectively lol

UK law is in a constant arms race, and is already the strictest in the world. I carry the maximum knife permitted under the current statutes, a 3-inch Sheffield folding lambsfoot, and still was arrested for it, whereupon the police fought dirty, they misled my advocate about what type of knife it was & tried to get me to buy the lie by slip of the tongue in the interview. In response, I fought dirty back at them, holding my tongue in the interview & refusing to answer any of their questions, & I can proudly say I was exonerated.

Just finished a UK government consultation on a new proposed ban of, amongst other things, machetes and knives with more than one hole in them. Good to know that criminals will be handing them in if or when this law is passed

@mrglasses8953

11 ай бұрын

two holes makes a knife extra lethal you know, and if it has a saw back, jeez.

A couple of years ago, in the city I live near by, a man was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver. It plunged in to the handle, but he survived - heavily brain damaged. Banning kitchen knives, pointy knives or even screwdrivers will not stop criminals.

@victorhugoeh974

11 ай бұрын

True! A friend of mine in college suffered violence from her boyfriend. Gees! all of us who were close warned her and told her to search for help but she just wouldn't listen.The guy was a vicious fiend and ultimately killed her with a screwdriver through her skull. He ended up behind bars but that won't bring her back 😢

@underarmbowlingincidentof1981

11 ай бұрын

course it won't STOP criminals but I'd rather be assaulted by a dude with a screwdriver than by a dude with a gun, two knives, a sword, and a screwdriver.

@timfallon8226

11 ай бұрын

​@@underarmbowlingincidentof1981 you only need your own gun to be able to defend yourself effectively.

@seronymus

11 ай бұрын

The hard lesson is a cruel society is a punishment from God, whether via floods of barbarians or other means. The British need to repent to their old saints.

@underarmbowlingincidentof1981

11 ай бұрын

@@timfallon8226 yeah I just need to carry exactly the weaponry my attacker is carrying, great, so I just have to walk with my fully automatic rifle and armored vest to work now? But damn, criminals don't care about laws so they can have tanks too!! I need an RPG launcher just in case. By that point you can just throw your hands in the air and admit you live in a failed state mate.

It's so silly that the UK lawmakers focus on specific weapons. When I got stabbed it was with a sharp fishing float. Of course addressing the fact that the leading cause of crime is poverty and all the knock on effects would be government actually doing their jobs so they just do some handwringing and make a lot of noise about weapons and hash sentences instead of listening to experts and attempting to uplift communities with high crime rates.

Least violent night in London be like

The UK policies regarding self-defence/weapons in general need a major reform. When criminals can go out with the expectation that a potential victim will have nothing to defend themselves with they are far more likely to attack someone. The current laws only affect people who wish to carry tools for self defence at all times; criminals only carry weapons on the rare occasions when they go out with the intention of attacking someone, them getting searched with a weapon on them is close to zero. From what I've been told, Poland is a pretty good example of how to do it right. As another comment pointed out, "laws like this just makes criminals out of people who aren't criminals."

@Outrider74

11 ай бұрын

What’s the matter with you? Stop using common sense and start thinking like a politician!

@1stCallipostle

11 ай бұрын

If we keep banning things, criminals will start realizing all the materials for Molotovs are frankly unbannable. And then violence will get SO much worse

@tylerschofield

11 ай бұрын

Well its worth pointing out that there are only around 500 murders a year in the england and wales area, which is a population of about 60 million. So your about 6000 times more likely to be hit by a car while crossing the road than be in a life or death situation where you need to defend yourself. In my 30 years living in england the only violence ive witnessed is drunken pub brawls. I lived in the USA for 5 years and witnessed significantly more serious violence in that span of time than decades in the UK. Seems poland has a similar homicide amount to the UK but has much less people, so also that to consider

@Spartan322

11 ай бұрын

Which is what us Americans were saying on the attempts to ban the 2nd Amendment for decades now.

@karanaher5030

11 ай бұрын

​@@Spartan322Except y'all are retards. Despite there being 20x more crimes commited by knives, guns kill 3x as many people.

I remember Joerg from the Slingshot Channel getting slandered in the media for "showing how to defeat Bulletproof Police Vests with a spike/Knife."

