Knife on the Bus!

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I'm mentally ill and I carry a 9" fixed blade openly. Back when I was drinking and using, I openly carried a ZT9 bayonet in a drop leg rig and had no trouble (with the knife). Back then, I would walk everywhere... one morning, I was walking to the liquor store at maybe 0700. I was about to cross the street and there was nobody on the road and then comes side by side, a Fresno PD and Fresno Sheriff. I'm using the crosswalk passing maybe 10' in front of both cars... wearing a Hells Angels known associate shirt and that bayonet.

Not a single cluck was given.
 
I think the more full-on your look the less it is questioned. Walk into a store with a saber and people might be concerned; Walk into a store dressed as a civil war soldier with a saber and people will want a picture with you and probably want to hold the saber at that. Most of the time I have seen that people don't react negatively to big knives. That said I have a friend that carries on old schrade hunting knife. He goes to this coffee shop in town every day (spends a good chunk of his morning there). Most people know him in town and no one really cares. But he did have one incident a while back where a non-regular customer made a big fuss about his knife in said coffee shop. From what he said she was flat out ranting about it and berating him. He went about his usual routine as if they didn't exist. then just walked outside to have his coffee and a smoke. So then this woman comes outside after a few minutes and continues to harass him as she is getting into her car. He just sat there and kept doing his thing pretending this person didn't exist until she left. He was upset by it of course but he didn't want to give it attention in the moment.
 
Charlie Mike said:
I'm mentally ill and I carry a 9" fixed blade openly. Back when I was drinking and using, I openly carried a ZT9 bayonet in a drop leg rig and had no trouble (with the knife). Back then, I would walk everywhere... one morning, I was walking to the liquor store at maybe 0700. I was about to cross the street and there was nobody on the road and then comes side by side, a Fresno PD and Fresno Sheriff. I'm using the crosswalk passing maybe 10' in front of both cars... wearing a Hells Angels known associate shirt and that bayonet.

Not a single cluck was given.
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Totally believe you. You're also not like the guy from the bus in Portage. For us Manitobans, that incident will be infamous forever. Not comparable to most any knifey folk, regardless of mental past in any which direction.
 
robgmn said:
You can't see him if you're in the city with your knife on your hip :-).
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True enough. :D

But when I'm in the woods carrying Baldric style, I could see the fellow. :)
I generally don't carry knives on my belt due to having a general hate for stuff hanging off it; tends to get in the way.
 
upnorth said:
Well jeez, it's not like that's aberrant behaviour or anything. Maybe next time you can invite him to sit next to you and have a little chat about openly carrying fixed blades in public, and how wonderfully free it makes everyone feel.
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/story.html?id=5e5e949c-989a-47f7-86da-53801510af24
I had a long chat with the mother of a young RCMP officer that attended the bus beheading scene. The memories still bother him.
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Just to see if you had a point, I wore one of my fixed blades on the bus and around the university today.
Strangely, I did not cut off even one person's head! :eek:

Seems you didn't have a point after all. ;)

We're just knife relaxed around here, as I experienced here:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/915535-Funny-quot-Sheeple-quot-Story

We do get the occasional bus stabbing, but oh well:

http://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/police-arrest-one-in-transit-windsor-incident

http://windsorite.ca/2012/06/34-year-old-woman-arrested-after-stabbing-on-transit-windsor-bus/
 
Czechmate said:
Maybe that's an excellent reason to ban idiots?... :stupid::witless:
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Then I'd be the only person on the bus! :thumbup:
Did seem the stabbers were indeed idiots, as is often the case.

I just find it odd that on a knife forum there'd be some folks who would think a person carrying a fixed blade was out to decapitate people.

I expect to find silly knife opinions from folks who don't collect, use or carry them, but not around here.
 
stabman said:
Then I'd be the only person on the bus! :thumbup:
Did seem the stabbers were indeed idiots, as is often the case.

