If you see a pocket clip, do you stop the guy?

The_Knife_Man said:
It might be late but....

If you have 25 customers an hour. And you see 2 knifes every 2 hours. That means 1 knife per hour. And with 25 customers an hours that's 1 over 25. Or 1/25. that's equals 0.04. Or 4%.

So 4% of your customers carried a noticeable knife.

No?
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Umm, i'm pretty positive my answer is right..but then again, I failed math miserably throughout high school
 
stabman said:
Waiting for the bus last week, I saw a guy at the bus stop with a pocket clip showing.
Then I noticed the Aryan Brotherhood and Swastika thing shaved into his hair...
Not clubbing him to the ground taxed my limits of politeness...and I figured I didn't need to know what such a fool carried anyway.

So no, I didn't ask.
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LOL! Good show of restraint stabby!
 
This one guy I met asked about my cruwear manix like he wanted to buy it, so I threw him a good deal. Then all of a sudden he ignored my response like I insulted him:rolleyes: He should of at least had the respect to give a yes or no answer to me.

Another time I was cutting cardboard at a local shooting range with my gayle bradley and everyone was looking at me like I was a psycho.
Seriously? You guys all have guns!

Sometimes I just don't understand people...
 
Blues Bender said:
This one guy I met asked about my cruwear manix like he wanted to buy it, so I threw him a good deal. Then all of a sudden he ignored my response like I insulted him:rolleyes: He should of at least had the respect to give a yes or no answer to me.

Another time I was cutting cardboard at a local shooting range with my gayle bradley and everyone was looking at me like I was a psycho.
Seriously? You guys all have guns!

Sometimes I just don't understand people...
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Haha. I may get a lot of weird looks around here, but at least my range isn't knifeaphobic
 
Kershaws said:
My job is to bag groceries at a Grocery Store, and have actually took the time to conduct some tests, this is a good time to share my results...
My register checks out on average 25 costumers per hour, on average I see 2 knives on a person every two hours. Surprisingly I see more people carrying knives on Sundays, I do not understand why that could be but it is really interesting.
So here are my results:

10 checkout lanes= 25 costumers per hour=on average 2 blades every two hours...
**So on an average 8 hour work day: We have 2,000 people check-out groceries, 80 of them have noticeable blades on them
If my calculations are correct: ≥6.25% of costumers who shop at my job are carrying knives. I thought you folks would find that interesting
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Don't forget that lots of people might have a knife that is just not in sight. I deep pocket carry probably about half the time, and my wife always has her knife tucked away in her purse.

Also: isn't 80/2000 4%???
 
I have to say that I am curious when I see what appears to be a knife on someone who is approachable. On the other hand, I don't ask women if they've had plastic surgery, augmentation of any kind, show me a tatoo that is peaking out of their shirt, a person with an obvious firearm concealed or one in a holster, etc etc. So, I don't bother people with stupid or personal questions.
 
Los Angeles said:
Not my experience. Not at ALL. Los Angeles is stock full of exposed pocket clips and even a few sheaths. This past week alone: spydie, microtech auto (not legal, but not exactly strictly enforced), Kershaw Leek, SOG, sebenza. And all of them in bars and restaurants. (If I had gone to a gun shop or something, they would have been everywhere, but this is in the "liberal" west side, and knives here are quite popular.
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I'm in LA and have to agree. I do see a lot of clips... less so in the "city center"/ downtown, but no one really lives there anyway. As for asking people, I do not typically do so... but I'm not very chatty.
 
Krissig12 said:
Cool man. Im just relating my personal findings. Im situated in the northernmost Pasadena area, so I dont see many people with knives. Heck, where I am, even the gun shop has a restriction in place that says their employees cant carry knives.......I havent payed close enough attention to the customers to notice if they were carrying though.....
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Oh, ok... understood.
 