@BlooCollaGal

11 ай бұрын

There are different weaves of Kevlar for stabbing and slashing protection. A full spectrum Kevlar armor costs about 2X what a simple bulletproof vest costs.

Instead of banning every single individual weapon like object they should just ban attacking people smh.

Yeah, people use Scredrivers all the time here in Scotland. Mostly because you can explain having one on you much more easily than a knife.

My brother was working at a job site years ago and a screwdriver rolled off a scaffolding about one story high and stuck into his head. He recovered fine, but the point is there are infinite things which can do harm to a human body.

@joefish6091

11 ай бұрын

Hence why hardhats are advisable in construction and maintenance type environments.

@mastermalpass

10 ай бұрын

Sounds like someone eventually got a bollocking for not setting up the toe boards on the scaffold.

@Nerobyrne

10 ай бұрын

I always say: "The problem aren't the weapons, it's the people using them." Obviously there's a spectrum. On the one hand, we're not gonna let private citizens drive around in a fully functional Panther tank. On the other hand, banning everything with a tip is, ironically, pointless. What needs to happen is that people need to have less reason to hurt others.

@bad-people6510

10 ай бұрын

@@Nerobyrne I can own a tank. The most difficult thing there would be the machine-guns and having it certified street-legal. But I can own a tank. I can own armored vehicles, I can own cannons. I can own warships according to a direct statement from the man who wrote the 2nd amendment.

@Nerobyrne

10 ай бұрын

@@bad-people6510 you can own a tank, but not a "fully functional" tank. They have to remove the ability for it to fire. Then you can totally own it, and plenty of them are legally in private hands. But no, you cannot legally own military equipment that is fully functional. Doesn't matter what some dude said 200 years ago. What matters is what the people in charge say today.

"Ban everything that has a point" They're doing that for weapons and soon opinions.

@TheZandBeast

11 ай бұрын

😂

That ending gave me a mighty chuckle XD

As a matter of information whilst there has been some discussion around the banning of 'pointed' kitchen knives no such ban has been enacted and realistically such ban will not happen as a kitchen knife without a point would not be functional.

I just picture a bunch of UK cops standing around like the experts on Deadliest Warrior going, "Well my guy wouldn't just be standing there perfectly still like that. He'd be moving around, way harder to hit."

@theredknight9314

11 ай бұрын

Bahahaha

@planescaped

11 ай бұрын

lmao, I can totally picture it.

@gustavesoucy-breton6841

11 ай бұрын

it's pretty light, it's got reach and you do not necessarily need to aim for the head.

it's theatre and it gives the cops another excuse to mess with people. the government would always rather just crack down on people rather than improve the material conditions that cause crime in the first place.

@russetwolf13

11 ай бұрын

"Our country consumes people's lives, minds and souls as a matter of course, and it drives them to violent crime as a natural consequence... should we do something to improve our society?" "...Nah, just punish more people harder." "Won't that make it worse?" "Since when has our job been to fix things? If it looks like I did something and get reelected who cares?"

@mateuszkrytyk5711

11 ай бұрын

you cant imrpove the lives of people that will reach for drugs from their own will I like how people love blaming governments and treat citizens like angels ''oh he went down the path of crimes because the government did not help him'' nah, shut your bitch ass he chose that way, he was too lazy, he has police and million other institutions to help him, if he was born poor then all he has to do is to get an educational grant or you can say all of that in one sentence = work hard you in a shitty situation ? Join the army, go to police academy, firefighters, first response medical personnel, nurses, construction worker, driver, even fucking cycling delivery like how fucked up do you have to be to say ''nah, the country forced him to sell drugs and traffic innocent women slaves''

@user-fw2dd2cy3c

11 ай бұрын

Material condition do not cause crime, and it's absurd to think that the answer is of the "root causes" variety anyway. The solution is, indeed, to crack down on criminals and put them away. You can also try to figure out deeper, longer-term causes--but that is no substitute for dealing directly with the immediate threat. If a psycho killer is chasing you with a chainsaw, the solution is to run or kill him--not to call your Congressman to lobby for chainsaw restrictions and more mental healthcare.

@TheHaughtyOsprey

11 ай бұрын

Maybe not importing 10s of thousands of 3rd world mongrels? Think that might work?

