Leave the brass knuckles at home, not at courthouse
Who carries around a switchblade-brass knuckles combo?
More to the point, who would carry a switchblade-brass knuckles combo with them into Washington County Courthouse? We wondered that after a story appeared in the Tuesday edition about the unclaimed property being held by the sheriff’s office from people who left their items in trays at the courthouse metal detectors. There are plenty of scissors, a few phones and some knives. Chief Deputy Sheriff James D’Alessandro told us there have even been some wedding rings left behind that their owners have been slow to retrieve.
But it’s the fact that someone actually tried to carry a switchblade-brass knuckles combo into the courthouse that stood out for us. That, and also a spiked bar known as a kubaton. Did the owners think they actually would be allowed to keep them? Or are they such an everyday part of their lives they forgot that they had them?
To borrow a line from Johnny Cash, don’t take your guns to town. Or your switchblade-brass knuckles combo.