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Runs With Scissors

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We've all read threads and stories about knives saving lives, some of the folks here have related a few, but what I'm looking for is how many such stories there are where it was a particular make or model that saved the day when no other would do...

ie: thanks to my Emerson Commander being the fastest deploying folder made I was able to cut the rope loose from around my reproductive organs as the herd of wild horses plunged onward....

Thanks to the tools on my Leatherman I was able to replace the shear pin on my Outboard motor, fire it up and get up river before hitting the waterfalls...

Thanks to the mighty Strider I was carrying I was able to plunge my knife into solid rock after falling 600 feet and suspend my wieght from the handle, thusly saving myself from plumetting another 800 to a sure death....

Thanks to the can opener on my Victorinox I was able to open a can of sweetened, condensed milk and save myself from going into diabetic shock....

I'm sure you kinda get the point now. In such instances are there many where it HAD to be knife xxxxxxxx, or could it have been most anything with an edge? if the answer is yes, what kinda knife did it HAVE to be?

As for myself, no such occassions come to mind, but I do love to read and learn....thanks in advance for your thoughts!
 
You forgot about "Thanks to the cocktail fork on my Leatherman Flair, I was able to get the last olive out of the bottle and make a Martini. I mean being castrated would be annoying. Going over a waterfall? I'd get soaked, which would be annoying. Falling 1400 feet? that would probably leave a lump, which would be annoying. Diabetic shock? That's annoying too. But missing the day's Martini... I'd just have to kill myself."
 
Originally posted by Gollnick
You forgot about "Thanks to the cocktail fork on my Leatherman Flair, I was able to get the last olive out of the bottle and make a Martini. I mean being castrated would be annoying. Going over a waterfall? I'd get soaked, which would be annoying. Falling 1400 feet? that would probably leave a lump, which would be annoying. Diabetic shock? That's annoying too. But missing the day's Martini... I'd just have to kill myself."
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Good Gawd!! what kind of beast could even consider mentioning such a disaster outloud??!!

looks like six more years of psycho-therapy for me...just when I thought I was making progress...:D
 
I had a radiator hose blow out near the gooseneck on the engine block on an old Datsun B210, in the middle of the night in a very bad section of a city. If it wasn't for my leatherman Super Tool I wouldn't have been able to remove one end of the hose and cut it, than cut the reinforcing wire in the hose, and hook it back up, after adding a gallon of water,(I always keep water/antifreeze mix & oil in the trunk) I was home before any foul play could befall me and I was only 15 late getting home.

How's that for a If I didn't have my Leatherman story? :)
 
Thanks to my Victorinox SAK's bottle opener, corkscrew and tweezers (don't ask), I've kept many a good party going. :D
 
I was walking home through Central Park one afternoon, and came across a few winos trying unsuccessfully to open their bottle. I whipped out my trusty Victorinox, popped up the corkscrew (to cheers and applause) and opened it for them. That was the first time I ever saved a life with a knife :D

Some years later, no longer carrying the SAK, I had my Leatherman Supertool with me. I tried to go through my usual Central Park field, going home, which now had a fence up, and ran into mud, and a bulldozer. I asked the guy how I could get through, and he told me I had to go back the way I came. Not happy. When I got back to the fence, they had locked it. (He saw they did, too, and wouldn't tell me.) Out came the Supertool, and sheared right through the chain. I walked out and left the gate wide open behind me.
 
Hmm...hadn't it been for the "large" screwdriver on my LM Micra, I would probably still be trying to change a faulty ignition module on my old Citroen AX 14 ..... and I don't even have the friggin car anymore!:D
Seriously, the LM Micra was all there was room for besides my little, delicate hand!

Of course there was also this one time at band camp...no wait, that's something else completely.....;)

Bo
 
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