My experiences on using a knife in the recent several years

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waterbeef

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In the year of 2007, not so long after I moved form HangZhou to ShangHai since I changed my job ,I was hanging wet clothes in the balcony of the house I rented.

Never even noticed , the aluminium alloy door of the balcony was closed by the wind suddenly.

I did not find the doorknob missing untill I finished hanging clothes and went to open the door.

There's only one solid copper bar ,which is used to fixup the doorknob ,coming out of the lockhole.

Tweak the bar then I can get out, but it was such an extremely hard task.

The skin of my hand was frazzled , but the bar just stayed still ,and not even the went clothes would help.

There's no one else in the house , my cellphone was in charging in the living room .

The security office was somewhere I can see downstairs, but I was on the 13th floor!

What can I do ?
What can I do right now?

At that time I did not have the habit of wearing pajamas at home , I was wearing jeans ,and there's nothing but a CRKT M16 in my pocket.

What happend next may not make you believe:

I spend maybe half an hour on carving the top of the copper bar with the serrated edge ,and made a groove that is deep enough.

Then I put the edge into the groove, screwed it like using a screwdriver ,then the door was opened.

After that ,that M16 was always with me at any time only except when bathing and sleeping.

The serrated edge that has been ruined was change to plain edge with a sharpener.

Two years after that , that M16 was lost —— a pity that lasts forever.

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That's my first knife story.
 
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Pity about the knife, but sometimes you have to make do with what you have, and if you didn't have and sacrifice the knife, things could have been much worse. Your story though is reason why in addition to a knife, I always carry at least one Swiss Army knife or multi-tool (usually a few). If you had a Leatherman Squirt PS4, you'd have had a file to cut the groove and a screwdriver to make the turn.

Similar story to yours, late at work one night during a closing shift at a pizza place, an employee at the store's neighbor (a tennis shop) came to me asking if I had any sort of tools, because his key snapped off in the lock, with the door unlocked. With the use of my Victorinox Cybertool 29, Leatherman Squirt PS4, a couple modified push pins, and my keychain flashlight to provide light, I not only managed to get his door locked, but extract the broken key part (which was deep inside the lock). This saved him a night of sleeping inside the store and a massive chewing-out by his boss (he wasn't supposed to be there that late), and earned me a 6 pack of Fat Tire.
 
A joke before the second story:

Once in a bedchamber of the college students , some guy moved his bottom up and broke some wind with the sound "puff" when sitting on his bed and reading a book. After that ,the guy did not even move his eyes from the book and slowly moved his bottom back to where it was. Some minutes later he repeated this.
Another several minites later , the guy lifted his bottom again but the sound sounds hydrous.
The guy sat back then immediately bounced up and look for toilet pater everywhere while complaining :"dame ,I took it as a fart! "

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Unfortunately this happend to me some day in the winter of 2009.
It was on my way to the office in the morning.

Maybe the supper before that day was too greasy,or maybe I caught a cold at the last night due to turning off the air-condition, It is impossible to find out the decent reason.

So now where is the toliet , Where is it ?

Quickly entered the nearest building , clamping my bottom, wriggled upstairs to the one and only gentlemen's room on the second floor with my last stamina.

Found the position , closed the door ,moved the bag to my front, pulled down the trousers....

The world came back to calm and peace after a gallant ejecting blast...

But it was not the end ,after a temporary easy breathe , I found my underpants got an area with darker color in the back.

Took a glance at my watch, it is almost late for work.
What to do next?
How to remove my underpants in safe?
Take off the shoe of my right foot firstly?
Then the jeans? then caddice trousers? then autumn trousers?
It was a very cold winter , and I would have to have my leg naked in such a dirty public toliet ,and with a bag which is not so light ,held in my left hand?

Fine ,the knife is still in my pocket.
Of course it is the kind that can be unfolded with a single hand.

What if I don't have a knife at that time ?
I am not willing to think deeper.

SHIT always happens ,doesn't it?
At those moments ,no one could help you except yourself.

The brand and type of the knife was not so clear to me now, It could be a small SRM.
 
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The third story :

In 2011, Shanghai railway station.
Two Sinkiang thieves took me as a target.
Suppose they want my ipod in the pocket ,but the hand that touched my pocket from back was touched by my hand in sudden when I was walking and swinging my arm.

I turned back and face the thief ,gazed at his face in peace ,and waited for a while.
A matter of fact as far as I know: thieves usually do not work alone.

