Should have used a Ka-Bear…
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Has anyone here been involved in an emergency where you had to hard use your knife to save someone's life?
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Yes, that‘s what that is, a cable tensioned ship to ship refueling line. I have never seen a truly civilian type fueling of this sort, but who knows?
It is tricky and dangerous, mainly because you‘re effectively tying two, (or three), ships together on the highly variable ocean using a double rig with multiple potential failure points.
The auxiliary ship is part of the task force. It hangs well back from the main force for “operational safety,” and in my time met up with us every three days or so to refuel the carrier‘s escorts if we were steaming hard, less frequently if we were just cruising along.
There’s plenty of inspection and repair work for the AO’s crew to perform to all their rigging stations while they are away before the next refueling or cargo transfer.
I shared this story here back in 2012.
A guy I knew was riding his motorcycle one night in a rural part of the county. He swerved to miss a deer on a winding hillside road and ended up down in a ravine. He was badly injured, motorists driving by couldn't see or hear him, and his pant leg got wound up in the chain and sprocket before the engine cut out, preventing him from separating himself from the bike.
He was carrying a Marine Kabar on his belt, and used it to cut his pant leg free. Then he crawled up to the road where he was spotted by a passing driver.
I imagine that if he hadn't had that knife handy that his bones would probably still be at the bottom of that ravine next to a rusted out motorcycle.
A guy I knew was riding his motorcycle one night in a rural part of the county. He swerved to miss a deer on a winding hillside road and ended up down in a ravine. He was badly injured, motorists driving by couldn't see or hear him, and his pant leg got wound up in the chain and sprocket before the engine cut out, preventing him from separating himself from the bike.
He was carrying a Marine Kabar on his belt, and used it to cut his pant leg free. Then he crawled up to the road where he was spotted by a passing driver.
I imagine that if he hadn't had that knife handy that his bones would probably still be at the bottom of that ravine next to a rusted out motorcycle.
Come on! I read through 4 pages looking for someone to answer this. What knife was it?
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He used his trusty Tom Mix pocketknife.
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I had to punch open a beer can on a hunting trip with my Master Hunter when the tab broke off.
How the hell did I miss that?!Post #26.
Cool. I grew up watching M.A.S.H. And even bought the whole series on VHS for my dad when he was bedridden for a while with broken bones (we watched them all together). I’ve definitely seen that episode but couldn’t remember the knife.
Two occasions. No hard use, not sure if really "life-saving", but I wouldn't like to find out what would have happened if I didn't have THE knife on me.
True accounts of true events, that I can promise.
None of these happened in the States. Or it wouldn't be a knife that I pulled out.
1,
Was going to my car in the lot of the gated community I lived back then. Saw the gate security along with a mid-aged lady walking towards and shouting at an edgy-looking guy stumbling around different vehicles.
Stopped for a moment out of curiosity. Turns out the guy was putting those shady loan cards in cars' windows in this parking lot, and that resident lady reported to the security.
Of course I teamed up with them to shout the guy away, however the next thing I saw, he pulled out something looking like a 26sp and started quickly walking towards us. We were like only 10 feet away and the security guy was shocked frozen and did absolutely nothing, didn't even run.
So I pulled out and launched my Makora II. (Later I found the security had nothing but a flashlight on him, which I still find hard to believe. Firearms are strictly illegal in that country but he could at least carry an ASP baton or a Taser?)
Guy immediately stopped. We stood there for like 5 seconds (felt like forever. only found out to be seconds when reviewing security footages afterwards.) Then he turned around and walked away, shouting threats that I later found out to be not-so-empty.
Two days later the gate guard house was smashed and partially burned at mid-night, while the security personnel was on patrol. A week later the perpetrator (that same guy) was arrested. Turned out guy's a wanted felon with multiple drug and assault warrants on him. They managed to arrest him so quickly because the community I lived was relatively well-off and had hundreds of CCTVs all over the surrounding blocks.
2,
Cold winter, was waiting for friends in the lounge area of a Japanese Nabe pot (you cook everything in a large clay pot on your table) restaurant. Was looking forward to a warm dinner.
