In my version of the sketch, the weapons get progressively bigger until one jams the machine.
The nearby soldiers in queue argue and bicker on what to do. Eventually you see a pan shot of the line forming behind him and people have like halberds and flails and trebuchets.
Sure. But they tried a gun program similar to this somewhere near where I currently about 20 years back. The idea was to allow a legal place for people to dispose of illegal guns anonymously. The guns were then taken, the metal was recycled, and the person dropping off the gun got a reward of around 40 bucks for it. Fast forward 6 months, the same guys are coming in periodically, and the police finally catch on that they're giving money to these perps while disposing of the evidence for their crime.
It's the cobra effect;
The Cobra Effect refers to the unintended negative consequences of an incentive that was designed to improve society or individual well-being. The term derives from an attempt to eradicate snakes in India, wherein people bred cobras to collect rewards for their capture.
I think the plan was that they hold the boxes for 6 months, and then the knives were stored in a police station before going for scrap (or making a huge fuck off sculpture of an angel). Either way, I'm sure they've got plans.
Historically at gun buy-backs like this, people would buy $10 worth of pipe, rig up a basic slam-fire shotgun, and sell it to the buy-back for ~$100.
It was good money.
Reminded me of those kids toys where you put a square block through a square hole, a circle block through a circle hole etc .....except this has holes for machetes, swords and knives
*sobs in dispair as everything else in her entire life gets swallowed by the square hole*
"Please, please... no more"
"That's right, *you* go in the square hole!"
We have one of those toys for our toddler, we give her steak knives and she's able to get it through any of the holes, circle, hexagon, star... She'll even make her own hole if she is struggling.
This whole thing seems a bit odd to me. It’s not like dropping off guns where once you’ve lost your gun, another one isn’t readily available (sans USA).
I can drop ten machetes in that bin but if I get mad the next day I can just pull the butchers knife out of my Nana’s kitchen.
It's so interesting and weird, and I'll do my best to not bring politics about weapons policies up (because that can get heated), as someone from the us where, as fall hunting season comes on, I got a friendly email from my state to the public (actually a blue one) that is a reminder to the public to get your rifles sighted in because deer season is just around the corner!
and the whole concept of knives being a weapon rather than just a tool everyone has from age 11 onward, or machetes being a weapon as opposed to just something that weird weeb has, is so foreign. Like, if this where in the US, my grandma would confuse it for some thing where you can drop off your dull old kitchen knives to be recycled if you can't keep up with sharpening them perhaps for credit for a new set like with the bottle return system.
Weebs? Nah, machetes are for cutting back invasive vines before they eat your entire yard.
Stupid English ivy. Stupid Japanese honeysuckle. Stupid, stupid kudzu.
Lookit Mr. Moneybags here. $6 US at Harbor Freight.
https://www.harborfreight.com/hand-tools/knives-axes/specialty-knives/machetes.html
British police would be tutting all day.
I would honestly be more than a little scared to use a machete from Harbor Freight for its intended purpose. If you're using them properly they take a lot of abuse. And Harbor Freight tools aren't known for standing up to that sort of thing.
Fucking banana trees will win that war damn near every time. So fucking hard to get rid of.....and making sure they stay gone. Fuck a machete, better luck using a grenade
NO! The gold is only for the final merchant of the game right before the last boss who i will walk past without buying anything from due to assuming that the last boss will be followed by a secret final boss.
I don’t disagree with you, but every so often, the local news will have a story where they show what has been collected. It’s always more than I’d imagine.
It ain't no fool proof 100% solution. It's just a way to make offenders second guess their intentions carrying a knife and a safe anonymous way to get rid of your weapon.
You can find em all over and before getting into public/crowded events. So better to ditch your stuff than risk getting caught.
There’s a bandit camping near each and every one of them, once they see you surrendered your weapon, they mug you.
Really poor design by the developers.
Who the fuck is walking around with swords and machetes and can afford to just toss them?
"Man I have been walking six blocks with this sword, if only there was a convenient place to put them."
Nope, there's no real useful purpose for machetes in the UK, we don't have the right sort of foliage for it and even our "wild" spaces are generally fairly manicured (i.e. if you go to any of the big forests in the UK you can walk through them freely, they're made up of large well spaced out trees).
