Knife fail experiences

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Today my 11 year old brother cut his chin slightly because he pointed the knife towards him as he was slicing through some string. Needless to say I will not lend him or anyone else my knives unless I am POSITIVE they know how to use them. What is your dumbest knife related moment?
 
I wasn't paying attention when flicking my Cold Steel Voyager open and closed. Big mistake. Very sharp blade. I'm lucky I only got off with a small cut.
 
I was inspecting the fine mirror polished razor edge on my 4" Ti-lite... poor lighting so I had it right up towards my face.
slipped out of my hand and pivoted right onto my chin. It was pretty funny once it stopped bleeding... like 2 hours later.
Only person I told was my GF.
 
Scrubbing a large blade with a Rust Eraser to take off some light marks. Slipped and drug my RH ring finger over the edge. Cut a chunk out of my finger about the size of a pea, almost to the bone. It's mostly filled back in but I still have a little divot in the side of my finger. Straight dumbassery on my part.
 
With my first knife, a Swiss Army Knife, I was cutting towards myself, I slipped and filleted the top of my finger.
Got bandaged up and went back outside to do the same thing to a different finger.
Lesson learned.

Oh, I once tried to cut the raised lettering off of a pill bottle, slipped and cut my finger pretty bad.

I do not remember any worthwhile cuts as an adult. Just nicks and pokes.
 
My most recent brain fart.

I was flicking my Bedlam (doesn't flick quite as smooth as my 710) just for fun at work and went to put it in my pocket. Unknowingly it was still a bit open and nipped my finger at the top of the nail bounced and came down again for some more. The first cut was about a 1/4 inch the second about 1/2 long. Didn't hurt just felt sharp cold steel (adj & noun not brand duh). Minor but it bleed pretty darn good.

Most times I get bit I was doing something stupid and not giving the sharp instrument the respect it deserves.
 
My great-uncle was cutting a tree branch when he was a boy and it sliced his eye. This was in the early 1900s in rural Minnesota and I am sure the ability to get to a doctor was different than it is today. Consequently he went through the rest of his life with one eye.
 
Cut the inside of my mouth trying to eat yam off my Benchmade 530. Didn't bleed to bad.

Cut myself white knuckling a closed Bradley Kimura, cut 3 of my fingers and bled like a stuck pig. I have also poked myself in the palm with it too.
 
Well, I've seen one friend stick a made-in-China reproduction katana into his leg and another managed to screw up with a balisong and pin his scrotum to an ottoman (luckily he only caught skin, unluckily he's still able to reproduce). I've cut myself doing dumb stuff somewhat frequently, but never on quite the scale of those two.
 
I had just got done using a kershaw blackout to cut some pork chops. Rinsed it off and grabbed a towel to dry it and was not paying attention drying it off and as I wiped the blade it cut right through the towel and my thumb. Last time I do that, for a while anyway.
 
I was checking that a Kershaw Chive was centered after disassembly and cleaning.
Had it right up to my face.
Slipped and actuated the spring.
The tip dragged up the center of my lip and cut me.
I felt like such an idiot.
 
Hit my scrotum a few times while balisong flipping. Luckily it was just the handles. Had a pretty scary moment this one time I tried an aerial though.
 
Was trying to whittle out the nock of an arrow I was making from some ironbark at age 15, ended up splitting down 2" of the body of the arrow and straight into my thumb... The kicker was that I was on vacation with my friend's family on an island (with no hospital). Luckily when we got to the ferry terminal it was just unloading, and 4 hours and 4 stitches later, I was back at the cabin pulling crab pots.
 
I nicked the tip of my pinky finger right off... like a little O shape of flesh right from the tip about the size of a bb when I was making a friend a birthday card and had a brain fart at 3 in the morning... (insomniac here)
 
I'll spare you the long story and summarize; Cold Steel Pipe Hawk. Poor chopping stance. razor edge. rotten wood. 7 stitches. near a mile away from help. thank god for heavy gauge leather work boots or I would have lost my big toe...
 
When I was about 7-8 I was real curious about what it is that is inside a C (or was it a D) battery. I pulled out my pocket knife,I think it was a SAK,and started to try to cut the battery open . Well, I slipped and cut my finger right to the bone. I Learned a important lesson that day. If you are going to cut a battery in half USE A AXE!:D
 
XiaolongJackson said:
Hit my scrotum a few times while balisong flipping. Luckily it was just the handles. Had a pretty scary moment this one time I tried an aerial though.
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The best part about the incident I mentioned was that we ended up at a teaching hospital. One that happened to have a bunch of nursing and medical students there when I dragged him in. And everyone was so curious about his injury.
 
When i first got my ZT 0121 i decided to take the scales off just being curious. The hex screws were either loc-tited or just really tight to where i had to use a wrench on both sides to get them undone. As im muscling it off my hand slips and the blade whacked me right in the face. That thing smacked me so hard i thought i had slashed half my face with the blade. Went to the bathroom to check and there was only a 1/4in cut that was barely bleeding on my cheek.

Ladies and gentleman, please respect your knives. Or you might wind up like us silly folk in this here thread.
 
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