How is a baseball bat a weapon, dangerous or otherwise? It can be used as a weapon, but that's not it's purpose.

Was he allowed to butter his toast?

He's allowed to butter his toast, but I understand his preference is to briefly soak it in flaxseed oil.

How's Bonds look these days, anyhow?

Good that issue is finally settled. Now teams can feel free to sign him. Perhaps as an alternative to signing Manny Ramirez if failed steroid tests are at all a concern of yours.

How is a baseball bat a weapon, dangerous or otherwise? It can be used as a weapon, but that's not it's purpose.

The Swedish Supreme Court has ruled that a baseball bat is a street fighting weapon and illegal to carry or store in a public area. Baseball is not outlawed, though.

How would you legally transport a baseball bat to a baseball game? Are they legal to carry inside a bag?

The Swedish Supreme Court has ruled that a baseball bat is a street fighting weapon and illegal to carry or store in a public area. Baseball is not outlawed, though.

That's not a baseball bat, officer, it's a pesapallo bat - clearly!

How would you legally transport a baseball bat to a baseball game? Are they legal to carry inside a bag?

A weapon has to be kept unloaded and separate from the ammunition. In this case, you could have the baseball bat stored in your trunk and the baseballs stored in your glove compartment.

How would you legally transport a baseball bat to a baseball game? Are they legal to carry inside a bag?

You can carry them if you have a legitimate reason, like going to a game. Just like carpenters or cooks can carry knives (also illegal).

If the government wants my baseball bats, they're going to have to pry them out of my cold dead hands.

Sigh.

Bad court! Bad!

Just like carpenters or cooks can carry knives (also illegal).

Of course, it's hard to explain to the police officer that you are a cook when all you can say is 'bork bork bork'.

The Swedish Supreme Court has ruled that a baseball bat is a street fighting weapon and illegal to carry or store in a public area.

This is important because Barry Bonds is already in Malmö, rehearsing to star in a needle-heavy remake of Ingmar Bergman's "Fanny and Anabolic."

How is a baseball bat a weapon, dangerous or otherwise?

Amid London riots, baseball bat sales soar 6,500% on Amazon.

If the government wants my baseball bats, they're going to have to pry them out of my cold dead hands.

Shouldn't be too hard after they bean you with a teargas canister. Uh, I mean, you fell. No video hippies, that's invading the cops right to privacy.

How is a baseball bat a weapon, dangerous or otherwise? It can be used as a weapon, but that's not it's purpose.

I used to have to walk home from work in a dangerous part of my city. I'd carry a bat over my shoulder with a baseball glove hooked over the knob. No one ever bothered me.

We have a casual riot in my neighborhood spring up one Saturday night. A lot of windows were getting busted. I had had some friends over and we hung out on my porch with my then respectable bat collection in view. No problems, though a number of neighbors had windows broken.

A bat is a fearsome looking thing. Plus, if we were out on the porch with my katana or broadsword collection the cops might have gotten upset.

Even so, the idea that Bonds needs permission to carry a bat is pretty silly.

No video hippies, that's invading the cops right to privacy.

What's up with that? I read Illinois just passed a law forbidding videotaping of cops in action. That's nuts.

Even so, the idea that Bonds needs permission to carry a bat is pretty silly.

Carry? He needed permission to possess a bat. In his house.

How is a baseball bat a weapon, dangerous or otherwise?

Amid London riots, baseball bat sales soar 6,500% on Amazon.

stupid limeys, taking a baseball bat to a football riot.

wait, what?

Baseball bats as weapons? Remember the 1979 cult movie classic "The Warriors"?

Try news.google for "baseball bat" just about anyday. Bat ain't nothing but a club to a lot of folks.

Meh. Even if he had gotten caught, he would have sworn it was given to him by his trainer, who called it "the stick," and he had no idea it was actually a baseball bat.

Meh. Even if he had gotten caught, he would have sworn it was given to him by his trainer, who called it "the stick," and he had no idea it was actually a baseball bat.

That's just fantastic.

Surely his giant head is weapon enough!

Was he allowed to butter his toast?

Spork.

#20 is good.

We have a casual riot in my neighborhood spring up one Saturday night. A lot of windows were getting busted. I had had some friends over and we hung out on my porch with my then respectable bat collection in view. No problems, though a number of neighbors had windows broken.

A bat is a fearsome looking thing. Plus, if we were out on the porch with my katana or broadsword collection the cops might have gotten upset.

Yeah, but nothing sends the message quite like a double-barreled shotgun across your lap while you rock in the old rocking chair on the front porch. Exposed hammers are a real plus, aesthetically.

God Bless the 2nd Amendment!

Yeah, but nothing sends the message quite like a double-barreled shotgun across your lap while you rock in the old rocking chair on the front porch. Exposed hammers are a real plus, aesthetically.

That'll keep the hoodlums nice and peaceful. But the trouble with the cops won't be worth it. Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Baseball bats work as a good compromise.