Best way to break your knife?

Hey Elvislives,
Originally posted by Elvislives
One day he's using it to carve his girl's name into a tree when a passing LEO drew his weapon and shouted "You, with the Strider, break it now or I'll shoot...!"

I miss that guy...
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Was he carving, by chance, 200 feet up a tree? ;)
 
Damn, I was going to buy a Seal 2000, but if it can't take a 200 ft fall...Ron where are your graphs showing velocity per foot pounds of impact vs the grind vs the shattering force required...was it tip up or down when dropped...was more than one dropped...was it flipped, dropped straight down, did it hit the cliff before hitting the ground, was the drop point dirt, gravel, rock or grass...gotta be scientific :p
 
I still think it's the way you live your life, not your equipment. I make it a point to know my 'beat cop' and I call him when we leave on vacation. I had a female LEO who was my next store neighbor at my former home who had keys to my house. I have a big 4-wheeler, but I don't drive on the sidewalk or tear up private property.

The result? Our town's LEOs know me and often stop me to see the knife-of-the-week. Some of those knives were D/A's.

I rode with a motorcycle club for five years and NEVER got a ticket. I rode free, but I never rode like a jerk or drove drunk. One time I took my bike out (wearing my colors) the moment the ice melted, with last year's license sticker. I got a few blocks and the red lights came on. He opened his window and yelled, "Come'n, Ichabod, you know better than that."

So how come some people get rousted? I think it's because of the way they lived BEFORE their encounter.
 
Hey BurkStar,

I've been working on getting that data now for three years, but the guy who fell with the knife hasn't been the same since the accident. They don't allow him to have visitors but once a week, and every time I ask those dang questions, he starts talking about zero gravity and floating with birds. The best I've got out of him was that his knife never left his kitchen at home and he watched it break all by itself. ;)

My original post is true (except for Cliff; I know him)...this post is not and is only here for fictional enjoyment. :)
 
If you really pull out a blade on a police officer and do anything but what you are told, you will probably get shot.

If an officer charges you with CCW, then it is taken as evidence, and can be returned to you after court. I have only seen one person charged with a concealed knife, and that was because he lied and said he had no weapons on him, and was searched and a knife was found. Oh, and he is a drug dealer as well. Honesty can go a long way with most police officers.

By the way, I would have no access to a weapon, unless I checked it out of evidence to bring to a court case. I would have to return it to the owner, or return it to evidence after I was done. I could not take it to keep myself.

Besides I thought it was a Samurai that broke his sword rather then give it up. Ritual suicide is always an option to giving up you knife. Death before dishonor, right?:rolleyes:
 
You gotta be a complete blithering moron to try to break a knife in front of a police officer so he can't get it.

Personally I think you'd be much better off to just swallow the evidence.
 
Something no one has mentioned in this thread.

Rent a cops. Movie Theater, Amusement Park, Anywhere else 'they' think you ought not have a knife.

In many of those cases it has been put forth that the 'officer' does in fact keep what he takes (pretty lucrative business eh?).

On the plus side most of them couldn't shoot ya while you busted the blade since they ain't armed for the most part.
 
Either way you're out a knife :confused: :confused:

Since most of the knives I carry would represent upwards toward a week or more's pay for a rent-a-cop, I would not let them confiscate without taking me with it.

If he/she could take me to someone of authority and prove beyond a doubt that the knife should indeed be confiscated I would aks for them to disable it and return it to me or escort me off of the premises with it.

If a real LEO confiscated it I would politely ask him to prove his grounds for confiscation and if I was indeed breaking the law he could keep it.

I have heard some people say that when they travel they carry a padded envelope stamped for a few bucks and self addressed, if they were ever in a situation where they would be forced to give up their knife they could quickly drop it in a mailbox and send it back home. I did this for a while before 9-11 when I was traveling because you never knew what one airport would allow and another wouldn't.
 
I can understand why many of you may wonder why someone will go to lengths to break the knife when there is a chance that you may have the knife handed back to you. well, that's why I envy you guys, coz you life in a nice country where it is legal to protect yourselves, or to carry them as a tool.

In my country, it's illegal to carry any knife of any size without a good reason...and 'in cases of emergency' or 'utility knife' is not a good reason. If i was going fishing, then it would be acceptable, but if i was just walking down the street, or doing anything without the need of a knife, it's considered a prohibited item. so no EDC's for us :(

I carry a Spyderco Rescue, in hope that if i am questioned about it, they would accept my excuse for carrying a knife intended for emergency use. (and hope they don't continue to search me to find the endura on the other side of my waist. hehehe)

so, you can bet that if they find any knife on you, it WILL be confiscated. I think if i attempt to cut concrete before i hand it over, it will be made unusable. i guess i would try my best to show them the blade shape first to convince them, and if they tell me it's a no go, and if i can't take it home, then i would definitely cut concrete first. :)
 
Originally posted by Elvislives
The cops in Austrailia won't shoot you for pulling a knife on them?
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No they won't, BUT they MIGHT sic their police-crocodile on ya...:D.:D.
 
No, obviously if you had half a brain, you wouldn't pull out a knife AT a police.

I'm talking about if they happen to stop you to do a routine/random knife check, as they have recently started doing here.

They would ask if you have a knife first. If you are mature about it by answering honestly and let them know that you will do, then they can expect that you willshow them. Then take it out to show them the closed knife.

I would then explain the reason why I carry the knife, and show them the blade. Now, one of two things will happen: they will either tell you that is a no no, and ask you to hand it over, and that's when you blunt the thing. OR If they say it's cool, then you're happy and get to keep it.

I don't know your way of thinking, but obviously pulling out a knife at a police without warning, is asking for trouble! And if you did this, then you deserve to be shot.
 
It still sounds like an incredibly dumb thing to do. Even if they don't shoot you, you have just raise their level of suspicion by several orders of magnitude. Not only, have you demonstrated that you cannot be trusted to carry out a simple manuver without pulling some kind of stunt, you have also damaged what may very well be evidence. How would they know that you motivation for damaging the knife is not simply to alter the edge profile to make it harder for them to link you to a more serious crime?

The only thing that is going to happen is that you may very well find yourself arrested, handcuffed, and otherwise treated as a violent offender. You might even be charged with disorderly conduct, or resisting arrest. You can also expect to earn the full benefit of a more substantial police search, as they try to discover what you were really up to.

You stubborn irrational macho behavior is going to get you into a enormous, expensive, and totally unnecessary mess.

n2s
 
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