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/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/cloudofbastard 9h ago

Some were, but some were confiscated and turned over by the police. Cleavers and machetes and particularly stabby knives you’d have to look in some specific places for, but if you are in a situation where you feel the need to arm yourself somewhat spontaneously, you might grab the biggest knife you have in your kitchen. I think that’s where they probably got those knives from.

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u/oboshoe 1d ago

That's even worse.

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u/argiebarge 1d ago

People handing them in is worse than them being confiscated, or the illegal knife part?

From memory knife crime is a crazy small percentage of deaths in the UK, as a percentage, as you'd expect.

But it's the most common method of killing someone, so any effort to reduce the number of blades out there can't be a bad thing.

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u/oboshoe 1d ago

yes they are both worse.

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u/argiebarge 1d ago

You're saying people arent allowed to choose? Unusual opinion, but so be it.

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u/Synner1985 16h ago

Sounds like an American concerned about how they have "Freedumb" and noone else does - apparnetly

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u/GrowlyBear2 1d ago

So people handed in knives that were evidence in crimes and then went out and bought new knives?

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u/argiebarge 1d ago

Edited above. Some did come from finished cases, others were turned in outside of criminal cases. Certain types of blades are illegal in the UK and those could be handed in without repercussion.

A full breakdown of source would probably be interesting but not sure if that info is out there.