--- on the other hand, maybe he did do time in a keris bearing society.
I used to know a bloke who had served in the British army in Malaya during the 1950's. He had been stabbed in the thigh and shoulder by a Malayan gentleman who did not like him very much.
During the 1990's near the town of Palur, just outside Solo in Central Java, a man killed his wife, wife's mother and wounded several neighbors before being restrained. He reckoned that an evil spirit made him do it. He used a keris.
Maybe that Queensland cop was just being cautious.
On the other hand, maybe he was somewhat misguided.
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