Jim March
Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
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This is a story I told a LONG time ago on KF long before this board started up...but I figured Buck would enjoy it.
About a year and a half ago I moved to Richmond, California. I had several good roomies, including one lady who'd just recently become a mother. She had decent attitudes about self defense but poor thinking about "the evils of weapons". Soooo...her fiance and I pondered setting her up with at least some cutlery but...it had to be something she'd carry.
After pondering at a couple of knife shops, I found a River Rafter. I realized that one classic "baby emergency" is getting Jr. out of complex baby car carriers post-crash and that packing a sheepsfoot would be ideal for that sort of problem. And you CAN fight with a sheepsfoot, for that matter a serrated blade would make the typical untrained reaction of "slash like a cuisinart gone ape" rather effective.
Sure enough she carried it daily.
Did I mention that Richmond is a "drug supermarket" that's broken into the top-10-per-capita US murder rate per city SEVERAL times in the last decade?
So one day she's getting off a bus in nearby Oakland, also not a paradise. She was pushing her stroller away when two "deep thinkers" got off the bus behind her, walked up to her and said "Gimme your money, (female dog)!".
"What?"
"Gimme your (copulating) money!"
"OK, HERE!" and of course she pulls that Buck.
Try to picture a woman dragging Jr. in a stroller with one hand, advancing on these clowns waving the knife and yelling "YOU SONS OF (FEMALE DOGS), YOU MAYBE GOTTA GUN BUT THIS SUCKER'S SERRATED IT AND IT -=WON'T=- -=HEAL=-!!!".
"Whoa, lady, it's cool, bye!" and they bugged out.
What was really cool was that the bus driver called it in, the cops showed up and rounded up the morons in question. They were busted for strongarm robbery. The lady was questioned on scene by Oakland PD, NOT known for good attitudes towards civilian defensive weapons.
"Lady, what the hell are you doing with THIS thing on you!?"
"It's in case I ever have to cut my baby out of his car seat carrier, it's a rescue knife!"
They not only bought it, they didn't charge her, harass her, haul her off OR even grab the knife! Spectacularly good behavior for inner-city Calif. cops.
Anyways...I thought you guys would enjoy.
Jim March (who hasn't forgotten AB78...and BTW, have you considered a TI-coat sheepsfoot blade combined with the hook tool already on the Solitaire Hunter, you'd have close to the ultimate PD/EMT rescue knife? Harden the pommel somehow so it can be held closed and used as a window smasher mebbe?)
About a year and a half ago I moved to Richmond, California. I had several good roomies, including one lady who'd just recently become a mother. She had decent attitudes about self defense but poor thinking about "the evils of weapons". Soooo...her fiance and I pondered setting her up with at least some cutlery but...it had to be something she'd carry.
After pondering at a couple of knife shops, I found a River Rafter. I realized that one classic "baby emergency" is getting Jr. out of complex baby car carriers post-crash and that packing a sheepsfoot would be ideal for that sort of problem. And you CAN fight with a sheepsfoot, for that matter a serrated blade would make the typical untrained reaction of "slash like a cuisinart gone ape" rather effective.
Sure enough she carried it daily.
Did I mention that Richmond is a "drug supermarket" that's broken into the top-10-per-capita US murder rate per city SEVERAL times in the last decade?
So one day she's getting off a bus in nearby Oakland, also not a paradise. She was pushing her stroller away when two "deep thinkers" got off the bus behind her, walked up to her and said "Gimme your money, (female dog)!".
"What?"
"Gimme your (copulating) money!"
"OK, HERE!" and of course she pulls that Buck.
Try to picture a woman dragging Jr. in a stroller with one hand, advancing on these clowns waving the knife and yelling "YOU SONS OF (FEMALE DOGS), YOU MAYBE GOTTA GUN BUT THIS SUCKER'S SERRATED IT AND IT -=WON'T=- -=HEAL=-!!!".
"Whoa, lady, it's cool, bye!" and they bugged out.
What was really cool was that the bus driver called it in, the cops showed up and rounded up the morons in question. They were busted for strongarm robbery. The lady was questioned on scene by Oakland PD, NOT known for good attitudes towards civilian defensive weapons.
"Lady, what the hell are you doing with THIS thing on you!?"
"It's in case I ever have to cut my baby out of his car seat carrier, it's a rescue knife!"
They not only bought it, they didn't charge her, harass her, haul her off OR even grab the knife! Spectacularly good behavior for inner-city Calif. cops.
Anyways...I thought you guys would enjoy.
Jim March (who hasn't forgotten AB78...and BTW, have you considered a TI-coat sheepsfoot blade combined with the hook tool already on the Solitaire Hunter, you'd have close to the ultimate PD/EMT rescue knife? Harden the pommel somehow so it can be held closed and used as a window smasher mebbe?)
