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The Man Who Took On a Terrorist With a Narwhal Tusk
And other civilian heroics with random weapons
It’s now well known to the English that the only way to stop a bad guy with a weapon is a good guy with a narwhal tusk.
The U.K. public generally isn’t armed, and even the average police officer on the street doesn’t have any more than a can of spray and an extendable stick. This is good because it means that bad guys generally don’t have guns either, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have any access to any weapons, including sometimes homemade bombs.
It’s great not living in a country where mass shootings are a more than a once in a decade occurrence, and I’m very grateful for that. But that also means that when someone does go on the attack, the public is left to fight back with whatever they can get their hands on. Even if that’s a narwhal tusk.
Makeshift Self Defence Weapons
The infamous narwhal tusk terrorist attack is just one of many times the British public have taken on armed intruders with any old thing. Here are just a few, the first of which I personally had a very narrow escape from.
The machete bar
Back when I was a doorman, I used to sometimes work as the only security in a small bar…
