Knives, Sheeple and Trouble

skimmerhorn said:
iv'e traveled all over this country. always with a knife. never once have i had a problem. just thought it was always normal. if someone did say something i would tell them where to shove their ignorant flesh. maybe it's attitude! if the sheep know you don't care then they can save themselves from being insulted. do not conform!! my family buys me knives and guns.
i honestly cannot believe the mentality i've read in this thread. what is everone so afraid of? someone please explain!
if someone dosen't like it simply tell you do not care.
i've been doing it since i was 5!! pissed on home plate during a state softball tourney cause' my mom said i couldn't go on the field. did it anyway. one of the funny family stories!
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So I think what you are saying here.... is that you've been encouraged by your family, to be socially unacceptable since you were at least 5 years old? :confused:

Now your post's make perfect sense!:D

On Edit; Just somehing to think about; No one can MAKE you do anything.... but they CAN make you wish you would have.
 
timcsaw said:
So I think what you are saying here.... is that you've been encouraged by your family, to be socially unacceptable since you were at least 5 years old? :confused:

Now your post's make perfect sense!:D
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I think he's just been rewatching the Robin Williams episode of Law & Order a bit too much. :D
 
For the 'public', just carry 2 knives...a small Minibuck, Case Small Caliber, etc for use in the 'open', and your Tenacious, Spydy Hannibal Lector Hookbill, etc when alone.
 
A few weeks ago I was at dinner with one of my friends, and two of her friends. One of those friends was another guy, and I noticed he had a blade. This was probably a bad idea since we were in the restaurant still, but I asked him if I could see it. He pulled out some no-name knife that was actually really cool, it had like a slide-out design that I hadn't seen before. Anyways, I decided to show him mine. I just so happened to be carrying a Benchmade Skirmish that night, and I really didn't think before I pulled it out. When I showed it to him, I tried to be very discrete, but an old lady at a nearby table saw it. Needless to say, she looked extremely alarmed. I put it back quickly, but she continued to stare for a good 1-2 minutes. Then I see her tap her husband on the shoulder and whisper over to him. They quickly finished their desserts and walked (quickly) out of the restaurant... oops :/
 
Wonder how bad her panic would have been if she had seen the weapons of mass destruction back in that restaurant's kitchen?:rolleyes:

DancesWithKnives
 
colin8 said:
I put it back quickly, but she continued to stare for a good 1-2 minutes. Then I see her tap her husband on the shoulder and whisper over to him. They quickly finished their desserts and walked (quickly) out of the restaurant... oops :/
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You should have just kept starring back at her, may be raise your eye brow too. I bet their desert would have stayed untouched.:D
 
colin8 said:
A few weeks ago I was at dinner with one of my friends, and two of her friends. One of those friends was another guy, and I noticed he had a blade. This was probably a bad idea since we were in the restaurant still, but I asked him if I could see it. He pulled out some no-name knife that was actually really cool, it had like a slide-out design that I hadn't seen before. Anyways, I decided to show him mine. I just so happened to be carrying a Benchmade Skirmish that night, and I really didn't think before I pulled it out. When I showed it to him, I tried to be very discrete, but an old lady at a nearby table saw it. Needless to say, she looked extremely alarmed. I put it back quickly, but she continued to stare for a good 1-2 minutes. Then I see her tap her husband on the shoulder and whisper over to him. They quickly finished their desserts and walked (quickly) out of the restaurant... oops :/
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You should have smiled at her and then broken out into a maniacal, cackling laugh. :D
 
bchan77 said:
When he saw my knife, he laughed. 'That is no weapon, lady,' he said to my colleague, with hints of contempt. 'That's an Opinel. Every French family has it.' He then turned towards me and smiled.. with approval. :D
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That's a sweet story. It's always nice to meet another knife enthusiast in person. I can't really explain it, but there's always an unspoken connection of understanding and compassion whenever I meet a friendly knife knut. Sadly, the same can't be said of mall ninjas. It's amazing how many of these kids will berate and talk down upon a knife if it isn't "tactical" enough.
 
It's kinda surprising, I whent to a high school with a "ZERO tolrance" policy- pretty much it means that if you do anything, ANYTHING they call the cops and haul you off, even if someone else attacks you, your kicked out for at least a week, and have to go through no end of crap, caught with a knife- gone forever.
But anyways, i guess im both lucky and stupied because I carried a SAK or small folder everyday for 3 years. All my friends knew, but knew not to talk about it around other students.

Not the best idea I know, but oh well. One of my friends carried most of the time too. It was really cool when we found one of our teachers didn't care, in fact he'd borrow them from us so long as the whole class didn't know we were using knives.

I know for a fact that he was the only teacher in the school who wouldn't rat us out, because he was the only one with enough sence to know that me and my friend weren't lunitics, and that we carried 'tools'
 
I carried a buck 110 on my belt for years in NJ 'cept is was too heavy.
Then a swiss army knife but it kept wearing out my back pockets.
Then a Kershaw 'Vapor' but the clip would get weak & it disapeared during a ride in an ambulance.

The only person who freaked was our UPS man who watched me flip the vapor open...

The ladies in the office always asked me to cut the nylon straps on the copy paper boxes.

