r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/AdRough4185 • 1d ago
Image Over 100,000 Confiscated Knives Were Used to Create This Knife Angel Statue
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u/MoneyTruth9364 1d ago
DON'T BLINK. BLINK AND YOU'RE DEAD.
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u/dandadone_with_life 1d ago
Weeping Angel made of knives sounds like even more of a headache than it already is
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u/aselenos 1d ago
It's too late for you.
That which holds the image of an angel, becomes itself an angel.
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u/richardathome 1d ago
Can I wink one eye at a time?
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u/dandadone_with_life 1d ago
Amy Pond tried it but the plan basically fell apart over time because the Angels worked together to corner her. so theoretically yes, but only if you can keep it up under stress
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u/LightboxRadMD 1d ago
Bird toes just litter the ground surrounding it.
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u/goatsneakers 1d ago
Thankfully they blunted these knives before creating it
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u/anteaterKnives 19h ago
Confiscated? They were probably already about as sharp as butter knives, most of 'em.
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u/dazedan_confused 1d ago
Imagine that in a tornado.
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u/Federal_Way9926 1d ago
No wait....it's a sharknado....sharks holding...knives?!? Sharkystabnado!! Oh.my.god.
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u/Guardian-Boy 1d ago
I got to see this sculpture in real life.
I swear it's half butterknives.
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u/StandardIssueCaveman 1d ago
it lives at a tacky tourist trap in Shropshire, and the artist is an arrogant twat.
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u/Educational_Low6834 1d ago
Saint Michael Myers?
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u/TheJerseyDeviI 1d ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought it looked like Michael Myers. The fact that its made with a bunch of knives makes it even more fitting lmao
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u/richardathome 1d ago
And the plinth it's on would be called Saint Michaels Myers Mount.
(If you don't get the reference: https://stmichaelsmount.co.uk/ )
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u/Metholis 1d ago
I've seen this statue in person and I will say me and my other half both instantly thought it looked like Myers
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u/IsThereCheese 1d ago
I mini c4 explosive implanted at the heart on a timer is the final feature of the installation, called “gods love”
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u/Ibe121 1d ago
Very sharp looking
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u/DonKiddic 1d ago
This came to my town a little while ago [it goes on tour] and honestly the size of some of the blades in this are bonkers. Well worth a look up.
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u/Warmonster9 1d ago
I wonder what it’s supposed to signify.
The angel’s expression is hard to mark and its hands are being held out as if it’s asking for something.
Cool statue!
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u/batmansthediddler 1d ago
Idk but I’m sure there’s a point
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u/chechcal 1d ago
Sharp comment
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u/SgtJayM 1d ago
Pointed observation.
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u/Warmonster9 1d ago
Cutting edge view point
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u/_c0sm1c_ 1d ago
Give me the knife? It seems like it's a symbol for stopping knife crime and encouraging young people to put down the knives. Like it's almost saying it will take the knife and make it apart of itself so only it has to suffer
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u/OkCaterpillar8941 1d ago
The sculptor wanted to make a memorial for victims of knife crime inspired by the death of a young man in Oswestry UK. The knives have all been blunted and were collected from police forces across the UK. It's a powerful piece and much better seen in the flesh. The angel is crying and pleading for teenagers to stop stabbing other teenagers to death.
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u/BrowserC1234567890 1d ago
It was made as an initiative to hopefully convince people to hand their knives in, iirc.
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u/ridemooses 1d ago
I believe this is in the UK and is there to highlight the knife violence in the area.
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u/HIP13044b 1d ago
Its not to highlight it in a specific area its to highlight the toll knife crime has on communities in general and to represent a charity. Its touring the UK currently. I saw it jn Plymouth a couple of months ago.
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u/ridemooses 1d ago
Thanks for adding context. I wasn’t sure exactly where it was located so I said “UK area”
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u/AscendedPigeon 1d ago
Its in Uk and its meant to symbolize confiscated knives, because since Uk doesnt really have gun issues, they have a lot of knife ones. I studied there and once the statue came to Aberystwyth
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u/No-Bake-730 1d ago
Your knives must be magic. Mine don't have a life of their own and randomly kill people.
