Most dangerous "weapon" that ever got you in trouble for.

[JochemDude]

I made grenades out of canisters of deodorant and/or cleaning products. I also make fuel bombs take a plastic jerrycan and fill it up, light it up and enjoy the fireworks. Had a few baseball bats with nails, a home made machete and several other things including some airsoft rifles (which they luckily didn't find, where I live you can get jail for them)
Suffice to say the cops didn't see eye to eye with that stuff, luckily I knew the cop that they send over to check my arsenal out and I got of with a unofficial warning, that I either got rid of it all or they were gonna bust my balls.

 

[Jakub324]

A smoker was playing with his lighter 3 inches from the back of my head, and I did nothing because reacting makes you a pussy in the eyes of the locals. Anyway, he went a bit far and slightly singed my hair. Teacher heard one of the others laughing and they sold poor Smoker Boy out and he got shouted at. I stuck up for him, and I got shouted at too. I've never been in that kind of trouble personally. I suppose I'm a good boy.

 

[JochemDude]

Sniping myself for update.

Found it, a few bombs me and some friends made a few years ago.

 

[JRPGfantatic]

I'm from a state where carrying a pocket knife (no, not one of those tiny penknives. I mean a full 3 to 4 inch blade) or even a buck knife on your hip is not only common, but slightly expected. Even in public. How else are you gonna open the plastic around you new parts or whatever. I just recently moved north, and it was a shock. Nobody carries knives, and most people think you're going to kill them if you do! I still carry mine around, but it's not in my pocket or out in the open anymore.

As for the topic of getting caught with one...probably my grandmother catching me with my grandfather's old 6-shooter. I was too young to know, but it was still kinda crazy.

 

[TheHappySquid]

Got in trouble with my mum >_> when I was younger for my friend's homemade shurikens, (he had his own workshop in his garage when he was 12, and did metalwork, which was ace). They flew really straight and embedded in trees and shit, damn good fun for a twelve year old (I won't lie, if I had one now I'd totally be at the park throwing it around).

But yeah, when my mum found out we'd been throwing them around a residential area she was pissed. Just glad she didn't find out about the blowpipe. Or the shortbows. Or the swords. Or especially the NaOH bottle bombs (look it up ).

 

[Mogget128723]

After a vicious knife fight outside my highschool in 9th grade, a friend of mine got me a folding knife with a two inch blade for safety reasons. Pretty much everyone in that building was armed, except the adults, and my school at the time was deep in the ghetto, so most of the kids were druggies or criminals already. I'd already spoken to my parents about the environment (not the knife), and I was going to switch schools at the end of the year. I was hoping I'd never have to pull the thing out, but I was cornered in the locker room one day by a guy significantly bigger than me (I'm six foot, one-fifty pounds and very strong; this guy was massive). I pulled the knife out, folded, just to make sure he knew I was armed, and he punched me across the face. So I dropped the knife, put the guy to the floor, and rearranged his face. This was in Fairbanks Alaska, so after getting off the bus near my house eight miles out of town, I pitched the blade into the deep winter forest. It was a close thing; if the knife had been produced, I would've been expelled, even though I was defending myself, but it was nowhere to be found. So instead of an expulsion, I got two days of detention for 'threatening', given that the big guy was too embarrassed to admit he got beat down by the nerd ^-^

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Ive never gotten in "Trouble" with like an authority, but i was asked to leave a shop a couple weeks ago.

I open carry a handgun, specifically an Ed Brown Kobra Carry 1911, and i had worn it into a shop. Which, i might add, is completely legal here, and i was doing nothing illegally. However, by law, if a private shop owner requests, you must leave the premises.

Thankfully, the shop owner just asked if i could leave my sidearm in the car, which i did.

In other places, ive had people threaten to call the cops and so on. Generally, they're told that i am within my rights. I have had an officer question me and ask to see my ID (not required to have a permit here). They were very polite and thanked my for my cooperation. Although some people would refuse, as carrying a handgun in a holster, and not doing anything with it, is NOT a threatening situation and technically the cops have no right to question you about it. Personally, id rather just get things done quietly and politely when dealing with the law.

I'm not even an anti gun activist, but there is literally no reason why you need to be carrying a firearm out in the open with you.

You're more likely to find trouble, not prevent it.

OT: When I finally got my first pocket knife, I had no idea how to open it. So I pulled it open with my teeth and ended up cutting the inside of my mouth pretty bad.

My Dad found out, then he took it away from me on my first day of owning it.

 

[Hitokiri_Gensai]

Do you think, a criminal will be openly carrying a weapon on them? Does that make sense? Full view of the public, means police officers, and citizens, if youre going to commit a crime, would you walk around with a gun openly displayed? Probably not.

That wasn't really my point, I mean obviously a lot of people have guns ad only a few are criminals. It's just I've never had someone walk towards me with a gun at his hip and one "Man I'm glad he has that, I feel really safe now."

It's more "Shit why does he has a gun, is something bad gonna happen?"

can you say it wont? Things happen, when and where you least expect it, end of story. Yes, chances are, in a middle class neighborhood, things arent going to go nuts, but it doesnt mean things dont go wrong. I remember when i was in middle school, in a nice neighborhood, in a nice part of my home state, a retired man, around the corner from my friends house, went nuts and took his wife hostage with a shotgun. A convinence store, again, in a nice area, was robbed at gunpoint. Id prefer to know that there is someone there, who might intervene, if something goes wrong.

Thats why guns should be kept out of the public hand, your post perfectly illustrates my fears.

Because the only thing youll achieve with that, is taking guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens. Criminals ARENT allowed to own weapons, by law, so how do they get them? Illegally, and they will continue to do so. Criminals dont care about the law. To them, laws that ban gun ownership only serves to make it easier for them to commit crimes because they dont have to worry about if the owner of the house their robbing might have a shotgun in the closet, or if the lady they're about to mug might have a pistol in her purse.

EDIT: Sorry for writing in the wrong place :L

People aren't born criminals.

Gun are empowering. Sadly not in the right way.- case in point its much easier to mug someone with a gun than without one. Anyway this discussion has gone on long enough, we're not going to agree, but thats cool, I'll just stick in states where you can't wear them openly

haha fair enough, i respect your opinion, and im glad we could keep it civil.