Have you ever used your knife to save a life?

pahl

pahl

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Hi,
In reading about auto knives and knife tactics, etc...
I was wondering has anyone ever had to use there knife to save your life or someone else life?

Just wondering......

pahl
 
Numerous times. Cutting seat belts to extricate injured subjects from wrecked, and on occasion, burning vehicles. Other LEOs will have done the same.
 
I saved my own bacon with my Spyderco Rescue when my boat capsized.
 
Does a bird qualify as "someone"?

I was walking around the lake when I noticed a robin on a branch, flapping and chirping wildly. A closer look, and I could see it was trapped by fishing line it had gotten wrapped up in.

I used my Vaquero Grande to reach over and cut the line from its body, then v e r y c a r e f u l l y pushed the tip under the line tying its leg to the branch.

When it was free, it fluttered to the ground and immediately ran into the underbrush, silently. The leg has been bleeding from abrasion, but it seemed OK once it hit the ground.
 
Originally posted by Richard K
Numerous times. Cutting seat belts to extricate injured subjects from wrecked, and on occasion, burning vehicles. Other LEOs will have done the same.
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Thats great!
What a LEO?

pahl
 
I made a splint for a buddy who broke his leg while camping.
I helped a guy who slid off the side of the freeway in his truck during a rain storm and his cab was filling up quick full of mud,I used a recon scout to smash his windows and uesed it to cut his belt and pulled him out.
 
2 quick stories:

I was admirind my LTC kukri in the privacy of home once when a crying woman burst into my house. She was pleading with me not to let him her her. Then the him in question, who turned out to be a guy who likes to beat his women, came bursting into my home. With one hand I pushed him towars the door. My kukri was in my other hand and in the air, ready to strike. I dunno if the kukri made him leave, or if he realized he had now entered someone else's home, or what. But I was glad I had my kukri.

My second story seems more boring, but it has a good lesson. I was walking to the mall and saw a group of 5 (maybe 6) highschool kids. there was this other kid leaving the mall and one of the members of the group shouted at the lone kid. The lone kid went to him to try to discuss what the problem was, but the other dumbass wanted to fight. I saw the best Nike dash I have ever seen!! The lone kid made it to the mall fine. But I was ready to run across the street to intervene, and I am glad I had a knife with me, in case the fight would have been 5 versus 2, or 5 versus 2 with weapons, you know?

I think bvoth stories tell the same lesson: it isn't that you go looking for trouble, it is that sometimes trouble finds you. A knife can get you out of it sometimes.
 
I've also used a blade for the CPR, car accident stuff on a number of occasions.

I believe I previously mentioned before here that last summer I cut down a female who had hanged herself in one of our holding cells. She used her denim jeans twisted into a large "rope" and tied off on the top of the cell door. One quick swipe of my plainedge BM 830 took care of the jeans and first-aid helped keep her around, as well.
 
Hi Guys...

I haven't saved anyone yet with a knife..Helped rescue a girl caught in the rapids once,,but had nothing to do with a knife..

My brother on the otherhand saved some dudes life in a flipped pickup with his Gerber LST I gave him for christmas one year...

So I guess in a way, I had a little bit to do with it..

ttyle

Eric...
 
Witnessed my friend save his leg from serious injury on a boat. We were at the bow tossing line to the docks and his leg got caught. The boat started to pull and the line was trying to pull his leg through the cleat. He pulled out his serrated Endura and freed himself mighty fast. You should have seen the bruising! His leg looked like it had gone through a meat grinder and he couldn't walk on it for a while. I'm convinced that if he didn't have the knife with him, he would have lost his foot or atleast shattered his bones completely. I had a plain edge Endura on me, but it showed me the need for a serrated knife on a boat.
 
:eek: If you asked my daughter I did, one summer when she was about 6, while walking down a wooden ramp to the beach in New Jersey, she had gotten a 4 1/2" long splinter in her foot. Using a razor sharp Carbon Fiber Beretta Avenger I was able to make a fine incision in the sole of her foot and remove the splinter, no pain, and no tears. Since then I am the only person allowed to remove splinters from her. :)
 
Esav: You bet that robin counts, every life is prescious and my tip of my hat to you for noticing and acting.
 
Got into an altercation in Manhattan a few years ago on 42St near Bryant Park before they cleaned it up. Some psycho started coming towards me with a broken bottle apparently to do me harm. I pulled out the BM Emerson 975 that I carried at the time and clicked it open loudly. Fortunately he decided to back off.

Hey T.E., I see you're in Mt Bethel. Stop by the gun show at the Vol. Fire Dept. there on 4/7 and say hello. I'll be at a table in the back room selling Springfield rifles and a few odd knives.
 
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