My dumb brother..

Ken_McCarty

Ken_McCarty

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3 days ago I handed my brother a NIB cold steel roach belly. it was supposed to be his first fixed blade, and his camp knife for the summer. I told him this wasn't like the cheap flea market blades he was used too, and to be careful with it. yesterday when we hung out, he was watching videos of a guy slicing through water bottles with a ka-bar.. and I got that feeling in my gut, so I reminded him again it wasn't a toy. 15 minutes ago I get a call from my mom, "jim cut the tip of his finger off"..

dumbass. :mad:

so I figured I'd turn it into a thread to see if anyone else out there has any similar stories from their family/friends that they would want to share.
 
I know my kids, I have twins at age 11. They do have a form of autism called Asberger's syndrome. They are not mature enough to handle them. It hurts, but I really want to let them have thier own pocket knife. It would be really special to them, but I know in my heart it is not the right time. I had my first pocket knife at 12, I am going to wait for awhile for more maturity. Right now, they are destined to cut or stab themselves or even their step siblings, and these boys are really good hearted kids, they are just clumsy and awkward (chip off the old block). They also may just downright lose them, or try to bring them to school.
 
Ken_McCarty said:
3 days ago I handed my brother a NIB cold steel roach belly. it was supposed to be his first fixed blade, and his camp knife for the summer. I told him this wasn't like the cheap flea market blades he was used too, and to be careful with it. yesterday when we hung out, he was watching videos of a guy slicing through water bottles with a ka-bar.. and I got that feeling in my gut, so I reminded him again it wasn't a toy. 15 minutes ago I get a call from my mom, "jim cut the tip of his finger off"..

dumbass. :mad:

so I figured I'd turn it into a thread to see if anyone else out there has any similar stories from their family/friends that they would want to share.
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i have no stories like that, but i was wondering how old your brother was.
 
I have always liked knives from a very young age so when I had a boy of my own I started buying him knives and guns at about the age of 7. We've been to the emergency room a couple of times for stitches over the last 10 years but he lived thru it.:D
 
Nope. Don't have any such stories to share.

Maturity is not a factor of age. It is a factor of development.

Some kids are mature enough to be responsible with a knife at a young age.
Some 50-year olds are not mature enough to be responsible with a knife.
 
I made my 7 year old a knife after he kept begging me for one and purposely dulled it and blunted the tip because yes, I'm guilty of not training him properly to use one. He always watches me when I sharpen and slice paper and wanted his to do that. I took a piece of printer paper and held it by the corners and kept it taught, told him to slice it, as he was slicing I tore it to trick him into thinking it was sharp and he thought it was the greatest thing ever! A little while later I was on the computer and hear OUCH!, then crying in the other room so I get up and run in to see his hand covered in blood. I'm thinking, how in the hell did he cut himself on that thing?! He said "Dad this paper is sharper than the stupid knife!" Paper cut!

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I grew up with older brothers and we were always handling knives and shooting guns etc. My first pocket knife was given to me by my dad at age 6 or 7. I remember showing it to a neighbor kid one day, just assuming that he knew as much as I did about knives. He says "is it sharp". I look over just in time to see him running his thumb down the length of the blade. Damn. He started bleeding all over the place and his mom was livid.
 
Speaking of training knives. I bought a cheapo $3 Dragonfly knock-off for my 2 1/2 year old daughter to learn with. I blunted the tip and the edge. The opens it great, but has trouble disengaging the back-lock with those weak little fingers. It's very blunt, but she can cut really soft stuff like strawberries and bananas and bread. As soon as it's appropriate, I'll be getting her a Real Dragonfly, and hopefully they'll offer a pink one by then, if they haven't already.
 
cj65

I have a daughter who has Aspbergers too. She is in college now, getting a degree in chemistry and a minor in physics. She is able use knives. I started teaching her to use knives in the kitchen when she was about your kids' age. She handles and used them with out any problems. I made her a custom paring knife with pins in the handle with logrithmic spacing.

One activity that she really likes is swimming. Being in the water seems to take away some of the gravity factor which really can contribute to some of the clumsiness.

If you would like to find out more about our experiences dealing with the Asbergers, feel free to e mail me (or anybody else) and I would be glad to share what we learned and how we deal with it.

