@TruthFairy131 Criminals do this all the time. Buy a baseball bat so they can plausibly deny their intention. A normal person would leave it in a bag but even then I suspect the policeman recognized him from a previous incident.
@JohnCleese I suspect there's more to this. He may have used a bat as a weapon previously and has a ban. It's not unusual for bats to be used as weapons by criminals.
@PoliticalStacy It exists because before social security nobody saved for retirement. It's insurance so that the state doesn't have to deal with useless old people, who are a burden.