Dumbest thing someone else has done with your knife

the reason i carry knives is to cut stuff, so i dont really mind if someone cuts something with my knife. I carry a Buck 110 because of its ease of replacement, and its built like a tank, so i figure no one can hurt it anyway. the only thing that gets me mad is the stupid male syndrome that makes all of my friends try to wave it around and stab me with it. of course they arent serious, but theyre pretty darn clumsy too. that always results in me taking the knife back and them not getting to use it again.
 
I almost always keep one knife on me to use, and one to hand to somebody to cut stuff. Just in case "stuff" happens to be a brick or some other stupid crap! I've had lots of assclowns use my knife as a screwdriver, cut stuff you shouldn't cut with it, scrape grout with it, etc.... I eventually got tired of it and started carrying an "assclown blade", just to lend to "bubba".
 
Was in a motorcycle shop talking to the owner about a possible valve job on my bike. One of his mechanics yells out "anyone got a knife?" as he is bent over another customer's bike. My hand reaches instinctively to my (now retired) Endura II SE, but I pause and decide against it. One of the other mechanics pulls out a Buck 110 from a sheath and hands it to mechanic #1. #1 opens it and proceeds to use the knife blade to short the starter solenoid terminals on the customer's harley to crank the engine. Sparks fly! Blade is toast!
I look at the owner (also a witness to the act) and say I'll be going somewhere else.
 
I went backpacking as a teenager with some friends. While I was setting up the tent, one of the guys asked to borrow my machete. They wanted to gather some wood to start a fire. Sure why not? I was busy and it was kind of cool that day; a good fire would warm things up nicely.

About 15 minutes later the tent is up, and I walk over to warm up by the fire. There is no fire going yet; but, the guy does have a very neat looking stack of sticks piled up nearby. Then I see him standing there with the machete in one hand and a tree limb in the other. He is using a large bolder as a chopping block; lays the limb on the flat rock, and chops off a length of it with the machete. Sparks are literally flying with every swing. The machete's now sported what looked like a sawtooth edge.

I just kind of stood there and watched. That was the last time that I ever loaned a knife to anyone.

n2s
 
I was in highschool, helping build the scene for our prom. Stupid redneck-type guy who'd never used an SAK borrowed mine and tried to saw through this very thick cardboard tube with about 3/4 inch walls and about 6 or 8 inches in diameter. Warped the saw blade beyond repair.

Stupidest thing I've ever done with my knife, used a Spyderco Delica to cut the little safety thing out of the end of some industrial-strength drano type stuff and got some bad acid stains all over the blade. Never done anything overly dangerous with one.
 
I work at a grocery store here in Georgia and one day (a very rainy day) we were up front putting candy out on the racks that sit beside the registers, we all know them...the ones loaded with candy that you grab at the last minute on the way out. Well a fellow employee who is 16 yrs. old asks to borrow my knife so he could open a box that was taped, I said sure. Now there was not hesitation in my mind because he carries a knife most of the time with no problem. I didn't see him for a little while and then he comes back gripping his thumb like it's in a death grip with blood running down his arm and said he hurt himself. He claims he was goofin off in the back room and cut his hand in produce on a wire that was protruding from a box but there is no way it was possible, he cut himself in the fleshy area between his index and thumb and cut it down to the muscle. I bring him to the bathroom and try to clean him up and good God it's deep, thinking about my knife I ask him if he cut himself with that and he swore up and down that he didn't do it with that. He gives it back to me and I put it in my pocket and took him to the hospital to get stiches. Since I was the manager on duty I took him there and had to sign paperwork for him since he is underage and stuff, kinda embarassing. All in all they stich 'em up and we get back to work etc and I don't think about the knife till later when I go to use it and low and behold there is blood ON THE BLADE! Now the only way there could be blood on the blade is if it was open at the time he was bleeding, not in his pocket. I later confronted him about this and the evidence that he did it and feels stupid about it but he won't admit to it no matter what. I learned a valuable lesson, don't lend anyone your pocket knife, serious matters can come about from thier mistakes.

