Harrassed about your EDC knives?

Steven Roos

Steven Roos

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How many of you have been hassled or harrassed over your EDC knives? Where was it? By who?

Today, I just got off my first job and went to the bank to make a deposit right before they closed. I was wearing my usual work carry stuff (LM Wave, LM Supertool 200, SOG Powerlock, BM 806D2, BM 814HS, SOG Crosscut, and Buck/Strider Solution). I was waiting in line and the security guard approached me and asked me not to bring the fixed blade in there because "You can't have a knife that big." I kept my mouth shut because I didn't want to yell at the poor rent-a-cop about knife laws, but I knew I was perfectly within my rights to carry the fixed blade openly.

I know that the Buck/Strider is a big much for an EDC knife, but its legal, so I don't see why people have such a problem with it. What is your story?
 
"I was wearing my usual work carry stuff (LM Wave, LM Supertool 200, SOG Powerlock, BM 806D2, BM 814HS, SOG Crosscut, and Buck/Strider Solution)"

this is a joke post, right?

May I ask what it is you do for a living that this is your "usual work carry stuff" ?
 
I work in a hospital laboratory. I was cutting some granite-grey foam for a joke tombstone for our boss, who just turned 40, when the technical supervisor (hot chick btw) says, "wow that knife is laser sharp", and I said "Nothing more dangerous than a dull knife."
Two supervisors later, I am cutting packing straps off of boxes of printer paper (nylon?), and the supervisor says, "wow, that's a deadly weapon", and I say, "If it needs to be, right now it's a tool."
The offending "weapon" was my EDC at the time, a Cold Steel medium voyager, serrated tanto blade. Let's just say that I've grown up from there.
 
Four multitools? I'd think that a full toolbox would be smaller and lighter. ;)

No. I never get harassed about my EDC carry. Then again, I don't carry my knives conspicuously. If I'm in an urban environment, I do make attempts to conceal my carry a bit. Fixed blades end up in my front pocket, or carried on a horizontal sheath below a shirt.

It may be legal for you to carry a large fixed blade in public, but your rights end the minute you enter somebody else’s establishment. They are allowed to set their own rules. If a bank says no, you just have to respect their wishes.
 
Originally posted by Buzzbait
Four multitools? I'd think that a full toolbox would be smaller and lighter. ;)
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That's exactly what I was going to say. Why not just settle on the PowerLock?...It's the best of the bunch, anyway.:).
As for me, if anyone at work bitched about my EDC's I'd just have to fire the bastids!.:D.
 
I agree with Buzz...besides carrying that much cutlury make you a hassard to yourself. Which pocket could you reach into with out fear of a stab wound? :p

Used to get bothered by youth leaders at church but only by the ones nobody had any respect for. I'd just dare em to take it from me! I was a pain when I was younger :D
 
I had a coworker once comment on a balisong I was using to remove packaging as I built my workstation. Soon after, he was carrying a knife everyday. No other flack.

Phil
 
Originally posted by Buzzbait
Four multitools? I'd think that a full toolbox would be smaller and lighter. ;)

No. I never get harassed about my EDC carry. Then again, I don't carry my knives conspicuously. If I'm in an urban environment, I do make attempts to conceal my carry a bit. Fixed blades end up in my front pocket, or carried on a horizontal sheath below a shirt.

It may be legal for you to carry a large fixed blade in public, but your rights end the minute you enter somebody else’s establishment. They are allowed to set their own rules. If a bank says no, you just have to respect their wishes.
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Actually, the Wave just kind of tags along in the pouch on the Buck/Strider and the Crosscut is on my keychain. The other two are in a pouch on my belt. They both get used all day by myself or my coworkers. The only thing I really could do without is the Buck/Strider...

I wish I could simply go with concealed carry, but that is illegal in California...a dumb law IMO.

I understand your logic, but what about the security guard's excuse, "You can't have a knife that big"? Why not? What is too big? Who said so? The 806D2 in my pocket has just as large of a blade as the Buck/Strider, but he didn't seem to mind that...go figure...
 
Originally posted by phatch
I had a coworker once comment on a balisong I was using to remove packaging as I built my workstation. Soon after, he was carrying a knife everyday. No other flack.
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My coworkers are all into all the stuff I carry (some more than others). I only get strange reactions elsewhere around town.
 
"I only get strange reactions elsewhere around town."

From what it sounds like you carry on your "Bat Belt" I think the reactions you are getting are not strange at all, but rather normal. I'd probably react the same way. Ever-day-carry does not mean every-day-walking-cutlery-show.
 
Originally posted by RH
From what it sounds like you carry on your "Bat Belt" I think the reactions you are getting are not strange at all, but rather normal. I'd probably react the same way. Ever-day-carry does not mean every-day-walking-cutlery-show.
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I never thought I'd see the day when I'd be called a nut by fellow knife nuts! :eek: :o
 
Don’t feel bad the armourer at most of my fencing tournaments caries about 3 leathermans....but then again he uses them all:D
 
I get harrased every day! This was yesterdays conversation:

Me: (cutting open bag of peas with my Dragonfly)

My Girlfriend: "Why can't you just open the packet with a kitchen knife like a normal person?"

