Another piece of anecdatum: a vague friend of mine once had a routine traffic stop by the police as he'd renewed his car insurance on the day it expired and the

Another piece of anecdatum: a vague friend of mine once had a routine traffic stop by the police as he'd renewed his car insurance on the day it expired and the change hadn't made it onto the database they use yet. The police officer asked something like "just as a routine question, do you have anything on you that you might think you shouldn't have, like knives etc". He was (at the time) a professional chef and had a large roll of huge, high end kitchen knives on the back seat of the car. He also had chef's whites and was driving to work. The policeman said that apparently a few smarter drug dealers had started doing that (keeping them in a roll) as it was more plausible that they'd be cooking with them rather than stabbing their mates. The give away, apparently, was that they'd just have one massive one and not bother with the chef's job and still end up with a few years in prison. My friend "got" a nice chat, and went on with his day, but did later comment that had he not had the outfit to go with them, and a vast array of obvious kitchen tools, he thought that they'd probably look at it a lot more seriously.