I’ve been clicking through some articles on Jimbo’s site about the Seattle P.D. stomping incident, and ran across some things that made me go “Hmmmm.”
From the linked article:
A three inch machete? I ran that past Lawrence, and his response was, “Did the bad guy also pull out the action figure that came with it?”
The same article links to the Seattle P.D. report on the incident. From that document:
<redacted> said that Suspect 1 pulled out a 3′ machete.
Three feet is a bit more convincing. But let’s think about this. Three feet is 36 inches, or the size of a yardstick. Wikipedia defines a typical machete as being 12.8 to 24 inches long. Three feet is getting more into broadsword territory. How do you conceal something like that? Stuffed down a pant leg? What does the draw stroke look like?
Lawrence pointed out that Jason’s machete in the Friday the 13th movies is three feet long; all the reproductions of that I can find online are not sharpened, though I suppose that can be fixed easily with a grindstone and some time.
I spent a great deal of time trying to find the Spinal Tap Stonehenge video on YouTube, but the only version I found does not appear to be embeddable. So I’ll leave you with this:
Not a 3" machete.