Reply to: Myleene Klass warned by police after scaring off intruders with knife

[Zippy]

(Mr Shalit is her agent BTW)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8451369.stm

So her lawyers would be Sue, Grabbit and Runne?

[Cowboy Bob]

Stop reading that rag now:-

But a statement from Hertfordshire police said: "Officers spoke to reassure the home owner, talked through security and gave advice in relation to the importance of reporting suspicious activity immediately to allow officers to act appropriately."

It added: "For clarification, at no point were any official warnings or words of advice given to the home owner in relation to the use of a knife or offensive weapon in their home."

Mr Shalit could not immediately be reached for further comment.

(Mr Shalit is her agent BTW)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8451369.stm

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Gone are the days when she might be warned not to do it because it might be dangerous. ISTM that the difference is that now the rules are all-important, and the people less so.

Lunatics running asylum, time to emigrate, etc etc

[AtW]

I've just brandished an offensive weapon at a cheese and tomato sandwich. Very nice it was too.

ham, mustard and tomato

I had it to today. I used chainsaw to cut vegetables in order to be legal.

[oracleslave]

I've just brandished an offensive weapon

That sentence didn't turn out like I initially feared

[VectraMan]

I've just brandished an offensive weapon at a cheese and tomato sandwich. Very nice it was too.

[centurian]

Just seen this on Sky News. According to the their report (normal caveats apply), she didn't even leave her house. The intruders were in her back yard. She banged on the window while holding a knife in the other - and the police told her this could be illegal

[Halo Jones]

Indeed.

The easiest way round this is to believe nothing you read or what people say.

You can't go wrong then.

I took your advice sweetie: I checked it out, you said that size was normal, now that was a little lie was it not

[Moscow Mule]

misinterpretation and misuse of science by journalists and other non scientists.

What the saggy old one said.

However, "scientists" don't help themselves by releasing un-peer-reviewed findings in a press release rather than scientific journals. But, that is what sells newspapers these days.

[Bagpuss]

Bad science is a very good book and opens your eyes to the BS being spread by the sceience and medical professions.

misinterpretation and misuse of science by journalists and other non scientists.

[norrahe]

Bad Science is a popular book too. Can't say I've read the whole book. He has a website too.

Bad science is a very good book and opens your eyes to the BS being spread by the sceience and medical professions.

[gingerjedi]

Indeed.

The easiest way round this is to believe nothing you read or what people say.

You can't go wrong then.

Or avoid news altogether as advised in ''How to be free', the reason being it will only make you miserable and there's nothing you can do about it anyway.

[TimberWolf]

Read TFA. As one might expect from the Telegraph, most of it is written by her publicist, and none of it justifies the headline.

I honestly cannot understand how intelligent people can read this kind of garbage without seeing through it.

AtW: I strongly recommend two books to you. One is Nick Davies's Flat Earth News, pub.2008. The other is Lies, Damned Lies and Some Exclusives by Henry Porter, pub.1984. (You should be able to get hold of a copy of the latter via AbeBooks; I did the other year.)

Actually, I don't just recommend them to AtW, but to everybody. Porter's is particularly good at explaining how the Press word things in such a way as to make you think they said a certain thing when in fact they said nothing of the kind, they just made you think it - this seems to be a common problem, judging by the posts made here by many

Bad Science is a popular book too. Can't say I've read the whole book. He has a website too.

[Diver]

Miss Klass, 31, who was alone in her house in Potters Bar, Herts, with her two-year-old daughter, Ava, called the police. When they arrived at her house they informed her that she should not have used a knife to scare off the youths because carrying an "offensive weapon" – even in her own home – was illegal.

I now have a drawer full of kitchen knives that I am not allowed to use! I can't even remove them because it's against the law for me to carry them.

Do you think I should call a police officer to come and chop my veg for Sunday dinner

[Pogle]

I don't believe you

Quite right too