[Brighton] BACA - Man spotted with a machete nearby.

[surrey jim]

Hope it is a false alarm, worrying for parents and pupils there.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18728765.live-updates-brighton-school-lockdown-amid-machete-fears/

 

[Thunder Bolt]

BBC South East

Students at Brighton Aldridge Community Academy were kept inside school as police responded to reports of a man armed with a machete in woodland nearby. No-one was harmed and pupils were later escorted out to return home, Sussex Police said. A search of the area is continuing.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Hope it is a false alarm, worrying for parents and pupils there.

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/18728765.live-updates-brighton-school-lockdown-amid-machete-fears/

Worrying for me, my mother-in-law is in those woods walking her dogs right now!

 

[Saladpack Seagull]

Worrying for me, my mother-in-law is in those woods walking her dogs right now!

Wow, hope all is well, Hugo. Sounds as though there'll be plenty of police around there, though, so the bloke concerned is probably long gone.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Wow, hope all is well, Hugo. Sounds as though there'll be plenty of police around there, though, so the bloke concerned is probably long gone.

If he was in the woods with a machete, he was probably just collecting firewood.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Why does the media always describe large knives as machetes?

They are not the same thing. It is just needlessly dramatising. Just call it a large knife, if that is what it is.

How do you know it was a large knife? Was it you?

 

[Hugo Rune]

Wow, hope all is well, Hugo. Sounds as though there'll be plenty of police around there, though, so the bloke concerned is probably long gone.

Thanks for your concern. All fine now and Sussex Police have tweeted the incident is over. She is back, she actually went to Stanmer Park......phew.

 

[franks brother]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSnosk4tWrg

 

[Superphil]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSnosk4tWrg

It's not a machete either

 

[Theatre of Trees]

 

[Tom Bombadil]

This is Machete

 

[Tom Bombadil]

 

[NooBHA]

Thanks for your concern. All fine now and Sussex Police have tweeted the incident is over. She is back, she actually went to Stanmer Park......phew.

Ah - well done to her getting her Alibi all sorted early


I jest of course - Just in case anyone takes my post seriously

 

[GT49er]

Why does the media always describe large knives as machetes?

They are not the same thing. It is just needlessly dramatising. Just call it a large knife, if that is what it is.

So what should they call it if it is a machete?

 

[Dick Swiveller]

So what should they call it if it is a machete?

Man with a big chopper.

 

[Grassman]

Well, (cheekily stealing from Half Man Half Biscuit) I once saw a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Milletts.

 

[happypig]

Well I suppose it could have been an actual machete, but it's quite unlikely.

I mean where are all these machete wielding lunatics getting their machetes from?

I bought mine from https://heinnie.com/knives-tools/survival-machetes/

 

[el punal]

This is Machete

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Poor bloke, must be suffering from metal fatigue.

 

[Live by the sea]

Blimey living near lewes rd is even more dodgy than it was even in my youth !

 

[Coldeanseagull]

I've been over Stanmer woods in the past and walked passed a man with a proper machete......collecting bean sticks for his allotment.
I know in this day and age you can't be too careful because of all the nutters running around, but let's have the facts first so we can ignore them.........