BTW the knife was a Kershaw Vapor II, and I had just sharpened it that morning...wicked sharp, guess he found out.

David
 
my friend asks to see my knife for a sec (spyderco delica) so I give it to him and find out after the fact that he used it to try to open a locked door by jamming in-between door and door jam and stabbing at the metal lock. naturally the tip was all chipped and scratched. But thing that kills me about these idiots that screw up your knives - is they think YOUR a jerk for being upset and they say something stupid like "c'mon..it's a knife!" yes - it IS a knife... why were you using it as a flatbar??

just the other day my father (trying to be slick) - tries coming up behind me and pulling my waved emerson from my pocket -ends up throwing the razor sharp half open knife across the room luckily not hitting anyone. I didnt say a word - didnt need to.. nothing could have made him feel like more of an ass LOL
 
i never thought this would happen to me, but when i was distracted talking to my agent, my subcontractor came to us and asked for my knife
turns out he was cutting drywall with it :mad:
best part was he dropped it and dinged the blade something bad

you know, you always have that thing about not lending knives in the back of your head, but when you're doing work, you just forget
 
Store I used to work at, one of the part-time employees borrowed a CRKT M-16 from one of her department's full-time employees. She managed to slam it tip-first into the stone floor, chipping the tip.
Actually cost her the job....
 
i swapped for a gerber guardian last week, and my bud rob was over when my wife brought me the package, i opened it up, looked at it/etc, then rob wanted to see it, i tossed it to him, he was holding it in his left hand w/fingers pressing the release levers in, and pulled HARD on the knife (why?? rob wondered too) cutting the heck outta his little finger right around the cuticle, he tossed knife on the couch and said he needed a towel he had cut himself (this all happened in seconds) i tossed him a kleenex, and he said "no, this is worse than that", i looked closely (i thought he had just nipped a finger) and the cut had sprayed blood on his leg, arm, stomach (i mean SPRAYED, talk about a bio hazard lol) so i got him a wet towel to clean up and some gauze my wife keeps for emergencies, it stopped bleeding fairly quickly suprisingly, he musta cut an artery to spray like that imho, my wife wrapped it up for him, no stitches, he's a frame carpenter contractor, and tough and used to cuts, so no ER, but it hadda hurt. he said "why would i do that, that was dumb".

later i remembered back in '82 or so, i had gotten a gerber mark 1 and rob had also cut himself looking at that one (dont remember the details) too, reminded him about it, he remembered, and said " i dont wanna see any gerber knives ya get anymore, do not let me touch them" lol

man i was just glad he was ok, i havent seen blood like that since deer season lol.

greg
 
One guy ran his thumb along the small (scalpel sharp blade of one of my SAK's). This is when I was about 10 years old. It is the only one of my knives that has cut anyone other than me, and I wouldn't be surprised if his blood is still on that blade.

Same stupid guy borrowed a knife from my mum's kitchen for 'protection' - I never should have let him take it, but...

Some time later, the guy held me hostage with his own knife. In retrospect, he probably wouldn't have hurt me, and the knife was probably bulnt as a butterknife, but I was 10 and he scared the sh!t out of me. :mad:

I still like knives, though ;)

Many people have tried to force liner locks closed while pushing on the spring, I'm surprised none have cut themselves.

I lent my calypso jr to a friend and he tried to cut whatever he needed to cut with the swedge on the back!

The stupidest of all, though, was when I showed my Lum Chinese to someone. He said "oh, man! thats a mean, deadly weapon" or something to that effect. He said this while sitting in the back of my car with a sharp, paul chen wakazashi that he'd just bought sitting across his lap. I was dumbstruck.
 
Posted this a bit back in the Spyderco room.

I referbed a Spyderco Delica for a coworker, and another coworker wanted to see how sharp I got it. So he dragged the fully serrated blade along his arm trying to shave it. Half a dozen or so red lines 1.5" long sprung up and began to drip. He's still got a couple of the scars; it looks like a cat scratched him.
 
