While overall crime in England and Wales was down 4% last year, "[t]he number of knifepoint robberies rose by 10%." Robbery in general was up 4%, but there's no indication how much of that was caused by the epidemic of hugger-muggery sweeping the Island. [Via]
This is why we can't have knife things. (You were all thinking it!)
I've had about enough of your anti-British sentiment. Yes, perhaps I *have* been robbed at knifepoint - in fact, I definitely have. But at least I haven't been robbed at *gunpoint*.
And yes, I've been raped at knifepoint. But at least I haven't been raped at gunpoint.
As the Bard of Avon said:
"This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day
With knives."
Contact me if you want a British correspondent who'll tell you the unvarnished truth about how things are going down on Knifestrip One.