To take my old kitchen knives to the cops?

[TheQueef]

Cleared out the draw of failed utensils and have now 14 knives all sharp, various sizes.
I checked Google and as far as I can find you wrap the blade in cardboard etc and throw it in general waste, ours goes to landfill.
I don't like the idea of that at all firstly they could accidentally hurt someone, second they could be discovered by kids, thirdly resurface in ten years with my DNA all over them looking like a knife fetishist.
So.
I want to take them to the police station, put them in the amnesty bucket or summat.

My Ddad and DS think I'm being melodramatic and over thinking it. Plus there isn't a knife amnesty so won't be a bucket

AIBU and getting carried away?

Yeah that's what the police are there for, getting rid of your old shit.

Ours comes driving round every Sunday ringing a bell from his ban thing and shoiting "scrap metal"

Do you live in the 1950's @Wifeofbikerviking?

You can just order a zombie knife or some other hunting blade on eBay etc.

You really can't. You can only buy cutlery knives now or a small number of vintage ones.

@Dontdribbleonthecarpet if you go on eBay.com you can order machetes, CS gas and crossbows (not like I’ve tried 🙄😂)

@Titsywoo just cornwall lol...its kinda old school here

Ha! I've never been if you can believe it - although we are going in April for the first time (for me and the kids, DH spent lots of his childhood in Fistral Bay).

There’s a knife amnesty box outside our police station, it doesn’t seem that unreasonable to me.

@DontDribbleOnTheCarpet: www.ebay.com/itm/Mega-Machete-Buschmesser-Bowie-Hunting-Messer-Machette-Macete-Cauteau-Coltello/282702623743?_trkparms=ispr%3D1&hash=item41d263b3ff:g:x-MAAOSwIQxZ6ufH&enc=AQAEAAACQBPxNw%2BVj6nta7CKEs3N0qXIYRUrBxr2jPokkjQCYVbdm%2F3NBD7zaisJ%2FNC4s4NIejU4kVVriKFoijKAJV08WjgvxcZqHH27gxhIdrZRoZdSBpB869a6%2Fr3f8qub7plOJncaKL8iJopk8t0w7DmqaCwt%2Fy2pc3N4tOCIpraZzqSLkaTvBeHaM3w1GE7fs%2BF2K7HkhPjon9nXfjmTHyfQhxdNNK%2FNQ97t0Utoch4hcA%2BoSpsjKjrvysqTXzSH2Bn%2B88LMk9F3V4A7NPpneHauqVH2jDh2qAgqv7OtOlaRgF1O2txQ2VAmpBsbWe5yCJDyBoGv%2BgNvEl%2FThZ3o7%2FWwNmPR5oo6lI%2FePwoWcq%2B9J5UUmN6b3Q7YFXE4DIyvKkiIwj4BZB4m%2BBa78xkHslu%2FOj3YEyDTaq2AzXJprNPlcQetjA9rN5pELMLJAQV1qtBOVYIvcH5aeMUFD%2BZArpZdo8f78RDjLCl2gvWKlzKvNFHGqR8scr4srWxcKs6bsz875MCZm511Ax2nO8Jb5idoB1uRk%2BsPW7%2FyMlXOPHfdkFM8zreDXa%2FUjnR5jPXZyObtcSzHZMmhzcKCn7HNRx175gy%2BpPDjP%2BtN5YMlQrcAiAM72WmRS8L5YRO%2FFTgjM6ySdAURAzLiE3s8wcwc0aQaNfHkb%2Bx%2Fkfh7AdBOCtwKmFYngklSHupkckGKfmnADURriZnE73c4tGhymu1cccGGOnhWDz3DB8JbsHv0ui0iuuEZ%2B%2FASpGNcVVYS3M7Tv1WI8A%3D%3D&checksum=28270262374393d992c082ba457a8559b8ef9882be96

I agree completely. This is precisely the reason why I have a box (sealed with tape and on a high shelf) inside my garage that is full of knives.