Was having a cookout with a bunch of friends and my buddy asks to borrow my knife which was a Benchmade Spike that day. Normally I'd ask what they need it for. But I didn't this time, figured he was just going to open a package of hot dogs or something. I look over and see him holding some hamburgers that were frozen together in one hand while trying to separate them by pushing the knife point first between them. Before I had a chance to stop him the hamburgers separate and he drives the knife into his palm. I've never let him or anyone else borrow a knife again.
 
A guy that works down the hall from me came in, chit-chaded for a min, then he ask to borrow my knife. My first thought was " no problem". Then my inner voice starts talking to me. So I ask him what he going to cut. He says " Oh I just want to clean my finger nails with it. I know guy well. In home life he is not a clean person. His work gets VERY NASTY. You really don't want to know the kind of stuff that would be under his nails. I put my knife back in my pocket and hand him a paperclip. I told im that my Endura was so sharp that it would probably take his fingernail off. From then on out I don't loan my knives. If I can't cut it for you, then it won't get cut.
 
Loaned my then-brand-new BM 710HS to some customer who was also carrying a knife. He decided to test its sharpness with his tongue.

So, I decided I wouldn't let strangers see my knives anymore.

Then I got a BM 43MC. I let three different friends (at three different times) see it who were already acquainted with balisongs (wouldn't have otherwise), and they each did the following almost identically:
1. Opened it with two hands to check which handles were safe and bite.
2. Did a basic horizontal opening and closing.
3. Turned it around while closed, admiring the quality.
4. Did a basic horizontal opening and closing again, only this time they're holding the bite handle.

None of them cut themselves, strangely, but I've now decided that nobody's going to handle the 43 unless they can do aerials.
 
I can't stop reading this thread, even though it's like going to the track to watch a car crash. Some of your "friends" make me wince.

LyonHaert said:
... only this time they're holding the bite handle.
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I read that, then read it again, then I laughed -- they knew you knew they knew how to handle a balisong, so they were being sooo careful that they weren't just doing it the way their muscle memory would have known how.

When did they realize what they had done? :D
 
LyonHaert said:
Loaned my then-brand-new BM 710HS to some customer who was also carrying a knife. He decided to test its sharpness with his tongue.
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Wow, that's one I never heard of before. I guess there is no end to the lengths people will go to to hurt themselves. :eek:
 
Ow!! How many different parts of their anatomy do some people
need to test knives on?
 
Circa '83 I had a really ugly knife that was made by a neighbor in the local shipyard from an annealed file & some basic wooden slab handles. Nothing special, but I liked it & it was sharp as hell & I'd had it for years. A friend pulls it out of the back seat of my car & tries to play Daniel Boone by throwing it into a telephone pole. I was too far away to stop him. One loud 'ping' and the blade was snapped off right @ the handle. :mad:

In 1986 I had left my Kershaw Amphibian (in those days, that was a serious 'tactical') on the kitchen counter after coming home- the next day, I get in late from work & find the tip broken off. My girlfriend and her best friend (one of my roommates) had tried to use my knife to cut frozen chicken & sent it sailing onto the tile floor.

Almost forgot this one- our building super (in NYC) used one of my Livesay Woo's to pry up lineoleum tiles in the kitchen. The ex gave it to him to use because it had a nice chisel-like tip. The goo was almost impossible to get off. (soaked it in gasoline & scrubbed like hell)

As for my friends using my knives- there is a small core of my friends who I trust not to wreck my blades. Others will use my knives & then return them to me as if they were made of glowing refined Uranium. Everybody else either gets a beater to use, or I'll do the job myself.
 
Good thing this isn't the "dumbest thing someone else has done with your GUN" thread. You don't want to know.

On the flip side, the LEAST dumb thing someone else did with my knife was a woman borrowed my brand new Swiss Army Champion (I don't think I even tried out all the attatchments) and, according to her, fended off a would-be attacker/rapist/??? I let her keep the knife.
 
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