Cultural differences...

[telophase]

A few days ago the Death Note artist, Takeshi Obata, was arrested for having a knife* in his glove compartment. The fact that it's news that the publisher will not withdraw his books is rather telling about how profitable his books are the differences between Japanese and American culture, I think.




* With a 3.5" blade, as another news report I can't find now said. He says it was for camping. At any rate, most of the people I know are considerably better armed than that on a daily basis, being in possession of Leathermans and other sorts of pocketknives, so it's rather amusing.




Mello would be significantly better armed than that, but then again Mello wouldn't get caught.

Comments

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

Wow, 3.5 inches? Here in Missouri, we consider that more of a keychain/beer can opener than a weapon. Every guy I know keeps one in his pocket, even the ones in suits. *boggles*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Exactly! My dad always had a really nice, big folding knife on him. I'm not sure how long the blade was, but I think it was longer than 3.5". But I was smaller then, so it maybe seems bigger in my memory. :D

When I did SCA, I had a couple of small daggers in the 5-6" range, for eating and tools, and whatever else you needed a blade for. And they were pretty small, compared to the range of armament most people I knew carried.