Dumbest thing YOU'VE done with a knife?

[Planterz]

Inspired by the "Dumbest thing someone else has done with your knife", what's the dumbest thing you've done with a knife (your own or somene elses).

Because face it, we've all done some stupid things before. And I don't mean just accidental cuts. Regardless of how enlightened we make ourselves seem compared to the knifeless, we're not perfect. And if you say you've never done something stupid yourself, you're lying. :footinmou

The dumbest thing I've done with a knife was with my Leatherman Wave. I'd just replaced a tire on my mountain bike, and for some reason, I felt like cutting it in half. So I pull out the serrated blade and start sawing. 15 seconds of sawing later, I haven't gotten anywhere. That's when I realized that the tire was steel beaded. The blade has been as dull as a butterknife ever since.

In Highschool, our marching band took a trip to Florida. We spent one day at Coco Beach, and a friend of mine had bought a boogieboard (a cheap foam half-surfboard thingy). I had it propped up against the wall and was throwing a dinky lockback I had into it. As he walked by, I threw the knife, and it bounced off and hit his leg. Small hole, nothing serious. But I felt pretty bad.

What stupid stuff have you done?

 

[The Porcupine]

Hmm....I tried to catch my Busse Anorexic Badger Attack when it fell once!
Thank God I am lousy at catching stuff! Instead it landed tip down and about 1/8" into a floorboard!
That thing is /%¤% sharp and would have done a bit of damage if I actually had caught it!

Bo Hansen

 

[T. Erdelyi]

Nothing dumb , alright maybe a little stupid.

One day when I was 15 I tried to stab/cut down a telephone pole with a non locking folder, IIRC it was a SAK, cut my index finger to the bone when the blade closed on me, should've gotten a half a dozen stiches but I didn't, instead I had 2 shots, 2 beers, and 2 aspirin(kinda sounds like that George Thorogood song, 1 Scotch, 1 Bourbon, 1 beer.) well anyway at 15 I didn't pay attention in Health and Biology class, who knew all those things would tin your blood and prevent it from clotting. .

I bled for 4 hours and lost what felt like a quart of blood , I was buzzed from the booze and flug blood all over everything, signs, store windows, passing cars(remeber now Aids hadn't even made it to this country yet so no one was freaked about the blood)

I finally lost so much blood I was getting light headed, I made it to my friends house(his mom was an ER nurse), there she stitched me up and sent me home with a paper cup of orange juice and a pretty good scolding(there's a word you don't hear to often anymore).

What I learned from that experience was never thin your blood when you've been cut, never use a folder when a fixed blade is needed, and it's good to know people in the medical field if your prone to acts of extreme stupidity.

 

[YTiger]

Hi,

I was about 10 Years old.
My Dad helped a neighbour to cut down a dead-tree.
The "coockies" were fetched to our garden and I played with my Victorinox Classic (This very little SAK) on them. End of the Game - a big cut down my hand ... Never more wished to have had a locking blade ...

Greetings
Olli

 

[thombrogan]

I cut my leg open at the knee practicing kung fu on the toilet.

 

[TorzJohnson]

Mmmmmm, "coockies".

 

[Gossman Knives]

The dumbest thing I did when I was 15 ( I learned alot three decades later ) I just finished sharpening a pocket knife and tried to cut through a hard plastic round cap from a hair spray can, the blade slipped off cut my thumb to the bone. I needed seven stitches and still have a vivid scar to remind me not to do dumb things with a sharp instrument. I do have another humous story that happened to someone else. Not humous to him though. Anyway I was set up at a gunshow selling knives and this guy wanted to show off his Syderco Mariner, He flips open the blade real cool and proceeds to toss the knife in the air catching it by the handle again trying to be cool. About the forth attempt he catches it by the blade looks down at his hand then looks at me and says oops I think I cut myself. He then justs walks away. Just goes to show you practice makes perfect. I guess he didn't practice that trick enough.
www.knifeshows.com/gossman ScoGo@aol.com

 

[Akwacko]

This isn't just an "accidental cut". It was really stupid on my part.

I was bringing some kids to a church for a class and we were supposed to prepare lunch. I just knew the knives there would all be dull so I decided to bring one of my Henckles from home the knife with a 6 inch chef's blade. Quite sharp at the time. When unloading the car I thought I'd put the unsheathed knfe in my heavy winter coat pocket. Well I forgot in was there and upon jamming my hand back into my pocket for my keys I put a nasty gash in two of my fingers! *$#!!#!!! I thought!! I didn't even swear in front of the kids. I just told a fellow teacher to drive me to the doctor for some stitches. Dumb!!!

Bruce

 

[Mindz_I]

Sharpening a large fixed blade in bare feet

Put the knife on my bench, turned round and brushed the knife off with my sleeve, knife tumbles to the floor and goes through the webby part of my foot pinning it to the floor.

A square reminder why you always wear good shoes in the workshop!

--

Using a Spyderco Cricket to open shrink wrapped packs of bottles plastic soda bottles in a bar I was working in, on a particularly busy night I underestimated the blade length and cut a slash in the side of 3 bottles causing lemonade to spill accross the bar floor (and my spydie to get rather sticky).

