Knife Loaning Horror Stories

Someone told me that your knife , and your car are like your wife , you do not let anyone borrow them unless you are happy to have them come back f**ked

I guess I have been lucky and figured it was pretty good advice and kept it .
 
TLR said:
Don't lend your knives to people. People are dumb.
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Don't lend anything you're not willing to lose or have broken.

If they didn't pay for it, why should they respect it?
 
Gunfucius said:
Just today, I met one of my friend's friends. Seeing the knife clipped to his pocket and the leatherman multitool pouch on his belt, I thought, "hey cool another knife guy just like me." So I handed him my Buck 110 and said, "hey cool, you're into knives too." The first thing he did was to open it and put it to my friend's throat. I grabbed the blade with my left hand, putting my right hand between the tip and said friend's throat thinking that I'd rather have my hand "killed" than my friend killed and told him to let go of the knife NOW. So what does this yahoo do now? HE JAMS THE KNIFE INTO MY HAND:eek: !!! I used my left hand to slam his hand into the wall behind him, which made him let go of the knife, which then dropped out of my palm. I asked him WTF did he think he was doing, and he replied, "I was just joking dude, sheesh, relax." I showed him my hand and what he did to it. He then proceeds to tell me that it isn't that bad!!! I REALLLLY felt like punching him for that.:mad: After wiping the blood off of my knife and stopping the bleeding. I asked to see his knife and multitool just out of curiosity. It turns out the knife was a POS with a loose blade and no edge (figures:jerkit: ), and the multitool was given to him. (What the h*ll were they thinking giving a multitool to HIM, anyways?) I made it very clear to him that you DO NOT threaten someone with a knife in a "joking" manner. Its NOT funny:grumpy:. Sheesh, am I the only teenager with any common sense...
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no u are not the only teen with common sense. i graduate highschool this year fyi. im prolly going to get the kershaw g-10 offset for graduation. i will never use that for SD and it will rarely leave the house.

thankfully most of the ppl i know are "kinda smart" with knives. they also know me pretty well. when i tell them one of my knives could take their wrist off without them feeling it, they belive me. give them credit. still dont trust them though. especially with something like a recurve on the offset.

i can see someone checking to see if the recurve part will fit over their arm like a cap, and then cutting themselves just from checking............idiots :jerkit:
 
I can't imagine anyone I would associate with not having his or her own knife. Anybody who doesn't know enough to carry a knife certainly doesn't know enough to borrow one of mine. :eek:
 
My roommate and my friend wanted to borrow my all-black Cara Cara and 3" voyager to walk out late at night. they also borrowed my scooter without asking.

i get the knives back later and and horrified to see my lovely black coating badly marred and scratched. i asked what happened-

they were BOTH riding on my scooter at the same time (wtf, could've broken it), coasting down a slope when his friend couldn't apply the brakes and they fell off, scratching up my knives. they stumbled up drunkenly (my roommate especially, having fallen on his head). when they caught the attention of some passersby, one exclaimed "We're not drunk!"

as a cop came in the vicinity, my roommate said (loudly) to the other, "where are the knives?" and looked around and patted pockets.

good lord, this could've been a mini-sequel to "Dumb and Dumber"! It would be funny too, if it weren't my knives and scooter they borrowed! fortunately nothing got confiscated or broken (but damaged, yes)

i later loaned the same cara cara to another friend, who returned it with the blade scratched up and covered with nasty adhesive marks that i still can't get off! "cutting up cardboard boxes" he said. wtf?! i've cut up plenty and my knife looked great.

well, whenever i see those "signatures" on my knife i will think of certain people...:jerkit:
 
I handed a fairly new strider PT to a friend to have a look at, he proceded to open the knife and then fumbled it like an idiot, it landed tip down on my slabbed patio. :grumpy:

I just dont give my knives to any one at all now, ever.
 
I just don't answer when people ask who has a knife.

Maybe I'll get one of those folding utility knife with replacable blade as a loaner.
 
