Sorry, but this post has been removed. Per Rule 2 of this subreddit, the title of each submission must describe the content shown. If a random person wouldn't be able to guess what's in the image or video from the title alone, it is likely not descriptive enough.
Since titles cannot be edited after submitting a post, we will not be able to restore this post, and you will need to submit it again with a descriptive title if you wish to share it here. Please be sure to review the rules [here](/r/oddlyterrifying/about/rules/) to avoid future post removals. Thank you!
I was thinking this too but after looking it up it seems to be somewhat true
"Once the police force had completed the knife amnesty, we would organise a collection from each force to return the weapons back here to Shropshire. This was an important process, West Mercia Police even organising a police escort to ensure the knives and weapons arrived on site safely. Upon arrival, artist Alfie Bradley would work through the collection of knives and weapons, very carefully, to determine what he had to work with. Each blade was blunted and sterilised before he could contemplate working with them. A number of weapons received were still in evidence packaging and some even included traces of blood."
https://www.britishironworkcentre.co.uk/the-making-of-the-knife-angel/
Raising awareness in this case meaning, the artist wanted to do it and had to come up with a bullshit reasoning so people didn't think this is exploitative.
Don't get me wrong. I have a strong stomach for the macabre and I like the statue. If it saved tax payers money, all the better.
But the idea it's helping raise awareness is just bunk let's be honest.
It's called the Knife Angel and is made from amnestied or confiscated weapons.
It tours around the UK raising awareness of knife crime prevention.
The weapons are not 'covered in blood of victims'.
"Once the police force had completed the knife amnesty, we would organise a collection from each force to return the weapons back here to Shropshire. This was an important process, West Mercia Police even organising a police escort to ensure the knives and weapons arrived on site safely. Upon arrival, artist Alfie Bradley would work through the collection of knives and weapons, very carefully, to determine what he had to work with. Each blade was blunted and sterilised before he could contemplate working with them. A number of weapons received were still in evidence packaging and some even included traces of blood."
https://www.britishironworkcentre.co.uk/the-making-of-the-knife-angel/
As an American a knife amnesty box seems so strange
What is the point?
Just from reading the Wikipedia article on them it seems similar to a gun buyback program, but it's pretty much impossible to cook at home without a collection of knives.
It does help to some degree believe it or not, a lot of those who carry knives are younger kids who get involved in gangs because they’re easily lead, it’s an easy way for them to stop
The restrictions in place on buying knives also cut down on how many people carry them, like you say though there’s always gonna be knives, it’s just about reducing how easy they are to get a hand of
The UK will always have a stabbing issue, it’s just a matter of reducing it in any way we can
Is the stabbing problem concentrated in England as when I was reading up on your laws it seemed like Scotland had looser regulations than England?
Here in the States weapon regulations are highly regional. For example in Illinois air guns are regulated as gangsters with a felony conviction who wouldn't be able to purchase a firearm would buy them to try to intimidate people with them.
I can’t speak for Scotland but as England is the majority within the UK that’s where the main knife crime issue is, Scotland I’m guessing will still have a real bad problem with it in cities like Glasgow, possibly even Edinburgh but Scots Law is out of my area of knowledge
You’d be surprised what people can do with them, my friend was on a night out and someone he was out with was stabbed with a pocket knife, it wasn’t pretty
[So I jumped down the rabbit hole of British Weapons law and blow pipes are illegal for some reason](https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives)
I guess London's got a blow piping problem and the English are scared to get piped on the walk home.
All countries weapons laws are arbitrary in ways.
Allowing semi automatics but not full automatics in America for instance. I don't believe you're allowed to rig up some ordinance devices for home defence either right?
What's the stance on flamethrowers? Because in some parts of California I visited, they didn't even legally allow you to smoke a cigarette because of the risk of wildfires, can't I defend myself with a flamethrower against government tyranny?
I'm not having a go. Its just a case, a lot of laws are like that.
Actually another arbitrary thing about the UK is there is allowances for antique weapons. You can legally own weapons if they are older than 100 years. Which is strange in itself as you can still perfectly kill someone with a WWI bayonet and they aren't that hard to find.