@als3022

11 ай бұрын

They did a study and found in one US city that the majority of crimes were done by less than 1,000 people (Out of a million) And they woudl get released and just commit crime again. That's why if you notice some of the people shot in the US, they have a rap sheet about 40 crimes long.

I wonder if there is an “uncensored” version of this video anywhere, because the all gray really makes it difficult to see how much the screwdriver went deep. Also, it’s so nice to hear your partner’s voice. It feels like we are in there commenting with her voice.

@Skallagrim

11 ай бұрын

Yes, there is a longer, uncensored, and ad-free version for Patreon supporters. www.patreon.com/skallagrim

@worldprops333

8 ай бұрын

​could just invert the color and move the video around on a background or something that should prevent bot detection and make it still viewable 4 free

People problems can't be solved by banning objects

In general, banning weapon was rarely a good idea. People can always makeshift a weapon, or crafts it, steal, or improvise it. For example, the shank knives in the prison, it can be made from almost anything such as half scissor, toothbrush handle, glass shard, metal sheet, etc. In the other hand, historically, weapon such as kusari-gama, flail (with long staff), fork, warpick, quarterstaff, scythe were basically improvised farming/mining tools.

@hexapon133

8 ай бұрын

anything in the hands of a person is a weapon that's what makes us the top of the food chain

@Great_Wall_of_Text

8 ай бұрын

Banning any weapon is only pointless if your intention is to stop crime at an individual level. That is not government's intention, generally speaking. Bans won't stop mugging...but that isn't what they are trying to do. It's just the excuse they use to get it done. When your intention is to control a population, like a prison, school, stadium crowd, or nation, banning weapons is a numbers game. On a large scale it makes perfect sense. If you can get functional weapons out of tha hands of, say, 90% (this would be the law abiding 90% generally) that makes it, say, 90% safer for armed security to confront an angry mob at the castle gates. If you view the issue from the perspective of a government attempting to control an angry mob made up of random, recently law abiding citizens then it is hard to argue against the effectiveness of weapons bans.

@orenjineko646

8 ай бұрын

@@Great_Wall_of_Text It's not really a perfect sense tho. In most Asian countries, and commonwealth countries, and even Germany, basically banning weapons for decades (on different levels of strictness). I also understand that some people unfit to wield/bear any weapons because of their mentality. But a strict weapons ban, often times only resulted in more difficulty to accomplish day to day tasks (e.g. tools for camping, farming, self defense, handyman etc.) Like I mentioned before, it doesn't matter when government banned a machete for example, one with evil mind can still easily obtain/steal a crowbar from home depot to mug/kll someone. Joerg Sprave on his channel also elaborate the silly (knives) law in Germany, please look it up. And there's other aspect such as unarmed security forces (such as in Indonesia), they're rarely have knives and handcuffs, sometimes they only have clubs/tonfa, sometimes it's just smiles on their faces. It's not surprising that they can't effectively stop terrorist (bomb) attack, on motorcycle for example. Tightening of security only happens after the fact, and eventually laxing over time. And then a new cycle happens again. What make it worse, on recent years the security force's uniform had been made similar to police forces, it's simply made them as maybe deterrent for petty criminals; but the cannon fodders to the big time/organized criminals.