A rather drunk guy was guiding his friends to pull out their car by the front door of that restaurant. Problem was: he was standing in the door way and keeping the doors open, letting all the 28F "breeze" in my face.
I asked the manager to ask him to close the door, he refused. Then I joined the manager to ask him to be respectful to other customers and close the door, (of course I didn't ask as polite as the manager), he was pissed.
He grabbed one of those tall standing ash-tray-thing by the thinner part, holding it like a baseball bat, and walked towards me and the manager.
I pulled out and launched my Makora II. And asked as calm as I could WTF does he want.
He stood there a bit shocked, then dropped the ashtray thing, then hopped in his friends' car, all the while shouting some empty threats.
The manager was thankful for my action and offered me to jump the line and a sofa table and discounts on that dinner. However I left immediately, fearing for those threats being not empty, and only enjoyed those offers a few weeks later. Turns out those threats were empty, and no repercussion happened at that business.
True accounts of true events, that I can promise.
None of these happened in the States. Or it wouldn't be a knife that I pulled out.
1,
Was going to my car in the lot of the gated community I lived back then. Saw the gate security along with a mid-aged lady walking towards and shouting at an edgy-looking guy stumbling around different vehicles.
Stopped for a moment out of curiosity. Turns out the guy was putting those shady loan cards in cars' windows in this parking lot, and that resident lady reported to the security.
Of course I teamed up with them to shout the guy away, however the next thing I saw, he pulled out something looking like a 26sp and started quickly walking towards us. We were like only 10 feet away and the security guy was shocked frozen and did absolutely nothing, didn't even run.
So I pulled out and launched my Makora II. (Later I found the security had nothing but a flashlight on him, which I still find hard to believe. Firearms are strictly illegal in that country but he could at least carry an ASP baton or a Taser?)
Guy immediately stopped. We stood there for like 5 seconds (felt like forever. only found out to be seconds when reviewing security footages afterwards.) Then he turned around and walked away, shouting threats that I later found out to be not-so-empty.
Two days later the gate guard house was smashed and partially burned at mid-night, while the security personnel was on patrol. A week later the perpetrator (that same guy) was arrested. Turned out guy's a wanted felon with multiple drug and assault warrants on him. They managed to arrest him so quickly because the community I lived was relatively well-off and had hundreds of CCTVs all over the surrounding blocks.
2,
Cold winter, was waiting for friends in the lounge area of a Japanese Nabe pot (you cook everything in a large clay pot on your table) restaurant. Was looking forward to a warm dinner.
A rather drunk guy was guiding his friends to pull out their car by the front door of that restaurant. Problem was: he was standing in the door way and keeping the doors open, letting all the 28F "breeze" in my face.
I asked the manager to ask him to close the door, he refused. Then I joined the manager to ask him to be respectful to other customers and close the door, (of course I didn't ask as polite as the manager), he was pissed.
He grabbed one of those tall standing ash-tray-thing by the thinner part, holding it like a baseball bat, and walked towards me and the manager.
I pulled out and launched my Makora II. And asked as calm as I could WTF does he want.
He stood there a bit shocked, then dropped the ashtray thing, then hopped in his friends' car, all the while shouting some empty threats.
The manager was thankful for my action and offered me to jump the line and a sofa table and discounts on that dinner. However I left immediately, fearing for those threats being not empty, and only enjoyed those offers a few weeks later. Turns out those threats were empty, and no repercussion happened at that business.
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I saved my own life with one. I posted on here about it a number of years back with pictures. Long story short, I was fishing below the tide line on a jetty, and fell deep into a crevice that was soon to be deep under water with the rising tide. I badly broke my foot and was trapped between the sheer boulders with my food wedged. I found a mesh of thick blue rope/netting I was able to cut free from the debris down in the rocks, and sling it up over a boulder behind me, and was able to dislodge myself and crawl up over the boulders. I try not to think about it because it still haunts me what would have happened had that rope not been there and had I not had a knife on my belt.