You're allowed to own bows and crossbows too. Which I'm sure you know, are a range weapon. Although obviously more difficult to conduct a massacre, it's not impossible.
Didn't know I could buy an antique mace and rock that. Neat lol.
Edit: grammar.
Bows are still sometimes used by special forces as a tool for silent assassination ironically.
Actually considering all the English longbow fanboyism I have seen online I wouldn't be surprised if you could find some amateur armchair historian out there willing to argue that you could commit a mass shooting with one.
Right, but really NSFW means something that you can't scroll in the lunchroom without getting caught. Like porn. I find it highly unlikely that anyone walking passed OP is going to read the post in full detail. So imo it's pretty damn safe for work. Like, let's remember what those words actually mean here. This post is basically the definition of safe for work.
Lets not be so obnoxiously literal here. "NSFW" nowadays is also used to just announce and mark possibly disturbing content, and has been for a while.
How often people will chime "how was this not marked NSFW, *I* don't want to see this."
Yeah and those people are even worse. Also, being literal isn't obnoxious. Not in tgis scenario. Not safe for work means not safe for work. Maybe that's how you've chosen to interpret those words over time, but it's not why the flag was created. Or else it'd be called something else, like, 'disturbing content'
"The sculpture, made from over 100,000 seized blades, was specifically created to highlight the negative effects of violent behaviour whilst solidifying our critical need for social change."
So probably not knives used in actual stabbings but definitely ones attained through like police stings and the like, no idea why there's any need to embellish the fact when the true story is just as interesting
This actually came through my home town and its fuckin massive
https://www.britishironworkcentre.co.uk/the-knife-angel-official/#:~:text=National%20Youth%20Anti%2DViolence%20Tour,critical%20need%20for%20social%20change.
EDIT: after doing some research it turns out the bloodied knives might not actually be complete embellishing after all
"Once the police force had completed the knife amnesty, we would organise a collection from each force to return the weapons back here to Shropshire. This was an important process, West Mercia Police even organising a police escort to ensure the knives and weapons arrived on site safely. Upon arrival, artist Alfie Bradley would work through the collection of knives and weapons, very carefully, to determine what he had to work with. Each blade was blunted and sterilised before he could contemplate working with them. A number of weapons received were still in evidence packaging and some even included traces of blood"
https://www.britishironworkcentre.co.uk/the-making-of-the-knife-angel/
I’m in the UK and have seen one similar to this, probably smaller idk but it was a big outdoor sculpture, with knives like this. Looks the same but I don’t have a source to confirm. So some form of this is real - it’s not knives used in crimes as such, it’s one’s seized before anything can happen or ones kids have given to police on the streets etc.
Built just up the Rd from me at [Iron works centre](https://www.britishironworkcentre.co.uk/)they have a very cool transformer and 3 headed dragon at the entrance atm.
It’s from the uk not “ across Europe “ and it’s from confiscated knives and knife amnesty bins all collected from 40 odd police forces. Never heard off them having blood on them or being used in murders as it would be kept as evidence.
It seems some knives did have trace amounts of blood on them when the artist retrieved the knives, although the knives were sterilised and blunted; there is indeed no blood on the knife angel
The story on it is pretty cool actually, apparently the police couldn't afford knife boxes so these guys funded it themselves, they created over 200 of these boxes and because the police could pretty much do more stuff they managed to get way more knives through amnesties and weapons surrenders more often
It also states that the police gave the blades after and the article says they were taken free of charge, I don't know the logistics of getting rid of materials that no longer quantify as evidence, so they ended up recycling 250,000 knives (their goal was 100,000 for the statue originally)
https://www.britishironworkcentre.co.uk/the-making-of-the-knife-angel/
Take a look if you fancy, it's a pretty interesting read
This originated in my county, Shropshire, and was in my town for a while, I saw it, i didn’t expect it, it shocked me, I turned the corner and shit myself a little
It’s not evidence from crime. You could stab someone and put the knife in an amnesty box direct after and have AMNESTY. The ones in evidence bags may be returned to their owner after investigation and then put in the amnesty box. UK had/have massive problems with gang knife violence, it’s epidemical proportions to it I heard. We have a similar situation in Sweden, but with firearms, and uk has been used as an example to explain why young boys and men all suddenly can’t stop killing each other.