My son (10) really likes my $20 KaBar Dozier folder (AUS8), also one of my daughter's favorites. I let my son use it to help me tear down card board boxes for recycling. He was helping me one afternoon and one of the neighborhood boys jokingly asked him "Who are you going to stab with that?" His immediate reply was "This box." One of them asked me why I let him use that big knife. "I trust him with it and he knows how to use it." He felt very proud of himself that day.


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biggerjon said:
i have no stories like that, but i was wondering how old your brother was.
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you'd think he'd be like 11 or 12 right?.. he's 23.

I guess he was sitting at his desk slicing paper and misjudged his fingers, nicked his thumb and took about 3/4 of the pad of his left index finger off cleanly.. then the dog ate it. I spent the day mocking him mercilessly.. it was quite funny:) I told him now the dog has had a taste, he's going to try to eat him in his sleep:)
 
I look over just in time to see him running his thumb down the length of the blade.

I've seen the common suburban American do this all the time. Apparently they use knives so dull they have no concept of what "really sharp" is, and no concept of how to properly check at all.

I now think it's like handing a loaded gun to a monkey - expect to see blood.
 
I was showing my friend a couple years ago how to hand a knife to someone, being you hand them the handle and not the blade, and as he went to repeat this step to hand the knife back to me, he had his 4 fingers on the edge and sliced himself pretty bad.

Sometimes I wonder...

The 2nd time something stupid happened was at work, a coworker of mine was cutting cardboard boxes and ran his exacto all the way into his knee... We all anticipated it happening too...

And finally.. was just recently in a shop class I'm taking, this woman was using a jigsaw and cut her thumb half off.

Some ppl should just stay away from edged items, even if it's plastic or rubber, they'll find a clumsy way to hurt themselves. That's my take on it.
 
I don't have a story about any siblings, but I do have one about myself.

When I was about 6 or 7 (can't really remember) my father started buying me knives. Most of them were little Case knives or something similar, nothing too large. And like most kids, there would be the occasional slip of the blade resulting in a good sliced finger or two, but nothing real serious. Well, one time when my uncle came to visit he gave me one of those cheap 5" knives from A&N. Really cheap construction, but sharp as a razor. The very next weekend I was out in the garden with my father, and he got the bright idea to throw a turnip in the air and cut it with the knife. Naturally, I wanted to do it too. I tossed it in the air, just like he did, and swung the knife, just like he did, but I forgot the very important step of moving my throwing hand out of the way. So the full force of the swing connected the knife with my finger. At first I didn't feel anything, and thought that I'd missed. Then I looked down and saw something white on my finger. Then the bleeding started, and didn't stop for a good 15 minutes. I had cut all the way to the bone, and could see both the bone and part of my knuckle. To this day I still have the scar running across my finger.

Haven't done anything that bad since, but it was a good learning experience for me. Since then I've seen plenty of people getting ready to do stupid stunts with a knife, and a quick look at my scar usually convinces them to think a little harder about what they're getting ready to do.
 
cuphead said:
Some ppl should just stay away from edged items, even if it's plastic or rubber, they'll find a clumsy way to hurt themselves. That's my take on it.
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you have that right. I have a friend who, while cutting a bagel, managed to cut herself with a plasic knife. but then again she was the same friend who accidentally cut another kid's fingers trying to hand him a knife.
 
I once used oil stones to sharpen my sisters kitchen knives. Because of the oil, I told her to wash the knives before using them. She proceeded to run the dish rag down the edge of the knife slicing through the rag and biting deep into her finger. Of course, it was my fault for getting the knives so sharp.
 
I was cutting an elk in half to carry it out; was tired and sat down; going between some ribs and the hide bunched up; gave a mighty tug with my Buck Special, which proceeded to slice through the hide, up in the air and down into my thigh. Some friends of mine went in and crried the elk out and I limped around for a couple of days, duh!
 
Ken_McCarty said:
3 days ago I handed my brother a NIB cold steel roach belly. it was supposed to be his first fixed blade, and his camp knife for the summer. I told him this wasn't like the cheap flea market blades he was used too, and to be careful with it. yesterday when we hung out, he was watching videos of a guy slicing through water bottles with a ka-bar.. and I got that feeling in my gut, so I reminded him again it wasn't a toy. 15 minutes ago I get a call from my mom, "jim cut the tip of his finger off"..

dumbass. :mad:

so I figured I'd turn it into a thread to see if anyone else out there has any similar stories from their family/friends that they would want to share.
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It's not a family member, but I accidently stuck a 1lb knife into my arm from a bottle cutting test and it was hair whittling sharp lol.
 
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