From The Daily Mail (UK):
They must have known he was a troublemaker the moment they saw him.
With his white hair, wax jacket and glasses, 78-year-old Philip Clarkson Webb clearly ticked all the boxes any eagle-eyed policemen would mark as ‘danger’.
And as he shuffled along the pavement towards them there was one thing above all they deemed to pose a threat – his walking stick.
The officers surrounded the retired classics teacher and informed him the 3ft wooden cane was an ‘offensive weapon‘ and had to be confiscated.
The cops surrounded this retired old man and confiscated his walking stick because they, in their experienced and professional opinions, deemed the stick to be an offensive weapon … maybe even one of those evil Assault Walking Sticks.
Philip Clarkson Webb, walking stick, offensive weapon