I got a Gerber Mk1 a friend thought was a throwing knife and when I wasn't looking threw at a tree, missed and hit the pavement beyond. I now have a shortened MK1 :(
 
I don't loan anything with an edge on it, including axes. A nice lady at a neighboring campsite once asked to borrow my razor-sharp Snow & Nealley Hudson's Bay 3/4 bit. I politely told her no, and invited her to help herself to a pile of kindling I had handy for just that eventuality. She asked if I thought they would damage the ax, and I replied I would feel badly if she or her husband were to injure themselves. Of course, I really meant that any doofus so stupid that they would 'forget' their ax shouldn't be trusted.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
If he hasn't got a knife of his own,
he probably doesn't know how to use one,
so why would you loan him yours?
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Seems pretty true to me.

I only know of one other person besides myself that both likes knives and knows anything about them. He can point out a Spyderco by the round hole, has a "real" swiss army knife and has attempted to sharpen knives himself. He has a friend who also likes knives, but sadly not only lacks the first one's knowledge, but also common sense in handling them. I like showing them my new knives because they're the only people I can really talk knives to face to face outside of a gun store. But the second friend, I just shake my head at the thought of handing a knife to him again.

His test of how good a knife is to him is how easily he can flick it open. I don't understand. The other week I was showing them my new Spyderco. Friend one opens it normally, turns it over in his hand a few times admiring it, then closes it and hands it to friend 2. He flicks it open, of course, and says something like "Wow, awsome!," with some glassy eyed grin on his face. For the next twenty minutes, while me and friend 1 discuss the merits of different knives in my collection and why we'd EDC them, #2 is still flicking away. Eventually he flicks and lets go, and shoots the knife across my room at alarming speed. Since then I've decided I simply will not let him touch one of my knives, ever. I've brought brand new knives over to my friends house only to have him sit there and flick them until he accidently loses control of it and sends it across the room. The minute he does it, he apologizes and I just think, why can't you learn you shouldn't keep doing it or you'll end up hurting yourself, others or damaging their property at the least. Another thing I noticed during that last incident is that every knife of mine he handled came back to me greasy and slimy feeling. He also kept going on about "Benchtop" knives...:rolleyes:

Aside from that all my stories are the typical ones of people cutting themselves because you hand them a knife that has a proper cutting edge on it and people today expect a knife to be dull.
 
I tend to not let people borrow or even touch my knives. Some people are smart and others are just plain retarded. Both my roommates know where I keep my stuff and they dont even go into the drawer and ask me before they use any knives cause they know my stuff is sharp and they dont feel like cutting themselves. Anyone that fondles my stuff I already know that they know how knives work and other people I just say no to.

One time I was cutting something with my opinel and was about to put it away before one of my acquaintances asks me to see it. I hand it over to him and he doesnt twist the ring to unlock it but promptly pops it off and then proceeds to lecture me on knife laws saying that if an officer saw it they would arrest me because it locks closed. After that I took the opinel away from him and praised myself for not taking out my benchmade.

If its someone I know and they politely ask to see my knife and I dont feel like saying no, as soon as I see that theyre about to do something retarded with it I just take it back from them. So many people start feeling up knife edges only to cut themselves.....
 
James Y said:
I was practicing martial arts with another friend I've known for years. He is also a cop. He noticed the mini-Stryker clipped to my pocket and before I knew it, he snatched it, one-hand opened it very quickly, started doing some flashy dexterity moves by twirling it in his fingers, then promptly stabbed it into a very solid wooden wall support. He didn't jab it hard enough, obviously, and he let go of it and it dropped straight onto the hard floor. ... Now I'm always wary and never allow someone to touch my knife except for one older friend who also likes knives and often carries higher-end stuff himself.
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That's why they give cops guns. If they gave them knives, many of them would hurt themselves!
 
I let a friend of a friend see my NEW Sog twitch 2 at a friend's party about a year ago, he seemed nice enough, and I thought that he just wanted to try out the assis. opening feature. Wrong. He proceded to flip it open, and attemps to open a soup can by jabbing it with my new knife. I almost broke his jaw. Instead, I snatched it away while bitching at him loudly for scratching up the blade...... do you know what this dude says to me?!?!?!?!?! He says, "Relax, it's stainless steel princess."
 
This thread inspired me to go to wally world and pick up the $0.94 ozark trail folder to hand to my roomies or friends if they ask for a knife instead of them picking my SOG trident off my desk to cut pizza or cake with (a few close calls), or open something or other.
 
