Don't buy your khukuris from this guy!!

Yes, we remember that well. There were a few threads on these forums back when that happened. The funny thing was that this was not an isolated incident. The HSN boys had on other ocassions managed to cut themselves and obviously bleed while on the air, hack up the set (swinging stuff around wildly), and even had a subconscious sword fight (one guy swinging a sword around in all directions, while the other speaking and looking into the camera, actually picks up a sword just to keep the first guy from hitting him in the face- the swords actually make contact at least twice!).

The HSN Knife Collector's Show has been a long running series of blunders. Many of us use to tune in for the unintentional comedy.

n2s
 
I've seen that clip before. You'd think that after several on-air blade breakages that they'd learn not to sell that cheap crap as "the real deal". I mean in some goofy HSN guy can snap off a 3" piece of steel by banging it into a table a couple times, then what is some moron going to do to himself when he opens up his "real deal authentic Highlander dragon sword" and smacks it into a tree?

Jake
 
I've watched that a hundred times. I hate to get pleasure from someone else's pain, but if you sell crap like that.....
My favorite part is the text on the screen.

3 Pieces with stand.
440 Stainless
LIFETIME WARRANTY

Then there's the sound.
Whack, Whack, Whack OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Steve
 
You know, i just went back and watched that again. i bought that exact same POS sword at a flea market when i was about 16. I'm not shocked in the least that it broke. If it is indeed the same sword as the one i had then it is a piece of Pakistani crap. The HSN and its ilk crack me up with what garbage they sell. Just like the 180 piece Frost Cutlery collection for 120 bucks or something. "Act now and we will GIVE you the Combat Raider Ultra-Killer Black Bear Survival Bowie with premium faux-leather sheath. This is made of premium, i mean premium, high quality surgical 440 stainless steel. This is the real-deal. This is an exact replica of what our special forces carry in Iraq. I'm also told that the space marines will be taking this to Mars to fight aliens in the future. Let me tell you folks, -every- collector is after this knife. I've seen this knife sell for as much as $18,000 dollars plus a healthy kidney. We had it here back 3 months ago, and it sold out in only 14 seconds. Hurry up and get on the line. you don't want to miss this one." Bluh.

Jake
 
Yea. I had that clip saved to my computer before it crashed. Every time I see it I have to watch it a half dozen times and always get a big laugh outta it!:D
 
I had heard about it but never saw the link.

Thanks for posting it! Had wanted to see it forever.

Karma can be a bitch :D
 
Picture this:

Two people using swords like that in mock combat: overhead block of a downward strike to the head--attackers sword tip breaks off and drives into opponents face at high speed :eek:

They damn well better sell those with a HUGE disclaimer that you shouldn't be doing anything with those besides looking at them from a safe distance.

I am so glad that the people selling it got hurt and thereby saved many others from the same fate...
 
The scary thing is I know people that will watch that clip and see that POS "sword" disintegrate with a couple of soft whacks on the table, and will STILL place an order for one thinking that it was just a one-off accident.

A friend of mine proudly showed me his $14.99 Rambo style "survival knife" with no tang, pot metal steel, with two fishhooks in the handle. Genuine PLASTIC sheath, I kid you not. Just the thing for those rambo style emergencies. He borrowed my DMT sharpener to "put an edge on it", and the edge literally shaved off in big pieces, so he told me my sharpener was ruining his knife. I told him gently that the Lyle knife from which this crap was copied retailed for $750 when they were made in the 80's, and that ANY mid-range quality production knife would serve him better.

Nice guy, but a total idiot when it came to knives; just the kind those dorks at HSN appeal to.

Great video. Instant justice. The guy sounded like Dan Acroyd playing Julia Child on SNL: "Oh, ah, I think I've really cut something here, oh, darn!"

Regards,

Norm
 
I have to say that the guy kept his poise pretty good for just being stabbed in the chest. "Oh yeah, yep. got me good." Kudoes to him for trying to tough it out. Of course, i would have rather been hit in the chest with that piece of steel. think about how bad it would have been had it hit him in the face! owie.

Jake
 
The thing is, at 4 in the morning, you can't sleep, you start saying, hey, 500 knives for a hundred dollars, what a great deal and stuff like that. :p Thanks to everyone on this forum for keeping me from buying stupid stuff like that.

For about the same price as buying one of those those POS packages, and based upon what I've read here, I've picked up a Schrade Sharpfinger, X-Timer folder, Ka-BAr USMC and a HI WWII. I don't know, but I think those will come in a little handier than the ninja sword!
 
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