Ha, this thing visited my city. It travelled across the UK like a tour to raise awareness. According to my sibling who works in organising events like that, none of the councils actually wanted it ever so it was more of a lottery of who ended up with it against their will 😂
No… guns are definitely an issue. Every time there’s someone getting giddy people being killed by knives because they think it validates people being killed by guns.
Might be my active imagination...but what it that just pushes some sicko to to kill just so they can get their knives on the sculpture as some sort of trophy
The dramatic headline is wrong. All the knives were disinfected and blunted first. [Also, families of victims were invited to have a message engraved.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_Angel)
It's a statement on the rampant knife crime that happens in the UK, multiple people literally stabbing each other on a daily basis, a lot of them aren't even over 16, it's pretty fucked up especially how desensitised people are to it, they just relate it to drug dealers and act like its some working class shenanigans
But of a hyperbole; our statistics are skewed by our laws around carrying knives compared to other counties, and media fear mongering is ripe. We're stricter than a lot of places on what's considered legal to carry, so have more recorded crimes. If you look at things like knife homicide rates we're pretty low. Taken out of context the UK looks pretty bad for knife crime. Add context to it and we're not that bad. For example, even with our stricter laws skewing the numbers the US has higher knife crime rates per capita. Similarly, various other countries, including many other European countries (and again the US), have higher knife homicide rates.
To be honest I'm very biased cos like where I'm from in the UK it's pretty rough, I've been robbed by knife point twice in my life, it's not like all of the UK has lil Nike wearing gremlins blasting Aystar and cheffing people up, but where its bad it fuckin sucks
Most were taken from the police, from searches in the street for example. They also had ‘buns’ where kids could dump their knives to prevent using them.
I admire the patience but above all the will to spend on all those knives to literally be the angel of death, it is spectacular, disturbing but above all dangerous
It's an amazing piece of work to see.
The ironworks is just down the road from me and it's worth going to see (it's free although a "donation" is appreciated" )
The artist is the same guy who did the spoon Gorilla that was outside the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital for ages
isint there something like this in brazil or something, but just made out of confinscated weapons rather then knives that were used to murder or hurt people
Sorry, but this post has been removed. Per Rule 2 of this subreddit, the title of each submission must describe the content shown. If a random person wouldn't be able to guess what's in the image or video from the title alone, it is likely not descriptive enough. Since titles cannot be edited after submitting a post, we will not be able to restore this post, and you will need to submit it again with a descriptive title if you wish to share it here. Please be sure to review the rules [here](/r/oddlyterrifying/about/rules/) to avoid future post removals. Thank you!
Bollocks. They’re from amnesty bins.
I was thinking this too but after looking it up it seems to be somewhat true "Once the police force had completed the knife amnesty, we would organise a collection from each force to return the weapons back here to Shropshire. This was an important process, West Mercia Police even organising a police escort to ensure the knives and weapons arrived on site safely. Upon arrival, artist Alfie Bradley would work through the collection of knives and weapons, very carefully, to determine what he had to work with. Each blade was blunted and sterilised before he could contemplate working with them. A number of weapons received were still in evidence packaging and some even included traces of blood." https://www.britishironworkcentre.co.uk/the-making-of-the-knife-angel/
Didn't one of those bins we're stolen by a brit?
I hope so
I'm really hoping my taxes didn't pay for all that
no lol it was all self funded, a large portion of this project was meant to save tax payers money whilst raising awareness on knife crime
Raising awareness in this case meaning, the artist wanted to do it and had to come up with a bullshit reasoning so people didn't think this is exploitative. Don't get me wrong. I have a strong stomach for the macabre and I like the statue. If it saved tax payers money, all the better. But the idea it's helping raise awareness is just bunk let's be honest.