I just find it odd that on a knife forum there'd be some folks who would think a person carrying a fixed blade was out to decapitate people.

I expect to find silly knife opinions from folks who don't collect, use or carry them, but not around here.
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I agree; especially since it was another Canadian posting. WTH. So confused by people's opinions and stances on things nowadays.

"Hey I like knives and am a member on a knife forum; I just don't think you should carry one." MMMMMKay. Makes sense.
 
Czechmate said:
I agree; especially since it was another Canadian posting. WTH. So confused by people's opinions and stances on things nowadays.

"Hey I like knives and am a member on a knife forum; I just don't think you should carry one." MMMMMKay. Makes sense.
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It's almost as confusing as this damned new "improved" on-line teaching software I have to figure out this semester.
If anything would cause violent outbursts, it's this stupid software, not knives. ;)
 
I like to carry my CS trailmaster on my hip whenever I feel it won't get in the way. If it will? Buck 119, Ontario 499, bk15/17 have my back :D Usually accompanied by a green Endura 4 to please those who may find the fixie threatening. While it is one thing to be able to use and carry it, if I know present company may be made uncomfortable by me using whatever knife is on my hip, I'd just as soon keep everyone happy, and just pop out my Endura (which is really my best cutting knife anyway...)

I used to wear a mora to work at a brewery, where everyone had a folder for pallet straps, cardboard, machinery-poking, and only got one cockeyed glance, to which I explained it was just my utility knife, which cleared it up and they went on their way. I'd rather use my $10 mora to scrape glue off rollers, than my E4 or leek or something!

I'm in Vermont, though, so that doesn't hurt.
 
stabman said:
It's almost as confusing as this damned new "improved" on-line teaching software I have to figure out this semester.
If anything would cause violent outbursts, it's this stupid software, not knives. ;)
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Anything new and improved as well as online is sure to give you fits... :D

I took an online course once.

Once

Rage ensues LOL.
 
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stabman said:
Maybe we're just not scared little sheep in Windsor; takes more than a couple of morons who got stabby to ruin it for everyone else. :thumbup:

Perfect example of not being scared:

"Katona said he tackled the woman and wrestled the knife away from her. She then ran off."

http://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/man-stabbed-on-a-city-bus
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No need for flashy greek words... ;):rolleyes:

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Stabman and I haven't always seen eye to eye on everything but I agree with him here, the scared sheeple mentality is down right illogical.


Good on you stabman for carrying what you want.
stabman said:
Yet you have no problem typing it... ;)

Maybe we're just not scared little sheep in Windsor; takes more than a couple of morons who got stabby to ruin it for everyone else. :thumbup:

Perfect example of not being scared:

"Katona said he tackled the woman and wrestled the knife away from her. She then ran off."

http://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/man-stabbed-on-a-city-bus
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robgmn said:
I'd look at someone with a 10" fixed blade on their hip in the city the same way I'd look at someone wearing hip waders, snakeproof gaiters, or tree climbing spurs.

That look would be "that's weird".
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Sigmund freud had a theory about people that were uncomfortable around weapons.
 
Most of the time no one cares, but it's the times that they do that we have to worry about! My uncle got kicked out of a bookstore recently because of the "illegal weapon" he was openly carrying. (A 4" fixed blade)
He told them about the 5.5" law here in Texas, and they didn't want to hear it:rolleyes:
 
blade dude said:
im up here in riverside and have noticed knives in brown leather sheaths or knifes in sheaths like moras get much friendlier attention than a "tactical" black sheath with a black handled fixed blade
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I've seen the same reaction a little north of you here in the Central Valley. I'm not sure why it is, but I get more looks when I have a black kydex/nylon sheath and "tactical"-looking handle than when I wear one of my leather sheath, wood handle knives on my belt. Same size, both just as sharp, but one seems to blend over the other. Nobody's ever approached me about it or mentioned it though.

People are strange.
 
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