@Great_Wall_of_Text

8 ай бұрын

@orenjineko646 Sorry, to be clear, I don't disagree with anything you wrote. I didn't mean to imply that you are wrong in any way. I only meant to point out that, while you are correct that banning weapons makes no sense on an individual level (like how banning a machete won't stop vilolent crime, but will stop law abiding citizens from clearing brush), it makes perfect sense when you are a governing body trying to control the masses. Controlling large groups of people is the real reason for weapons bans. That does not go against anything you wrote : ) For good or ill, weapons bans are almost never intended to stop one person from attacking another regardless of what the politicians say. They are generally lying. Weapons bans are supposed to be about public safety. Anything can be a weapon, and politicians know that. The bans are actually about preventing large groups of angry citizens from revolting in the street with weaponry that effectively threatens soldiers or police. Maybe you think preventing revolt is good. Maybe you think it is bad. Either way, weapons bans are a good way to prevent revolution. That is largely why governments enact them...and they lie about why they did it because it never sounds good to admit you don't want the people you govern to be able to fight back. When politicians want to prevent stabbings, they enact harsher penalties for stabbings and work harder to enforce those laws. When governments want to disarm law abiding citizens, they pass laws that prevent people from legally owning weapons (i.e. a weapons ban) Right now in the U.S. some politicians are letting violent criminals have shootouts in public with illegal weapons. They let them burn down buildings. No jail time. They just let them go. In fact, several U.S. cities just paid out tens of millions of dollars in apology money to groups that burned buildings down in 2020. That actually happened. Meanwhile, armed federal agents go door to door collecting legal weapons from people who have committed no crime. Right now, politicians in the U.S. are fighting hard to ban "assault rifles" as they did in the 90's, but all rifles combined kill fewer people every year than bare hands and feet... The same is true of blunt objects, and knives, and swimming pools...the list goes on. So why ban a weapon when more people are killed with bare hands?The weapon clearly isn't a major threat to the populace if hands and feet kill more people. It's because the weapon is a threat to governments : ) Once you accept that politicians lie to get secret things done, the whole mess makes a lot more sense : )

"UK lawmakers have considered a number of times: ban everything that has a point." What, like free speech?

@oz_jones

11 ай бұрын

Yes

@realdragon

11 ай бұрын

Americans not knowing the difference between free speech and hate speech

@TheMelnTeam

11 ай бұрын

They've moved past banning that already. Police show up at people's doors for making people feel bad online. Not with actual threats, just being mean.

@paulklee5790

11 ай бұрын

Would be funny if it wasn’t sadly true…

@mossystone584

11 ай бұрын

@Kivienkeli no? The fuck? They banned people being atabbed, so obviously next they will ban you from talking? Brain is braining so good huh?

If they had their way lawmakers would try and ban putting your hands in a fist

In a few years, I'll be hearing "Oi, you got a licence for that screwdriver?"

@darekbaird

11 ай бұрын

yep that's a flat head. Don't ya know you need a permit for these? Now a trusty philips would've been fine but a flat!? Oh it's off to the jail with you lot!

@maxlutz3674

11 ай бұрын

In Germany there already are areas where you can´t just carry a screwdriver if you do not work there or hold a proper license.

@bigolbearthejammydodger6527

11 ай бұрын

already there, have been for years and years. Its called 'going equipped'. If you dont need it for your job... the cops can and will throw the book at you.

The crime is actually a subliminal marketing for the new Zelda game where you can stick all sorts of things to a stick as a weapon.

@ric270

11 ай бұрын

Genius

@elio7610

11 ай бұрын

Weirdly plausible.

@alexhamon9261

11 ай бұрын

Legend of Zelda: Tears of the United Kingdom

@foldionepapyrus3441

11 ай бұрын

About as durable as one of the 'open world' 'Zelda' games too...

@DangerB0ne

11 ай бұрын

​@@foldionepapyrus3441 That's a feature to encourage players to try out new combinations.

The knife at 2:25 is arguably a Sheepsfoot design. Santoku knives and the like have developed thr design as well, possibly as an example of parallel evolution. The sheepsfoot was common among sailing vessels because the roll and sway of the waves, let alone bring bumped by someone trying to get by you, means whatever you were carving would be ignored since your regular knife just pierced your hand. No point on the sheepsfoot to stab yourself with. That being said, the target that's being stabbed doesn't appear to be a very good parallel for human tissue since it was stabbed by the curved back of the sheepsfoot blade as opposed to the front where the knife forms a small but sharp angle. Maybe he should head down to the butcher's shop and get a rack of spare ribs or baby back ribs with the fat and skin still attached. That would simulate human tissue well, plus you'd have dinner afterward. Aside from that, it's not illegal to own an ice climbing axe, a regular axe/hatchet, or a machete in the UK. So improvised weapons are pretty much pointless. Heck, give me a copper nail and a piece of flint, jasper, obsidian, chert, or old-fashioned non-safety glass, and I can knap you a knife blade, spear point, arrow head, or simple shank. If it's glass, just wrap the grip in tape, use it, strip the tape with your prints off of it as you leave, hurl the glad against the nearest stone surface, dispose of the tape elsewhere, and you're done in time to meet some friends and have a round or two.

I once got mugged by a guy with a screwdriver. I always wondered what was the worst that could had happened if I resisted. Thanks getting me out of my doubt.