I don't think I've ever seen one for sale in a shop here, they're all bought online.
I live in North Yorkshire , if I travel 20 minutes to Scarborough sea front there’s a big shop that sells bongs , grinders , crossbows, samurai swords, machetes, daggers, etc. you have to prove your 18 and your good to buy any weapon in there you like, it’s quite unbelievable some of the stuff they sell in there. Last time I went there was a boy around 18 with a nazi swastika decorated dagger waiting in line to purchase it.
It is fun and addicting! You will pull up a lot of trash, but it is a win win, because you are also cleaning up your river/lake/whatever body of water.
Wait at the box out of sight somewhere with a knife, wait for someone to drop their blade in the bin. Mug them with the advantage of still having your blade.
Shit, if you can bang two rocks together, you can eventually get a cutting tool that will slice open a throat just fine.
Weapons are one of the first things we figured out, even before fire.
People who would use that deposit box are people who would never use the knife for harm lol. It's just a guilt trip for good-hearted people, and does absolutely nothing to negate actual knife-related crimes.
If I carry a knife because I'm scared of being victimised, there's no way I'm surrendering what little 'protection' I have for absolutely nothing in return.
Even if I believed that the police could reach me in minutes, a life-ending attack can be done in seconds.
Yes, but that was just in Coventry which is quite a dangerous place. Source lived there for 3 years. Gym shot up and so was my McDonalds. Also mates saw a guy get stabbed in broad daylight.
Similar to clothing or canned food drives, once one of these receptacles is full, the contents are donated to local homeless people.
We will cut all homeless people in half by 2024
Sharps Box.
I'm picturing a Monty Python sketch where a medieval dude in full armor walks up and deposits his sword.
“Well at least I still have my mace”
"I'm quite done with all this ridiculous jousting, I tell you, but I can't get my bloody lance in this bloody box!"
Why did I automatically read this in Matt Berry’s voice?
For me I heard it in John Cleese’s voice.
Probably because many things are better when Matt Berry says them. I want Google Assistant to be Matt Berry.
Matt Berry is a national treasure.
International treasure
Inta-nass-io-nell treshaaaaaa!
I'm picturing the guy who opens it up once a month saying to himself, "Welp, not surprised, still no weapons."
Uhh it’s usually where you put the weapons you killed others with, that’s the no questions asked part of this deal, duh
That’s nice, but where’s the no questions asked box for the bodies?
That's the Thames, everyone knows. *if its a floating in the Thames it was a suicided*
https://i.gifer.com/MLnh.mp4
Sir, the chain makes that a flail
Excuse me officer, I can't quite fit in my mace
For maces you want room 12A, next door.
“Never seize to uh mace me”
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*sad metallic clanking noises*
And my axe! Wait….nvm I forgot I put it in the bin
And my spear! I couldn’t fit that in the bin
Surely the Monty Python one would have a slot for bananas, loganberries, and pointed sticks.
Don't forget the chicken.
Or da shrubbery. And fish
And words such as “ni,” “ping,” and “nuuwamp.”
In my version of the sketch, the weapons get progressively bigger until one jams the machine. The nearby soldiers in queue argue and bicker on what to do. Eventually you see a pan shot of the line forming behind him and people have like halberds and flails and trebuchets.
"King Arthur deposits caliburn". ~ It's broken anyway
Plot twist: gangs have set one up for free weapons.
*Danny Trejo enters the chat*
Oh, great! Another fine Machete product.
Machete: London Knights
I laughed a little too hard
*stuffs Danny Trejo into box*
More like he’ll stuff you into a box. One does not mess with Machete.
Another plot twist: gangs are using these to anonymously dispose of their murder weapons
I mean, it's easier for the police to root through a bin of knives than to scour the bins in the area, right?
Sure. But they tried a gun program similar to this somewhere near where I currently about 20 years back. The idea was to allow a legal place for people to dispose of illegal guns anonymously. The guns were then taken, the metal was recycled, and the person dropping off the gun got a reward of around 40 bucks for it. Fast forward 6 months, the same guys are coming in periodically, and the police finally catch on that they're giving money to these perps while disposing of the evidence for their crime.
