You call that a knife ... ?

[Hum]

RAPID CITY, S.D., June 30 (UPI) -- Police in South Dakota said a motel front desk clerk turned away a robber who demanded money while armed with a butter knife. :laugh:

Rapid City police said the Howard Johnson Express Inn clerk refused to give the man any money when he approached her at about 6 p.m. Sunday and the suspect left the facility, the Rapid City Journal reported Tuesday.

Police said they received a description of the attempted robber and a man matching the description was seen by an officer at about 7 p.m. standing in front of an apartment building. The man, Robert McKinney, 34, was arrested and police confiscated the butter knife believed used to threaten the clerk.

McKinney was taken to the Pennington County Jail. If convicted on a first-degree robbery charge, a class 2 felony, he could face a maximum 25 years in prison and a $50,000 fine.

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[Comic Book Guy]

You can stab someone with a butter knife, the clerk was dumb and should have just given him the money, of course the would-be robber was also dumb for not realising that you could stab someone with a butter knife.

[Descartes]

Is a butter knife technically still a knife?

[Snowl]

If I can cut meat with it (which, I can) then yes, Its a knife.

[Comic Book Guy]

Is a butter knife technically still a knife?

You can also stab with a fork and spoon as well.

[Minifig]

Real men bring titanium sporks in to battle:

[kazuyette]

Real men bring titanium sporks in to battle:

NOES ?!!!

Real men goes to battle with .... :

.: Teh Mighty Plastic Spoon :.

[Dc'1]

He also, is not the best criminal...

[necroxd]

Real men bring titanium sporks in to battle:

I LOLd

[PyX]

Real men goes to battle with .... :

.: Teh Mighty Plastic Spoon :.

LOL

Worst thing is, you CAN kill someone with that. But it'd be a long and painful death ^_^

Let's just admit it, we're cheap.

[Phantom Helix]

this is what I call a Knife lol, that is a 4 D-cell Maglite

[qdave]

Are you guarding windows vista with this knife? :p

[Zain Adeel]

who needs to guard windows vista :p :p :p

[kimsland]

Is a butter knife technically still a knife?

Yes its a knife

If a knife is used in a threatening way (even a legal knife, such as a Swiss Army knife), it is regarded as an 'offensive weapon' by the law. This is also the case with things like screwdrivers - once used in a threatening manner, they are treated as offensive weapons.

And a weapon

[Growled Member]

You can stab someone with a butter knife, the clerk was dumb and should have just given him the money, of course the would-be robber was also dumb for not realising that you could stab someone with a butter knife.

Yeah, they both were dumb.

[revvo]

... welll THIS is a knife

[kimsland]

No, but it is a weapon

I see you have played knify spoony before ;)

[pasty2k2]

What baffles me is that this guy seriously tried to rob someone with a knife like that... Did he really look at that knife and say "hm, yep thatll be good enough!" Lol.

[sujmano]

Is a butter knife technically still a knife?

yea can still sort of stab someone

[Sadelwo]

Are you guarding windows vista with this knife? :p

That's UAC set to "Paranoid".