Mark
Baseball bats available at regular sports stores, but
Baseball is not about to overtake cricket I'm afraid. It's
just that those long-handled, nicely weighted bats seem to be
good for breaking heads. I suppose they are to beatings what
Kalashnikovs are to terrorism. Every nation must have its
lethal weapon: I believe the UK weapon of choice at the
moment is the Stanley knife, basically a craft knife fitted
with two blades with a sliver of card between them to make
the cut more difficult to stitch. Wideboy not quite right,
but not sure there is a name for them: let me tell you, if
you're calling them names, you're calling them the wrong
ones.
Cheers Chris
At 05:34 PM 9/11/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I just ran into it again, in Ken Bruen's Taming the
Alien, a London
>wideboy (that's the right term, right?) using a
baseball bat as his tool
>of persuasion. I've noticed this in a number of
recent Brit books. Do
>they now play baseball in the UK? If not, where are
they all getting
>their baseball bats? What store stocks them, Villains
R Us?
>
>Mark
>
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