wrapped in general waste bin
easiest and most convenient

You can just order a zombie knife or some other hunting blade on eBay etc

Or you can just buy or steal them from shops, like a recent terrorist attack. Supermarkets in some parts of my city have stopped selling individual knives because criminals were stealing them. Or they could use the ones from their own kitchens. Or all manner of knives are available online.

www.heinnie.com/knives-and-tools/machetes

We also have 'the scrappie' who takes away unwanted metal. I wouldn't leave knives outside for obvious reasons but the mention of the scrapman has reminded me that DP needs to put out a couple of old radiators that are cluttering the garage up (they're too heavy for me to carry before anyone tells me I should do it myself). The broken dishwasher we put outside was gone in under 3 hours and we'd only really put it outside to make room for the new one and hadn't really thought about the fate of the old one beyond 'I suppose we'll have to take that to the tip' so they saved us a job.

@Titsywoo that's actually where I spend a lot of my time. Fistral is my fav place in the world 😍 I hope you have a lovely time

Just take them to the tip.

The knives go in the metal section.

The body wrapped up in carpet just goes in general waste.

If you gave them away on. Facebook freebie site then it would be obvious if the person is under 16

Unless you are planning to check photo ID then no, it won't be obvious.

Take them to the tip and stop buying so many knives!!! Seems crazy you have 14 for the bin!!!

Except that's not really valid as those 10,000 people include members of the population who aren't at risk of knife crime necessarily.

Because... ?

The rate is far higher amongst the more deprived areas. In my London borough, the rate is given as 13.4 per 10,000. However, that 10,000 includes the more affluent areas where they will not come across knife crime as part of their daily lives. I wouldn't. Someone living in the West/North of the borough or with certain lifestyles would so the rate would be far higher. I have teen/young adult boys who walk through the town centre at night and it is always a worry that they might get caught up in something - when people the age of your children are stabbed at the main train station it tends to make you (well,me) worry more..

People who really want a knife will, of course, get one. However, personally, I wouldn't want to contribute to that however small the possibility. There is a knife bin at my local supermarket - I would use it. I assume they are recycled in some way rather than being a "wast d resource" although I can't see any information on that.

I also can’t understand the vitriol on here towards the OP. She wants to dispose of a potential deadly weapon in a responsible way. Our police station has a knife bin and have said over and over they want any knives as they rather they went in their bin then ended up in the wrong hands! Our local top won’t take them and the council prohibit them being put in wheelie bins.

I don't live in the UK, but I have just been working in a re-cycled goods shop and there are dozens of knives there, which people buy. Can't you donate them to a similar sort of place?

I'd put them in the metal recycling at the tip. Nothing will be wasted and they won't get into the wrong hands.

I don't think charity shops take any knives full stop. They wouldn't take my regular blunt table knives when I got rid of my surplus recently.

I’ve voted YABU because I think you’re being a bit nuts.
But that said, I did spend a good few hours last week worrying as one of my knife set was missing and what if it had been burgled for a crime!? I was also being nuts

My knives are stabbed into the garden with the handles sticking out. I didn't know how to dispose of them.
I want to take them to the police station, put them in the amnesty bucket or summat.

I really despair sometimes. There's another post on here about a partner who couldn't use a floor cleaner/hoover. Now people who can't safely dispose of knifes. I really do worry how some just can't get their head around something that takes such little thought and is ommon sense....

I don't think charity shops take any knives full stop.
Well some clearly do, as I posted above, I took my late father's knives to a charity shop.

DDIJ
yes I know of course they are but in these instances there are no indication that it applies. You would probably find that those who can't live independently probably won't be posting on here and relevant carers wouldn't be posting about them not being able to use a hoover . There are many people who can or could live independently but at times just lack common sense. I've heard many stories from a friend who's kids are GPs they trained at Oxford, very intelligent and academic, married, living independently but their amazed at their kids lack of common sense for every day mundane issues.