I replaced the Vapor w/ a Black Teflon coated Gerber. much smoother than the vapor and nobody ever noticed it...'cept my wife; you can take 'em out of Brooklyn but you can't get the Brooklyn out of 'em!
 
Trigcure said:
They told me i could not wear my Buck 110 to Boyscout meetings. is that not sad?
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That's pretty sad, but I think it'd be even more sad if you were not allowed to bring a Camillus Boy Scouts of America knife. If that day ever comes, my faith in humanity will die.
 
Brad Greulich said:
I know for a fact that he was the only teacher in the school who wouldn't rat us out, because he was the only one with enough sence to know that me and my friend weren't lunitics, and that we carried 'tools'
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My high school welding teacher was like that, he always carried his own knife and a multi tool.
 
It's truely a shame when law abiding citizens can't open an envelope or cardboard box without some idiot getting excited.I even had a similar kneejerk reaction to a T-shirt I wore.It was a golf related shirt with a man missing the ball on a tee.The letters WIFF! across the bottom.Some woman checkout clerk at walmart said she didn't approve of my shirt.At first I was stunned,then it hit me.She thought it was supportive of wife abuse with a golf club! I pondered for a minute then told her to mind her own business.I did think about complaining to the manager but figured it would be a waste of time.tom.:jerkit:
 
Since the Boy Scouts have banned all forms of knives, tools, forks or anything that the anti pointy bit types might be offended by, I'm going to start an organization for youth called Woods-Walkers. The emphasis will be on basic outdoors skills, the tools needed (such as knives, axes, rifles). There will be no dumbed down classes or skills taught. Just good ol outdoors fun, building shelters, REAL fire circles, knife, ax and rifle use etc. I just about puked when the local "scout" leader here told me they are not allowed to make campfires or let the scouts carry even the most basic of knives, the SAK. Their idea of a fire is sitting INSIDE a room with a red lightbulb inside a pile of sticks. It made me angry.



I'm pretty sure that many in North America have had enough of the dumbed down that is the Scouts today, and would be willing to support Woods-Walkers.

EDITED BY B5, poor language. I apologize to the community
 
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Bushman5 said:
Since the Boy Scouts have banned all forms of knives, tools, forks or anything that the metrosexual whiny sissies city liberal commie types might be offended by, I'm going to start an organization for youth called Woods-Walkers. The emphasis will be on basic outdoors skills, the tools needed (such as knives, axes, rifles). There will be no liberal commie yuppified, sissified, feminized dumbed down classes or skills taught. Just good ol outdoors fun, building shelters, REAL fire circles, knife, ax and rifle use etc. I just about puked when the local "scout" leader here told me they are not allowed to make campfires or let the scouts carry even the most basic of knives, the SAK. Their idea of a fire is sitting INSIDE a room with a red lightbulb inside a pile of sticks. It made me angry.



I'm pretty sure that many in North America have had enough of the (( bleeeeeep )) that is the Scouts today, and would be willing to support Woods-Walkers.
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I've been out of scouts for 13 years and had no idea it came to this. I am sickened. (( enough of this ))
 
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i worked as a cashier at a sporting goods store (shall remain nameless), AF guy (in uniform) was buying a knife. it came it those annoying hard plastic packages. it had a sheath too. he asked me to open it so he could put it in the sheath and put it on his belt and carry it out. i pulled out the knife that was in my EDC rotation and opened the package. apparently the store manager was behind me and disapproved. i was pulled aside and he told me i would be fired on the spot next time i pulled out a knife like that.
it does look bad ass i guess
http://www.knivestown.com/crkt_knives/pic/201466.asp
 
You know I read through this entire thread hoping to be able to contribute...but I'm a South Dakota boy born and raised...I've had knives in my pocket since I've had pockets!

Sorry no "sheeple" stories from me :o
 
I work at an large (very large) internet company writing code and have always carried a knife. My Mnandi didn't raise that many eyebrows (except those of admiration), but when I waved my 4" DDR Madd Maxx to open a package once (very solid "Thwack") a few people were a little surprised. My boss was impressed when I saw him using his knife in the kitchen and I identified the manufacturer, knife model and the steel from across the room. I've converted one guy to a Caly 3 and several others to smaller Spydercos and SAKs. I've also given out a dozen or so SAKs; mainly Ramblers, Climbers and Classics (extras from my eBay purchases).

Regarding the "new" knife-free Boy Scouts of America: my first reaction was "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot". I did do a brief search and found several troops which do allow knives and recommend serrated 3" locking blades. And the BSA "official store" seems to have plenty of knives for sale: http://www.scoutstuff.org/BSASupply...L&ctgy=products&C2=CAMPING&C3=KNIVES&C4=&LV=3. So I wouldn't get too upset yet.
 
I have found that computer geeks are typically friendly to knives, even though they are probably some of the most outdoor-averse people out there. I know, this is a gross generalization, but you get the point.

I used to work for a software company, and one of the programmers always have a knife clipped to his jeans pocket. Nobody was ever offended or concerned. I flipped out my SAK from time to time, and nobody said a word.

Oh, about the boy scouts. Each troop can set their own rules about knives, but BSA does NOT ban them. As a matter of fact, they still have a "whittling chip card" that you can earn so you are allowed to carry a pocket knife.
 
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