First 'anti-stab' knife to go on sale in Britain

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The first "anti-stab" knife is to go on sale in Britain, designed to work as normal in the kitchen but to be ineffective as a weapon.

The knife has a rounded edge instead of a point and will snag on clothing and skin to make it more difficult to stab someone.

It was invented by industrial designer John Cornock, who was inspired by a documentary in which doctors advocated banning traditional knives.

Mr Cornock, 42, from Swindon, said that the knife will cut vegetables, but will make it almost impossible to stab someone to death and will reduce the risk of accidental injuries.

He said: "It can never be a totally safe knife, but the idea is you can't inflict a fatal wound. Nobody could just grab one out of the kitchen drawer and kill someone."

The knife is expected to sell for around 40-50 and has been tested with "very favourable" results by the Home Office's Design and Technology Alliance - set up to research products that can deter crime.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6501720.ece

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Give it to a guy in jail for some laughs.

Me: Here, have this knife.
Guy: **attempts to stab me**
Me: lolz.

EDIT: I thought of a better joke.

Murderers won't get STAB now.
 
I think this would be a good idea although i would wonder what weapons youths would use instead as their weapon of choice.

Lets hope its not guns!

The reality is though that although this may be somewhat helpful the real thing that needs to occur in England is education; education for parents and children alike. Only then will we integrate these outsiders and complete the fix.
 
Kids can't really get hold of guns in Britan, most murders are with knifes. It's a good initiative but it's not going to stop anyone going down the market and picking up a flick knife for £5
 
It looks great, especially for people who drop knives a lot like I seem to.

Also I guess if you had kids..

Have a nice day.
 
This isn't going to do *anything* to solve knife crime in Britain. At all. It'll prevent a few household accidents, maybe, and that is good; but that's the limit of it. If you're taking a knife onto the street it is with the intention of stabbing someone (in self-defense or no). The police aren't deterrents; the police for the most part couldn't find their arse with both hands and a map, hence part of the need so many people (myself included) have at some point felt the need to carry a weapon when they're in a public space.

This isn't even a commentary on gang culture, though that's a massive part of the problem - rather the minimal protection afforded to us by our legal system means that sometimes the average person feels the need to try and protect themselves. And novelties like this will do nothing to change that.
 
Knives are simply tools. They can be used for cutting food or fabric.. or they can be used as a weapon. Limiting the functionality of a knife is just silly.

KnightoftheWind said:
That can be really useful. Normally there is a murder weapon in every house.
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This is what bothers you? Having a "murder weapon" in your house is for your benefit. It's not like someone's going to break into your house and go after you with your own knives. No, they're going to have their own weapon. Then when said intruder enters the kitchen while you're dicing up carrots you have a chance to defend yourself.
 
dragonites said:
This is what bothers you? Having a "murder weapon" in your house is for your benefit. It's not like someone's going to break into your house and go after you with your own knives. No, they're going to have their own weapon. Then when said intruder enters the kitchen while you're dicing up carrots you have a chance to defend yourself.
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Ridiculous scenario. Burglars generally don't enter the room the occupant of the house is in, whilst said occupant is holding a knife. Having a 'murder weapon' is for noone's benefit; knives however are not primarily used for killing people, hence they're allowed to stay.
 
Arcticblast said:
You could still kill someone with it, just not by stabbing. You can slit a throat.
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I think this is a pretty important point that this nifty little invention fails to address. Those blades still look sharp enough to gash the fuck out of an artery.
 
There is nothing wrong with this knife that cannot be fixed with an inexpensive bench grinder and a leather strop.

Anyhow, the idea of banning weapons that can be used to stab is ridiculous. There are already literally millions in existence which will never be recovered and even if is was possible they are easy enough to fashion by hand.
 
that knife still looks ridiculously easy to to stab someone, they need to make the blade thicker
 
Most of the posters arent quite grasping the concept, knife crime is a serious issue in the UK. Every week someone is stabbed to death in either a teenage rivalry (possibly due to gangs) or simply as Ben Kinsella's father said "for no reason at all". I think that this would help and if there was a concerted effort made by the government used in tandem with this then the problem could be solved.

This is not an end all solution but i think it would help. It's far too easy to get a knife from you kitchen and go out with it. If we reduce the ease of access to these harmful weapons people will be less likely to get hold of them and it will hopefully change the attitude of the people who carry them who think it is "normal" everyday behaviour.
 
Bound to cause a bit of household friction, I'd have thought! "Mum why did you buy an anti-stab knife?" "Because you're the stabbin' type, son"
 
Slitting was mentioned, as per accidents... As someone who works in a kitchen, most Knife accidents come from slicing your hand by accident, not stabbing it.
 
man, america was all over this shit ten years ago. also, so were scuba divers.


anyways, i dont really see how this will do anything to curb stabbings in the UK unless they stop circulation of pointy knives. whats stopping potential stabbers from going to the local grocery store and purchasing a pointy knife still?
and as someone else pointed out, if one wants to, they can sharpen the blade with a grinder, a file, or even just snap the blade to produce a pointy part of knife.
 
Can't you just take the blade to the neck or something instead of stabbing? You can still cut a vein or whatever.
 
With this sort of blade you cant enter the body the likely wound will be on the surface and therefore the major organs dont get punctured, yes you can slit someones throat but you're unlikely to be able to do that in a fight.
 
Most of you seem to think all crimes are planned far in advance. Reality doesn't support this hypothesis. Crimes of opportunity / passion make up a significant chunk. You don't have to stop all crime to have an effective countermeasure.
 
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