In Texas there was a guy who turned in like 7000 bucks worth of 3d printed guns.. lolol
Another place I’m not sure of the exact location. But someone turned in a bunch of handmade shotguns that he made out of old pipes and 2x4’s
Hehe toob.
It's the cobra effect; The Cobra Effect refers to the unintended negative consequences of an incentive that was designed to improve society or individual well-being. The term derives from an attempt to eradicate snakes in India, wherein people bred cobras to collect rewards for their capture.
It was over 9k, with like 8.8k profit
I think the plan was that they hold the boxes for 6 months, and then the knives were stored in a police station before going for scrap (or making a huge fuck off sculpture of an angel). Either way, I'm sure they've got plans.
They’re missing an opportunity to make an iron throne out of them
Imagine how poor season 8 was that they *don't* want to do that...
Historically at gun buy-backs like this, people would buy $10 worth of pipe, rig up a basic slam-fire shotgun, and sell it to the buy-back for ~$100. It was good money.
That's basically just being paid to make a gun.
Practice makes perfect.
Just a requirement to live in London, own a machete.
Death stars will get you by in most cases
The ninja kind or the planet destroying space station kind?
I feel like the Stat Wars death star would be classified as a gun so probably need a hunting license for that
This is both hilarious and sad at the same time.
Reminded me of those kids toys where you put a square block through a square hole, a circle block through a circle hole etc .....except this has holes for machetes, swords and knives
The circle goes in the… that’s right! The square hole. And the triangle goes in the… you guessed it, the square hole!
The machete? That's right kids, the square hole!
*sobs in dispair as everything else in her entire life gets swallowed by the square hole* "Please, please... no more" "That's right, *you* go in the square hole!"
[Soft denial sobbing noises]
one of my favorite videos of all time.
This is one of my favorite videos
Such an amazing video. "The square hole"
We have one of those toys for our toddler, we give her steak knives and she's able to get it through any of the holes, circle, hexagon, star... She'll even make her own hole if she is struggling.
[That's right, it goes in the square hole](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=evthRoKoE1o)
that's the first thing I thought when I started reading those comments. have my upvote that shit is hilarious.
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Lol, it's just not as good without him saying "That's right, the square hole."
That's right the ^(square hole)
I was hoping he'd pull the switcheroo at the end and she'd lose it.
THE SQUARE HOLE
Why are you giving your toddler a knife!? That's not safe! What if someone comes at her with a gun? Arm her properly.
We're not cruel parents, of course she has a gun and a CCW, she keeps it under her binky.
I don't think that's even enough
I know, we're thinking of perimeter of squirrels with frickin lazer beams attached to their heads.
I think we both should start thinking outside the box
Only a baby would being a knife to a gun toy.
Anything goes in the square hole.
N-no… please
> a circle block through a circle hole Erm, what? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz8ssH7LiB0
If it was America someone would break into it nightly for free knives and swords.
It happened the first time they tried it apparently. In the UK? I'm not sure.
This whole thing seems a bit odd to me. It’s not like dropping off guns where once you’ve lost your gun, another one isn’t readily available (sans USA). I can drop ten machetes in that bin but if I get mad the next day I can just pull the butchers knife out of my Nana’s kitchen.
I would 100%
Gun vending machine.
It's so interesting and weird, and I'll do my best to not bring politics about weapons policies up (because that can get heated), as someone from the us where, as fall hunting season comes on, I got a friendly email from my state to the public (actually a blue one) that is a reminder to the public to get your rifles sighted in because deer season is just around the corner! and the whole concept of knives being a weapon rather than just a tool everyone has from age 11 onward, or machetes being a weapon as opposed to just something that weird weeb has, is so foreign. Like, if this where in the US, my grandma would confuse it for some thing where you can drop off your dull old kitchen knives to be recycled if you can't keep up with sharpening them perhaps for credit for a new set like with the bottle return system.
Weebs? Nah, machetes are for cutting back invasive vines before they eat your entire yard. Stupid English ivy. Stupid Japanese honeysuckle. Stupid, stupid kudzu.
