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Jaeger

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I just read somewhere (I think it might have been Shooting Times) that a manufacturer of khurkuris is being sued because someone using the knife cut themselves! This isn't you is it Uncle Bill? If it is please allow me to borrow a 20" AK and give me the man's address!

Mike
 
I saw a reference to this in Jeff Cooper’s commentaries, at www.concentric.net/~mkeithr/jeff/index.html .

Maybe Bill published his poem admonishing users not to drop their khukuris on their toes to discourage possible litigants. (see www.bladeforums.com/ubb/Forum26/HTML/000168.html ) . I look forward to future poems about khukuris and fingers, khukuris and legs, etc..
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[This message has been edited by Howard Wallace (edited 08 May 1999).]
 
No, it isn't us Mike, thankfully.

I think we have gone too far in this society. I am waiting for a lawsuit against God.

Should I put a warning label on the khukuris saying, "Danger. This can cut!"

Unlce Bill

[This message has been edited by Bill Martino (edited 08 May 1999).]
 
One day a bad guy will get cut by his victim and will sue for criminal neglegence when he contracts tetanus.

Make sure your blades are clean. You could get sued.

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No, I was never lost. But I was mighty bewildered one time for three days.

--- Daniel Boone
 
Better that his estate should sue than him. ( Did I say that?, Naah, couldn't have been me. )
 
I was showing my Ang Khola to my cousin a while back. After explaining its Nepalese origin I handed it to her. She turned it over and remarked on the craftsmanship. Then she put her thumb on the edge, and as I watched in amazement, ran her thumb over the curved section of the blade. It happened too quickly for me to say anything.

Of course her thumb opened right up and red blood started flowing. She looked at her thumb in amazement and said "It didn’t feel sharp." She spent the rest of the evening sucking her thumb.

Now I am more careful to warn anyone to whom I hand a sharp knife.
 
Howard,

I get chills up the spine just thinking about that. Yet, in my not so far away, stupid days, I had the done the same.
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The funny thing, you really don't feel the slice the first few seconds. Somehow, the pain and the sight of blood occur almost simultaneously...
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I wonder if anyone would be tempted by the inside curve of the khukuri.... Gee, that seems to fit around the side of my neck...

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Bill,

As silly as it sounds many knives come with the warnings such as: danger sharp this can cut you. I have seen this warning even on rather dull knives.

Will
 
Yes, it was in Col. Cooper's commentaries that I saw that snippet. I'm glad to hear it is not you Uncle Bill.

I agree with you wholeheartedly about the excessively litigious nature of our society. But when the lawyers are making billions of dollars per year and our judicial and legislative personel are made up primarily of lawyers I cannot be too optimistic about this situation getting any better any time soon.
 
Generally, yes.

Many guns (like Rugers) have warnings stamped into the barrels. Talk about UGLY!!!

Mike
 
There are warning labels on everything now. Even the radioactive samples that are in the undergraduate labs have "do not eat" stamped on them. I recently bought an axe and it had a very extensive warning label stuck on it. I personally don't see any sense in this as anyone who can't figure this stuff out is not likely to be able to read anyway. It is sad though from a legal sense that it is necessary.

-Cliff
 
Hi Bill,

I wish they only used labels. The following adorns the barrel of my Mannlicher stock Ruger #1...

"Before using gun - read warnings in instruction manual available free from..."
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Cheers,

--+Brian+--

 
I guess I'll have to put a warning in my guarantee when I send out a khukuri. I am an old dinosaur and never thought it would come to this -- shows how smart I am.

Uncle Bill
 
Bill, you were smart enough not to get sued by the idiot who cut himself with a khukuri.

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JP
 
I saw a news item last week about a man who's suing God. I don't remember what for, but he argued if God doesn't show up on the trial date the judge would have to issue a default judgement against Him....

The judge threw it out, of course, but the suit was filed.

-Cougar Allen :{)
 
I, personally, am waiting for a lawsuit to be filed against a ladder manufacturer by someone who slipped on one of their warning stickers.

Bill? I think you could have a fun time asking for proposals for a HI warning label.
Hmmm...I already can think of a few...


Mike


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Hey! Uncle Sam!

(_!_) Nyah nyah nyah!

Refund! You lose! :)


 
Uncle Bill, here's a suggestion for an appropriate HI warning - I just came from a gun show where a custom knifemaker had the following sign on his display of very pretty (and expensive) knives: "Caution! Fondle VERY carefully!"
 
Actually, when I was a youngster I ran across a few females who should have worn that sign.

Uncle Bill
 
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