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Have you ever saved a life with a knife?

I havent, but I heard a story on here once that a guy was sliding off a tin roof and he slammed his Griptilian through it and it held his weight so he didnt fall to the pavement.
 
True story:

I've never had the honor of saving a life but my buddy and I did have to comfort an accident victim in his last moments after pulling him out of a wrecked vehicle.

I was 18, my friend was a few years older, we were driving up I-71NB to a place called Cleveland heights, we came around a long sweeping curve to find a car that had just wrecked, rolled several times. Single car wreck, a male driver ~50 years old. At the same time we came around the bend a young highway patrol trooper came up on the accident the other way, she couldn't have been more than 22 years old herself and was alone on her patrol.

My friend Ryan and I were the only car that stopped other than her, it was a single car crash and the car had landed upright so other than being crushed it apparently wasn't a big deal to other passer-by's. Anyway the trooper, Ryan and I worked to pry the door open and cut his seat belt, he was bleeding from the ears and unresponsive. (This was on a stretch in the mode of nowhere, she had called for additional responders but we were out there a ways and on our own). We managed to open the passenger door, cut the belt and pull the guy out but all we could do for him was hold his head and wait, other than some minor lacerations he didn't have much external trauma. After just a few minutes he expired. The trooper tried to perform CPR but we were all kids (her included), we couldn't handle the situation and after just 5 minutes of her doing chest compressions and us taking turns pumping the breathing bag she told us to stop.

Could we have saved the guy knowing what I do about emergencies/trauma now, I like to think so but nothing's going to change what happened that day. One thing I wish I would of done is been the one doing the chest compressions, not the 120# trooper and not given up. Also wish she would of had a defib unit (I believe that's one of the instances that led to Ohio putting a AED in every trooper vehicle now days)

I now carry an extremely well stocked FAK every where I go, of course I have multiple knives on me and I even have a pry-bar attached to my med bag so that should I ever be in such a situation again maybe it can have a better outcome.

I'll never forget that day, we had to stay and do paperwork after that but once we were done we turned around and headed home. Watching someone die sorta ruined your plans.
 
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Cereal_killer said:
True story:

I've never had the honor of saving a life but my buddy and I did have to comfort an accident victim in his last moments after pulling him out of a wrecked vehicle.

I was 18, my friend was a few years older, we were driving up I-71NB to a place called Cleveland heights, we came around a long sweeping curve to find a car that had just wrecked, rolled several times. Single car wreck, a male driver ~50 years old. At the same time we came around the bend a young highway patrol trooper came up on the accident the other way, she couldn't have been more than 22 years old herself and was alone on her patrol.

My friend Ryan and I were the only car that stopped other than her, it was a single car crash and the car had landed upright so other than being crushed it apparently wasn't a big deal to other passer-by's. Anyway the trooper, Ryan and I worked to pry the door open and cut his seat belt, he was bleeding from the ears and unresponsive. (This was on a stretch in the mode of nowhere, she had called for additional responders but we were out there a ways and on our own). We managed to open the passenger door, cut the belt and pull the guy out but all we could do for him was hold his head and wait, other than some minor lacerations he didn't have much external trauma. After just a few minutes he expired. The trooper tried to perform CPR but we were all kids (her included), we couldn't handle the situation and after just 5 minutes of her doing chest compressions and us taking turns pumping the breathing bag she told us to stop.

Could we have saved the guy knowing what I do about emergencies/trauma now, I like to think so but nothing's going to change what happened that day. One thing I wish I would of done is been the one doing the check compressions, not the 120# trooper and not given up. Also wish she would of had a defib unit (I believe that's one of the instances that led to Ohio putting a AED in every trooper vehicle now days)

I now carry an extremely well stocked FAK every where I go, of course I have multiple knives on me and I even have a pry-bar attached to my med bag so that should I ever be in such a situation again maybe it can have a better outcome.
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There's you real story op. Thanks for sharing that one ck.
 
Cereal_killer said:
True story:

I've never had the honor of saving a life but my buddy and I did have to comfort an accident victim in his last moments after pulling him out of a wrecked vehicle.

I was 18, my friend was a few years older, we were driving up I-71NB to a place called Cleveland heights, we came around a long sweeping curve to find a car that had just wrecked, rolled several times. Single car wreck, a male driver ~50 years old. At the same time we came around the bend a young highway patrol trooper came up on the accident the other way, she couldn't have been more than 22 years old herself and was alone on her patrol.

My friend Ryan and I were the only car that stopped other than her, it was a single car crash and the car had landed upright so other than being crushed it apparently wasn't a big deal to other passer-by's. Anyway the trooper, Ryan and I worked to pry the door open and cut his seat belt, he was bleeding from the ears and unresponsive. (This was on a stretch in the mode of nowhere, she had called for additional responders but we were out there a ways and on our own). We managed to open the passenger door, cut the belt and pull the guy out but all we could do for him was hold his head and wait, other than some minor lacerations he didn't have much external trauma. After just a few minutes he expired. The trooper tried to perform CPR but we were all kids (her included), we couldn't handle the situation and after just 5 minutes of her doing chest compressions and us taking turns pumping the breathing bag she told us to stop.

