Have You Ever Had To Use Your Knife In An Emergency Situation..?

P_Meticulous

P_Meticulous

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A change from the weekly survival thread lol, I was wondering if any members had to use their knives in a real emergency situation.

During my FTO phase, we responded to an elderly women who was unconscious (passed out in a department store) and long story short, had to cut her shirt/bra off to apply an AED. She recovered, but I remember how nice it was to have a blade on me! Time (mere minutes/seconds) is crucial, and having to ask an associate for scissors could have cost the women her life. - and for those smart-***'s who would say, "why didn't you just rip it off"... Shirt yes, bra with underwire, a little more difficult ;)

I'm sure you guys have some crazy stories! Lets hear 'em
 
As much as I've wanted to use my knife, I always end up using my trauma shears.
 
P_Meticulous said:
A change from the weekly survival thread lol, I was wondering if any members had to use their knives in a real emergency situation.

During my FTO phase, we responded to an elderly women who was unconscious (passed out in a department store) and long story short, had to cut her shirt/bra off to apply an AED. She recovered, but I remember how nice it was to have a blade on me! Time (mere minutes/seconds) is crucial, and having to ask an associate for scissors could have cost the women her life. - and for those smart-***'s who would say, "why didn't you just rip it off"... Shirt yes, bra with underwire, a little more difficult ;)

I'm sure you guys have some crazy stories! Lets hear 'em
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Are you sure she was elderly? :D
 
singularity35 said:
Are you sure she was elderly? :D
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Yea. :) Like something out of Dragnet's opening monologue: "Ladies and gentlemen, The story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent." Name, sex, age, etc. :D

Knives carried by LEO in Boston during the Marathon Bombing were instrumental in making make-shift tourniquets out of clothing. I remember one BPD officer on the KAI forum lost his knife after he passed it around and he was looking for the same model but they got him something better since the old one was discontinued.
 
I had to use my Leatherman to cut the battery cable on a Jeep Grand Cherokee when an elderly couple lost control on a back road and hit a giant boulder on someone's driveway. The wiring harness was smoking.

Cut a tie wrap off some little kids finger in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart.

Cut a tow strap that had my arm pinned to the car I was trying to pull, I was hooking it up when the person in the car put it in neutral and when the car rolled back the strap tightened and pin my arm against the bumper, I cut the strap with a Buck Titanium 186.
 
Cut away a dangerously over tensioned ship to ship refueling probe with a Buck 110 during an UNREP.

Filed away a broken cable chain traction device that wrapped around the rear axle of my wife's Jeep by using a Victorinox SwissChamp.

Cut a birthday cake to pieces at a local pizza joint with a BM610 when Grandma forgot to bring a knife.

Chipped and fractured away an inch and a half of ice off of my parked car's windshield and door windows in an ice storm using a Spyderco Pacific Salt.

Have never had an emergency requiring a fixed blade knife.
 
Over my lifetime, I have had to cut the rope a few times, when I had a cow snubbed off and had her choke down, and couldn't untie her, so had to to cut the rope to keep from killing her.
 
I just remembered I had to cut a horse loose one time that got tangled up in a rope and was down on it side when I was a kid. It would have died if I had not found it when I did. It had panicked and run off dragging a heavy old chair that I had tied it to. Left a trail of dust, and that is how I found him when he fell and got all tangled up, somehow.
 
I have also used an old 2 dot Buck 110 for a hammer many times to beat a battery cable end to get a connection, so some old truck would start, back when I was a young man. That old Buck and a couple of others often served as a hammer if that was all I had at the time.
 
Trauma shears don't have crap on the rescue hook on the benchamde triage. I use the rescue hook instead if trauma shears all the time. Heck last shift day we had a guy who had some stuff tied around him (not going into to much detail) that was so tight shears couldn't get under it. I used the triage and it worked like a dream.
 
just this morning I had an emergency.

five minutes until I had to leave for work, butter knives were all dirty, had to put peanut butter on bread for basic sustenance. out came the opinel to save the day.
 
In a real emergency situation, no.

In a situation where I'm really hungry, yes. I cut French Bread Pizza in half with my 0551.
 
I don't know if I'd call them real emergencies.
I once had to cut a boot off of a hiker with a badly swollen/injured leg when the SAR group I volunteer with found him (he'd been lost in the mountains). I used a Buck 110.

I also had to cut horses free a couple of times, once in a trailer, then another time two horses somehow got tangled in each others tethers. On both occasions the poor fellows were quite frightened and jumped around a bit. I used a little custom fixed blade I used to carry as my horse riding knife, it was a sheepfoot with a bit of belly from a guy that went by the name Oupa on some other forums.
 
I used the rescue hook on the Benchmade Triage to cut the pants of a pedestrian that got hit by a car.

He was actually a burglar on his way back from a job in the early morning hours. He was wasted on drugs, so he ended up throwing himself in front of a speeding car. The car hit him on his leg, throwing him on to the hood and windshield, and then back on the asphalt. His brother and partner in crime saw the collision, bu decided to grab the loot and high-kneed it out of there, leaving his brother lying on the asphalt and screaming with pain. You know what they say, there is no honor among thieves :rolleyes: His leg was completely smashed, so we had to stabilize it asap, so i used the rescue hook to cut through his leather-belt/pant lenghtwise. Para-medics stabilized his leg with some sort of inflatable splint shortly after.

Ive also used my Pohl Force Bravo to chip some ice away from a gas lid that was frozen solid. It was in the middle of the night and my car was running out of gas, so i guess that qualifies as a emergency too.
 
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Depends on what you define as an emergency... Sometimes Im really hungry and well my knife is a short cut to getting into whatever Im after.
 
Yes a view days ago my little daughter(13)stucked with her pants in bikes chain and crashed,couldnt free herself,cutting her free with my old calypso ss,all good now..!and no divorce from wife for the new knive after this.
 
I once had to use a glass breaker on 1 of my knives to get a kid out of a car that was left there on a hot hot day
 
Had a large comm. net on a hang while fishing in strong current and it was pulling the stern down into the water, used a spyderco spyderhawk to cut the line to prevent a possible sinking...felt like an emergency to me :eek: have freed someone caught on a outgoing net with same blade...have cut a line loose when someone improperly tied their vessel to mine and was about to cause physical damage.....have cut many a line while drifting to save rods from going overboard but these weren't really emergencies more like immediate need for a blade...gotta love a large hawkbill serrated blade in a quick deploy kydex sheath

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