Thief 2 showed himself immediatelly form some corner, fortunately there is no thief 3.

T2 was much more rampant than T1 , he held terrified T1 and shouted at me :"What are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?"

That made me look like a thief rather than him.

Without a word ,I drew out my LUDT slowly from the right jeans pocket ,and opened it in sudden.

T2 came into dementation ,patting his chest, changed his words :"Come on , stab right here "

Me ,stayed in silence , just looked at him in peace.

10 seconds passed ,nothing left but silence.

Another 10 seconds passed ,still silence.

Sweat dropped form his cheek, standing still seemed to be impossible for the two trembling Sinkiang men.

I said one word:

"FUCK OFF"

T1 and T2 turned back and ran like happy dogs.
 
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Some tips :

1, serrated edge can do works that plain edge can't.
2, usually I do not carry pocket knives since sometimes I can't have both hands free
3, switchblade or OTF could be more fearful :)
 
It's interesting having someone from China on the forum, glad your M16 got you off that balcony. :D

What are the knife laws in Shanghai?
 
waterbeef said:
do you usually EDC a Leatherman at home? :)
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A Leatherman Squirt PS4 is on my keychain at all times. It's an exceedingly useful thing to have on hand, and very small. Pliers, wire cutters. scissors, screwdrivers, a file etc. Ironically, the blade is the least useful tool on it. If I'm riding my bike (I don't drive), then a Charge XTi is is in my backpack as well, and I usually ride with my backpack, so that's usually at hand as well. I typically have 2-3 flashlights, as well as extra batteries on hand when I'm not at home (and plenty when I am). The value of a single AA or AAA battery can rival the value of a bottle of water in some situations.
 
Goosey said:
It's interesting having someone from China on the forum, glad your M16 got you off that balcony. :D

What are the knife laws in Shanghai?
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usually "uncle policemen " in the security channel confiscate our EDCs as their own ;)
 
Planterz said:
A Leatherman Squirt PS4 is on my keychain at all times. It's an exceedingly useful thing to have on hand, and very small. Pliers, wire cutters. scissors, screwdrivers, a file etc. Ironically, the blade is the least useful tool on it. If I'm riding my bike (I don't drive), then a Charge XTi is is in my backpack as well, and I usually ride with my backpack, so that's usually at hand as well. I typically have 2-3 flashlights, as well as extra batteries on hand when I'm not at home (and plenty when I am). The value of a single AA or AAA battery can rival the value of a bottle of water in some situations.
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What do you use your gears for typically?
 
waterbeef said:
usually "uncle policemen " in the security channel confiscate our EDCs as their own ;)
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well ,take it seriously
it is illegal to carry most of my knives in china
china is not like the US, there is only one law in the whole main land

all the folders with a lock can be illegal

the difference is upon the individual law executers

days ago some local chinese in HENAN province was locked up in a police station for 3 days ,and the reason is carrying a 6 inch folder in public.

this could happen in anywhere in china,though never happend in shanghai by now

the key word to carry a knife is "low-key"

never show it in public ,and never get it found by UNCLE POLICEMEN
 
I don't have any really good knife stories, most of mine go something like "I used my knife to open a package" or similar things. :cool:

Sometimes people have asked if I can cut something for them or if they can borrow a knife, which is always gratifying. Sometimes I actually need it for something I couldn't do otherwise, but usually it just makes things easier.
 
xinjiang folks are considered minority and therefore protected unless permission is sought and granted from beijing. Thats why they are not easily arrested, they will soon be on the streets again. Thats why theres so many at lujiazhui, yuyuan, peoples square, nanjing w and e road and even qipu lu.
 
masa said:
xinjiang folks are considered minority and therefore protected unless permission is sought and granted from beijing. Thats why they are not easily arrested, they will soon be on the streets again. Thats why theres so many at lujiazhui, yuyuan, peoples square, nanjing w and e road and even qipu lu.
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I even ran into 2 female xinjiang thieves with babies in pudong district
 
waterbeef.....you need to watch your language in the discussion forums.
 
these females carry babies so that no one want to arrest them and look after a baby. They are also less likely to be beaten if they are caught. They sometimes use pregnant women too. In a crowded place like buses or trains, they would use a hand to pickpocket and the victim would think it is the babies leg that is kicking them. They usually have a few watchers to help them in case they get caught. They have young children doing the picking too, very nimble and most passerby don't want to get involved.
 
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