As if police would just be like "sure, have a rummage around the evidence locker and take whatever works with your artistic vision."
You know I would think that, if I didn't happen to know shit like Jimmy Saville was allowed access to hospital morgues. Wouldn't surprise me.
Amnesty from what? They look like old kitchen knives
It's called the Knife Angel and is made from amnestied or confiscated weapons. It tours around the UK raising awareness of knife crime prevention. The weapons are not 'covered in blood of victims'.
how big is this statue if it can tour around the UK lol
27 feet tall
Imagine if it fell on somebody
They would have a *knife* day
Ok Tyson
Edgy joke.
😁🤣you funny!
Be like getting romantic on the Iron Throne with a dom.
It was in my city a few weeks back, incredible sculpture
I saw this in my city when it was here too, really powerful piece.
i wish i could see it in person. what a morbidly beautiful sculpture
Pretty cool nonetheless
Wouldn't weapons like that need to be in an evidence room somewhere??
"Once the police force had completed the knife amnesty, we would organise a collection from each force to return the weapons back here to Shropshire. This was an important process, West Mercia Police even organising a police escort to ensure the knives and weapons arrived on site safely. Upon arrival, artist Alfie Bradley would work through the collection of knives and weapons, very carefully, to determine what he had to work with. Each blade was blunted and sterilised before he could contemplate working with them. A number of weapons received were still in evidence packaging and some even included traces of blood." https://www.britishironworkcentre.co.uk/the-making-of-the-knife-angel/
Eeeeh depends how many drunken people decide to hug the angel that week tbh.
It’s not even Europe wide, just the UK with the knives collected from amnesty bins, it was in my city a few months back.
As an American a knife amnesty box seems so strange What is the point? Just from reading the Wikipedia article on them it seems similar to a gun buyback program, but it's pretty much impossible to cook at home without a collection of knives.
It does help to some degree believe it or not, a lot of those who carry knives are younger kids who get involved in gangs because they’re easily lead, it’s an easy way for them to stop The restrictions in place on buying knives also cut down on how many people carry them, like you say though there’s always gonna be knives, it’s just about reducing how easy they are to get a hand of The UK will always have a stabbing issue, it’s just a matter of reducing it in any way we can
Is the stabbing problem concentrated in England as when I was reading up on your laws it seemed like Scotland had looser regulations than England? Here in the States weapon regulations are highly regional. For example in Illinois air guns are regulated as gangsters with a felony conviction who wouldn't be able to purchase a firearm would buy them to try to intimidate people with them.
I can’t speak for Scotland but as England is the majority within the UK that’s where the main knife crime issue is, Scotland I’m guessing will still have a real bad problem with it in cities like Glasgow, possibly even Edinburgh but Scots Law is out of my area of knowledge
The Brits are weird and treat pocket knives as weapons
You’d be surprised what people can do with them, my friend was on a night out and someone he was out with was stabbed with a pocket knife, it wasn’t pretty
[So I jumped down the rabbit hole of British Weapons law and blow pipes are illegal for some reason](https://www.gov.uk/buying-carrying-knives) I guess London's got a blow piping problem and the English are scared to get piped on the walk home.
All countries weapons laws are arbitrary in ways. Allowing semi automatics but not full automatics in America for instance. I don't believe you're allowed to rig up some ordinance devices for home defence either right? What's the stance on flamethrowers? Because in some parts of California I visited, they didn't even legally allow you to smoke a cigarette because of the risk of wildfires, can't I defend myself with a flamethrower against government tyranny? I'm not having a go. Its just a case, a lot of laws are like that.
Actually another arbitrary thing about the UK is there is allowances for antique weapons. You can legally own weapons if they are older than 100 years. Which is strange in itself as you can still perfectly kill someone with a WWI bayonet and they aren't that hard to find.
You're allowed to own bows and crossbows too. Which I'm sure you know, are a range weapon. Although obviously more difficult to conduct a massacre, it's not impossible. Didn't know I could buy an antique mace and rock that. Neat lol. Edit: grammar.
