knives saving lives

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A. G. Russell

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Does anyone have links to stories about knives saving lives?

like the man who was trapped and cut his arm off or the fellow in Canada who killed the puma who was attacking him.

thanks,

A. G.
 
There was a story that I was trying to find about a guy who was pinned by his truck and forced to cut off leg with a dull pocket knife.:eek: I found this instead.



Trapped Woodsman Cuts Off Leg to Save Himself


The Washington Post | July 22, 1993 | Copyright 2009 The Washington Post.

Lying pinned under a tree with a broken leg, a woodsman cried for help for an hour before giving up hope that he would be heard. Then he saved himself the only way he could: by cutting off his leg with a pocket knife.

Donald Wyman, 37, was in fair condition today, a day after his leg was fractured when a tree fell on him while he was clearing land for a mining company.

"Of the 30-some people I have working for me, if anyone could have gutted it out like that, it was him," said David Osikowicz, president of Punxsutawney-based Original Fuels. Wyman had worked for the company for …
 
Here's one:

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-van-fire-milwuakee,0,354419.story

This story got quite a lot of play in the news, because someone on the scene was able to record the rescue on video (probably cell phone). According to some news accounts, the off-duty firefighters actually had to borrow a knife from a bystander in order to cut a seat belt in the burning vehicle. It struck me as odd that neither of the firefighters had pocketknives on them, that's why I remembered this story.
 
This is an exerpt from this story, from the Boye Boat Knives site:

The crew member who was working in the pit (who has asked to remain nameless) came forward to assist me. In doing so, he accidentally placed his foot within the spinnaker sheet and brace. I was looking forward trying to sort out the pole situation, and heard a blood-curling scream from behind me. Because the boat was dead-down wind for the jibe, all the spinnaker sheets and braces became fully loaded with a 35 knot gust. I turned around to instantly see my friend's leg wrapped around a fully-loaded spinnaker sheet. He was hanging upside down, with half his body being dragged through the lifelines. I grabbed my Boye knife and within seconds positioned myself outside the lifelines and with a mere single swipe, sliced the spinnaker sheet clean through.
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Another from Fox News:

OMAHA, Neb. — An Omaha man struggling to breathe used a steak knife to perform an at-home tracheotomy. Steve Wilder says he thought he was going to die when he awoke one night last week and couldn't breathe. Wilder says he didn't call 911 because he didn't think help would arrive in time. So, the 55-year-old says, he got a steak knife from the kitchen and made a small hole in his throat, allowing air to gush in. Wilder suffered from throat cancer and related breathing problems several years ago. About that time, he had an episode where he couldn't breathe because his air passages swelled shut. He says that's what happened this time around. Doctors don't expect Wilder to suffer any adverse effects from the tracheotomy once it's healed.
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If I ever have to perform my own trach with a steak knife, I hope it's with the Shun folding steak knife or one of those honeys from Santa Fe with the picasso marble. :D
 
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I could not find a link offhand, but back in the 70s in one of Lion Country Safari drive through zoos, a granny knifed a big cat (tiger?) to death when it got in through the window of an RV and started munching on a baby.
 
Leftoverdj said:
I could not find a link offhand, but back in the 70s in one of Lion Country Safari drive through zoos, a granny knifed a big cat (tiger?) to death when it got in through the window of an RV and started munching on a baby.
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That sounds like that old woman from the movie Madagascar lol.
 
THG said:
Here's one where lack of a knife led to a loss of life:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma.../09/watching_helplessly_as_a_life_slips_away/

Shows that a knife can definitely save a life... If you're smart enough to carry one on you.
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That is very sad. Totally avoidable had someone had a knife.

They should put a small box with break glass in case of emergency with this benchmade hook in it at the top of the up escalator and at the bottom of the down escalator. What a shame.

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There is a story out of Springfield MA, where a man in a car was able to cut a scarf that had been entangled in the mechanism of a car wash, thereby saving the woman's life. The article listed it as a pocket knife, and the woman as having worked at the car wash. Goes to show you.
 
Seat belt cutters and window breakers are now fairly common.There should be a list of incidents where a car went into a lake and the occupants drowned because they or bystanders had nothing to break windows or cut belts. I always carry these tools in my truck .
 
One of my best friends was out fly fishing on a pretty quick river. Probably should not have been where he was. Anyway, he lost his footing and went under. His waders filled with water and started to drag him along with the current. He's a pretty good swimmer, but he couldn't get to the top, and he couldn't get the wader straps loose. He remembered his pocket knife, managed to get it out, and cut the waders loose. Yep, his knife saved his life.

He is one of the reasons that I carry a knife.
 
I stink at linkin', but there was an incident a few years ago out of Lawrence, KS.

Seems a few KU basketball (players) thugs attacked a guy at a bar.

The guy had a pocketknife, which he used to great effect. After the incident, the concern was of course for the possibility of a career-ending injury to one of the thugs.

Additional good news was that, although IIRC the guy had a previous felony conviction, the PA declined to file against the knife wielder. Apparently clear case of self defense.
 
The sad part of these stories is there's a good chance no one thought " Maybe a knife would be useful for me to have. "
 
VictGerbSogCamill said:
They should put a small box with break glass in case of emergency with this benchmade hook in it at the top of the up escalator and at the bottom of the down escalator. What a shame.

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I heard that those (particular ones) are no good. To be effective, those things need to come to a sharp point.
 
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