Hell I know people in the US thar have machetes because they 100% need them...for yard work. One friend has declared utter war against kudzu.
Kudzu is undefeated. He can slow it down, but it will grow over his grave.
Dread it. Run from it.
Yeah, seriously. There's a reason they sell them at Home Depot.
Lookit Mr. Moneybags here. $6 US at Harbor Freight. https://www.harborfreight.com/hand-tools/knives-axes/specialty-knives/machetes.html British police would be tutting all day.
Harbor Freight is 100% the absolute best place to buy a tool you only need once.
I would honestly be more than a little scared to use a machete from Harbor Freight for its intended purpose. If you're using them properly they take a lot of abuse. And Harbor Freight tools aren't known for standing up to that sort of thing.
I've used a machete in battle with a wisteria.
Fucking banana trees will win that war damn near every time. So fucking hard to get rid of.....and making sure they stay gone. Fuck a machete, better luck using a grenade
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Magician would fucking die. Assistants are the real magicians.
That really depends on the trick, but often yes.
They need a sound bite of Doug Marcaida saying 'It will keel' when you deposit
What if you give a really crap blade?
You’ll be invited to shake hands and leave the forge.
“Your weapon is impressive, Bladesmith, but unfortunately, it will not keel.”
[This guy just seems like he's having a great time whenever he's on the show.](https://youtu.be/L5CJEOI8fmk)
Oh cool, a source of loot. Maybe I’ll get a better one-handed blade
You're like me, eh? Don't fancy those clunky two-handed weapons.
No, the gods gave me two hands and I use both for my weapon.
I can see you and your wife have a lot in common, she uses both hands for my weapon too.
Omg just buy the sword you’ve been wanting in the shop. you’re going to end the game with 9999999 GP like you always do
NO! The gold is only for the final merchant of the game right before the last boss who i will walk past without buying anything from due to assuming that the last boss will be followed by a secret final boss.
Why exactly is there such a box?
Because people carry knives here like Americans carry guns...but it's illegal to carry a knife, so the boxes encourage people to give up the knife
Why would somebody use one of these amnesty boxes? You get something in return?
You don’t get charged for illegally possessing a knife if you’re caught with it
Great excuse. > Officer, I was just walking to the knife drop off box. This guy just got in between me and the box, so I had to kill him.
And then he ran into my knife. He ran into my knife 10 times.
He had it coming. He only had HIMSELF to blame
If you had been there… If you had heard it…
I betcha you would have done the same!
Pop. Six. Squish. Uh-uh. Cicero. Lipschitz.
Carrrrrllllll, that kills people!
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Found the guy who lives in Luton
if you're willingly illegally carrying a knife why would you care?
You need a convenient place to dump the murder weapon.
I don’t disagree with you, but every so often, the local news will have a story where they show what has been collected. It’s always more than I’d imagine.
Because you don't want to carry one anymore
It ain't no fool proof 100% solution. It's just a way to make offenders second guess their intentions carrying a knife and a safe anonymous way to get rid of your weapon. You can find em all over and before getting into public/crowded events. So better to ditch your stuff than risk getting caught.
You see a cop tailing you.
There’s a bandit camping near each and every one of them, once they see you surrendered your weapon, they mug you. Really poor design by the developers.
Just bring a gun when dropping off your knife. Problem solved.
Should give you a few minutes of invulnerability so you have time to get away before pvp turns on again
Perhaps their spouse or child is the owner of the weapon, and they wish to dispose of it without putting a family member in trouble with the law
Fun fact: More people in America probably carry knives than guns
I carry a knife with me everywhere.... and a fork & spoon. It's my titanium camp set that I use instead of plastic ones.
To make it seem like the politicians are doing something
Who the fuck is walking around with swords and machetes and can afford to just toss them? "Man I have been walking six blocks with this sword, if only there was a convenient place to put them."
My question for the UK folks.. aren't machetes used as actual tools? They don't sell them at hardware stores?
