Study: Sharp Things Are Sharp
Good drills from the University of Leicester this week who have triumphed with a study published in this weeks Science Daily:
Mr Nolan said: “It is common knowledge that broken glass bottles can be used as an effective stabbing weapon and the results of the study have reaffirmed this.”
Good effort.
It seems the point of this was to measure the amount of force it takes to stab someone effectively with a broken bottle. Apparently it might be relevant in stabbing prosecutions although the justification given for this appears to be bollocks tenuous. Another suggestion is to use the data in the search for a pint glass design which won’t be of any use in a Glasgow boozer after 8pm. To be fair that’s preferable to forcing us to drink from the abomination that is a plastic pint ‘glass’. Which is wrong on every level.
But the whole thing boils down to a group of researchers proving that stabby things can stab you.
Well .. so long as it permits Professors to send their kids to private school, to have 3 foreign holidays a year & maintain a villa in Tuscany .. I can’t see the problem ..
Neither can I see any of them rushing to come up with a solution for as long as this sort of scam is allowed to continue ..
As anyone with both feet on the ground & a modicum of CDF will tell you .. its not the “object” which is at fault .. but the fuckwit wielding it .. and until Politicians and via them the Courts start taking that fact seriously, there will be no change ..
You can kill a person using virtually anything – and it’s the person doing the killing as you say and not the object.
But don’t say it too loudly. They will try to ban piano wire and hempen rope (and probably lampposts too) if they hear you. We may need that stuff at some point!
Now that they have that out of the way, I’m sure that crack team of scientific wizzards will soon solve world hunger.
A bunch of geniuses there. Without a doubt 🙂
And some of us might even be required to have our hands removed too .. 😉
http://www.donttreadonus.info/2011/08/top-25-bull-elk-edition.html
The link was appreciated Trestin, nice one!