Bad Airport News - My Fault :-(

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Mr. Dave

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Ok, so there I was, going scuba diving in the Caymans and travelling on an expired passport. And wouldn't you know it, when I got to Miami I realized that my Spydie Delica was still in my pocket! Oh No! I meant to leave it at home.

There was no time to mail it back to my self, and I was travelling to a foreign country on an expired passport. What to do? Yup, you guessed it. Into the round can went the Spydie.

The worst of it was that Cayman customs never searched my bags. Boo Hoo! But the good news is that I now have an excuse to get a new knife! (Any excuse, no matter how flimsy, is good enough for me.)

 
probably not the smartest thing to throw it away...99 times out of 100 you could take it on the plane with you no problem at all...I've done it many times even through high security airports like Heathrow....seems like a waste of a good knife...

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I hate to dump on you, but the Bahamas, from what I know, are similar to Canada in that U.S. citizens can often get in without a passport if they have a vaild ID or a birth certificate. Still, I can sympathize, when you away from home, any lack of proper documents can make one react out of stress instead of reason.
 
I would have just put it in a bag to be checked or just clipped it to the inside of my wallet when I went through the detector.

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Mykl
Balisong, the folding fixed blade.
 
Yeah, in retrospect it was pretty dumb. But there I was, all nervous because my documents weren't in perfect order and I panicked. Oh well, maybe it's time I sprung for that Calypso Jr.
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Excuse me, you said the Caymans, not the Bahamas. I don't know anything about entering that country. Still, the loss of documents is a good argument for having an inoffensive SAK as a main blade when in doubt.
 
If you've gotta ditch a knife, well, at least a Delica isn't a huge loss. You can replace it.

If you had driven to the airport and had time, you could have just run back to the car and left the knive in the glove box, but I suspect that you either took a cab to the airport or didn't have time (getting back to the parking lot can take quite a bit of time).

If faced with such a situation, don't just toss it in a trash can, though, at least give it away. I'll bet that the sky cap would be pleased with such a tip. I bet the bar tender would have traded you a drink for it. You might even pursuade the ticket counter clerk to upgrade your ticket...



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Chuck
Balisongs -- because it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!
http://www.balisongcollector.com
 
I agree...The garbage-can was a poor choice.
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Your knife WOULD have made a good gift to someone at the airport, and may have lead to the creation of another knife knut.
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Dann Fassnacht
Aberdeen, WA
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"Next Time"? Just how many knives are you going to throw away?
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A Pat on the Back is only a few inches from a Kick in the Butt.
 
Oh well. You do what you gotta do.
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I'm glad it wasn't a Sebenza or a Krait.
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Maybe who ever emptied the trash found it and is wondering how they got lucky. So they show it to their friends, and all of a sudden there is a rush on Spyderco's in Miami. They find Bladeforums when searching the web to determine what type of knife they had, and some day on a "Did ya ever find a knife?" post they tell the story of when they found a Delica in the trash.
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Blades
 

I tossed a knife one time...

Leaving London's Heathrow airport with my German made switchblade that I shouldn't of had in England anyway (1974)...

I went down a back corridor and tossed it up into the duct work...It still may be there to this day...Or some worker might have found himself a new toy...

Running Dog

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mmurphy@premier1.net
 
In my wilder days I remember hiding my knife in the tank of the toilet in the mens room after a barroom brawl. Went back and got it a few days later. A variation on this scheme would have been better than just chucking it.
 
Is this the Delica with the modified tip, Dave? I'm assuming so. Are you sure you weren't just looking for an excuse to get rid of it and get that 940?!
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So, are you about ready to get your Basic 7 back? I never did get a chance to chop much with it, what with the crappy weather this weekend. I have a new one you need to see, though. Hope you had a good time in the Caymans.

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I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. -- John Steinbeck
Dog does not eat dog. - Juvenal

iktomi
 
Hey Rock,

Indeed, this was the Spydie with the customized tip. I'm thinking more along the lines of a Calypso Jr than a 940. Rest assured that no matter what comes in the mail you'll be the 2nd to see it!

Dave
 
Cool.

Hey, I have the Basic today, but the day is looking lousy for having time to get away from the office. I don't have the Wilkins, though. I'll try to bring it in tomorrow, in the hopes that I'll have time to get away. Have to try to make a kydex sheath for it tonight; it came with a leather one that is WAY to big and cumbersome to carry it covertly. It's a nice leather sheath, well executed, but big.

Calypso Jr. eh? The Ltwt version with the VG10?
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I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. -- John Steinbeck
Dog does not eat dog. - Juvenal

iktomi
 
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