Dumbest thing someone else has done with your knife

I forgot one...

my flat mates are always putting my temperance in the cutlery drainer or unsheathed in a drawer, they've also used it to cut stuff on ceramic plates.

:mad: :rolleyes:

I've had to grind out quite a few dings, by now. Generally I try to avoid them getting their hands on it but I cant be there all the time.
 
Well my wife just ran my Opinel #8 through our dishwasher........two weeks after I told her that it has to be handwashed and dried...
Well I spotted it in the cutlery rack and it was rusted and stuck in the open position :mad:
Right now its sitting in Mineral oil and hopefully I can bring it back from the dead.

Kap :grumpy:
 
Esav Benyamin said:
When did they realize what they had done? :D
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About the time it was already in motion. They probably backed off on the swinging motion so it the edge wouldn't actually ricochet. It would explain how they didn't get cut, because I keep that thing sharp.
 
Stupidest question I've ever got: sitting in a group of 12+ colledge age kids, most of whom are trying to get a board game open. "Anyone got a knife?" So I pull out my CRKT PK Companion (Fixed Blade BTW) and hand it to one of the gals who just happens to hunt w/ her dad and bro, so I figure she's at least handeled a knife. Not too worried about damage, as it's a cheapie and I beat on it myself. I get distracted and about 10 min later come back over, and the entire group is trying to <B><I>close it!</B></I> How do you close this? You don't. Huh? It's stays like that, it's a fixed blade. Huh? Give me that.
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Worst thing someone's ever done: About a week ago I got my brand new CS Safe Keeper 3. I'd intended it to live in my pocket, never to be seen by mortal men (since the BG should never see it coming and that would be it's only purpose ;) ). So it's got that great shaving edge on it. My bro sees it, unsheathes it, and then immediatly used the edge to shave the corner off the top of my wooden dresser. I managed to stop him before he punched it but I was pissed!
 
OK here is two more:
A good friend told me when he was a punk teen trying to be cool in front of his friends. Took his folder, and slapped what he thought the dull back part of his single edge folder on his leg to close it. You know what's coming. Had the knife backwards, and sliced his leg in front of his friends.

My 85 year father in law took my hatchet out of the garden shead, and proceeded to chop the grass growing out of the concrete. It was a couple of weeks before I found out, and my hatchet (not expensive) has a edge that is 1/4" wide now. I decided to let him keep having his way with it, and never made a comment about it. He says it works great.
 
Alberto Salas said:
Once a coworker asked me for my SAK for open a can. When he gives me back the knife, I realize that he open the can with the blade! Obviously, it was chipped and dull :mad:
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Exactly the same happened to me!!! I don't know how I managed to remain calm and not do anything inhuman to that [censored] ))))))))))
 
I never let anyone handle my knives, unless I am sitting within an armlenght's reach (following the "be veeeery carefull or else" speach). Also, I never let nobody barrow even my cheapest, crappiest fixed blades.
I only give a cheezy butterfly, or an even cheezier brandless automatic away for small cutting jobs.

Last time I let someone check my CS Magnum XII, the first thing the SOB did was get his greasy hands all over the blade ): (
Same happened with a real katana(!), which seems to beg for "sharpness testing" by my stupid friends.

My "real" knives are like a girlfriend: let 'em look and admire, but NO touching (let alone "barrowing" ^_^)

Never again!

Yesterday, I have even moved all but my louziest knives back to my parents house, since I cannot trust some of my roommates : (
 
Long time ago, in Germany during my army days I met a girl from the UK. Of course it didn't take long for us to end up in a hotel room for the evening. While I was in the bathroom, She, laying naked on the bed, grabbed my switchblade from the bedside table. I was arriving about the time I saw her push the button, get scared when the blade snapped open, causing her to drop it. In slow motion I watched that knife begin to fall, blade pointing down towards her, with me in no position to do anything.