@asafoetidajones8181

7 ай бұрын

Personal question, but is your, y'know... is it Phillip's or flathead? Maybe the mugger didn't have the right stuff

One improvised weapon a certain sub-set of British street thugs commonly carry is a sawn off golf club handle with the edges sharpened, a bit like an apple-corer. They carry them tucked in their sock. It always struck me that would be an horrific thing to be shanked with. It would be interesting to see what one actually does on a ballistic gel target

@harry.flashman

11 ай бұрын

ive been stabbed by one of them. looks like bullet holes. i think a deep knife cut would be more dangerous.

@vx8431

11 ай бұрын

@@harry.flashman Probably since what he described is hollow. A screwdriver is much more lethal in that sense too. However it is very easy to improvise almost anything if you really want to harm someone. Example of a technique used in prisons is that they roll paper and use soap and salt on it and dry it then sharpen it to make an improvised shiv that you can just flush to dispose of the evidence. The worst kind of thing you can be attacked with however if they really want to hurt you without killing you is a blunt object such as a ballpeen hammer since it can easily crush bones. Another prison example is a sock filled with anything you can use as a weight like batteries as it will crack your skull if it hits your head.

@harry.flashman

11 ай бұрын

@@vx8431 xD

The most absolitely hilarous part is that, although knives are banned, you can just put a sword (knifes scary uncle) in a cricket bag and nobody will even question it. ANYTHING passes if its in a cricket bag here in the UK, even dumber cos of how massive those things are.

@davedavids57

11 ай бұрын

To be fair anything intended as a weapon is illegal in the UK. So if your walking in inner city london at night with a cricket bag you will probably be stopped and searched. If they find a cricket bat (let alone a knife) and you can't prove your coming or going from a cricket match you will be arrested, and possibly go to prison. I used to live in Hackney and the gangs tried this but the police got wise very quickly. Now they just hide weapons in bushes to pick up when needed.

@samuelbell2321

11 ай бұрын

Sort of the law around it is restricting ready access for transport.

@arielsolomon5645

11 ай бұрын

Hell... a cricket bat in a cricket bag. You're just a fan... the razor blades added to the sides are just decorative.

@simonspacek3670

11 ай бұрын

@@arielsolomon5645 I only saw a cricket bat, but do you need to add razor blades? I thought it would cause enough damage as is.

Boycott pointless bans considering anything commonplace to be an "offensive weapon" And I'm talking hammers, hatchets, screwdrivers, tire wrenches, a peice of iron pipe....the fact that practically anyone could cop a fine or criminal offence for carrying any of these is.... absolutely ridiculous. These are LEGITIMATE TOOLS that people use. It's stupid that you practically have to prove you're on your way to work if you're ever cought carrying any of these. We have the same laws in Australia and... it's absolutely stupid.

Man, this went from rated R to rated X real quick at 5:47

Electrical tape is surprisingly strong; especially when wrapped tightly around itself like you did. It's meant to withstand a lot of force in tension so that an electrician can pull the wire through conduit. If you use any other kind of tape it just won't be strong enough. Edit: typo

@unseenentity7085

11 ай бұрын

Guys in the military use electrical tape to secure loose straps on their equipment for this exact reason. You tape down your straps, put another kind of tape that doesn't shine over it, and now you can run through thick bushes and stuff without worrying about all your gear coming undone by the foliage grabbing at you. If anything, using electrical tape for the application depicted in the video is actually ideal if you're a desperate junkie with nothing better on hand.

@Andygb78

11 ай бұрын

Duct tape?

@unseenentity7085

11 ай бұрын

@@Andygb78 duct tape is designed to tear cleanly along the grain. It's good for holding stuff where you want it, but isn't particularly durable.

@alricfremanosrs1509

10 ай бұрын

Gorilla tape and Gaff tape would like a word. Especially gaff tape.

@whitekony1006

8 ай бұрын

​@@alricfremanosrs1509 I second that. After i discovered gaffers tape everything else was thereafter inferior.

I think british people will have to wear bucklers and swords or something again for self defense so we went full circle back to the middle ages

@darekbaird

11 ай бұрын

honestly I think that should be normalized. Italians might kill each other but...well they're always hot headed and eating mushrooms.