I got a Case slimline trapper a few years ago as a gift. A few days later at a christmas get together someone asked to borrow it while opening gifts. I realized a bit too late that they used it to cut metal twist ties off of the kids toys. I opened it and noticed that about 50% of the blade was rolled over. My knives stay in my pockets now.
 
Alberta Ed said:
I don't loan anything with an edge on it, including axes. A nice lady at a neighboring campsite once asked to borrow my razor-sharp Snow & Nealley Hudson's Bay 3/4 bit. I politely told her no, and invited her to help herself to a pile of kindling I had handy for just that eventuality. She asked if I thought they would damage the ax, and I replied I would feel badly if she or her husband were to injure themselves. Of course, I really meant that any doofus so stupid that they would 'forget' their ax shouldn't be trusted.
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Good point for future reference Ed. About 5 or 6 years ago the wife and I were camping near Banff, which of course is a tourist (and moron) haven. After watching 2 couples with a Cruise Canada rental motor-shack struggle with campfire building, like a fool, but a helpful fool, I ask if they want to borrow an axe. Peaches, God bless her, warns Lars, "be careful it's very sharp". I was under the impression, wrong again, that guys that camp are guys that use tools. Five minutes later over comes some Swede bleeding profusely, "ya, it is veddy sharp, dank you". The wife goes for the first aid kit, while Lars says it's OK, only a nick, and the Peaches is telling him it's not OK to be bleeding all over the campground. I go to get him a beer and hear her telling him while patching that everything in our house is stupid sharp. Lesson learned and reinforced thanks to Ed.
 
Gunfucius said:
Just today, I met one of my friend's friends. Seeing the knife clipped to his pocket and the leatherman multitool pouch on his belt, I thought, "hey cool another knife guy just like me." So I handed him my Buck 110 and said, "hey cool, you're into knives too." The first thing he did was to open it and put it to my friend's throat. I grabbed the blade with my left hand, putting my right hand between the tip and said friend's throat thinking that I'd rather have my hand "killed" than my friend killed and told him to let go of the knife NOW. So what does this yahoo do now? HE JAMS THE KNIFE INTO MY HAND:eek: !!! I used my left hand to slam his hand into the wall behind him, which made him let go of the knife, which then dropped out of my palm. I asked him WTF did he think he was doing, and he replied, "I was just joking dude, sheesh, relax." I showed him my hand and what he did to it. He then proceeds to tell me that it isn't that bad!!! I REALLLLY felt like punching him for that.:mad: After wiping the blood off of my knife and stopping the bleeding. I asked to see his knife and multitool just out of curiosity. It turns out the knife was a POS with a loose blade and no edge (figures:jerkit: ), and the multitool was given to him. (What the h*ll were they thinking giving a multitool to HIM, anyways?) I made it very clear to him that you DO NOT threaten someone with a knife in a "joking" manner. Its NOT funny:grumpy:. Sheesh, am I the only teenager with any common sense...
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I would have handled this differently. Rest assured I would have quitely drawn my sidearm, and told him to stop assaulting my friend. The number 1 reason I will not lend out a knife to anyone is that I don't trust that they won't harm another with it. Harming themselves, that's their own stupidity, harming another, I bare some moral responsibility there. You are absolutely right it is not a joking matter, and you may be the only teenager with common sense :) The most dumbass things I have ever seen were done by teens with knives. I watched a teenager pull a knife on an old man on the bus once, and then proceeded to tell me that he was just joking. That kid will never know how close he got to getting killed that day. Be very careful hanging around that kid, if at all. Glad it all worked out.
 
When I was in the army in Germany in the eighties I was in the local hotel with my girlfriend. We were in a room having some fun and afterward, my still naked girlfriend picked up my othello switchblade to look at it. She was lying down on the bed, popped the button and when the blade opened she panicked and dropped it. I saw at this point the blade in slow motion ( it seemed) turning in mid air blade down , then complete the circle and land on her bare belly flat.

I still have nightmares about that. Could you imagine a young GI trying to explain to the polezi that the girl had an accident and stabbed herself? They would have buried me under the jail! God really looked out for her, and me that day.

I don't lend knives, nor even lay them around for people to grab. True story. Joe
 
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