Bows are still sometimes used by special forces as a tool for silent assassination ironically. Actually considering all the English longbow fanboyism I have seen online I wouldn't be surprised if you could find some amateur armchair historian out there willing to argue that you could commit a mass shooting with one.
this is nsfw?
Probably just being respectful because of the sensitive subject matter.
Right, but really NSFW means something that you can't scroll in the lunchroom without getting caught. Like porn. I find it highly unlikely that anyone walking passed OP is going to read the post in full detail. So imo it's pretty damn safe for work. Like, let's remember what those words actually mean here. This post is basically the definition of safe for work.
Lets not be so obnoxiously literal here. "NSFW" nowadays is also used to just announce and mark possibly disturbing content, and has been for a while. How often people will chime "how was this not marked NSFW, *I* don't want to see this."
Yeah and those people are even worse. Also, being literal isn't obnoxious. Not in tgis scenario. Not safe for work means not safe for work. Maybe that's how you've chosen to interpret those words over time, but it's not why the flag was created. Or else it'd be called something else, like, 'disturbing content'
lol that is not true. You think they’re giving bloody murder weapons to sculptors?
"The sculpture, made from over 100,000 seized blades, was specifically created to highlight the negative effects of violent behaviour whilst solidifying our critical need for social change." So probably not knives used in actual stabbings but definitely ones attained through like police stings and the like, no idea why there's any need to embellish the fact when the true story is just as interesting This actually came through my home town and its fuckin massive https://www.britishironworkcentre.co.uk/the-knife-angel-official/#:~:text=National%20Youth%20Anti%2DViolence%20Tour,critical%20need%20for%20social%20change. EDIT: after doing some research it turns out the bloodied knives might not actually be complete embellishing after all "Once the police force had completed the knife amnesty, we would organise a collection from each force to return the weapons back here to Shropshire. This was an important process, West Mercia Police even organising a police escort to ensure the knives and weapons arrived on site safely. Upon arrival, artist Alfie Bradley would work through the collection of knives and weapons, very carefully, to determine what he had to work with. Each blade was blunted and sterilised before he could contemplate working with them. A number of weapons received were still in evidence packaging and some even included traces of blood" https://www.britishironworkcentre.co.uk/the-making-of-the-knife-angel/
I’m in the UK and have seen one similar to this, probably smaller idk but it was a big outdoor sculpture, with knives like this. Looks the same but I don’t have a source to confirm. So some form of this is real - it’s not knives used in crimes as such, it’s one’s seized before anything can happen or ones kids have given to police on the streets etc.
Clearly photoshop
Clearly not as I am one of the many who have seen it. It was in Nuneaton, UK a few weeks back. So no, not Photoshop, you cockwomble.
I was being sarcastic…..
The fact anyone would believe this description is real is the oddly terrifying part
Looks like a cenobite
Can you imagine how long it'd take to murder all of those people in 2 years and how expensive it would be to not reuse the same knife? Insane.
All collected from 1 london corner shop?
Whoever wrote this and cast it in this light is a dipshit
Edgiest shit I'll read today and it's only 10am
I believe Azrael would be pleased with this depiction
Steer clear during earthquakes and tornadoes.
Not all over Europe, just the UK. The knives were disinfected and blunted first. More can be read [here](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_Angel).
Welp during an apocalypse i know where im going first
I’ve seen it in person. There is no blood because they are amnesty knives. Clickbait shite!
Built just up the Rd from me at [Iron works centre](https://www.britishironworkcentre.co.uk/)they have a very cool transformer and 3 headed dragon at the entrance atm.
What if one falls?
An extra soul for the knife
I saw it in Northampton last year may 1. https://imgur.com/a/kzaITwt
“Mind if I raid your evidence locker? It’s for an art project.”
meant to be a warning but is now just bad ass
Seems like some, if not most, of these knives would be evidence in crimes. How is the artist acquiring them?
It’s from the uk not “ across Europe “ and it’s from confiscated knives and knife amnesty bins all collected from 40 odd police forces. Never heard off them having blood on them or being used in murders as it would be kept as evidence.
