roger wrote:

The message
from Andy Dingley contains these words:


man with Army penknife in briefcase arrested for possessing and
offensive weapon.


Actually that should read, "Confrontational arsehole arrested for
posession of offensive weapon (a telescopic baton) also had a Swiss
Army knife with him"


AIUI that Swiss Army Knife wasn't actually a knife at all but a tool set
of some sort with a lockable blade and it was the lockable blade that
upset the plod although the baton is probably the more serious offence
in that it doesn't have any legitimate use.

There are one or two types of Swiss Army Knife that have a lockable
blade but they are few and far between and the typical folding blade
ones shouldn't interest the law unless actually used in a threatening
manner.

I reiterate "what collapsible baton"?

None of the reports I saw mentioned that...URL?