You just never know

Years ago my mate's uncle got his house raided and smashed up by the police after the Chinese delivery guy mistook the TV remote sitting on the table for a gun... It didn't help that the uncle was drunk when he answered the door to the delivery guy

It reminds me of those pistol type lighters years ago.

I had one in the car that looked quite realistic (it was tossed on the back seat as it had run out of gas) and a copper nearly had kittens when he stopped me.

reminds me when I was sharing a house with a friend and I got back late from a gig. He left early in the morning setting the alarm, which I triggered as I walked down the stairs. Although I disabled the alarm, I unfortunatly missed the telephone call from the Alarm company, who informed the police. They ambled round and knocked on the door. After coming in and answering a few questions they left satified I was legitimatly in the house. All the time I was thinking "dont go into the front room".
As my housemate had bought a (deactivated) Bren gun at the weekend and it was sitting in the front room looking all nice and dangerous