Knife Loaning Horror Stories

A friend of a friend tried showing me how to use the quillion on a Ti-Lite as a "wave" feature for on-the-pocket-corner opening. He lost his grip and the tip dug about .5" into his palm.

The same guy a month later tried the same trick with the same knife. He didn't care that there was somebody behind him, and when he deployed the "wave" the tip went into her thigh. It required 7 stitches.
 
i had my boss ask em to borrow my knife. he knows i always have on on me and i talk about knives all the time. so the first thing he asks is..."is it sharp???" i reply with "what the hell do you think???" then he laughs and says "can it cut through metal?" i promoply take away my knife. while only a schrade 34OT, it is my oldest knife and i love it to death. cut metal...that like asking if his cell can hold together as i throw it through glass so i can get inside my house. idiots.
 
I went fishing with a friend not too long ago. He carries a knife but it is a cheapo knife that he never sharpens and would probably have a hard time opening a letter.

I see him trying to cut something, then he comes over to me and asks to borrow my BM Mini-grip. He walks away.

A few minutes go by and I decide to walk over to his fishing spot and see what's up. This idiot was cutting bait on a friggin' rock with my knife. I took the knife, cleaned it off, put it in my pocket and spit a bit of Skoal juice in his direction.

Effin' idiot.

Funniest part of the story is that I had a bait knife and filet knife in my tackle box that I could care less about that he could have grabbed.
 
Lent my friend my Ti-Lite to pull up the nozzle of Zippo lighter fluid. Puts the catch on the back of his shoe and pulls up thinking it will cleanly open the blade. But it didn't ended up with a gash in his leg and 14 stitches.
 
combs6136 said:
I made a sheath knife for a guy and before handing it to him and told him three times it was very sharp.....So, he laid it flat on his arm to shave the hair off...Opened up his arm three inches.....He bled all over the place.....Had to go to the hospital to have many stitches put in his arm....Plus he was in a bow and hunting shop in front of 5 guys....His reputation was ruined..carl
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Man, I Shave sometimes, but that never happen to me before... how did he cut himself? did he uses too much force when he shave ?? :eek::eek:
 
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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Man, you really should have give him a cut so he will know if it's "not that bad" ... oh well... kids watch too many movies and play too much computer games nowadays... lost all common sense
 
I don't lend my knives to anyone and only show them to people that have respect for them and are knowledgeable about knives.
Some of the people I've read about in this thread need to have their jaw broken. :thumbup:


Sag.
 
Just happened...
My daughter and I were at the neighbor's house and the maintenance man came over to replace the filter for the airconditioner. He came out of the room and asked if anybody had a knife. I don't loan mine out, so I said I didn't. My six-year-old daughter handed him her Victorinox Recruit, and he looked horrified (probably that a child would have such a dangerous, lethal, evil weapon). He comes back a minute later, bleeding. He somehow managed to shove the knife, tip-first, into his index finger. You know the worst part? My six-year-old is more careful with knives.
 
When our school group was backpacking up Mitchell, my best friend lent his Leatherman Kick to a pretty girl who was cooking a pot of beans. She was using the pliers for something...
ploop...
Straight into the beans, goes that Kick.
We were the only two of our school group who had brought any sort of blade.
 
What is this "loaning" term you speak of?

I've learned to never loan to anyone (regardless of knowledge, experience, etc.) anything you don't want to have returned broken or damaged, or worse, lost.
 
SOGJasonSOG said:
Man, I Shave sometimes, but that never happen to me before... how did he cut himself? did he uses too much force when he shave ?? :eek::eek:
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I would bet that he drew the blade across his arm as he shaved. That could open you up fast.


SOGJasonSOG said:
Man, you really should have give him a cut so he will know if it's "not that bad" ... oh well... kids watch too many movies and play too much computer games nowadays... lost all common sense
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All things considered, I wouldn't worry too much about the poster of that story. He tends to, um, exaggerate a bit. :rolleyes:
 
The 1st knife I bought as a boy with my own savings was a Buck Cadet. I always carried it and when I was around 18 we were drinking beer and bullhead fishing at a local lake one night. A "friend" who I trusted asked for my knife. The dumbass gives it to another guy whose car wouldn't start, and he needed something to jump the starter. He brings it back saying "sorry about your knife, man". He had opened the main blade and the spey blade and touched them to the terminals, arcing the hell out of both blades. I still have it but I hate looking at it; I learned that one the hard way.
 