Could we have saved the guy knowing what I do about emergencies/trauma now, I like to think so but nothing's going to change what happened that day. One thing I wish I would of done is been the one doing the check compressions, not the 120# trooper and not given up. Also wish she would of had a defib unit (I believe that's one of the instances that led to Ohio putting a AED in every trooper vehicle now days)

I now carry an extremely well stocked FAK every where I go, of course I have multiple knives on me and I even have a pry-bar attached to my med bag so that should I ever be in such a situation again maybe it can have a better outcome.
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Don't beat yourself up. Survival rate of CPR is surprisingly low. I checked the stats after my sis in law had an accident in Costa Rica and a professional SAR guy tried his best for 30 minutes.
Still CPR is better than nothing and if 5 life's out of a 100 attempts are saved it's still worth it.
So yeah not your fault and respect for doing your best. :)
 
Possibly.. But no one knows cause it never happened.
Short story: I used to do commercial construction. My brother in-law was on top of 3 flights of scaffolding holding onto a sheet of drywall. Had he let go that would have collapsed his scaffold resulting in about 20 drop to concrete. I had to climb up there with him and cut away part of the Sheetrock with my knife and drop it elsewhere. I guess it could have.. But no one ever knows
 
NikkiR said:
When I was a firefighter, I used my Griptilian to cut a guy out of his seat belt....granted there were several people helping with the extrication, Paramedics...so on and so forth. Can't say that I saved his life. But we did.
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That counts. No we have some good stories.
 
I did, or at least I made it alot easier to. About 5 years ago, my scout troop was going tubing on a river. Almost everyone had left their knives back at camp, even the adults (although they were going to be in canoes). However, I always have a knife on me, no matter where I am or what I'm doing. I had my buck 110 in my pants pocket while we were floating down the river. About an hour in, I hear a kid start screaming and splashing. I jump off of my tube and swim over to him. He had jumped off of his tube, and his foot became wrapped in some rope. That rope then got caught on a log in the river, and he was being dragged under by the current. I got there just before one of the adults did, so I was grabbed him and pulled his head above the water. When they adult arrived we realized that we weren't going to be able to get his foot loose, so I whipped out my 110 and handed it to the adult, who then cut through the rope. We put the kid back up onto his tube and kept on floating down the river. It's possible that we could have gotten his foot untangled, but it was a heck of a lot easier with my knife.
 
Some of these stories are very neat, and thanks to all who tried.
The effort is commendable; the result is not under your control.
 
Knives don't save lives just like guns don't commit crimes. It does take smart, fast thinking and ready people to save lives with just a knife. And clearly there are some of those on the forums, and like Sonnydaze said, the effort is very commendable.
 
My own, by wrestling the knife from my attacker.
He did manage to cut my hand in the process, but it could have been a lot worse.
 
In this case it happened in the Netherlands, about 16 years ago.
I didn't have any knife fighting training, when i look back it was more my luck than anything else.

The attacker was planning to stab me in the stomach or chest, but i managed to deflect his knife hand, step in, and land my elbow in his face.
He fell down, i jumped on him, got hold of his hand still clutching the knife, and managed to take it away from him.
Now i was on top of him holding his knife (cheap Pakistani special), and that's when i saw pure fear in his eyes, as he was convinced i was going to stab him to death with his own knife.
Since i'm not that kind of guy i didn't do that, so i got up, let him get up as well, and pushed him towards several onlookers.

Only then i noticed there was blood everywhere, but i had no idea where it came from until i looked at my right hand: somewhere during the incident my opponent had managed to cut my right hand behind my thumb joint, right through a couple of tendons into the bone.
But most likely because of the adrenaline i hadn't felt anything.
To make a long story even longer: someone drove me to a hospital where lucky for me there was a young doctor who stitched everything neatly back up, and up to this day everything functions just as good as before.

The reason the guy attacked me in the first place was because i had the audacity to say something to make him stop knocking the teeth out of his young girlfriend (blood and teeth were already flying), as i was walking the street with my then girlfriend.

Days later at the police station (they managed to apprehend him in his home, and i had to point him out in a line-up) it turned out that the attacker was an 18-year old Turkish guy who already stabbed 4 people before me during previous incidents.
As is almost customary these days in the Netherlands he got off with a slap on the wrist.

Here in the Netherlands we have lots of problems with guys like these: young, mostly quite illiterate muslem youth with very short fuses.
They have a habit of targeting mostly weaker victims like women & the elderly, but when disturbed in the act they won't hesitate for a second to pull a weapon.
 
There was a story a while back on here where I guy saw an overturned car, and cut the woman inside loose with his 777
 
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