TK Maxx sell jacket with a 'knife' as built in accessory!!

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Who on earth could think www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3126602/TK-Maxx-sold-jackets-with-knifes-attached.html this was a good idea

It's not just about whether a knife can kill - and I'm sorry, the length of the blade really isn't relevant - you can do untold damage with razor blade or the tiniest length of a Stanley knife.

If you want to go and buy a knife then yes you can go and do it, but you make a conscious decision to do it. But if you want a coat then that's what you buy and a knife; attached or otherwise is an unnessary addition.

Does anyone honestly believe that have more knifes on the streets is a good thing?

you are asking the wrong question though.

IMO, uk society is sick, and knife crime is a symptom of that. Demonising a coat with a penknife in the pocket, isnt tackling the problem.

Still with Saggars on this one.

(not stalking you, honest Miss).

It may well be a culture clash, I still don't think it's a good idea in this country in the current climate of knife crime.

And as for it being an adult coat - DS1, just 14, is already in adult clothing, as are a lot of his age group.

Hysterical, moi? If you say so.

Or maybe it's because both me and DH have seen the damage caused by all sorts of blades and other implements and we just don't like the idea of a concealed knife in a coat, put there by the manufacturer.

No nighby, it isn't tackling the problem, but it doesn't help any, does it?

its neutral, imo.

I wasn't the one who said it didn't happen in Europe.

If Tesco sell kitchen knives with the idea that someone will buy them for the kitchen then fine. Ozzies sell Swiss Army Knives with the idea that people will take the camping. If someone decides to take something they bought for a different purpose then that's not the fault of the store.

What could any designer think that putting a knife hidden inside a coat is going to be used for?

nobody said that knife crime doesnt happen in europe, just that it is lower in CH/DE and you dont worry about it. DWP, culturally, britain is a long way from the rest of europe....

All the more reason to not sell the coat with the concealed knife in this country.

lol tinkerbellesmum, I understand the coat was swiss, so probably the designer thought it would be a useful accessory when walking in the mountains....we live on the edge of the alps and tbh, we always take a knife with us, along with a thing for getting ticks off you, waterbottle and other useful accessories. like I said, its a culture clash - shows that european culture varies a lot in different parts.

no, rebel, its all the more reason to reform GB so that knife crime is lower.

Yes, but sadly that isn't going to happen any time soon, is it?

Yes, you're right, in the Alps a Swiss Army Knife is more often used for camping. In the UK it's more likely to be carried by a youth or a young adult as a weapon or for protection. And that is why that coat, in this country is a Bad Idea.

Aargh at my earlier spelling of knives.

My boys do a lot of outdoor activity-type stuff, and they each have a penknife that they are allowed to use for such stuff, but they don't carry them around on a daily basis. And they were bought knowingly, DS1 could have easily bought this coat whilst out with mates last weekend and I wouldn't have been aware that he'd got it.

You don't generally need a knife when you're out and about around town.

I can see why this makes sense in Switzerland but it's a very bad idea in the UK. Concealed weapons are dangerous. Very different from a kitchen knife.

I should put this in pendants' corner, but isn't the plural of knife, "knives", not "knifes"?

no, rebel, and part of the reason is that people get sidetracked into getting worked up about things like this coat. As so often on mumsnet, I just finish reading a thread by thinking "thank god I dont live in the uk any more"

people keep misquoting me btw - I did not say it is used for camping in the alps. I said, We carry one when we go out, which is slightly different.
in Germany, you don't assume that someone is carrying a knife because they want to stab someone. It really wouldnt bother me if one of my sons bought this coat. So what if they sometimes wore it in the town?

Yes, it is and I have already self - flagellated myself.

well, it is saturday morning, so I am off to do my duty as a good citizen and walk down to our towns recycling yard with our week's plastics etc., so I leave you to condemn this coat by yourselves.

Not you Saggar, it's in the article! Didn't read the whole thread.

My wasn't to you nighbynight BTW.

There is obviously a totally different mindset in Germany with regard to knives and I'll hold my hand up and say that I'm probably more 'hysterical' than most with regard to knife carrying in this country, for good reason.

lol georgie. Sorry.

Both DH and myself work within the CJS and see the after-effects of the knife culture in this country.

Maybe that's why we get sidetracked and worked up.

And won't be happy for DS1 (or rather others tbh) to be walking around in a coat like this in town.

Enjoy your morning nighby.

Nighbynight I agree with you, it's useful if you're Swiss and you can probably be a bit more confident a Swiss customer isn't going to be a teen in a gang, but what about TK Maxx's buyer? What mountains did they think their customers were going to climb?

georgimama my OH has terrible English and he was getting worked up about that article lol (this is the RAF child who speaks another language days after starting a holiday but butchers his own language!)

You're not being hysterical, Saggars.