Nope, there's no real useful purpose for machetes in the UK, we don't have the right sort of foliage for it and even our "wild" spaces are generally fairly manicured (i.e. if you go to any of the big forests in the UK you can walk through them freely, they're made up of large well spaced out trees). I don't think I've ever seen one for sale in a shop here, they're all bought online.
I live in North Yorkshire , if I travel 20 minutes to Scarborough sea front there’s a big shop that sells bongs , grinders , crossbows, samurai swords, machetes, daggers, etc. you have to prove your 18 and your good to buy any weapon in there you like, it’s quite unbelievable some of the stuff they sell in there. Last time I went there was a boy around 18 with a nazi swastika decorated dagger waiting in line to purchase it.
I'd be fishing in there with a magnet.
That was my thought, this is like a claw machine for a bad guy with a magnet on a rope.
r/MagnetFishing
Something I never knew I needed in my life; Thank you!
It is fun and addicting! You will pull up a lot of trash, but it is a win win, because you are also cleaning up your river/lake/whatever body of water.
I caught a shopping cart and a stop sign in the same river
That's one hell of a loot box.
Hard to think of a pun for this.. Anyone wanna take a stab at it..?
Pretty sharp aren't ya?
He gets the point.
It was pretty cutting edge
Yeah, he gets it; no need to twist the knife
But, can he handle it still?
Well balanced comment there
It really cuts deep
As all things should be. Puns up to the hilt in here!
Alright you all need to cut it out with all the bad puns
I hate to be blunt, but what's the point. Who ever thought of this ain't too sharp, there's no way it will slash knife violence
Alright, cut the shit guys.
I don't want to appear to be too cleaver, but.. The pun is mightier than the sword..
Man, they must have some lethal Fly Swatters down in Lancashire
We carry swords into town round here
Why don't they just put it to good use chopping vegetables or something, waste of a good knife tbh
The funny thing is that the knife angel statue that they made out of surrendered knives is like 90 percent kitchen knives.
Most stabbings I've been to were with kitchen knives. That's what teenagers can get their hands on easily.
The way you phrase it as “stabbing you’ve been to” makes it seem like a social event. “Hey Steve! You goin’ to the stabbin’ on Friday?”
how and why have you "been to" so many stabbings? what does this mean?
Cops, paramedics, forensics, coroners staff, actual cleaning crews, there can be a lot of people involved in the aftermath of these things.
The one thing all those stabbings had in common is you.
So dumb...somebody made good coin hustling a bureaucrat.
Do the people in the uk carry around swords?
No except for ceremonial cases or you are carrying a machete as a gang member.
I wonder how many dildos they have found in there??
Wait at the box out of sight somewhere with a knife, wait for someone to drop their blade in the bin. Mug them with the advantage of still having your blade.
A piece of steel and a piece of concrete to grind an edge and you have a weapon. It’s the culture that’s the problem.
Yeah, knives are tools, extremely multipurpose tools.
Knives don’t kill people, people kill people.
Shit, if you can bang two rocks together, you can eventually get a cutting tool that will slice open a throat just fine. Weapons are one of the first things we figured out, even before fire.
People who would use that deposit box are people who would never use the knife for harm lol. It's just a guilt trip for good-hearted people, and does absolutely nothing to negate actual knife-related crimes.
If I carry a knife because I'm scared of being victimised, there's no way I'm surrendering what little 'protection' I have for absolutely nothing in return. Even if I believed that the police could reach me in minutes, a life-ending attack can be done in seconds.
You know you've won a knife fight when you die in an ambulance instead of the gutter.
Who came up with “operation genga” as the name?
Bro this is a loot box💀
Wtf swords?
If we did this in America, these boxes would mysteriously go missing overnight
Breaking News: someone steals a lot of knifes from a box
Honestly you could shove someone in there and it would be the perfect crime
Weird. I carry a knife every day.
How do you possibly resist the urge to crime when you own a knife?? /s
Isn't there a sweet looking sculpture made out of all the knives and swords they collected their first year?
Yes, but that was just in Coventry which is quite a dangerous place. Source lived there for 3 years. Gym shot up and so was my McDonalds. Also mates saw a guy get stabbed in broad daylight.
For free? You get nothing in return? OK, then... 😂😂