exchemist
Valued Senior Member
There was a story in the papers some years ago of a burglar who tried to burgle a family of Pakistani ancestry including two young men who played a lot of cricket. The guy got chased down the street with a cricket bat and was hospitalised. They are not that heavy, but certainly heavier than a baseball bat.This was in the land of béisbol. A cricket bat would pack more of a wallop, I'd guess. They look heavy.
This was Oregon, where it seemed to us there was more of the dramatic acting out of emotions by essentially harmless people. We had an old guy in a town just south of us who would get depressed a couple times a month or so, strip naked and lie down on Main St. declaring that he wanted to die. The police had assigned one cruiser to him, they always had a bathrobe his size, would show up and gently pick him up, robe him, and take him to the drunk tank. No one took it seriously and I gather it was seen mostly as street theater.