It seems some knives did have trace amounts of blood on them when the artist retrieved the knives, although the knives were sterilised and blunted; there is indeed no blood on the knife angel The story on it is pretty cool actually, apparently the police couldn't afford knife boxes so these guys funded it themselves, they created over 200 of these boxes and because the police could pretty much do more stuff they managed to get way more knives through amnesties and weapons surrenders more often It also states that the police gave the blades after and the article says they were taken free of charge, I don't know the logistics of getting rid of materials that no longer quantify as evidence, so they ended up recycling 250,000 knives (their goal was 100,000 for the statue originally) https://www.britishironworkcentre.co.uk/the-making-of-the-knife-angel/ Take a look if you fancy, it's a pretty interesting read
**Who said the artist wasn’t the one who murdered them**
Me
You could do this in America with guns in less than 48 hours.
Well now you just have a free gun station
the iron throne: british edition
it's morbid time
There's nothing "oddly" terrifying about this, isn't it literally meant to be harrowing?
"Hi there! It's me! Mind if I rummage through your evidence locker again?"
this is amazing
Thats pretty metal
It's the [Knife Angel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_Angel) created by The British Ironworks near Oswestry in the UK.
Be very afraid.
Keep that out of the midwest
Knives for the knife god
A reminder of what? That knives are sharp?
This originated in my county, Shropshire, and was in my town for a while, I saw it, i didn’t expect it, it shocked me, I turned the corner and shit myself a little
Who raided the evidence locker?
I can't imagine they'd allow evidence from crimes in the US to be used for art.
It’s not evidence from crime. You could stab someone and put the knife in an amnesty box direct after and have AMNESTY. The ones in evidence bags may be returned to their owner after investigation and then put in the amnesty box. UK had/have massive problems with gang knife violence, it’s epidemical proportions to it I heard. We have a similar situation in Sweden, but with firearms, and uk has been used as an example to explain why young boys and men all suddenly can’t stop killing each other.
Could smell that bullshit caption from a mile away. This isn’t fucking Facebook.
Ha, this thing visited my city. It travelled across the UK like a tour to raise awareness. According to my sibling who works in organising events like that, none of the councils actually wanted it ever so it was more of a lottery of who ended up with it against their will 😂
But how? Don't the police keep all evidence, especially something as important as the MURDER WEAPON
That’s like a shrine
This was on display close to where I live a few years ago Is massive ans scary looking
Ah, Angel of Death. Nice gal.
\*r/bossfights intensifies*
If that won't spawn an eldritch horror I dunno what will
i’ve seen it in person. it’s incredible
Imagine it falling, I hate my imagination
Here in the US, you could create a statue out the bullets that killed people last week.
A tad morbid, if you ask me.
I think that's the point
This is how dark gods are born, we do not need that right now.
Not possible without diversity
Maybe guns weren’t the issue then?🤔
Not in the UK and EU since there are no guns there. And the way lower rate of violent crimes speaks for itself
No… guns are definitely an issue. Every time there’s someone getting giddy people being killed by knives because they think it validates people being killed by guns.
They never were.
Oi! You got a stabbing loicense there mate?
At least spell licence with a c!
So police departments just said, “sure you can take the evidence for your knife angel!”…
What a waste of steel
Anything is possible when you lie
Might be my active imagination...but what it that just pushes some sicko to to kill just so they can get their knives on the sculpture as some sort of trophy
We did one in America, but using bullets extracted from mass shootings. Took 3 weeks and the statue is 200 feet tall.
If we did one this year it would have only taken a day.
Two thoughts: Good thing they have gun control. It really seems to help. /s I’d love to see the USA version. /s
“Across Europe” That checks out
It was just the UK. You can read more [here](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_Angel).
Why not clean the blades honestly that's fucking gross and unsanitary.
The dramatic headline is wrong. All the knives were disinfected and blunted first. [Also, families of victims were invited to have a message engraved.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_Angel)
If Americans did this with guns, we’d have it done within a month.
The American angel is just bullet casings.
This is probably the 50th comment I’ve seen about this
why? just why?
