This past weekend Eric and I met up with some friends who were visiting Sydney. We decided to go to the Justice and Police Museum located in Sydney's oldest section, called "The Rocks". Quite touristy, The Rocks forms a festive promenade from the Sydney Harbour Bridge to the Opera House. Lots of eateries and street performers, including several Aborigines playing their didgeridoos with some techno beats blaring in the background. A really odd combination...
At the museum we saw all sorts of confiscated weaponry from the very sophisticated, fancy engraved revolvers and full sized late-Victorian swords to all sorts of handmade items like an umbrella handle with a sharp knife sticking out of it. There were also some really gruesome, improvised 'knuckledusters' (brass knuckles) to a variety of bludgeons. While you are observing these crude weapons, you are surrounded by a montage of criminal mugshots. In a sea of smug expressions, one particularly shady character had a glass eye and it kept following me around the room! (or so it seemed)
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