Have you ever had to stash a knife? Where?

I am in and out of local government offices quite often, and more than once I had to stash a knife in a planter or in a landscape bed under mulch.

They were always there when I returned - I try to be careful no one sees me hiding the knife.
 
Had to stash my EDC last summer while waiting to get on the boat for the Statue of Liberty. They have more security than any airport I've been in. Didn't realize their were x-rays and metal detectors. Stashed it in the nearby shrubbery.
 
No stashing here. If they don't allow guns or knives, they don't deserve my money.
 
Screw buying knives from now on, I just need to start searching the bushes around the local Federal buildings!

(maybe with Homeland security that would be a bad idea...:rolleyes:)
 
JohnnyO said:
Had to stash my EDC last summer while waiting to get on the boat for the Statue of Liberty. They have more security than any airport I've been in. Didn't realize their were x-rays and metal detectors. Stashed it in the nearby shrubbery.
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Did the exact same thing w/ my lg Sebbiie there a few years back. They let my Leatherman Wave and Boker CLB through, though.
Crazy security at Battery Park, isn't it?
 
Mitchell Knives said:
No stashing here. If they don't allow guns or knives, they don't deserve my money.
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Ditto.

I work for the government and we have sworn law enforcement officers guarding and patrolling all of our buildings. They don't screen though. I carry everywhere and if I can't, I don't go there.

On a trip to London recently, my wife and I visited one of the museums (don't recall which one now) and they checked bags. I had a SAK in one of the pockets of my camera bag and they actually asked if I had a knife. I lied and said nope. They said, "have a nice day!". Heh.

I forgot to mention that on a recent trip to the post office, I was carrying two knives and a handgun. I went in the door and this insanely hi-pitched alarm went off for a few seconds. All of the postal employees (and every stinking other person there!) looked at me and then went back to work. No clue what that was about. The only thing I can figure is something in the package I was mailing set it off. Maybe the C-4? Just kidding. I did have some sort of crazy breath spray my wife was sending a friend on the Dark Continent. Maybe something in it set the thing off?
 
I forgot I had my 940 on me going into the courthouse to pay a ticket one day. So I found a Tim Horton's cup in the garbage and stashed it in there until I got back. I've had to do the same trick a few times with the cell phone as well.
 
I actually found an old filleting knife in jr high school off of campus on the other side of the fence. When I returned I hopped the fence and saw the teachers coming over to the fence, before they saw the knife I quickly shoved it down my pants. Luckily it had a sheath or I wouldn't be a happy man! The best part about it is that I never even got caught! :D
 
So far, the only time I've had to do this once when I was about to go into a library and I couldn't think of an excuse to run back to the car. I hid my folder in the dirt at the base of a bush.
 
stashed my cheap little Gerber in the cigarette dump between the internal bucket and the body of the dump. Came back and got it 2 hours later. Golden, CO for a speeding ticket
 
I want to add a stong rare earth magnet to my kit to allow me to among other things stash a knife in ususual places if i have to leave it on it's own. The undersides of some iron benches might work for example.
 
Joben said:
I want to add a stong rare earth magnet to my kit to allow me to among other things stash a knife in ususual places if i have to leave it on it's own. The undersides of some iron benches might work for example.
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Thanks for that great idea. I'm going to have to do some testing and see how well it might work.

Not a knife, but I had to stash a Marlin 44mag rifle and a Kahr P9 handgun in the sagebrush outside the security perimeter surrounding the Trinity site inside White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. They open the Trinity site to the public two weekends a year and I had driven all the way from KY to visit the site. The gate guard asked if I had any firearms or alcohol. I answered honestly that there were guns in the trunk and he told me I couldn't enter. I asked him what I should do and he said "most people just hide them in the desert somewhere" . So that's what I did.

I spent a couple of hours at the site, but I must tell you it was hard not to totally obsess over my guns laying in the sand beside a dirt road inside a Federal reservation, especially since the Kahr has a form 4473 with my name on it. Boy was I relieved when they were still there when I went to retrieve them!
 
went to a sporting event and forgot my chive in my pocket. i held it up in the air with my wallet when i used the wand on me.
 
Hid one in the "beauty bark" outside Key Arena in Seattle for a hockey game in the good old days before the T-birds moved to the 'burbs.
 
There was a small event I recently attended.

They were having people dump their pockets before a quick patdown, and if they had a backpack, a quick peek in the main pocket only.

So I stuck my EDC folder in a side pocket in my backpack and went right in.

It made me wonder why they bothered at all. Were they hoping to intercept stupid people?
 
I was heading into Cedar Point at some absurdly early hour in the morning, and they were wanding people.

The first time I've been wanded there, and I used to go once or twice a year, every year, and I had my BM 943 on me. Lots of sentimental value attached to that knife.

The car was way too far away for me to meet back up with my friends, and they were planning on sprinting to the newly constructed roller-coaster after getting. I ended up just pocketing it next to my keys.

Wand didn't even go off. I just clipped it back to my pocket when we got inside.
 
SpookyDriver said:
I generally just leave the Sebenza under some mulch or stashed in a planter outside the museum or courthouse. I've done it dozens of times in the last few years with no issues.

Sure, there's a risk, but it's one I'm willing to take.
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So where are these buildings located? :D
 
I remember coming home from the Canadian knifecollectors show down in Toronto, and had to go through security at the airport back in the 1980's. The screener who was Seik stared at my carry on bag, then he stared at me, then stared at the bag and then again stared at me. After a few seconds of silence he said "Sir take your bag and go to the gate".

When I got home I unpacked and found one of my 4 inch fixed blade skinners in the bottom of the carry on bag. Once I saw that then I understood why he looked at me so seriously. I had used the bag to transport my knives to and from the show and hotel room, and forgot one when I packed them into the suitcase.
 
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