Be Vigilant (found: piece of wood with nails in it)

[seenbeen]

Found in the gutter in Crystal Palace Road

[Nigello]

Let the police know in case it tallies with any attacks or menaces. Ring 101, though you may have to hang on the line for a bit.

[KidKruger]

looks a bit short to be a weapon, tbh. Unless it was designed to press into/stab someone !

[pipsky2008]

Or for puncturing a car tyre

[kford]

For car tyres

[Mark]

Broken off piece of baton (batten?) with nails in it dropped by a builder?

What makes you think it's a weapon? Is there blood on it?

[Odyssey]

Looks like something that might have fallen out of a wheelbarrow or a skip eg

[DulwichFox]

If it was a baton the heads of the nails would probably be flush with the wood, Not sticking out.

Looks like a crude weapon.

DulwichFox

[Mark]

I guess it depends on the skill of the builder/armourer

[redjam]

Don't really understand what I'm meant to be vigilant about. People coming at me with crude weapons? OK, noted.

[niall]

upcycled coat rack.

done

[Loz]

Given the nails at two angles, I'm guessing this was a small baton from inside a wooden box.

[Mick Mac]

Im reminded of the photograph round from Ask the Family with Robert Robertson from the 1970s

[rendelharris]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Im reminded of the photograph round from Ask the

> Family with Robert Robertson from the 1970s

Brilliant spot - exactly that!

[Penguin68]

It looks to me like a homemade caltrop. Left possibly to puncture tyres.

[Mark]

seenbeen, please can we see it from a few different angles, and next to something so we can see how big it is?

Edited to add: I'd chuckle if it was the size of an Argos pencil

[red devil]

You see this sort of thing all the time on building sites/skips etc, as Loz said, likely to be a bit of softwood framing out for boxing out something...

[TE44]

Looks like someones dropped a bit of wood for a bonfire.

[Houseoflego]

Someone has been watching too much stranger things!

(or maybe i have!)

[flocker spotter]

isnt it about time someone resurrected the suspicious chalk marks on walls trope of yore ?

[einar]

That thing could well be a bricklayers/plasters tool to scrape walls before renedering/plastering to get a better grip for new layer. Done it myself long time ago.

[Sue]

Surely it's just something dropped from one of the zillions of houses with builders in round here?

[seenbeen]

here it is- next to a 1p

[kibris]

I never new that people can talk so much about a bit of wood with nails in it

[ruffers]

flocker spotter Wrote:

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> isnt it about time someone resurrected the

> suspicious chalk marks on walls trope of yore ?

It's banana peel now, I just haven't told them yet.