>>549781>would only be burglary tools if you had actually committed or attempted or conspired to commit a burglaryAs always, it depends on jurisdiction, different places have different laws.
In many places, it would be a burglary tool if the police said they considered it one.
There is a charge here (Ausfailia, Victoria) called "Going equipped to steal" which means what it sounds like. If you have something on your person that could be used to assist in a property offence, then you can be charged with it and you will probably be convicted. Courts tend to take the police's word for it that they had reasonable belief that you were going to steal something somewhere and they caught you first.
People can be and are fucked over by this just because cops are cunts (see:
>>548116 ). There are heaps of these sorts of discretionary laws in Ausfailia, it's used to keep the riff-raff in line which means keeping the lower classes in poverty and making sure there is always a new generation of poor kids with a parent or two in jail who will have to clean houses, suck dick, cook food, be security guards and fight wars for the enjoyment and protection of the upper classes.
Here's a short list of a few offences that are real here and which are used to fuck over people today.
Consorting (you socialise with someone that the police merely *suspect* of committing certain offences)
Loitering With Intent (you look suspicious and are in public somewhere)
Possession of a Dangerous Weapon (you have anything from that coudl be used as a weapon or be mistaken for a weapon or is shaped like a weapon, even if it cannot actually be mistaken for one)
That last one is used a lot, got a heavy object on you? Potential weapon. Keys? Potential weapon. Toy laser pistol? Potential weapon (I know a guy that was convicted for this, arrested at a train station while on the way home from a rave with a yellow see-through laser pistol sticking out the top of his silver-painted cowboy boot)
