1000 Post Giveaway

Insipid Moniker

Insipid Moniker

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I've been knocking around here for a bit, trying to help and occasionally making a fool of myself, and I'm really impressed by the community here. Genuinely one of the most giving places on the Internet. With that in mind, I want stories about charitable acts you've done for others. Doesn't have to be a long story or a huge gesture, just give me a sampling of the nice stuff people do.

If you do, you're entered to win an A.G. Russell Featherlite One Hand Knife. Hurts a little to let go of this one, but I figure it should to make it a real giveaway. One entry per, but if you want to tell more than one story feel free!

To counter the all the mushy, sentimental junk above the giveaway will run for an arbitrary amount of time and be decided in the most unfair manner I can come up with.

Must be over 18, at least 100 posts, in the lower 48 (exception for active duty military, I'll do my best to get it to you guys wherever), you're responsible for knowing local laws, blah blah blah, standard disclaimer.

Y'all are solidly awesome, happy I get a chance to give back!
 
Hell I'm in. Best example I can think of is this kid contacted me when I started doing reviews on youtube, asking if he could enter my giveaway contest. Well it had ended a week prior so I told the kid you know what, i'll buy you your first knife. I let him choose between a recon 1 and an endura and had it shipped directly to him from our good buddies at cutleryshoppe, and told him to pay it forward in the future when he had more knives himself. Since then I've tried to gear my giveaways towards people who really enjoy the community/have the greatest need.
 
I did a trade with a guy a little while back and he went above and beyond for the trade- acid etching the blade, stonewashing it, asking if I wanted it redone, taking a right hand clip and using a torch to reshape it for left hand (because I am a southpaw), then acid etching and stonewashing the clip too. I threw in a few extra knives (at least $50 retail value) because I greatly appreciate people being genuinely nice.

Not the most altruistic thing from me, but it was nice to do when he asked nothing in return.

Also, just the other day in my med term class, I stayed over for about 30 minutes helping this girl pronounce a few words that she just wasn't getting. Gotta love the ridiculous compound medical terms, especially when they are pronounced nothing like they are spelled.

I know my altruism is pretty lame, but at 19 with almost no situations to show it, I am doing my best.
 
Alright,I always wanted one of these so here's my story, bear in mind I didn't do this alone but with the help of several generous members here on the forum, all I did was get it started, just as a update to the story, Bobby joined the Marines
last year and was deployed to the big sand box last week.

Not too many people have heard the story of James A. Romito, he was the Chief of Police for the Port Authority Police Department.

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He was scheduled to be off on the morning of 9-11-01, and yet as the news reports started comming in about the planes slamming into the WTC, he left my friend Mary, his fiance at home, and told her he had to go to work they were going to need him.

He stayed in constant contact with Mary, and reassured her everything would be alright and he would be home late.

Throughout the course of the morning Jim directed the removal of, and helped remove many people himself, from the burning ,collapsing building.

Many times he could have stayed out of the building as it became apparent the building was becomeing increasingly unsafe, but that was not Jim's style. After 30 years on the job nothing was going to stop Jim from performing his job.

Mary called to check in with him as he had gone back once again and was helping a disabled person down from around the 80th floor.

That was the last time she spoke with him, there were reports that he was seen in the stair well with a diabled person headind down and out.

There were reports that he was seen on the mezzanine almost out when the building collapsed.

Mary held out hope and called his cell phone and, paged him several times everyday.

She eventually had a memorial service and buried his policeman's dress hat and gloves,,(this by far was the saddest thing I had experienced). The days dragged on into weeks, the weeks into months, and she still called and paged him holding onto a false hope he was still alive.b

Finally as the end of the clean up began to near, the last of the bodies were found, and Jim's body was retieved with the body of a coworker within reach of what would have been the doors ouyt, had the building not collapsed, protecting the disabled person they were rescuing.

I know this is probably not the best place to post this, but as 9-11 approaches again, and i see how Mary is trying to cope with the anniversary of the death of Jim I feel compeled to tell the story. Also I would like to present to her, and her son Bobby, a memento of some type, actually a knife.

I'm not rich and I don't have much, if any money, but I would be willing to buy/supply the materials needed if some one could make a memorial knife, and perhaps donate some of their time.

I live in North Eastern PA on the PA Jersey border, if anyone can help that would be great, if not, I at least feel better for telling Jims story.

Always Remember Never Forget, don't let September 11 fade into obscurity.

The above post is the original from back in 2002, since then His mother Mary has passed away and Bobby has joined the Marines and as of last week bein'deployed to the big sand box and he's takin' the Buck with him.
 
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Quick response- I volunteer a week and a half out of the year to provide burn survivors (ages 5-17) a summer camp. Awesome experience and I feel like I actually make a difference. Thanks for the opportunity.
 
Insipid Moniker said:
I've been knocking around here for a bit, trying to help and occasionally making a fool of myself, and I'm really impressed by the community here. Genuinely one of the most giving places on the Internet. With that in mind, I want stories about charitable acts you've done for others. Doesn't have to be a long story or a huge gesture, just give me a sampling of the nice stuff people do.
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So this is the "toot your own horn" giveaway? Sorry, I'm not going to tell. If you are really interested, you can e-mail me for a list of people you can ask, though.
 
We adopted a family at Xmas.

I wont drag on much; the most touching part was the shear joy in the one of the little boys eyes when he got a brand new winter coat.
Im generally not a softy, but to see that simple thing bring him utter happiness really touched my heart.
Some things we all take for granted, so it was quite refreshing.

Thanks for the giveaway, very generous of you. Thanks to all for a great community here.
 
Very nice give away. I tell this maybe so other parents may help their kids learn the gift of giving.

This year for Christmas my wife and I decided our children needed a lesson about giving. So we had a family meeting and as a group decided to adopt a family for Christmas. We found one through a local church. Then we all went together to shop. And my words to them was that we wanted their Christmas to be the best ever for them. We had more fun shopping for them. And my kids, I hope, saw the value in giving.
 
Thanks for the generous gesture. I don't know if michigan is considered the lower 48, but. I gave a buddy of mine 10+ knives out of some knives given to me to start himself a collection of his own, I really appreciated how good of a friend he has been. (I think this is the said mushy sentimental junk, but whatever.) One was an old itailian trapper with a huge sharpend swedge, a sheffield machete, imperial jack knife, a couple boyscout knives (I am not a boyscout.) the rest were just a couple folders/swiss army type just to edc.

Damn. Reading some of the posts here.. I'm out. This isnt an entry.
 
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Cool, I'll play with it for a little bit but then I have just the person to pay it forward to, a knife challenged friend who bought his last knife from a bucket at the cash register in a garden supply.

Thanks for pickin' me, I'll let my buddy the history/point of origin of the knife, I'll get you my snail mail address.

Thank you again so much, you made my day, I'll definitely post some pics when it comes. :)

I just wanted to add that the story would never had been possible without the help of certain members of the BFC community.
 
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Just got the AG Russell Featherlite in the mail this morning, this is truly a feather lite knife it weighs next to nothing but is surprisingly rigid for a knife with a plastic/zytel handle.

If you're looking to try out a plastic handle knife for EDC you would be hard pressed to find a better deal for the money.

The VG10 blade is plenty hard at 60-61 RC, it does come in two blade styles a clip and what AG calls a general purpose blade,(more like a narrow spear with what I like to call a splinter picker tip).

I haven't played with it to much yet as I'm sitting in bed with a horrible cough and a 101° fever so I'm flippin' knives and hanging out here.

I'd like to thank Insipid Moniker again for the great giveaway and look forward to seeing you around BFC.
 
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