The blade kept spinning fortunately and it landed flat, sideways on her pretty young 20 year old stomache. She began giggleing, and I began having a heart attack, imagining myself trying to explain to the German police why there was a dead. naked, stabbed girl laying in my bed. They would have buried me under the prison, being an american soldier. Fortunately nothing happened except me learning a HUGE lesson about allowing other people to have the opportunity to get at my knives ( guns and keys are in that catagory now too). Live, and learn if you're lucky. Joe
 
I was taught by my father, from a very young age how to respectcare for and handle knives. I was told that one should always carry a pocketknife of some kind. advance many years later and I learned very quickly my husband does not have my respect of tools or knives. I am a self-confessed FANATIC about caring for them and keeping them clean and in their place. Now I carry my good knife in my purse and a cheapie in my pocket because someone is ALWAY asking if they can borrow my knife. Keep the good stuff away from the idiots is my motto.
 
I gave one of my first knives (a Buck) to a co-worker that said he was an expert in sharpening knives. I got it back and it was about an 1/8 of an inch shorter and the blade was all scratched up. Seems like he used a grinder to sharpen it. BTW, it was still dull when I got it back.
 
Dumbest thing was MEEEEE >_< demonstrating how I could flip open the knife (gerber folder) just by flicking your wrist the right way and the knife slips out of my hands and buries its point in my leg ( I was sitting at the time) owwwwww D'oh!!! One time a mover grabs my open knife ( I was trying to help him get a sofa into a house and he prys something, breaking the tip right off instantly .

third thing was using a pommel of a dive knife to break open a conch shell, and the whole 'removable for easy cleaning!' handle falls right off into the water. I replaced the lost plastic parts with rope saturated in epoxy resin, and still have the knife to this day.

I dont loan knives out usually, I just say "I was hoping YOU had one we could use!". and avoid using knives where there are people who might want to "see it"
 
While not really dumb, (it's something I would do), one of my Sgts. at work asked to use my knife, a relatively new SOG Trident tigerstripe. He proceeded to slice the top off of a soda can to use as a tobacco spitter. Obviously no damage to the blade, but the finish didn't fare so well.

My father asked to use my knife once, also a SOG (Flash II). when I came back to the house, he handed me a knife that wouldn't cut butter. I found out that he had used it to carpet the entire upstairs of the house......Four rooms. He said it worked great, even as it was getting dull.

I've learned to only lend out my less expensive knives.;)
 
My policy is never to hand my knife to anyone else. If the person who is asking to borrow it doesn't carry a knife, then he/she probably has no idea how to use it. The knife's not that important, but the person's likely to injure him/herself with it.

I'll cut whatever they need cut, but they aren't doing it with my knife.
 
I lent a friend my Schrade Sharp finger for a camping trip, he had no knife and wanted to have just a small one for his belt. The knife and sheath were in mint condition, and concidering how careful he was with his own stuff I didn't think it would be a problem.

Well after 3 days he returned the knife to me. Nothing wrong with the knife, but the sheath was hacked to pieces with the way he used the sheath. He must have litterally jammed the knife into the case. :eek: All the stitching was sliced, and the tip of the blade was cutting through the backside of the leather.

Never ever ever again will I lend him or anyone else a knife. Other instances people either sliced their fingers open, or they return the knife dirty getting crud into the sheaths.

Lending a knife is not a good policy.:mad:
 
MelancholyMutt said:
I severed a live ac power line with a German Paratrooper knife. The short blew an inch off the tip of the knife.
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holy shit! :eek:

Next time someone asks to borrow a knife, I am definately asking "what for?". Some of the things in this thread are unbelievable.
 
I lent a Gerber multi tool to a buddy I worked with to cut some rope. He always carried a knife but had forgot it that day so I wasnt worried since he does take care of his knives. The only difference was he sharpened his knives with a carbide v sharpener and I used diamond stones to get a scapel edge. He applied way to much pressure on the knife blade since he was used to his blades being so dull. Unfortunately he was cutting towards himself and when the blade cut through the rope it kept going and and stuck about 3/4" into his leg. Had he been 4 inches to his left he would have probably stuck the blade through his balls. He now is very carefull and has a respect for my sharpening ability.
 
Man this thread needs to be resurrected every Halloween, given the horror stories herein.
 
After having the tip snapped off of a knife I lent someone who used it as a prybar I always ask what someone wants to use it for before lending it. So if it is something other than cutting the answer is no. Still, even with this precaution, I have had three people who before doing their cutting actually run a finger along the edge, I guess to test for sharpness. and of course cut themselves. One of them even asked me what I needed such a sharp knife for. I could not come up with a suitably stupid answer.
 
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