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 ☹️

I wanted to get rid of some cooking knives that were no use and I called 101 to ask of a safe way to discard them... it seemed wrong to just put them in the bin. I was advised to wrap them in a carrier bag, with tape around then discard. This is apparently so that the waste sorters do not cut themselves but they can be discarded of.

Anything wrapped in a bag and put into the recycling bin will be landfilled. The sorters do not open bags.

It struck me a few weeks ago that every time the police do a press release with the results of a knife amnesty, there's a very good chance that the majority are regular kitchen knives, no longer wanted, and no one really knows what to do with them.

Have RTFT but I would call the police first rather than taking it to the station.

Gobblers

GobblersKnob

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

Not that I think for a minute this should be trivialised, but think of the opportunities for Mumsnetters to log things with 101. Errant recyclers be warned.

For once, it would be good if the DM were on the look out for threads.

I’ve brought it in, it’s actually making me feel a bit sick. The cutout bits look intentional to me. Anyway. Thanks all for listening and also for confirming not to put it in recycling until I’ve spoken to actual police person and determined whether my town is a ‘we shall come and get it’ or a ‘not my problem’ type of place!

Not the point of the thread but I really want a bakewell now 😫

Wild

These were good copper

And my god, I'm SO glad the children didn't get hold of it.

I hope you’re locked into a good deal with First Utlity they recently put their prices up so I moved to another supplier.

@nicknacky I wasn't actually, but having seen the state of the blade I don't think it's worth trying to recover.

Police are decidedly not on the ball. Odd.

one Offering to buy a discarded knife from a stranger on the internet is one of the most stupid things I have read for a long, long time.

Those marks look like someone has been chopping at something with it. Well obvs, it's a knife, but I mean like masonry or a metal pole/railing. Probably kids dicking about, realised they'd trashed it and bucked it over a fence to her rid before mum asks where her good knife went.

Always the possibility it's been used for something dodgy (and it certainly looks like the type of knife I'd choose if I wanted to intimidate someone) but I suppose the police's attitude might be that it's another knife off the street whether they investigate or not. I would hope they'd be more proactive if there had been a decent knife crime incident, but who knows.

Sometimes the police confuse me.

When I was 16 and working in a coop we had some shop lifters one night. The police were called and arrested them before they’d left the shop. One of them discarded some kinder egg cases with white powder inside. The police just asked me to bring it into the station the next day.

Ok, nicknacky .perhaps I'm stupid? It's also inadvisable for you to read the news, in that case.

one What on earth do you mean?

one u ok hun?

@Salmakia I was actually thinking as they may not feel comfortable using regular services or may not know where they are if they are moving about a lot, they may have just chucked it anywhere. No extra thoughts other than that.

thats a very old butcher knife, the shape is anyways, and that looks to be damage not design as it would be hard to make precise cuts like that

WildFlower

The Bakewell tarts for scale