Man\u2019s six-inch Master Sword lands him in jail for carrying blade in public A UK man has been sentenced to four months in prison for carrying a six-inch replica of Link\u2019s Master Sword from The Legend of Zelda. On July 2, 2024, Warwickshire Police shared on its website that 48-Year-Old Anthony Bray was arrested on June 8 after CCTV operators warned authorities about the knife. Bray approached the officers with the item in his hand and was arrested for carrying the blade. The man said it was a \u201cfidget toy\u201d but it was still considered a weapon by the police. It wasn\u2019t just any regular knife, however, as it was a sheathed replica of the Master Sword used by Link in The Legend of Zelda series. \u201cDespite admitting that it could be perceived as threatening if someone else saw it, Bray insisted during his interview that he would not have used it as a weapon,\u201d the report states. The man was sentenced to four months in prison on June 28, and has to pay a \u201cvictims\u2019 surcharge\u201d of 154 pounds or about $196 USD. Sgt Spellman of the Warwickshire Patrol Investigations Unit issued a statement alongside the news. \u201cWe take a zero tolerance to bladed articles in public, and Bray has fallen afoul of this,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is possible to find fidget toys that aren\u2019t six-inch blades. It is possible not to walk down the street holding them out in front of you. With a bit more self-awareness, Bray could have avoided contact with us completely.\u201d This isn\u2019t the first time police were involved in an incident involving a video game prop, either. Back in March 2024, the New York Police Department posted on X that they arrested a man with a gun\u2026 only to be dragged by users identifying it as a Final Fantasy sword prop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Man\u2019s six-inch Master Sword lands him in jail for carrying blade in public A UK man has been sentenced to four months in prison for carrying a six-inch replica of Link\u2019s Master Sword from The Legend of Zelda. On July 2, 2024, Warwickshire Police shared on its website that 48-Year-Old Anthony Bray was arrested on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}