This isn't exactly a horror story and it isn't exactly about loaning...but it is about borrowing. I opened my top dresser drawer to find my wickedly sharp and pointy Delica locked open and laying in there among my other junk. I immediately figured my 4-year old was going through my stuff again and I was concerned that he had cut himself. I examined his hands and was relieved to find no cuts. He denied handling the knife, but I didn't believe him and gave him a bit of a lecture.

A couple days later I come to find out that my wife had used it and couldn't figure out how to close it (so she just dumped it back in the drawer open??? Without a word to me???). And so it turns out that she is in the habit of borrowing my knives to open her mail order packages. (I apoligized to my 4-year old for accusing him)

Now I am finding various knives with glue all over the blades. I have given her a box cutter to use for this, but she just doesn't get it that my knives are not all just beaters. So I put most of them away, but I like to keep a few handy.

And this is the lady who virtually cut off the last half inch of her thumb a few weeks back with a steak knife, so she is the last person who should be playing with a Spyderco or any of my other knives which are typically shaving sharp.

So sometimes the problem isn't loaning, but keeping people from borrowing when you are not looking.
 
enaray said:
The 1st knife I bought as a boy with my own savings was a Buck Cadet. I always carried it and when I was around 18 we were drinking beer and bullhead fishing at a local lake one night. A "friend" who I trusted asked for my knife. The dumbass gives it to another guy whose car wouldn't start, and he needed something to jump the starter. He brings it back saying "sorry about your knife, man". He had opened the main blade and the spey blade and touched them to the terminals, arcing the hell out of both blades. I still have it but I hate looking at it; I learned that one the hard way.
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Can I see pics? I've always wanted to know what something looks like after it was used to connect the terminals of a car battery lol
 
But with some beer in me, I made it through better than half :)

The "relax princess, its stainless steel" line could be a sigline!

All this has done for me is to harden my resolve to never loan out any knives.:eek:

I've gotten to the point where I don't even argue with them, or ask them what they want to cut (scrape and pry is a better description). I just wearily ask them, "would you know a quality knife, if you saw one?"

They NEVER say yes.

So, I guess my Sebenza, SAK and Schrade (yes, all in the same pocket at the same time) won't be loaned out any time soon.

Keep the funny anecdotes coming. Maybe one of them will will give me an aneurism, and the knife loving survivors can fight over my Sebbie.;)
 
Now you guys remind me... most of my friends are very careful with knives even though they don't own one, so when they wanted to see my collection, I will carefully let them handle them, and most of the time, they won't even open the blade, and basically nothing wrong happen until like 8 years ago or so I just finished watching a movie in my living room, a friend's friend, Al, a fat Malaysian guy two work at the bar asked to see my collection, and I was with my Microtech LCC, and very happy with it, anyway I let him take a look, he opened the blade slowly and look at the blade for around 30 seconds and look at us saying "it's not that sharp!" then stab himself on his belly; how stupid, and we were all in shock, but he was very lucky it didn't hurt him, and he laugh out saying "don't worry! I just control the muscles on my belly, and so the knife didn't actually goes into my belly! I saw it on a TV show, that's how those guys did it!" and laugh out like a retard. I so wanted to slap him out the living room, and out of the house; of course I take my knife back at once.

Anyway, after that, I started stop letting people see my collections, or at lease I don't let them handle them unless I know the person is not a retard ... I am pretty sure Al doesn't even cook for himself, he once mention playing dart and one of the darts fly right and stick in his sister's forehead ... I should have known better, but anyway, I am so Glad the LCC's tip wasn't sharp right out of the factory, I can't imagine what happen if he was with one of my EK knives.
 
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If someone asks me if they can borrow a knife I just hand em my $.50 retractable razor with the snap off blades. They could throw the whole thing out and I don't care. I learned from my grandpa that if you are going to lend things out then get the cheapest tools possible since they will be lost/stolen/abused/etc. Now my Delica, my typical EDC, is a total different story. Shaving sharp and to be used only by me. I will say I don't have a knife before I will lend my Delica out.
 
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