Anyone top this "DON'T" incident?

wait, i don't get how these guys are testing the edge. are they running it across? i just place my thumb on it gently.
 
A long time ago, a friend of mine asked to see my pre-1964 Puma Hunter's Friend, which had a pretty good shaving edge on it. He then did the old run-the-thumb-down-the-edge routine and laid it wide open.

My sister, knowing my propensity to be impatient with stupid people, once gave me a T-shirt with the following logos:

Front - Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here!

Back - The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
 
i'm Cringing while i think about this one

Back in high school me and my buddies were fooling around with my machete (a POS). We bought melons to strike through and kill a wednsday night.
Finaly one guy yells "hey Willy stab the fence."
So my poor friend willy stabs the fence with a machete, with a wet handle from the melons and no handle guard. His hand went straight up the blade it was 3 fingers to the bone.

I'm done cringing and started chuckling
 
TorzJohnson said:
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Oh, man, I don't know how you got hold of that picture but I want to tell you guys -- I quit smoking a long time ago.
 
Here's two really stupid knife related incidents that I have done:

When I was a kid, me and my brother were playing around in a mock sword-fight with the machetes our dad had bought for us (yep, I had THAT kind of a father).
Instead of a parry or dodge, I decided to grab the blade of his machete instead (yeah, real smart, huh).
And of course my brother decided to yank it from my grasp.
Well, we did'nt have to wait too long in the ER, and you can hardly see the scar these days, and I'll never know what dad did with the machetes.

And then there's the time I was cutting a plastic zip-tie off of a storage bin with the sheepsfoot blade of my Victorinox Electrician.
I was cutting from right to left and as I applied pressure the bin would start to slid on the carpet.
So, I held the left side of the bin so that it would'nt slid, and then applied pressure, again cutting from right to left.
Well, the sheepsfoot blade sliced right though that zip-tie and then continued on to slice in to the hand that was holding the left side of the bin.
The lesson that day was two-fold:
1) Always know what lies in the path of the cut beyond what you're cutting.
2) When you work at the local hospital, yes, your co-workers will heckle you for doing something stupid while you're getting stitches.

Humbled,
Allen.
 
LyonHaert said:
I have a no-BS policy, friend. That actually happened. At the time I was working at a gas station near a large redneck neighborhood, and he was a customer. Maybe he did cut his tongue and I just never saw any blood.
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Heaven help us! Oh man, I don't know what to say, other than I apologize for doubting you. I didn't think people could be that stupid :eek: !
 
I sometimes think it's our fault that people cut themselves on our knives. Like a sign that says "Wet Paint", you can't help but touch it to see if it's still wet. Or when some jackass says "Don't click this link", you know you have click the link. So when we say "careful, it's sharp", they have to see just how sharp it is. :rolleyes:

A guy I worked with deciced to test another coworker's knife that I'd sharpened for him, so he used the old "shave your arm" test. Good test, unless it's a fully serrated Spyderco. Guy's arm looked like a measure of music.
 
My little brother knows how to check a knifes sharpness, and he's only ten! Who the hell would shave their arm hair to test sharpness with a serrated knife? OMG!
 
I had a friend in the store here one day wanting to see a custom made Japanese sword, I took it out of the display and handed it to him, he took it out of the scabbard looked at it then replaced into the scabbard, then he held the sword by the scabbard and let go of the sword handle, well he was holding it upside down so naturally the sword slid back out and he caught it.....by the blade near the hilt, the sword kept sliding through his hand as he squeezed tighter and tighter to try and catch it.

Needless to say it's a very good thing there is a Pharmacy here also.....
 
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I had a friend in the store here one day wanting to see a custom made Japanese sword, I took it out of the display and handed it to him, he took it out of the scabbard looked at it then replaced into the scabbard, then he held the sword by the scabbard and let go of the sword handle, well he was holding it upside down so naturally the sword slid back out and he caught it.....by the blade near the hilt, the sword kept sliding through his hand as he squeezed tighter and tighter to try and catch it.

Needless to say it's a very good thing there is a Pharmacy here also.....
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Rob Roy reenactment, huh? :D
 
Incident #1 - I saw a customer at a knife show pick up a custom made katana and he and several sword enthusiasts stood around for many minutes discussing the balance characteristics of this sword. All of a sudden he goes into a sword strike pose and raises the sword up over his head like he is about to do a straight cut. The sword goes back over his head and he executes a ??? full power straight down cut. He didn't realise it, but he missed the guy behind him by about an inch. Those 36inch blades have a fair bit of reach.

OK, nothing happened, but the few of us who realised what almost happened still have PTSD. (The guy whose head almost got taken off was facing the other way talking to another knifemaker and didn't realise what transpired. I don't know if anyone told him.)

Incident #2 - A guy who attended our local Emergency Department had ben drinking, Ie.- VERY DRUNK... took out his folding knife and cut open some packages, then clipped the knife back into his hip pocket with the blade still open. His wounds were quite ugly. The knife had a "point-down" pocket clip, except that when the knife is open it becomes POINT UP. I've never seen love handles slashed up like that before. That was a few years ago.

Yes, this species is doomed... Jason.
 
I've got one. Not a great one, but not bad either.

I do a lot of sharpening for friends, and one of my co-workers brought a BM551 for me to touch up. The edge wasn't too bad, but it wouldn't shave hair. I touched it up and took it back to him yesterday, shaving sharp.

The store was a bit busy when I saw him, so I didn't demonstrate my sharpening, I just handed him the knife. Later in the night when things slowed down, he pulled the knife out of his pocket, pulled the AXIS back to flip the knife open. But he didn't have the knife too balanced in his hand and let go of it. His first motion was to start to catch it. I did my best to distract him as the knife hit the ground. No harm done to his hand (he'd have impaled his hand... the knife was very sharp when I got done with it).

It didn't land tip down, so the tip was still in tact. But it did land on the edge and rolled it over pretty good. I was able to steel it back to a good edge. I don't know how well that spot will react to sharpening next time... but for now it seems ok.
 
Two more stories. A friend of mine had trouble undoing one of his shoelaces. He was drunk at that moment and tried to cut it through with his pocket knive. While doing this, he somehow managed to hit one of his eyes with the knive and he is now blind in that eye.

Not knife-related, but maybe even stranger is a story about another friend of mine. He was hunting and carrying a shot gun over his shoulder when he climbed over a fence. The gun slipped over his shoulder and the trigger got caught on his right front pocket. The resulting shot blew off his right little toe completely. I guess he was lucky.
 
When I was little, I asked my father why he carried his double barrel open when he was out hunting. He introduced me to a guy who had unfortunately dealt with the consequences of someone carrying a shotgun closed, ready to rock. If I had a photo, I don't think anyone would look at a shotgun the same way again.
 
Did I ever post the incident where I was repeatedly having spare tires stolen off my pickup until the night I taped double-edge razor blades to the big wingnut on the tire carrier?

Don't recall who was dumber; me, for opening up to liability or the thief whose last act (at MY place) was to leave a puddle of blood.


:D :D :D
 
I've got so many co-workers slicing open their fingers on my SAK (despite me warning them it's sharp...and blaming me after that for it) that I BLUNT my Vic Classic so that I can loan it out.

BTW: That's the only knife I'll ever lend to someone with no knowledge of the meaning of "hey, the knife's shaving sharp".

PS: The above-warning is usually replied with "Really...? Argh.... Damn you...!" :rolleyes:
 
A buddy of mine (who should know better) cut the tip off a cigar using my Aftershock. He used his index finger as backing/chopping block.
Everybody in our group calls him Darwin now as a nickname :D
 
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