 

[Daniel Moore]

1) Threw and caught my Buck 110 a few times, missed the last time. It said a "hello" to the inside of my left foot, a month and a round of amoxicillin later it was all healed up.

2) Just recently, I was absent-mindedly fondling my SAK Soldier and it slipped out of my hand, hit the pavement, and I got some nice marring on the alox scales (it was all but in mint condition until then).

3) Freehand sharpened my Delica without taping the sides of the blade, got a few deep scratches.

 

[Tracer-san]

I stabbed a tree in rage with a Boker Speedlock... The ****er closed on me and I ended up with a nice cut on my pinky finger...

I'll have the 1,5" cut line for life

 

[metallicat]

Well on occasion I use my serrated police as a back scratcher. I was reaching behind and up to scratch between my shoulder blades when I buried the tip up to the first serration into my side and left a 3/4 inch gash there. There was blood but not too much pain. I guess its true what they say about sharp knives.

 

[James Muehlner]

While I've never stabbed myself in the back, I have done some dumb things. One I remember was when I was slashing at a shred of paper in my hand with my Spyderco Perrin. It kept getting smaller and smaller, but instead of getting a new piece I contiued to slash at it. I slashed at the paper, and at the end of the swing two things popped up in my mind: The paper was not cut at all, and my finger feels kind of wierd. Turns out I slashed cut a flap of skin about an inch long, half an inch wide, and 1/10 of an inch deep out of my left index finger, right on the left side of the third joint. I never did find it either... And that was before I even reprofiled my knife, it was still ripping the paper and not even cutting it. I guess that goes to show that a sharp knife is safer right?

 

[Morgoth412]

Well, this is an "indirect" knife accident. About 5 years ago me and my buddy decided that we were going to enter this abandoned 3 story building in the middle of the woods.. So we thought we should have some protection.

Pulling out my SAK I made us two spears out of branches on the ground.

Well we enter this tower and get up to the seconed floor. It's really creepy and dark inside. We enter this room, and all of a sudden: LOUD NOISE and SCREECHING!

So my buddy turns to run, and runs right into my spear!

Hit him a 1/4 inch below the eye!! So lucky I didn't take his eye out!!! He walked away with a little bloody spot and a bruise.
-Kevin
P.S.- The noise and screeching was a pigeon protecting its eggs. Upon reinspecting the site later the damn bird actually chased us out of the building.

 

[sasqualogist]

This was only a couple years ago.I was throwing my ontario kuhkri into my foam archery target,long story short I got to close and when I threw it it hit the handle and bounced back at me so I put up my arm instinctively to block it from hitting me and it put about a 1/2" deep x 1/2" wide slice into my forearm OOUUUCH!! %@#*%@_<

 

[Matt Shade]

I was carrying a 3.5" bladed hunter on my belt one day and used it to cut something working at the barn, peice of plastic pipe or something. That went fine but as I was going to put it back on my belt I dropped the damn thing and it fell perfectly point first onto my right foot. Went right through my boot and stuck there! It came very close to cutting an artery, but I got off with just having to replace my old boots and trying to keep a bandaid on top of my foot for a week. Have a small scar and I still miss those boots :grumpy:

I suppose free hand sharpening a 9" chefs knife and holding the stone in my left hand instead of leaving it on the bench would also qualify as one of my dumber moments. I lopped off the top of the first knuckle on my left middle finger. Didn't hurt, just felt a slight bump to my hand and looked down to see a dime sized hunk of skin missing. Had to go to the emergency room for that one.

 

[abo4ster]

One of my early (and favorite) forestry classes in college was dendrology. I was learning all the fruits of trees and shrubs and splitting them open for inspection. Stupidity on my part the way I was holding one as I split open the palm of my hand trying to force it. It was so deep the ER doctor almost stitched the inside before the 7 he put on the outside.

 

[qborchert]

Well, i'm ashamed to say that with my list it's a hard choice, so i'll go with the most recent. I was installing a latch plate on a door and there was just a small corner of wood that needed removing. Held the door with my left hand tried to cut out the wood, knife slipped, and 7 stitches in my left thumb later, I realized the stupidest thing about it was that I didn't walk 50 feet to pick up a wood chisel, THE RIGHT TOOL FOR THE JOB!

 

[Daniel Moore]

Wouldn't it be funny if someone posted a reply with the "Well..I guess we've all done stupid stuff" mentality and all of the sudden everyone said "Dude...that's just immature" or "What the hell were you thinking?" and started giving him the silent treatment?

 

[T. Erdelyi]

1) Threw and caught my Buck 110 a few times, missed the last time. It said a "hello" to the inside of my left foot, a month and a round of amoxicillin later it was all healed up.

2) Just recently, I was absent-mindedly fondling my SAK Soldier and it slipped out of my hand, hit the pavement, and I got some nice marring on the alox scales (it was all but in mint condition until then).

3) Freehand sharpened my Delica without taping the sides of the blade, got a few deep scratches.

"Dude...that's just immature" or "What the hell were you thinking?" and we're gonna give you the silent treatment?