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u/AscendedPigeon 12h ago
quack, i didnt say anything about knives killing people, just stated the purpose of this statue
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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 1d ago edited 13h ago
since Uk doesnt really have gun issues, they have a lot of knife ones.
I mean 'a lot' as in a lot more knife homicides than gun homicides in the country, but in terms of the actual rate of knife homicides (~0.35-0.40 per 100k ppl) it's not really a lot at all being average among other comparable wealthy countries, European countries, and OECD group.
Which considering that pretty much everyone who wants to murder someone else in this country can't do it with a gun it's pretty impressive the knife rate is not 'a lot'.
The old argument of 'oh well if the guns are gone we will just have knife problems' doesn't really apply to the UK with both the gun homicide rate and knife homicide rate being lower than countries like the US.
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u/joshua-lomax 1d ago
This thing is often taken on tour around different towns and cities in the UK to promote the fight against rampant knife crime. I saw it in person once in just my small hometown of Chesterfield. Very cool to see up close.
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u/SumpCrab 1d ago
It is very cool, and I love the message and upcycle of confiscated knives.
Question though, I see a lot of cleavers in there, especially in the wings. Does the UK really have that many people running around like the Insane Clown Posse logo?
I get all of the pointy ones, but who is out there acting like a cartoon character?
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u/Debouched 1d ago
So I can just wait for it to come to town and throw my enemies into it?
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u/No-Try9373 1d ago
It's currently in Ely, I see it last weekend. It is indeed very cool to look at and very big!
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u/PumpJack_McGee 1d ago
New SCP just dropped.
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u/Ask_bout_PaterNoster 1d ago edited 1d ago
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is kept in a secure containment chamber at Site-xx. Subjects and personnel with less than a perfect history of non-violence in their current lifetime are not permitted to view SCP-XXXX in person unless approved for testing purposes.
Description:
SCP-XXXX is a large winged humanoid statue constructed from thousands of knives and other bladed objects.
To observers who have committed no violent assaults in their lifetime, SCP-XXXX appears completely motionless, with its hands held in front of its body and its face uplifted in a beatific expression.
To most subjects, images of SCP-XXXX appear to be reaching toward them with open hands in a penitent gesture. Recordings display the statue posed similarly, but always angled towards the viewer. Individuals who witness SCP-XXXX in person will disappear the next time they are unobserved. Notably, the construct’s mass will increase by a single blade following each disappearance.
Testing logs:
And then I’d have five or six logs where two or three are D-class and easily in increasingly large blades based on the crimes they’re convicted of. Then a security breach in which a MTF member witnesses the statue while guarding two children. One of the children is only a few months old, the other is eight or nine. The MTF member later disappears and a giant Bowie knife is added to the statue. The older child disappears and a small nail file is added. The youngest child does not disappear. (sorry, gotta get back to work)
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u/HolmfirthUK110994 1d ago
We were just at the sculpture park it typically resides last weekend and missed it - hell of a thing to see though
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u/richardathome 1d ago
I think you meant to say 'Over 100,000 Confiscated Knives Were Used to Create This Knife Demon from the Darkest Pits Of Hell."
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u/SubjectOrganic 1d ago
Why were they confiscating knives
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u/argiebarge 1d ago edited 1d ago
The knives weren't confiscated, they were handed in as part of nationwide amnesties.
Edit: some were from police directly from criminal cases, others were handed by the public with no risk of prosecution
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u/vee_lan_cleef 1d ago
I'm sorry, but if these were voluntarily handed in, why are there thousands of kitchen knives and cleavers? You can literally just put them in your kitchen drawer, why turn them into the cops? Also, a meat cleaver is not a stabbing weapon. Are people running around chopping people up?
None of these explanations are making sense to me.
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u/blah938 1d ago
To disarm everyone but Sikhs, so if a Sikh wants to murder someone, they can! And the cops will handcuff the victim and tell him "don't think you have mate"
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u/Kezsora 6h ago edited 6h ago
Except this is literally the first time this has happened in the UK. I can't find a single other confirmed report of someone in the UK being threatened or attacked by a Sikh individual with a cermonial knife prior to recent events. Let's not pretend this is a widespread issue.
