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Gardener 'given no choice' over trowel arrest caution

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lemmy.dbzer0.comGardener 'given no choice' over trowel arrest caution - Divisions by zero>He said the officers were shouting at him to “drop the knife”. >“I said I didn’t have a knife and they told me to drop the knife again,” he said. >"So I dropped my Japanese hand gardening sickle and a handful of privet that I just cut off the hedge. >“They turned me around, pushed me up against my house, handcuffed me, then put me in the back of a van.” >Mr Rowe was carrying a Japanese-made trowel in its sheath, a small Japanese gardener’s sickle and a peeling knife, along with a trug of vegetables. >He said the peeling knife was his late grandmother’s, the sickle had been purchased a decade ago and the trowel, which has a short blade and wooden handle, was a present. >He added that he had not been aware of any warnings about carrying the tools in public. >However, since his arrest, a warning has appeared on the trowel manufacturer’s website. >It said customers needed “to familiarise themselves with offensive weapons law before carrying the tool in public”.
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