Okay, Taz, I gotta say, while I applaud your ingenuity, those have got to be about the most visually abusive colours you could have chosen...
Still, one of my old teachers made a good point about using a knife in self defense...he said:
"If you're going to use a knife to defend yourself, be ready to go to court. These days, you'll be on trial, just as much as the idiot who attacked you. So, go and get yourself a nice, sharp, SMALL, silly-looking knife. The sillier the better. Not one of those 'silly' knives with the points and edges and wicked-looking bits sticking out all over it...that defeats the purpose, and it won't work worth s**t, anyway. Nope. Get yourself something like a Spyderco Delica. In pink, if you can. That way, when you get called up on the stand, and the defendant's lawyer asks you to show the jury the knife you used to slash his arm open to the bone (requiring 386 stitches and 6 blood transfusions, 34 hours on a microsurgery table, and 18 weeks of physical therapy to repair--for which he is suing you, the victim of his attack, for 87 Billion dollars...and court fees), you can, with civil gentility, pull out a 2.5", hot pink pocket knife, and simultaneously reduce the jury to helpless laughter while making the defendant look like an a$$. Keep in mind, most folks won't know or care that the little 2.5" blade will still kill you JUST as dead, if used skillfully...it just LOOKS harmless."
So, Taz, you may be on to something, here. By making a little tactical neck-knife LOOK harmless, even silly, you make them much less threatening to the sheeple, and thereby more socially acceptable. Hmmmmm...
Still...I just don't know if I could pull one of these in a dark alley with a straight face...
But you DID do a good job...just maybe some different colours, next time?!?