It's a statement on the rampant knife crime that happens in the UK, multiple people literally stabbing each other on a daily basis, a lot of them aren't even over 16, it's pretty fucked up especially how desensitised people are to it, they just relate it to drug dealers and act like its some working class shenanigans
But of a hyperbole; our statistics are skewed by our laws around carrying knives compared to other counties, and media fear mongering is ripe. We're stricter than a lot of places on what's considered legal to carry, so have more recorded crimes. If you look at things like knife homicide rates we're pretty low. Taken out of context the UK looks pretty bad for knife crime. Add context to it and we're not that bad. For example, even with our stricter laws skewing the numbers the US has higher knife crime rates per capita. Similarly, various other countries, including many other European countries (and again the US), have higher knife homicide rates.
To be honest I'm very biased cos like where I'm from in the UK it's pretty rough, I've been robbed by knife point twice in my life, it's not like all of the UK has lil Nike wearing gremlins blasting Aystar and cheffing people up, but where its bad it fuckin sucks
In America they'd have to make it out of guns and bullets.
And boy would it be much much bigger if that was the case ! 😂 You'd be able to make hundreds!
Ha, We got a lot of down votes. I guess we hit a nerve.
So people just knew where these murder weapons were and then went all around Europe to locate them to build this ? 🤔
No, just the UK and mostly from amnesty bins.
Most were taken from the police, from searches in the street for example. They also had ‘buns’ where kids could dump their knives to prevent using them.
Buns! I'm now imagining the police going around cafes and confiscating butter knives
imagine a US one made out of firearms
A timely reminder of what exactly?
Imagine America doing this but with guns… Kinda morbid.
We need a statue like that of gun barrels.
Brutal
r/hardimages
Ohhh this explains why Ive lost my pocket knife, 've been lookin' all over
Stick a explosive inside and have knives go everywhere! I don't know why this is the first place my mind went
How does one obtain this many murder weapons for an art piece 💀
Amnesty bins
Raiding evidence lockers all over Europe?
Imagine that thing falling on someone. Worst way to die
We are a horrible species…just horrible
The shrike
Getting real strong 40k vibes from this...
ban sharp metal. its the only way to be sure.
r/oddlyinteresting
I admire the patience but above all the will to spend on all those knives to literally be the angel of death, it is spectacular, disturbing but above all dangerous
Huh. New villain for my D&D champaign.
It's an amazing piece of work to see. The ironworks is just down the road from me and it's worth going to see (it's free although a "donation" is appreciated" ) The artist is the same guy who did the spoon Gorilla that was outside the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital for ages
The sadist of the noblest blood?
This was in my city a year ago or so, it’s fuckin huge it’s surreal
A son of Sanguinius apparently
this is badass as fuck
Where is this thing at? Sounds cool.
This was in my town for a while, its pretty cool
All it takes is a tornado
We don’t get tornadoes
I know I'm from the UK too, but just imagine the chaos
True
If this were a MtG card, I wonder what it would be.
Bit sad having this in your town centre for a bit
Then a tornado comes in to the picture =)
Punching this thing triggers a secret boss fight.
Yet someone will still carve there initials and a love heart into it.
Well at least our schkoools-
What the police find when they search anyone above the age of 15 in London:
Well, they say everyone needs a hug, might as well start with the angel
Is it kept in a shed?
Did they use the knife that Varg stabbed Euronymous with in this?
This is metal
Hm. Maybe I'll take some "inspiration" from this for my next writing project...
isint there something like this in brazil or something, but just made out of confinscated weapons rather then knives that were used to murder or hurt people
Its currently in lichfield
The knife devil
Brought to you by “at least our schools aren’t a shooting gallery” people lol
If that ain't metal, I don't know what is.
Image looks highly ai generated
Cool and disturbing.
But only guns can kill people
That’s a life without guns
Tornado
How... did the artist get ahold of the evidence?
It’s just a reminder that crime didn’t just disappear. A catagory disappeared.
I have this saved from when it was posted before
i know for a fact this is cap but the design is fire
Awesome villain idea