Knive related stupidity

jdm61

jdm61

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I'm sure everyone has a story about themselves or one of their friends doing something stupid with a knfe, but what I want to know about is the DUMBEST thing you have ever seen, heard or done relating to the knive biz. Almost everyone has seen the video of the guy whacking himslef with the cheapo katana on HSN. My first sumission is apparently legend in the ABS. A number of years ago Bill Moran was at a show with a number of his knives. A woman picked one up, looked at the blade stamp, looked at the price and loudly proclaimed that she "couldn't understand why anyone would pay so much for a knife made by a "Moron":D

edit....of course, my second submission relates to my spelling faux pas in the title of the thread:grumpy:
 
At age 12, while playing mubblelypeg, I threw/stuck a friend's cheap 5" texas toothpick through his shoe into his foot. That's not the "really" stupid part though.

He dared me to do it................ Said I was a puss if I didn't at least try.

His mother was not happy ( or dopey or sleepy or Doc ((too bad she wasn't that one)) - nevermind) nor were my parents. No charges were pressed. But so much for "unsupervised" pocket knives for a couple of years then. BTW My father recalled it as pretty damn funny when he brought it up many years later at a LARGE family gathering while eating with a knife and fork I'd made for him.

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Joe that is tremendously funny. Not that this is truly funny, but I like the looks I get when my co workers are looking over my shoulder while reading Blade and they ask how much that art knife is and I tell em it's almost 3 grand!
 
Ok I got one for yall. I was 18 or 19 and was using a Gerber leatherman to cut the grips off of my handle bars on my bicycle and stupid me was cutting towards myself. When the knife came to the end of the grip it came straight into my arm 1/2" and my wound was gaping open but stopped bleeding after a couple of minutes. 3 hours later I had it taped shut and wrapped. Needless to say the next day i was dong some demolition work and was trying to see if I could get it to open up again but it stayed together. I'm glad my reaction time was quick enough to pull the knife away before it went in any deeper. I think i earned the bonehead of the week award for that one. :D
 
My cousin was finishing off a deer I had shot, slit the throat toward his leg and the blade went right under his knee cap from the side! Oh the humanity! He still bears the scar. No damage to the knee though.

Here's another one for just entertainment, nothing terribly stupid, just an accident:

While at the Bill Moran School about six years ago, I watched as another student was doing his "test". He got to the point where you shave hair after chopping the 2x4's and rope. Knife bit right into his arm! That was neat! (Not that I'm sick and like seeing stuff like that happen!:D) -Matt-
 
WAIT!! I have one. I was like 12 or 13, and we had these sunflower plants in teh back yard. So we had cut them down, and I was hacking them into 12" pieces to go into the trash with a chef knife. Then I got the bright idea to split them like an axe while holding onto the pieces. Down to the bone at the knuckle . Surprisingly I did not need stitches.
 
In high school we used to use ice pick blades for various purposes. This means that you need to remove the blades from wooden handles. I would just smash the handles with a hammer, but a friend of mine decided to pull one out using vice grips. He tried to hold the blade in the vice grips while he pulled and twisted on the handle with his other hand. It just wasn't working. He sat on the ground cross-legged and tried it so that he had his elbows out to the side and he was pulling outwards. The blade came out and he rammed it into the inside of his thigh all the way to the thigh bone. It bled like crazy.
 
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Heres a couple. At the last gun and knife show a was at some guy wants to look at one of my knives. I hand it to him with the warning it was very very sharp. He looks it all over and then suddenly runs the pad of his thumb up the edge, Slicing the hell out of it. What ya goona do.

When we were kids me and a couple of my cousins were out messing around in the winter on the frozen river. We decide to make a hole in the ice and my one cousin has this rel pointy knife and he starts chipping away and he would stop and his brother would scoop out the chips. Yup they scewed it up and whamo one brother sticks the thing right thru the others hand. Lucky that no tendons or nothing got hit. Went right in the middle running the right way. Our mothers were pretty calm about it. Of course we had been conditioning them for a while.
 
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