Thread: Having your razors confiscated is just one more reason I hate college dorms...

At least you get to keep some good ones. I would probably try to escort the rest of the collection back home personally

Originally Posted by speckey

That Sucks!

Time to find a private apartment to move to. Why cant people just mind their own business? Does someone have a beef with you?

Know what's worse? I think someone must have crept into my room at some point while my door was open in order to see these. I got reported today, but the razors haven't left my room (in the open at least) in over a week and a half. Campus security is usually very quick to respond, so I highly doubt that someone reported me two weeks ago and they've just now gotten to it. I think that a breach of my privacy by some bum floormate is more likely...

Originally Posted by Utopian

I have no idea if this is practical in your dorm, but you might want to consider advertising and hosting a "shaving class" in your dorm. You can introduce the concept of straights and DEs to them. (You're more likely to create more actual converts if you include DEs, as any idiot can use them.) You can also teach about the advantages of brushes and soaps as opposed to canned crap. The whole thing can be couched in terms of how much more environmentally friendly and economical these options are.

If you educate them, they'll be less afraid of your toys and you're less likely to get a repeat visit from the campus police.

Another thought:
Contact the chief of campus police and let him know that you'd like him to have a better understanding of what you are up to. That is, that your razors are a hobby at least as much as they are utilitarian devices, and as a hobby it is perfectly reasonable to have many of them. The best way to provide him the necessary information is to give him the URL to this forum. Hopefully he has a natural sense of curiosity and will do some reading here. Again, the more they know the less likely you are to be hassled.

Unfortunately, the person that came to my room was the chief of campus police. He said it was clear to him that I collect and shave with these things and that they're not just a weapons collection, but that for "appearance's sake", it would be "inappropriate" for me to have 15 razors in a college dorm. They seemed uncomfortable and weirded out by it in general, I think.

Thanks for the suggestion on the class. I'm really just done with staying on that floor, though. I'm just going to stay at my girlfriend's for the rest of the year.

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

At least you get to keep some good ones. I would probably try to escort the rest of the collection back home personally

I thought of this, but saw some people recently posting that their razors had been stolen out of their checked luggage. What would you guys suggest? Ship or put in checked baggage?


...oh and yea...I really think I'll be ok with the razors I kept. That Globusman from Sham shaves unbelievably. And I guess I do have a Filly EPBD in the mail on its way to me and the campus police don't need to know about it...

Pretty crappy that some 'hero' felt the need to rat you out.

Wait, I just had a thought. How many strops do you have? Clearly you could use them for corporal punishment or a threatening weapon. What about your brush (or God forbid, your brushes)? Couldn't they be used for poking out eyes with those nasty badger bristles? What about all those soaps? Surely some chemistry major on campus could convert all the soap into an incendiary device. Obviously you got off easy.

That is terrible. Not so much the police reaction as I can at least see that perspective, though limiting the number isn't logical it should be an all or none. But another student reporting it seems far worse to me. Either he saw them in use and understood exactly what you had them for or he was looking where he shouldn't have been. The way airports are these days and all the theft that occurs with checked luggage I'd go for mailing them with plenty of insurance. I was worried about how my school would react if I started straight shaving which is one of the reasons I delayed my journey for a couple years. Glad I did too knowing the way my school was if I was ever found I'd probably be ordered to undergo pysch therapy for my "dangerous behavior" best of luck getting you razors where they belong.

So, do you need 10-15 more razors "from your girlfriend's place" to hand to the police? I've got plenty that you can let them have, so that you don't have to give them any of your good ones.
Drop me a line and there's a chance they can get to you on Saturday.

I am going to be the unpopular one, but I can see it from their point of view. Or at least, I understand why they did the things they did (not that I agree of course).

Suprisingly the security guy was honest about the problem: it was about perception. If you have a large collection of 'knives' then you become known as 'obsessed' with them. For some reasons, soemone saw fit to report you. Perhaps he saw too much saw or sweeney todd movies. Point is, security ended up at your doorstep.

They admit that shaving is ok, but the large collection raises questions. And perceptions are everything in US politics. The guy admits you are not a probelm, however, if somehow you should go postal and do something, then the security guys and administrator are going to get hammered for 'not doing anything'.

This is very similar to today's security theatre in US airports where 3 year olds are harrassed, paraplegic kids have to walk through the metal detector without their braces and women get groped on the inside of their underwear by the TSA.

I doubt that having an apartment in Manhattan would have been any better than (what is almost certainly) a PC campus. Bloomberg would take yours razors (and guns, and trans fats, and salt shakers) and put you in jail in the bargain.

Shoot....when I went to high school, I carried a switchblade and never got so much as a second look, not even from the teachers.

Fast forward to going back to college many...many years later and I carried a Case medium Stockman. Mainly to open boxes and to trim the fingernails and everyone freaked out! These days, younger folks see any bladed instrument as a weapon.

When I went to high school I carried shurikan (throwing stars) and knives and no b@stard came near me....


Mick