Thread: Boot razor?

I was told (don't know the truth of it) that in the UK they were used as a weapon because the blade does not end in a point like a knife. Have a go at someone with a knife and the charge would be attempted murder, where as with a razor it would be an assault charge instead.

'No Mean City' as well as being a Biblical quote, is a 1935 novel about the razor gangs in Glasgow. My wife's first teaching post was in the Gorbals, the area of Glasgow where the novel is set.

Don't know about razors in boots but they were certainly used as a weapon.
Razor gang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Here is a modern "interpretation."

Tactical Razor | Skallywag Tactical

Have you tried shaving with it?

I love the razor scene in the movie "Reservoir Dogs". Michael Madsons character had a blade in his cowboy boots. Someone should have told Tarentino that a cut ear bleeds profusely.... I found out the hard way.

the razor in the boot is purely a self defence thing, just lkike in KILL BILL 2 when the main girl is buried alive in the coffin and she pulls the straigh from her boot to cut her hands free so she can 1 inch punch her way free from it LOL

Killed me to watch her doing a razor like that. I was thinking, "she'll never shave with that blade again". Then I started thinking about Uma Thurman shaving, and when snapped back to the world, I'd missed a lot of the movie....