Someone has chucked an eight inch knife over my garden wall

[BunloafAndCrumpets]

My three year old daughter and her friend were out there playing and I've only just found it now I've gone out to tidy up. It was double wrapped in plastic bags and I thought it was just rubbish. I feel terrible at the thought they could have got it ☹️

Hand it in to the Police station, ignore the idiot on 101. They’d accept it.

cjt - I would just have contacted mylical council for that - they have a specific refusal collection department/ team.

Sorry, I am absolutely creased at a potential murder weapon being photographed next to naice Waitrose freefrom bakewell tarts. This may be my peak Mumsnet moment!

Yes, OP, see the local plod and then cancel the cheque. My local officers were round within an hour of me reporting some teens with knives knocking about.

Before you put it on the bay , I could do with a decent kitchen knife. Glass chopping boards have ruined my old sabatier one.

Incidentally, do people still have local police stations?

That was supposed to be a cross face, doh.

A similar thing happened to me a few years ago. After visiting a client in London I found a wicked looking knife in the. gutter by my car. I wrappped it in a plastic bag and took it to the local police station. Officer on duty was most reluctant to take it or to note details and wanted me to dispose of it myself. I refused and walked away leaving it on the counter.
Seemed very strange to me

One small ha it's yours. Tho it's not a veg knife.. it has weird cut out bits half way down the blade for.. disembowelling?!

Do you have a local police person or pcso type. I’d hand it to them. Love the bakewells though.

Knife looks well dodgy.

The police are surprisingly disinterested in this sort of stuff. Last year we had multiple packets of empty morphine and tramadol packets, with the pharmacy dispensing label torn off, thrown over the fence into our garden one night. It was clearly dodgy and we let 101 know, just to be told to make sure we put it all in the correct recycling bin.

I found one on the street once. It was covered in paint (white) so looked like it had maybe been used as a paint stirrer, but still, was a huge knife. I picked it up with another bag so as not to get finger prints on it and called 101 who sent police around to collect it later that day. I'd call the actual police (non emergency line)

Tell me how much and I'll take it. If you're happy to post it, that is?

You can’t EBay knives.

Is 101 actually a recycling line and we haven't been informed of the change?

Are there loads of police sitting around thinking 'its all a bit easy on the crime front recently.....' and then 'hang on a minute we did give out the new phone number didn't we?'

Victorinox knife is not a cooking knife
I have a set of Victorinox cooking knives.

one I do hope you are joking?

Bunloaf, I'm in a city the SW too & they closed our police station, it's ridiculous. There's only a 'front desk' manned by a police officer in the Social Services office. When the building closes, the desk closes. Haven't seen a physical police presence in the city centre for months, only see them flying past on the roads with sirens on. Unsurprisingly, crime has gone up. I wonder if we're in the same place?!
It seems so dodgy that they won't even come and take it for examination and give you some peace of mind with their presence. Hardly an everyday event when someone throws a huge bagged knife into your garden, near your children! It's clearly not right.
Things are getting worse all the time.

my sister found a knife buried in her garden, she called the police as it was a murderer who lived in the house years and years before she was born but they still came and took it, told her not to touch it and leave it in the bag she found it in. they still should come and take it

Mmph, that's a butcher's knife Bunloaf. So no, not for vegetables.

The weird cut out bits aren't part of the original design. It's been mistreated in some way. But it was never one of the really expensive ones, if that helps. Probably a £35 knife before it was wrecked.

So if the police still don't want it probably really does belong down the recycling centre.

I also think you are doing the right thing. It doesn’t sit right to just recycle the knife.

The exact same happened to my son last week. Him and his friend found a huge kitchen knife in the park by a wall in a Bush.
Rang local police they didn't answer. Rang 101 she said she'd put me through to local station.... She wasn't bothered and after waiting 5 minutes for an answer I just hung up, wrapped knife in bag and chucked it in a bin. It could have been part of a crime, maybe not.
Police are pretty stretched and if they aren't fussed then I'm not chasing a dead end

AhhhHereItGoes
"Do you have any traveller families about? Maybe they got rid of it?" nice racism there.

she You didn’t give the police much of a chance!

If you ring back 101 and mention the cherry bakewells, the officers might be more interested in coming to pick the knife up.

TBF not a lot they can do with empty medical packets with the labels torn off. Too many other priorities.