And yet they'd likely have no concerns about a table fork, 'unbreakable' 
umbrella or unopened can of pop - each of which can be used as an 
improvised weapon. An ordinary table fork is easily fashioned into a 
very nasty street weapon.

Don

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure
foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.
Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow

On 2015-07-06 9:01 PM, John Leyden wrote:
> So it goes for spoon carving on the sidelines of the kids’ weekend-long soccer
tournament. The grownups have rules about “weapons.”
>
> A hook knife. Really!?
>
> Yes, indeed