Hilariously insane knife paranoia !

Wow. Just Wow!

I can't think of a person stupid enough to feel this is appropriate, that I would want breeding, or occupying any form of leadership position.

Hell, I would not want some one of this limited intelligence even walking my dog, or picking up trash.
 
Dorito Monk said:
Oh jesus that's funny. :eek: :D

It's not uncommon for people (including a lot of restaurant workers) to lose their minds over someone carrying a swiss army knife, even though they use cleavers and a wide variety of chef's knives on a day-to-day basis. People are strange, man... :rolleyes:
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Congress tried to repeal the laws banning knives on airplanes a while back. Stewards lobbied against it and managed to talk them down.

If there's logic anywhere in our system it must have learned its hide-and-seek tactics from Osama.
 
Pretty far fetched story given the context.At any other school maybe plausible(yet still ridiculous). The full size culinary knives OK but not a particularly benign slip joint? Yeah, I'm skeptical.
 
newcoyote said:
Pretty far fetched story given the context.At any other school maybe plausible(yet still ridiculous). The full size culinary knives OK but not a particularly benign slip joint? Yeah, I'm skeptical.
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I might have found it hard to believe if I hadn't seen career cooks nearly sh-- themselves at the sight of my SAK Bantam or Kershaw Cyclone while working in restaurants. OP's story seems pretty believable.
 
I feel sad when relationships break down. It seems that there are more people divorced from their reason than ever before.
 
Your friend should call the dean and get an explanation about this ridicilous episode. If the dean has more than 2 braincells, then he'd realise how absurd this is, return the knife and apologize about this whole thing.
 
All I can say is, thank god their weren't such checks when I was in school. It would not have been pretty.
 
The way things are going someday soon the college kitchens where the students cook will resemble those at the prison where all the knives are on short chains to ensure student and staff safety. Given the sad state of society its surpising that they have not already done so.
 
It is just "feel good legislation". We see it and hear of it all the time.
Some dirt bag enters a campus, etc. carrying a gun and due to some sort of mishandled rage starts shooting at people. The government and authorities, ie schools, etc., can not stop this type of activity so they pass a crazy law that lets them feel good about "doing something" and my extension the parents and silly students, citizens, etc. feel that "something" is being done.

It's crazy but we allow it by voting for idiots, etc.
Unfortunately most people are sheople...
 
I'm glad they didn't inspect our rooms down at school. They'd find a couple of long guns. :D
 
There is a reason I keep on my expensive knives on me rather than in my dorm. Yes, I do have other pocket knives in my dorm though lol. Thankfully, I read the student handbook and code of conduct a few times, and abide by all the rules. I then became friends with my RA. He told me what the RA's (aka the room inspection people) look for when it comes to things like that. also told me what they ignore. He is the one that will inspect my room, and thankfully will just laugh if the other guy freaks out. The dorms all know that I am a knife guy and usually have a few (case cheetah, leatherman PST, and ZT0350 daily). no body so much as takes a second glance at them now. tell the guy to let it be known that he is a knife guy (if he is) and it will generally be considered nothing more than a hobby or at least can be played off that way.
 
Shotgun said:
I'm glad they didn't inspect our rooms down at school. They'd find a couple of long guns. :D
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This is why I always lived off campus. And i also always had a drawer or safe i could lock so that when people were over for parties i didnt need to worry about anyone sticky fingering anything that could be dangerous.
 
Possible answer #1: Making a knife fold makes it much more dangerous- much like putting a handgrip on a rifle (people in CA will get this).

Possible answer #2: They were afraid it would fold on fingers- see if they confiscate a lockback.
 
unit said:
Sometimes logic is not the motivation for rules/laws.

At least your friend will get the knife back. My real concern would be the circumstances leading to a "dorm inspection" intrusive enough to make this discovery...
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As far as I know it's fairly common practice, and perfectly legal at private institutions. You're technically on private property and expected to abide by there rules and regs. I lost a few very nice knives in college because of a random room inspection. Campus security claimed they were "misplaced" when I went to claim them at the end of the semester...
 
MrSpiffdifilous said:
As far as I know it's fairly common practice, and perfectly legal at private institutions. You're technically on private property and expected to abide by there rules and regs. I lost a few very nice knives in college because of a random room inspection. Campus security claimed they were "misplaced" when I went to claim them at the end of the semester...
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Translation: riding in the pocket of some fat campus security guard. :rolleyes:

Gotta love that...
 
Misanthropia said:
As someone who is currently in college, I can say that campus security can be incredibly sketchy sometimes. I've seen and heard from others about the campus security at my school doing things cops wouldn't even do without a warrant, or would lose their job for. Campus security can report things directly to the dean of students, so basically they coerce kids into yielding their rights because they're terrified of getting kicked out of college. At my school, during the breaks in between semesters, they will go into the dorms and make sure there isn't any "contraband" in them. This story doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
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Nothing surprises me about campus security/police after the "don't tase me bro" incident.
 
I just left college a few years ago. Only time we had an inspection was when our RA saw us lugging in a giant box. He was right to be suspicious, there was a keg in there. However, luckily our floor was very tight knit. We got a quick heads up and stashed it in our neighbors room, ha.

But random inspections? I couldn't even imagine that. He needs to get someone on record telling him where his knife is stowed, etc. In college dorms, things that are confiscated have a real tendency to go missing.
 
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