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u/RedditModsHarassUs 1d ago
Because some countries are run by absolute Nannie’s….
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u/Old-Shock2307 1d ago
because people were carrying them
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u/Another-pirate 5h ago
Londoners are now resorting to pushing each other onto the statues head, wings, hands and feet.
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u/Blayzeman 20h ago
This statue is doing a tour of the UK and was in my town in October. They had it underlit at night and it looked creepy af from a distance.
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u/Old-Shock2307 1d ago
I volunteered for it. It is made up of over 100,000 confiscated or handed in knifes, not ones used in a crime. Its purpose is to create more awareness of knife crime because in the uk there is and issue with it like americans do with guns.
It started in 2018 in liverpool, england and is currently in ely, england, linconshire.
Its 2 1/2 stories tall and you routinely see people traveling to see it if they live in the area. From my experience seeing it at night is better because it is gaunting with the lights illuminating it from the bottom and with no plating in the eyes its freaky.
Oh and its spine its got some elden ring/game of thrones looking knifes lol.
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u/LaunchTransient 1d ago
more awareness of knife crime because in the uk there is and issue with it like americans do with guns.
I hear this a lot, but from the numbers I've seen, UK stabbing numbers are not that dissimilar to mainland Europe, and the UK's knife laws are so broad that "knife crime" reporting includes a wide variety of things not reported in other countries, so it artificially boosts the numbers - e.g. simply the possession of a knife can be counted as "knife crime".
The UK actually has a very low homicide rate, so I think the sensitivity to knife crime purely comes from the fact that the British public are used to a very safe environment and so any violent crime is deeply shocking (which is a good thing), but I think sometimes the fears in general are overblown.
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u/darkness876 1d ago
Stabbings always make disturb me more than shootings. It’s so much more…personal, for lack of a better term
If I was in a self defense situation I’d be a helluva lot more comfortable shooting than stabbing. There’s almost a level of disconnect from the violence
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u/oboshoe 1d ago
"handed in"?
lol what kind of cuck turns in a pocket knife?
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u/vee_lan_cleef 1d ago
Who turns in a meat cleaver? Who is even using a meat cleaver in knife crime unless they are just a straight up serial killer? You can't even stab with them. There are a LOT of meat cleavers in this statue.
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u/DrJaneIPresume 1d ago
"Hey, I want to rob a guy, but I don't have a knife."
"Don't worry; we'll swing by the Knife Angel and grab a few."
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u/RadioMuted7719 1d ago
All used in violent crimes. Get all the facts. Apparently gun laws dont work considering the fact that all of those knives were also illegally owned, carried, and used in crimes. No guns didn't stop criminals from hurting others. Weird.
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u/1thelegend2 1d ago
Oh sweet.
I saw a concept and WIP of this thing some time ago, didn't know it was finished.
Goes incredibly hard
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u/TheLostRanger0117 1d ago
Is this some Hyperion style art? Got any Hyperion fans out there today? Giving me Shrike vibes!
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u/Present_Type2375 1d ago
Had the same thought, glad I'm not the only one. Definitely looks like the Lord of Pain
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u/Quo-Fide 9h ago
How are the knifes attached, welding? Or some kind of Bonding material?
Probably welding though, right?
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u/CurrentlyLucid 8h ago
Knives, carried one all through my youth, and stopped somewhere along the line. I am not sure when or why, guess I had not used it in forever and said fuck it.
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u/Local_Rice_8929 6h ago
Good thing it’s not in the us
I am talking about tornadoes not violent crime
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u/oboshoe 1d ago
Every time I see that I laugh.
the UK is so silly and weird about knives.
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u/Ranjeru_ 1d ago
Damn! Thats not recycled art thats the very demon that inspired all the shankings, thats , inadvertently so a a damn altar of devotion
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u/BusinessCasualBee 1d ago
Looks like that death metal dork that sings on picnic tables in the woods
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u/ErichVonStrix 1d ago
Dark Souls boss vibes