Sleeping with knives

If I have a new knife that I really like I usually put it underneath my pillow the first couple of nights instead of leaving it in my pants like I normally do, the Enzo Birk managed to sleep there for a whole week even.

Other then that there's usually a few on the nightstand, underneath the bed, on the floor next to the bed, etc.... :rolleyes:
 
Cajun Kamikaze said:
Off topic and irrelevant... Maybe you could go start a thread at Perfect Union about what gun you keep beside your bed.
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Yeeaaahhh, how about you be more of a fixture on this forum before you start telling people what's relevant or not relevant. Thanks.
 
@LeathermanGX said:
So not only do you bring Knives to gun fights, but you only bring a flashlight for a home invasion? :concern:

My knives aren't really staged for defense. It's just the last place I fondle them at the end of the day.
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I'm just saying: Blinding somebody with a bright flashlight (while simultaneously identifying whether it truly is a home invader, and not just your S/O) may be a slightly better option that slashing/stabbing wildly at someone/something in the dark while you're half asleep.

"Ooops.... sorry honey! I thought you were a home invader!" :eek:

In all seriousness, I'd bring a flashlight and a gun, if I truly thought somebody was breaking in (or had broken in) to my house.
 
Kabar under the right pillow, esee 4 under the left with a double agent II hanging from the headboard. Im also a messy person so there tents to be afew knives on the radiator next to my bed along with the sog fast hawk. I hate mass. I wish i didnt need all these knives near my bed but cant get my ltc till I'm 21 and i need it to own a handgun.
 
Occasionally a folder gets left on the nightstand just happens when I forget to dump my pockets where I normally do, Glock21 with light and laser in the nightstand, 12gauge auto on the other side with light for those loud bump in the night outside moments. Roaming dogs in the rest of the house. Ok mostly on my feet making it impossible to turn over easily.
 
MAKnifenut said:
Kabar under the right pillow, esee 4 under the left with a double agent II hanging from the headboard. Im also a messy person so there tents to be afew knives on the radiator next to my bed along with the sog fast hawk. I hate mass. I wish i didnt need all these knives near my bed but cant get my ltc till I'm 21 and i need it to own a handgun.
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Wow, I wasn't aware that Massachusetts was such a dangerous place to live. Instead of buying a gun, I'd be using that money to move, damn.
 
on my nightstand is a pistol, either 40 or a 38, one of my lights, and at least a few knives that are in the current rotation. Don't think I would ever sleep with anything in hand.
 
stabman said:
Riiight, because if an intruder gets right next to your bed while you're still asleep, the only thing to worry about is weapons next to you. :rolleyes:

Somehow, in a thread full of people sleeping with knives and guns, yours is the most nonsensical post. ;)
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You really think so?

I expected a lot of "I've got a dog" or "my super ninja skills would detect their presence" responses but yours is the most interesting. Oh well.
 
I've had some crazy stuff happen to me like dozing off on the couch after a nightshift while I was watching tv flipping my ZT0300. I woke up with the blade pressing against my neck, no joke. There have been other embarrassing moments that could have ended badly so these days I take care not to hold, or have, a knife next to me when I sleep. The drawer of my nightstand is close enough.
 
I have this sense called common, when you sleep in a waterbed don't take knives to bed, consider it like knives at gun fights, it's a REALLY bad idea!
 
addylo said:
You really think so?

I expected a lot of "I've got a dog" or "my super ninja skills would detect their presence" responses but yours is the most interesting. Oh well.
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My bed is a whole whopping 18 feet from the door (apartment living, woohoo!).
Twice either the landlord or maintenance tried entering unannounced, while we were asleep.
Full adrenaline rush, fully awakened.
My wife ran and slammed the door shut before they could get it fully open, while I grabbed the nearest sword or huge knife on full rush to the door.

I don't worry about "Oh my God, how would I react if someone came through the door? EEK!!"
Because I already know what would happen.

If you or other people would be sleeping through someone coming into your place, so zonked out to the outside world, then lay off the heavy drugs or anesthetizing levels of booze, man!
 
With all due respect I think you're missing the point. Some stupid kid breaking through a door or window... sure, that would wake anyone. I'm thinking about someone more adept at breaking and entering. Without a dog I guarantee there are folks who could get into your home and you would never know it. Why make it easier on such a perp by displaying your defenses in full view?

Admittedly, small apartments such as yours don't make it easy on the perp. But homes with an alarm system are not that hard to beat.

Having a good dog is a completely different story.

