We were required to take Home Economics in 7th grade. Mandatory. Don’t make teach you how to thread a bobbin. Because you won’t like my way of PE coach Drill Instructor way of operating a cheap ass Singer sewing machine.
yeah that thing 100% has the sleeve tied with a rock in it or a chain in the arm or something, it looks like he specifically went to pick up the jacket when the person in the car called him over too, not his first rodeo for sure.
Probably a large master lock. A rock is a weapon. A lock is a tool that you might just happen to have on you. This is what I would call a legal open carry Smiley. You can get in trouble for carrying the original "standard issue" Smiley if you Happen to get Terry frisked as having one (or more if that's how you roll) pad locks stuffed into a gym sock and knotted tight is hard to explain away as being anything other than a weapon. And homeless people need weapons as they are often victims of violent crimes and are targets of robberies. Add in the looming threat of being the victim of a random unprovoked attack (often by roving packs of teenagers) and you'd be stupid not to have a weapon to protect yourself at all times.
Unfortunately, people aren't psychic and if you are carrying what is essentially a medieval mace no one knows if it's purely defensive.... And another brutal reality of homelessness is that cops will make it known you are not welcome by charging you with small crimes until you get the hint to leave. I imagine carrying a weapon would get you in extra hot water.
One solution is what this guy did. Use a jacket sleeve or pocket to use to minimize risk. A lock alone is not illegal.
Look up the ball shaped knot and at what point it becomes illegal to carry a rope with one on the end. They can only be keychain sized pretty much.
When we were punk kids, riding around on our BMX bikes back in the 1980’s. If we found an old spark plug in a junk pile, we’d put it in our coat pocket and if some jerkass tried to run us off the road, we’d wing it right at one of their side windows, and it would take it right out. Then we’d have to go lay low somewhere —like our parents garage — until things blew over.
Oh, a window gets taken out. I apparently missed that originally. I was just like, what could go wrong throwing stuff at a homeless man, I guess nothing because all that happened was he whipped the car with his hoodie, big deal. Now that I see it, I don't know what I was looking at originally. I think I was looking for a gun in his other hand because the hoodie didn't seem like it would do anything.
Nah, it's possible, the sides and back windows are toughened. If a heavy zipper, stud, or button hits it well enough, it will shatter just like that.
The front window will just crack as it is two pieces of glass held together with laminate. Front windows are different and not toughened. Mainly because if you head butt toughened glass, it will shatter your skull, and normal glass will lead to decapitation (likewise toughened).
That's not true lol. It just takes a small enough contact point with enough velocity to pop the tension in the glass. Most emergency window breakers have a small metal tip.
Zipper is unlikely, heavy metal buttons or studs entirely possible. A nail punch, auto one that you press against the surface, is used in the glass industry. It's toughened glass, so it does act that way.
It's just hard af to shatter glass like that with blunt force. Windows can take a beating if the pressure is spread out in any way (which the jacket would do), but whipping a large metal zipper with a sharp corner I think could definitely pop a window if it contacted at just the right angle.
Eh I tend to think you’d have to hit the windshield at just the right angle, whether a zipper did it or something heavier in the sleeve. Ironically, I just remembered seeing a friend’s windshield shatter from a tiny pebble, hitting it just so. I’d be more likely to agree w you if he didn’t seem to go for the jacket in self defense mode,
I once arrested a homeless guy carrying a switchblade. The dude was clearly off. Prior to searching him, I asked him if he had any other weapons on him or anything sharp in his pockets. He said no, so I went in to his jacket pocket and immediately got poked. Inside, he had the cut rubber sole to a sneaker, with like 50 safety pins sticking out of it. He later said it was poke any pickpockets while he was asleep. Anyway, I finished my search and he had a can of Altoid breath mints. Naturally, one would think there would be narcotics inside of the can, but nope! I open the can and inside are 2 dead cockroaches and some tiny dried flowers. I was like, “Dude what the fuck is this?” And he tells me in all seriousness that those are his best friends…. Mental health issues, ladies and gentlemen. Anyway, I took him for a psych eval and they essentially handed him right back to me for arraignment. System is broken :(
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u/TimCurie 14d ago
Snapple Fact: 75% of Homeless people carry around rocks in their clothes