On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 21:23:09 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


"John Rumm" wrote in message
...
doozer wrote:

Apparently because they are toughened steel they can in theory shatter
when banged together - at least that's what my old CDT teach told me.

Did it once when I was a kid with two hammers that belonged to my mum. The
head fell off the smaller one!

(might just have been a result of it being bought for peanuts at the local
market though!)

When I was a child we couldn't afford peanuts. Nor more than one hammer :-(

Mary



And the icidence of violent crime against the person was much lower.