It's just a mental exercise anyway, no big deal.
 
addylo said:
With all due respect I think you're missing the point. Some stupid kid breaking through a door or window... sure, that would wake anyone. I'm thinking about someone more adept at breaking and entering. Without a dog I guarantee there are folks who could get into your home and you would never know it. Why make it easier on such a perp by displaying your defenses in full view?

Admittedly, small apartments such as yours don't make it easy on the perp. But homes with an alarm system are not that hard to beat.

Having a good dog is a completely different story.

It's just a mental exercise anyway, no big deal.
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I know some people are very deep sleepers, although I must admit I've never really understood how that's even possible. I wake up at night if someone knocks on someone else's door several doors down, let alone tries to get mine open. That's just me.
 
Slept w knives all my life. I prefer a large fixed blade for a bed knife. Bowie knife is in between the mattresses with the handle sticking out where my arm hangs. Cold steel tanto GI under pillow of my lady friend.
 
addylo said:
With all due respect I think you're missing the point. Some stupid kid breaking through a door or window... sure, that would wake anyone. I'm thinking about someone more adept at breaking and entering. Without a dog I guarantee there are folks who could get into your home and you would never know it. Why make it easier on such a perp by displaying your defenses in full view?

Admittedly, small apartments such as yours don't make it easy on the perp. But homes with an alarm system are not that hard to beat.

Having a good dog is a completely different story.

It's just a mental exercise anyway, no big dealgirlfriendsI kinda agree with this. I keep no weapons in the bedroom in the open as I feel it would just make someone shoot me on sight. Gun is in my bedstand drawer.

Woke up to noises w the lady one day...here it again clear as day. After waiting in silence for 10 mins, I get up to clear the apartment. Cat in hallway, good sign as shed either be hidden or running up to the perp happily if there was one. Still, clear the apparent w lights off, very high tension, then again with lights on. Nothing. Almost ready to go back to sleep and I see the cat in the same spot at attention. Notice a hole in the wall in corner near ceiling. Never remembered a hole there so I approach it and notice it is hairy.... A bat! Cat was chasing it(noise). So happy that thing didn't come flying at me while clearing the premises! Killed it with a sorority paddle(my girlfriends) and couldn't sleep so we youtubed bat home videos...everyone else was humane enough to spare the bats life...next day in school one of my kids brings a book, Stella Luna...the story of an adorable baby bat with no mother! I felt like a such a douchebag. Lol
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not only has this thread made me giggle...it confirmed Im not crazy;-) Although I sleep with a blade at the ready on my nightstand....safer than keeping the 9mm on the nightstand.....that one is in the dresser:-P
 
BenchCo Spydermade said:
I keep no weapons in the bedroom in the open as I feel it would just make someone shoot me on sight.
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Going with the thought experiment theme...

So, an intruder armed with a firearm makes it to your bedroom while you sleep.
Due to there being no weapons in sight, the intruder:
A) Gently wakes you up, gives you a coffee and challenges you to a rules filled bout of fisticuffs.
B) Shoots you anyway, because he's out of his mind on crack, and criminals aren't about fair play anyway.
 
stabman said:
Going with the thought experiment theme...

So, an intruder armed with a firearm makes it to your bedroom while you sleep.
Due to there being no weapons in sight, the intruder:
A) Gently wakes you up, gives you a coffee and challenges you to a rules filled bout of fisticuffs.
B) Shoots you anyway, because he's out of his mind on crack, and criminals aren't about fair play anyway.
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I'd like to take that one step further. If we accept the premise that he is out of his mind on crack, is it not fair to say that Option A is at least a possibility?
 
jackknife said:
Knives are for a fun hobby, guns are for serious business.
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This is a great quote and much how I feel. But also we are in a knife forum, not a gun forum so many of us just have blades everywhere. So my knife "armoire" is filled with pocket knives but I have my large fixed blades and machetes peppered throughout the house. May as well have some in/around the bed.

Of course any false alarms I've had I go for gun... but for my lust the knives are there.
 
RedLynx said:
I'd like to take that one step further. If we accept the premise that he is out of his mind on crack, is it not fair to say that Option A is at least a possibility?
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Hmmm, good point. :)
From the drugged up folks I've met though, I'll go with the dude on alcohol and Percocet. :thumbup:
Saw a guy get talked into putting his balisong away so it could be a "fair fight" (as he swayed back and forth, barely conscious).
He ended up losing the fight really, really badly (did I mention the barely conscious part?).

The guy who won the fight was a monumental jerk though, so there were no winners that day.
In the battle between druggie and monumental jerk, a loser will prevail either way. :(
 
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