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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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 Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject: Stabbing just not good enough anymore. |
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Senior police officers have been warned to look out for a new knife which can inject a ball of compressed gas into its victim that instantly freezes internal organs.
The 'wasp knife', which can deliver a ball of compressed gas capable of killing its victim at the press of a button, may be heading for Britain, the Metropolitan Police fear.
A needle in the tip of the blade shoots out the frozen ball of gas which instantly balloons to the size of a basketball, freezing organs.
The Metropolitan Police have told colleagues in the West Midlands to be on the lookout for the blade, which is designed to kill sharks and bears.
Police are concerned that the �200 weapon could fall into the wrong hands.
The American-made weapon is sold to hunters and divers and injects the frozen gas when the small handle-mounted trigger is pressed.
The manufacturer describes it as perfect for downed pilots, soldiers and security guards and boasts that it will "drop many of the world's largest land predators".
It can snap-freeze all tissue and organs in the area surrounding the blast.
A source close to West Midlands Police said: "The Met is obviously concerned about this and that is why they have circulated the information.
"This knife will almost certainly kill and the Met must have intelligence that they are in circulation.
"I think it is only a matter of time before one of these is used because the internet makes it much easier to find and buy weapons like this."
Labour MP for Perry Barr in Birmingham, Khalid Mahmood, said: "Weapons like this are absolutely disgraceful and there is no reason at all why people should be walking around the streets with them.
"There should be high-profile operations and high-profile arrests against anybody caught with them. The way to tackle the wider issue of knife crime is with effective community policing, which the West Midlands force does very well.
"The Met could pick up on the lessons from West Midlands Police in its excellent community work in places like Handsworth, Aston and Lozells."
The Wasp injection website states: "The effects of the compressed gas not only cause overinflation during ascent when used underwater, but also freezes all tissues and organs surrounding the point of injection on land or at sea." |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035729/Britain-alert-deadly-new-knife-exploding-tip-freezes-victims-organs.html
Here's the website...
http://www.waspknife.com/
Just in case you want to buy one to stab a 'bear or shark'. C'mon, how stupid do they think we are? Are you really going to run up to a bear and stab it with a blade less than six inches long? They should just market as "The knife to use when only stabbing and slashing just won't do. And we mean people." |
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blurgalurgalurga
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I totally would've bought one of those when I was a tree-planter. I totally would've got drunk and stabbed myself in the leg with it too, probably. |
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Dome Vans
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Young FRANKenstein
Joined: 02 Oct 2006
Location: Castle Frankenstein (that's FRONKensteen)
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| Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject: Re: Stabbing just not good enough anymore. |
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| Pretty good advertising for the criminals who didn't know about it until now. Honestly, if the police are looking out for a new kind of weapon, shouldn't they keep it under wraps, so that other people don't get the idea to acquire said new weapon? |
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Bigfeet
Joined: 29 May 2008
Location: Grrrrr.....
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 2:08 am Post subject: |
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| Keep it away from London. They already have a problem with stabbings. |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:21 am Post subject: |
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There are probably more sinister/terrifying weapons in existence BUT WHY make this wasp knife available to anyone who has 379.95? (this company's greed = lack of concern for the consequences (deaths by murder)).
Actually, now that it's invented and publicized there's no stopping it. If a criminal can't buy one he could easily MAKE one and for less than 379.95.
It doesn't even need to be a blade. Just a tube, sharpened like a hypo, and hooked up to the CO2 canister, an activator switch. Less than five bucks to make. Stab the guy anywhere he's got internal organs.
I guarantee they'll be more dead people than 'sharks' and 'bears' because of this company's GREED. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 5:42 am Post subject: |
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This weapon is meant for people in danger of killing bears, sharks, etc. There is a market for that. If people misuse it, it's not the company's fault, nor do they promote killing people.
Should Drano be off the market because you can inject someone with it and kill them? What about bleach and ammonia? Should they be sold separately? Slippery slope, it is. |
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Czarjorge
Joined: 01 May 2007
Location: I now have the same moustache, and it is glorious.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 11:53 am Post subject: |
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Did you look at the website, Bibbitybop? There is a tab specifically for 'tactical' uses for the knife. By 'tactical' they mean 'for killing people.'
The shark business makes sense, everything else is madness. |
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