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Re: Mendowood sticks

--- In bata@yahoogroups.com, Matt <jmhpe2000@...> wrote:
>
> www.mendowood.com
> Greetings!
> As I had earlier said and someone else concurred, VERY
> heavy, at least in the 3/4". (I spoke to Roger at Menowood and he
said the shillelagh he shipped to me(3/4 inch steel pipe weighs a
little over two pounds but less than 2 1/2 pounds. I am a fairly
strong guy so that shouldn't present any problem at all.) The felony
aspect, well,
> I can tell you that most canes are limited to around
> 200lb in terms of the weight of the user. I am not.
> Even without the moderate case of lardass I'm
> undergoing at the moment, I run in excess of that.
> Therefore, I believe I could justify a stronger stick,
> and a steel reinforced stick is nothing more than a
> reinforced stick.
>
> The cold steel city stick is nice, and is pretty much
> indestructible.
>
> I don't know if it would be a felony,it wouldn't be as it's not
> concealed and it doesn't have a different nature. For
> instance, if you carry a sword cane,(as an attorney I can tell you
that the sword cane is considered a concealed weapon and illegal in
some states) though it's not
> concealed the nature of a sword is different than a
> cane. However, this is just a blunt whacking
> instrument, which is regardless of the material.( Correct.A
mendowood stick is perfectly legal to carry) I
> guess if you live in states such as CA with their
> legal silliness, it might be. The Brady Gun Control
> people would see it all a result of the lapsing of the
> "assault weapons" ban, of course, but so is global
> warming and hemmroids in thier opinion so I wouldn't
> cater much to that.

Finally, I'll give a report report after i receive mine next week)
> Mike Gast
> If I'm going to commit a felony, I'd probably go with
> the Fayet umbrella. Very nice, but off topic to the
> list. Really nice umbrella, though, and nobody would
> ever know it's a puncturing instrument unless they ran
> it through an Xray machine.
>
> Matt
>
> --- Robert Jones <masterharpooner@...> wrote:
>
> > Guess I missed the site on these Iron sticks; are
> > there any photos?
> > Slanta
> > Capt. Bob
> >
> >
> > ---------------------------------
> > Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect.
> > Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us.
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> >
>
>
> --
> "To feel shame for no cause is a waste. To feel shame for cause is
also a waste; for you must rather spend time correcting that of
which you are ashamed." -Master Po
>





Wed Oct 3, 2007 4:48 pm

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Greetings! I just found a site that has authentic replica shillelaghs that are the most formidable sticks I have ever seen. They are composed of a STEEL PIPE...
Mike Gast
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Oct 2, 2007
11:02 am

Stay away from the 3/4" pipe models unless you're a real beast. They get right heavy walking around, and I'm not a small guy. That said, the guy does ...
Matt
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Oct 2, 2007
11:30 am

... They certainly look good, but isn't a steel pipe going to raise some eyebrows, especially among security people? -- Doras Cuil Travel Consultants--Your...
Michael P. Thompson
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Oct 2, 2007
6:17 pm

One of the guys here bought one several years ago....definitely packs a wallop but don't hit anything with the head or handle end. it is just not designed for...
Ken Pfrenger
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Oct 2, 2007
7:25 pm

... True, the head is fastened on. Securely, but fastened on nonetheless. The joint would be a weak point if you struck somebody with the head. ... That's what...
Michael P. Thompson
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Oct 2, 2007
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Guess I missed the site on these Iron sticks; are there any photos? Slanta Capt. Bob ... Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user...
Robert Jones
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Oct 3, 2007
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www.mendowood.com As I had earlier said and someone else concurred, VERY heavy, at least in the 3/4". The felony aspect, well, I can tell you that most canes...
Matt
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Oct 3, 2007
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... said the shillelagh he shipped to me(3/4 inch steel pipe weighs a little over two pounds but less than 2 1/2 pounds. I am a fairly strong guy so that...
Mike Gast
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Oct 3, 2007
4:48 pm

I was perhaps unclear, I was trying to say that the sword cane was a concealed weapon as its nature was not apparant. A mendowood has no concealed nature, it's...
Matt
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Oct 3, 2007
4:57 pm

Actually I am a practicing lawyer who knows that at least in Maryland as long as it doesn't conceal anything such as a sword, a walking stick is a walking...
Michael Gast
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Oct 3, 2007
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Technically the same rules apply here in Ontario with the proviso that if it is used as a weapon or intended to be used as a weapon then it is a weapon. As you...
Philip Bradley
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Oct 4, 2007
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Doggone back problems are a real pain. It happens, sometimes, for no reason. I do have an MRI from five years ago showing a bulging disk in my low back,...
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Yeah! That's it.... articulation, otherwise known as CYA. :-) Plib ... also a waste; for you must rather spend time correcting that of which you are ashamed."...
Philip Bradley
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Oct 5, 2007
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... Legal or illegal is not always the question. Security guards and screeners tend to interpret laws and rules in very individual and idiosyncratic ways. What...
Michael P. Thompson
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Oct 6, 2007
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in the spirit of clarification...I did not mean to imply that CARRYING one of these quite nice looking canes was a felony, only that gob smacking some poor...
Dirk
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Oct 4, 2007
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My point exactly. It matters not what the LAW says, these days.., it's what the GUARD says... more's the pity.... Dirk "Speak softly and carry a big stick;...
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