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Spyderco knives to the rescue?
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I post this every once in awhile to respond to similar threads. Several years ago was taken suprise by my girlfriends ex, drunk and a big boy, wielding a softball bat. I was down on the ground, about to have my head taken off, so stuck a Spyderco Endura into the guy's upper thigh. Dropped the bat and screamed like a camel.
Unbelievably no charges were filed, and the Doc at the ER knew me, I worked there and the paper trail stopped there. Wrote it was self inflicted. That knife saved my life and or from incurring a massive cranial fracture.
Sad thing is that today, I probably would have been sued, booted out of school, and labeled some kind of nut.
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"Women bring life into the world
and much death, for they sway the
destinies of men." -Anneas
Unbelievably no charges were filed, and the Doc at the ER knew me, I worked there and the paper trail stopped there. Wrote it was self inflicted. That knife saved my life and or from incurring a massive cranial fracture.
Sad thing is that today, I probably would have been sued, booted out of school, and labeled some kind of nut.
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"Women bring life into the world
and much death, for they sway the
destinies of men." -Anneas
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The closest I got...
In the town I used to live in, I walked pretty much everywhere because I lived downtown. I was walking home late at night, and yes I was completely sober. I noticed these two guys following me on the opposite side of the road. I wasn't sure they were following me until I realized they were matching my speed, and staying a few feet behind me. Everytime I slowed down, they slowed. Everytime I walked faster, they sped up. Eventually they crossed the road and were walking behind me. Getting tired of this little "game" I stopped under a street light on the next corner. I pulled my Endura from my back pocket and started to clean my fingernails with it, while watching them in my peripheral vision. Sure enough, they crossed the road again and reversed direction. I guess they forgot something! I don't know if it saved my life, but it saved me from something I am certain. I've never had the opportunity to use a Spyderco or any knife to save someone else (and I hope it is never necessary). If the occasion arises though, it's nice to know you have a readily available and easily accessible tool clipped to a pocket (or pockets
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Paul
[This message has been edited by Paul Davidson (edited 15 October 1999).]
In the town I used to live in, I walked pretty much everywhere because I lived downtown. I was walking home late at night, and yes I was completely sober. I noticed these two guys following me on the opposite side of the road. I wasn't sure they were following me until I realized they were matching my speed, and staying a few feet behind me. Everytime I slowed down, they slowed. Everytime I walked faster, they sped up. Eventually they crossed the road and were walking behind me. Getting tired of this little "game" I stopped under a street light on the next corner. I pulled my Endura from my back pocket and started to clean my fingernails with it, while watching them in my peripheral vision. Sure enough, they crossed the road again and reversed direction. I guess they forgot something! I don't know if it saved my life, but it saved me from something I am certain. I've never had the opportunity to use a Spyderco or any knife to save someone else (and I hope it is never necessary). If the occasion arises though, it's nice to know you have a readily available and easily accessible tool clipped to a pocket (or pockets
Paul
[This message has been edited by Paul Davidson (edited 15 October 1999).]
It was a day, much like any other day. Except this day, I made the seemingly mundane decision to work through lunch, instead of returning to my abode, as is my wont. Most of the others in my department had left for their usual lunches. There was virtually no one to come to my rescue, if things went awry that day. And awry did they go! I happened to have a frozen burrito in the freezer. I placed the burrito in the microwave, little suspecting what would happen when I closed that little door, and pressed that little button.
The dastardly microwave made my burrito too tough to cut with the plastic cutlery!
Fortuitously, my couteau du jour that jour was a Spyderco Wegner! Needless to say, that burrito never bothered me again! Well, actually, it did bother me about half an hour later, but the faithful reader will have to wait for the thread Mylanta to the rescue....
But, all seriousness aside, although I've never had to use my Spydercos to excape a blazing car, or fend off a villainous, uh, villain, there is a certain peace of mind imparted by a SpyderEdge Police or Civilian! Thanks, Sal!
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[This message has been edited by Ewok (edited 15 October 1999).]
The dastardly microwave made my burrito too tough to cut with the plastic cutlery!
Fortuitously, my couteau du jour that jour was a Spyderco Wegner! Needless to say, that burrito never bothered me again! Well, actually, it did bother me about half an hour later, but the faithful reader will have to wait for the thread Mylanta to the rescue....
But, all seriousness aside, although I've never had to use my Spydercos to excape a blazing car, or fend off a villainous, uh, villain, there is a certain peace of mind imparted by a SpyderEdge Police or Civilian! Thanks, Sal!
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[This message has been edited by Ewok (edited 15 October 1999).]
my spidie story:
i was flying as a navigator in a coast guard c 130. we were doing practice drops (payload/parachute) and as we were in a pattern i was in the back of the bus helping the drop with the drill. these things get to be a bit routine and you know what that does to.
to get to the point- a trail line (nylon strap webing) from one of the chutes fouled and was bouncing in the slipstream near the hinge point in the tail feathers. a little fast thinking and the ss toothy police i kept clipped in the chest pocket of my flight suit solved the problem before we really had a problem.
saved the day? maby, maby not, but it got the job done quick as could be, withought having to hunt down the web cutter burried under other gear.
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'Till next time,
Rich the kite guy
i was flying as a navigator in a coast guard c 130. we were doing practice drops (payload/parachute) and as we were in a pattern i was in the back of the bus helping the drop with the drill. these things get to be a bit routine and you know what that does to.
to get to the point- a trail line (nylon strap webing) from one of the chutes fouled and was bouncing in the slipstream near the hinge point in the tail feathers. a little fast thinking and the ss toothy police i kept clipped in the chest pocket of my flight suit solved the problem before we really had a problem.
saved the day? maby, maby not, but it got the job done quick as could be, withought having to hunt down the web cutter burried under other gear.
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'Till next time,
Rich the kite guy