Thread: Is it legal to carry a Leatherman?

It was a bit of a funny one really, we all thought he was joking when we found out. Maybe 5 years ago and I wasn't there in person so I might be a bit fuzzy on the details, but I've known him since we were kids and I know the guy who was with him, I have no reason to doubt them.

Young fulla, 18/19 at the time, never hurt anyone or been in trouble in his life sort of guy. He was wearing a ninja costume for some kind of fancy dress thing, I think an old lady had seen him getting into his car and called the cops (maybe thought he was stealing it? I dunno). 15 minutes or so later a cop finds him and his mate sitting in the car, parked up eating some burger king before going home.

Cop turns on the attitude, gets him out of the car for a roadside interrogation, refuses to believe anything they tell him, then decides that either way he's going to find something to charge him with and searches the entire car until he finds something he can call a weapon.

From memory he took diversion to make it go away, the lawyer talked him out of fighting it in court.

Basically its a prime example of the sort of ass-hat cop that tries to singlehandedly screw people's respect for all the good ones.