First Knife that Gave You a BAD CUT

My first one was with a boy scout knife (yes, it is surprising that it would be sharp enough). I was trying to cut the skin off a golf ball and it slipped and I stabbed/cut the palm of my hand. Mom just wrapped it in cloth and took said knife away (Dad gave it back under the table a week later). Worst was sharpening a collins machete with a file and accidently sliding the inside of my thumb along the blade, 18 stiches later all was well. I even got to keep the machete this time. Steven
 
Anyone else have bad luck with a backhand cut using a sharpened false edge on a Bowie-style knife? Was trimming a cactus in my backyard many years back, encountered less resistance than I'd expected--and ended up with a hole high up on my inner thigh. Barely even felt it--then looked down, watched the blood instantly spread in a circle around the neat little hole in my trouser leg.

One interesting tactical take-away point (no pun intended): the geometry of a backcut really is remarkably different from a forehand cut--more so than I'd have thought without trying it out.
 
I have several scars from knives, many of which were self-inflicted from me being bi-polar. But the ones I've gotten accidentally have been really stupid.

About a month ago I was carving a wooden dowel with a comboedge Gerber folding knife, and made the mistake of carving the dowel towards my hand. I slipped and the blade slashed through the fleshy area between my index finger and thumb. The cut was about an inch deep, and I missed the artery and tendon by a hair's width. Ended up getting 17 stitches from it, as well as a rather wicked looking scar on my hand.

In another incident that happened about a year ago, I had just sharpened my CS Ti-Lite and took it to my left arm to see if it would shave. Unfortunately I wasn't paying much attention and the razor sharp blade cut deeply into my arm, and got really infected. Still have a big scar from it.
 
Two days ago, two spydies arived in the mail, a delica and an endura. They came with band-aids, which my wife said was stupid! The next day, a co-worker and I took apart a machine we were not supposed to, voiding the warrenty on a brand new CNC machine we were making a fixture for. One thing led to another, and I was cutting some shrink rap in a paniced state, when a two inch gash showed up on my thumb, into the meat! this is my worse cut with a knife, but a few months ago, a hot steel chip landed on my hand, so i shook it hard. My hand landed against a table where many sharp steel chips had been landing, I cut several veins in the back of my hand, and had blood squirting out. That cut was with steel, but not a knife, so I don't know if it counts. I should note that I never get stitches unless the misses sees the cut, I always give the super glue treatment, and go back to work.
 
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