Thread: Underbelly: Razor

You mean ... more alcohol and prostitution, plus more violence?

Happens every time.

Originally Posted by Pauly

When you look at a cut throat it really is the last blade you would pull out to fight with. Paper thin blade that is really fragile, no stabbing point. On the other hand it is a good tool for torturing people who won't fight back.

The idea that the razor gangs actually fought with razors is a myth.

This is true but as a tool for intimidation & extortion it excelled the handgun.
Also in 1927 a law was passed that anyone found with an unlicensed handgun received an automatic prison sentence. It didn't stop shootings but the razor became the EDC rather than a pistol.

Originally Posted by onimaru55

Bad things happen when governments ban alcohol & prostitution.
Tilly Devine & the Razor Gang Wars, 1927-31

And guns!!!!

In my wayward youth i knew an Englishman who in his wayward youth knew a few "razor gang" people. The scariest ones did not actually use razors, but steel hair combs with the teeth sharpened. This caused a nasty ripping wound that could not be neatly stitched and left horrific scarring.
Somehow they seem to have missed banning combs..........

Originally Posted by Adam G.

In my wayward youth i knew an Englishman who in his wayward youth knew a few "razor gang" people. The scariest ones did not actually use razors, but steel hair combs with the teeth sharpened. This caused a nasty ripping wound that could not be neatly stitched and left horrific scarring.
Somehow they seem to have missed banning combs..........

...Yet.

I'm sure they'd ban spoons if there was some whinging minority that was terrified of them.

Originally Posted by Adam G.

In my wayward youth i knew an Englishman who in his wayward youth knew a few "razor gang" people. The scariest ones did not actually use razors, but steel hair combs with the teeth sharpened. This caused a nasty ripping wound that could not be neatly stitched and left horrific scarring.
Somehow they seem to have missed banning combs..........

My Grandmother had one of those combs, I mean a steel comb not a sharpened comb, and to think of it one of them sharpened up would be seriously nasty.

Originally Posted by Pauly

My Grandmother had one of those combs, I mean a steel comb not a sharpened comb, and to think of it one of them sharpened up would be seriously nasty.

Seriously nasty on the back pocket of your jeans and possibly on which ever bum cheek feels the kiss of said comb.

Originally Posted by Legion

Guess that one isn't too good for sticking huh?!


Mick

Mick,

Give me two hours with an angle grinder and my stones on that beastie ...