@OverTheVoids

11 ай бұрын

Nah, the UK will ban those too eventually.

@marcogenovesi8570

11 ай бұрын

afaik those are already banned (for self-defence anyway, you can transport them to an event or something)

@bookboy6924

11 ай бұрын

@@marcogenovesi8570 buckler is legal surely

@paulrichardspencer

11 ай бұрын

@@bookboy6924 nope, deemed a cosh and is illegal unless being transported to an event or the like.

very amusing video, scary how effective such a cheap and haphazardly put together weapon can be. Also "enhanced screwdriver" may be a new favourite terminology for me.

That’s why some warhammers had pikes on the back side that were square, and came to a point

Yeah, coming from the UK, and having spent a couple of years at Her Majesty's pleasure, I can wholeheartedly confirm, the absolute ingenuity of certain lawless groups knows no bounds! I witnessed a table leg, snapped off, wielded like a baseball bat, by assailant number one. Number 2 utilised the splintered remnant of the leg as a stabbing implement. Crook number 3, the first to enter the cell, treated the victim to a good old jugging. Jugging is taking a waste paper bin, adding a pound (lb) bag or two of sugar, then mixing this with boiling water. The sugar dissolves into the scolding water, making a sticky, boiling liquid. The jug is then thrown into the victim's face. The sugar in the water then sticks to the flesh. That is a scream I'll never forget. So, victim, screaming as his flesh melts, faces assailants one and two, who hit and stab at him with their improvised weapons. Wondering what the victim did to deserve this? So, he came to HMP Wellingborough, B Wing, and being quite a large lad, got into selling prison deals of heroin. This inflated his ego, and he swanned around the wing, thinking he was a king. Except, someone from his area then came to the prison and knew what he was in for. He had mugged a lady in her 70s for her handbag, just she didn't fancy losing her pension money, so wouldn't let go of her bag. He punched her in the face, breaking her orbital bone, then, when she fell down, still clutching her bag, her kicked her several times, breaking her arm and a few ribs. Yep, this did not go down well on the wing. HMP Wellingborough is an old prison, and B Wing is just one long corridor. There is a ground floor, and a first floor. Prison staff are on the ground floor, the first floor is where the cells are. Old matey, after perhaps 45 seconds of beating, then burst from his cell, needing to make it to the ground floor, the officers and, safety. Except that meant running down a 100-metre-long corridor, past the cells of many other angry inmates who ALL knew exactly what was occurring, and why. He had punches and kicks raining down from EVERY angle! Blood was everywhere. And oh how he screamed. His victim, the little old lady, probably didn't scream as loud as him, nor do I imagine she felt the pain he felt, or carry the scars from the burning, hitting and stabbing. He most assuredly “got his”! No charges were ever brought against anyone involved, no witnesses, you see. And we never heard what became of him. Got soooooo many of these stories! Moral of the tale, if you can't do the time, DON'T do the crime!

@yinggamer7762

11 ай бұрын

Seemed like a hellish attack but after hearing the crime 100% deserved

@tomhansen7582

11 ай бұрын

Guy #3 sounds like a similar technique I've heard in the US prison system nicknamed "Napalm", which uses a coffee creamer and a similar mixture to what you stated, only that coffee creamer is super flammable owing to the large amounts of fat, and someone with a light simply lights it ablaze.

@mattbaker1683

11 ай бұрын

Sounds brutal but it's what he deserves. I am also in the UK and have seen a fair bit of violence, living near Birmingham it is becoming the norm. Football hooligans, street gangs, even kids wanting to score a one-punch KO for social media. Obviously prison has a different set of rules.

@PilzE.

11 ай бұрын

@@mattbaker1683 Poor old Birmingham. Aston and Small Heath are no longer a part of England. Great places to score Pakistani heroin in bulk from, though!

@serimus

11 ай бұрын

A new chemical weapon in my collection.

Remember: anything is a weapon if you are creative and angry enough.

The laws of physics and thermodynamics is gonna be hard to ban

I'm afraid to think Canada won't be far behind the UK

"It's cheap crappy steel, but tell him that" good observation Watson

@cattysplat

11 ай бұрын

Even the crappiest piece of metal pierces flesh and bone to a point.