Just my $0.02, I live out in NJ and in my experiences most people I come across carry either cheap Off brand flea market knives or low end name brand knives like Gerber paraframe or buck knives. I've seen some officers carry Kershaw and cold steel but RARELY do I see a normal citizen carry any common brands like spyderco or Crkt. I do come across my fair share of leathermans though.
 
jill jackson said:
I see clips in pockets once in awhile. I always try to see if it's anything worth asking about, but it always appears to be something cheap so I let it go. Who wants to listen to somebody go on about how great their cheapo folder is anyway? The one time I did ask it was a girl working at a gas station and she whipped out a folding cheap box cutter.
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I like cheap box cutters. They do a good job of breaking down boxes, and they sharpen in the field as fast as you can flip the blade around. What's not to like? Some people who have box cutters have one that's "work approved" and one they carry because they like the non-work-approved one better. Just 'cause it's cheap doesn't mean it sucks. I'm really more interested in the person than I am in the knife. The knife says something about the person.
 
Krissig12 said:
Cool man. Im just relating my personal findings. Im situated in the northernmost Pasadena area, so I dont see many people with knives. Heck, where I am, even the gun shop has a restriction in place that says their employees cant carry knives.......I havent payed close enough attention to the customers to notice if they were carrying though.....
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I used to live in Montrose. You live in the best pocket in the basin, bud. I had a chance to move into Sierra Madre and passed it up for Montrose, but that is Opie Heaven. As it was, I had to deal with the Armenians selling bongs right on the strip in their "cigar store." That's why we can't have anything nice. I miss that farmer's market and the Christmas parade. Enjoy it while it lasts.
 
Here on Long Island, NY I very rarely see anyone with a pocket clip showing and when I do it's 99% cheapo S&W or something like that. Never been stopped and asked about my knife before either
 
I usually don't ask, but I think about it every time. every once in a while I will ask and usually its just junk so I kind of just assume that its junk now and don't ask very often.
 
addylo said:
Yep, Dallas, Houston, and Austin are exceptions to the rule. Austin is probably the least knife-friendly of the three.
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We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Dallas County has a 4 inch limit on knives. Dallas the city has a 100% ban on knives in libraries. Houston prohibits the carrying of knives on any city owned or operated properties, INCLUDING parking lots. Austin has NONE of these regulations/ordinances.

I open carry a pair of Kabars daily - usually 2x - 1232s, but I'll throw a shorty in the mix every now and then. The ONLY question I've had by a LEO about them was "Why 2?". I still have to remove them to enter courthouses and some businesses, but I still wear the sheaths. :D I mean, the signs say "No Knives", not "No Knife Sheaths" and the pictures are all bare blades. :D:D:D And Yes, I know I'm being a P.I.T.A. with them.
 
If I see something that might be decent I'll ask. But in Baltimore City, I could put a xm 18, and a sebenza for $20 in the gas station, and the $5 one that is assisted will sell first.

I did see a guy with a sunwayman attached to his sons stroller and I had a eagletac on mine. Had to say something. :)
 
zzyzzogeton said:
We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Dallas County has a 4 inch limit on knives. Dallas the city has a 100% ban on knives in libraries. Houston prohibits the carrying of knives on any city owned or operated properties, INCLUDING parking lots. Austin has NONE of these regulations/ordinances.
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Fair enough. I was actually thinking in terms of attitudes rather than city ordinances. Many Austinites tend to look at you like you're a serial killer if you display a knife in public.

Interesting about the Houston ordinances. I wasn't aware of those. Another good reason to stay out of Houston. But then I don't like to travel to places where you sweat in the shower. ;)
 
I have asked a couple of casual acquaintances, and then it was because I recognized the Benchmade pocket clips. One was a salesman at a company that I used to work for; he said that he picked it up at a gun show because he had been told that it was a good brand, but that he really had no idea. The other one was a coatings contractor that said he was having a tough time getting it back to the same level of sharp that it had been out of the box (I told him that the old fashioned bench stone that he was using was going to take forever, and suggested that he try diamond instead). Like others have said, normally I can tell that the knives are just cheapos, so I don't bother.
 
I asked one guy in line at the grocery store about his knife. It ended disastrously. Never again.
 
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