Me: (not wanting to make her cry by pointing out the obvious) "The kitchen knives are all blunt."

My Girlfriend: "So why don't you sharpen them?"

Me: "Because then you cut yourself and then blame me!"

My Girlfriend: "So why do you make them so sharp?"

:rolleyes: Sometimes I wonder why God likes to punish me. :confused:
 
Originally posted by Mr. Bombastic
My Girlfriend: "Why can't you just open the packet with a kitchen knife like a normal person?"

Me: "The kitchen knives are all blunt."

My Girlfriend: "So why don't you sharpen them?"

Me: "Because then you cut yourself and then blame me!"

My Girlfriend: "So why do you make them so sharp?"
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:D :D :D :D ROTFLMAO!!

I love it, sounds EXACTLY like my conversations with my wife, she likes dull serrated kitchen and steak knives, so she doesn't cut herself and can still cut what needs to be cut. :mad: I can't stand it! So what I did was, I keep a Wusthof 8" chefs knife sharpened properly in a separate drawer for when I do the cooking!
 
Mr. Bombastic your girl friend sounds like my mom. Only my mother ain't as bad.

She is so used to dull knives she forgets to handle sharp knives properly. Usually she shaves off alittle skin in the tip of her finger. Not enough to bleed but you can see it. :rolleyes:

I hope she learns fast or she's going to really get hurt!:eek:
 
I really don't get strange reactions because my knives are really not visible. I carry a multitool of some sort and my Delica, LUS or PE.

It sounds like im2smrt4u may want to intimidate people and get them to look at him funny.

You may want to tone it down a bit.
 
Don't get a lot of comments anymore, but the first time I pulled out my BM 720 at my new (six months now) job, they did look a little strange! (I work in an IT Helpdesk)
I need to say that I am based in Denmark and one hand openers aren't exactly legal here!:rolleyes:
Anyway, I told them I carry my knives as tools, not as weapons and I just happen to like knives that are a little different from the $ 10,-stuff found in hardware stores and gas stations.

Of course there's some good natured poking at times! At an (informal)staff meeting the other day, one of my co-workers pointed to my backpack and said, "I am sure you'll see several knives, handguns and all sorts of martial arts stuff (I practice Bujinkan) fall out of that if you happended to drop it while open!"
My closest co-workers laughed out loud (they knew it might be true!)while the rest of them just stared!:)
I am very, very grateful that nobody freaks out! Then again, being a bit "in the middle of nowhere" after danish standard, many are used to guns and knives from hunting, fishing, kids scouting and so on.
While I worked in Copenhagen, only a few of my very closest co-workers knew I carried anything than a LM Micra!

The Porcupine
 
I really don't get strange reactions because my knives are really not visible.
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Yeah, same here.

I only carry folders anyway...even if it is legal in my state/town to carry a fixed blade, the cops here are WICKED anal and with my young age (18), they would 0wner me fast if I ever got into some kind of trouble or suspected of trouble :-/

Warthog
 
When I worked at BurgerKing last year(walked out nov 16, 2001), I started carrying IWB just to avoid the harrasment. One of my managers asked about the clip on my pocket and from then on I was harrassed at work for having a knife(for cutting boxes, rather than use the dull xacto).

The night crew knew I carried, as they saw me working with it most of my shift. The day crew had no ideas unless they worked on nights with me.

Now, I only get odd looks if I go into a warm building and take my jacket off. I tuck in my shirt for easy access to my belt.

Current belt carry: (left front to right hip, around back): Spyderco Tufram/SE Cricket(front), FRN/SE Native, Chrome MiniMag(in leather holster), POS Multitool(in leatherman balistic nylon sheath), Silver/Engraved Zippo... and occasionally a fixed blade either horizontal b/w the maglight and multitool, or vertical b/w the multitool and zippo.

This and my right and left pocket, my spydercard in the wallet, and buck minitool on my keys.

I only carry 3 to work now(work as a dishwasher at a resutaunt) for cutting boxes, straps, and my food. I carry my Spyderco Military(CE) clipped to the inside of my right boot(army boots), my Calypso jr lt(PE) in my right pocket, and my Merlin(PE) in my left pocket. My zippo is dropped into my right pocket, keys stay in my jacket.

I get asked about my "utility belt" when I stop in to get food when I'm not working. But hear nothing when I'm just walking around as the only thing you see is the clips on my right and left pocket.
 
Office environment here. Small Seb in right front pocket . Large Seb in G2 Sheath. I wear polo's and sweaters out but all my coworkers know I carry.
When I do wear the large sheathed Seb Exposed , people see Gary's leatherwork and forget about the knife inside it .

By the way , I had Gary put 3 sets of footprints on the fron , 1 set for each of my sons. And come to find out his sheaths are sheeple friendly ( but not COW Friendly ).:D
 
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