A really strange conversation

Just had this bloke on the door step.
He had a very strong Irish accent and spoke really fast, most of the time I couldn't work out what he was saying.
But he had a box of funny coloured knives and waffled on about Jamie Oliver and ceramic knives?

He kept cutting a piece of paper with the knives, supposedly showing me how sharp they were, at the same time talking ten to the dozen.

He then pointed out they were magnetic by sticking one to the side of the box, if they are ceramic, how can they be magnetic?
And what is the point iof a magnetic knife anyway.

The price started out at £20, then 15 then 10 when I shut the door on him.
Apparently he had the last two boxes in existence, not obviously accounting for the ones his mate was trying to flog on the other side of the road

But I must admit that slicing of paper on the doorstep could be pretty worrying to some people, apart from the fact he left me to clear up all the bits afterwards.

 

Yes. It would.

 

Thank Glod he wasn't trying to flog surgical knives

 

They were kitchen knives with strange coloured blades and in a set.
Something along the lines of this kind of rubbish.
Jamie Oliver™ Funky Knife Set

 

Probably bought from Lidl for £2.49 or so last week.

 

He would have looked extremely worried indeed if he had pulled a knife out and welded it anywhere near me! Not to mention the high pitched voice he would have left with

 

I would call the old bill if someone started waving knives around on my doorstep.

 

This thread raises a good point.

Realistically, what is the correct reaction?
@"M" has suggested an undisclosed method of striking and undisclosed target area (kick em in the nuts), Dai has suggested to call plod.

I wonder what the correct response really is?

At the end of the day, if we boil it down to the immediate facts, there is a person at your door, uninvited and unknown to you, waving large sharp knives about.

This seems to be a situation where passive but firm talking is appropriate. I'd also want to keep the individual at arms length. I think any preemptive attack would be wrong for two reasons. First it makes you the aggressor in the eyes of the law, if the court finds that there was no reasonable perception of immediate threat. Secondly, as we are taught at martial arts, the best way to not get cut by someone with a knife is to leg it. We are taught that if you engage somebody that has a knife, you will get cut. It's about keeping major arteries out the way while attempting the disarm.

So I think I'd want them at arms length, eyes on at all times, hands by my side but not in pockets, while politely but firmly telling them I'm not interested.

 

You are lucky over there. CCTV is illegal here without special permission that is very difficult to get. Even things such as Drones and Dash Cams come into this category.

As regards dogs. If a dog attacks anything live here, be it animals or humans, it has to be destroyed.

 

There wouldn't turn up here

Watch out with some people will use WD 40 and spray in to the dog face to stop them