Stupid people can do stupid things.

I handed a classmate a knife in high school thinking he needed to cut something like paper. No, he was trying to saw through a paper clip with one of the knife blades on my SAK.

I managed to get 13 staples in my left knee when I was 16 (and got to see my bone) after I sliced my leg open with a Ka-Bar. Sitting down, thinking I might cut the top of the guard off, and maybe reprofile the handle a little but. I stabbed it forward... right into my leg. At first I thought it was just a knick as it didn't hurt. When I pulled my pants down to put a Band Aide on, I realized it was a little more.
 
When I was in High School me and a couple of buddies went fishing one day, well we went drinking with fishing poles. About six beers into the excursion one of the guys asked to borrow my knife. I had a pretty new Spyderco Delica in my pocket and I handed it over to him. So I sit back down and start working on number 7 when I hear some splashing. I figure he caught something and needed to cut the hook out... I look over and this fool is about ankle deep in the water and throwing my knife down into the water in front of him. I get up, walk right behind him, push his ass into the water, and grab my knife out of the water. I don't know how he didn't destroy the tip, but the edge was just shot and I was not happy. He was pretty mad about me pushing him in the water and I told him I was pretty mad about him screwing up my knife. He told me he was trying to spear a fish... :mad:

I knew nothing about proper sharpening at that time and was never able to get the same edge that was on it until years later. I still have that Delica.
 
So many people using knives with the point or edge either facing them or moving towards them for the cut.
Eg. Cutting pegs with the point of the peg towards them and the blade strokes also towards them or cutting fruit and other stuff in their hands with the edge moving towards the part between the forefinger and thumb.

My own stupidity--Using a SOG NW Ranger to remove a splinter from my foot :D The lil spot of blood quickly turned to a full on gusher and turned the campsite into something from CSI!
 
Makes you wonder what planet some people come from, or how in the world their parents allowed them to turn out so inconsiderate...
 
Endololz said:
Well I'm starting this thread because I was wondering if anyone other than me knows someone who has done some really stupid things with knives (Yours or theirs). One example is when I let a friend see my Emerson (thinking he just wanted to see it) and he thought it would be okay to start to stab the G-10 with another knife. So if you have any stories about stupid things people have done feel free to share them in this thread.
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This is the kind of person who should NEVER, ever touch a firearm.
 
When we were in our teens my brother tried to use a cheap boot knife I had as a projectile for his slingshot. I was standing there & my eyes followed the likely path of the knife, stopping at his hand. Realizing that knives prefer to tumble instead of flying like arrows, I began to say something but it was too late. We laughed about it that night as he got stitched up in the hospital. He still has the scar.
 
I used to have a knife shop and I set up a table at knife shows as well, so I've got a million stories. It's amazing how alien something as simple as a knife is to some people.

There was this one guy who claimed he could judge the quality of a blade steel by breathing on it, pressing his thumb against the blade, and seeing how sharp his fingerprint looked and how long it took to vanish.

At a wrestling tournament I lent one of my team mates a Caly 3 (my people friendly EDC for the day) to trim some bandages and tape for his injured knee. He cut his leg and his finger in the process, and at first blamed me for having such a sharp knife (he wasn't really serious). Since then, I've included a Victorinox Executive in my first aid kit, and whenever one of the guys needs to cut something, I hand him the little scissors.

I guess I've done my share of stupid stuff through the years. The most recent were playing with an Emerson Kerambit (I sliced my shorts open and almost reached my leg) and eating rabbit on a hard plastic plate rested on my lap with a Kershaw Storm (I applied too much pressure, the plate cracked and the knife went through my pants).
 
the only stupid things ive seen are a majority of the people who I lend my knives to being absolutely stumped by a liner or back lock (comp lock I can understand) . The stupid thing I see is people pushing trhe liner the wrong way , HOW can you be that stupid- its a piece of metal BLOCKING THE PATH OF THE KNIFE, it you pushed it somehow past the tang, its still not gonn shut is it XD
 
I don't have anything like what you guys are saying, but I do have stories for ya.

I was at the start of my knife hobby "era" and I didn't totally know what I was doing. I was trying to open a plastic bottle of BB's. I was putting lots of pressure on my knife, sawing back and forth to try and cut the hard plastic nozzle. My hand was on the back, pulling into it. It went through, and cut me..... Not stitch-worthy, but it bled alot.

Testing for bladeplay on my Griptilian, it slipped out of my hand and cut me. I did this about 3 times. It was beginning to annoy me even. Sweaty hands didnt help.

My friend needed to cut aluminum sheeting. With my Chive. I was still enjoying the factory edge even. I thought "aluminum is weaker than steel. Go for it." after all, it was only one cut anyways. Well he did, and the edge rolled over pretty good. So much as to I thought the tip was broke off. Luckily, I stropped it out and it was OK. The very acute tip is gone, but no harsh damage.
 
momouppa said:
once through a knife into my big toe (i was probably 8)
my brother once through a butter knife into my back I did provoke him though i was probably 8 when that happened as well.
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sounds like thar was a bad year for ya! lol!
 
I once had a new Buck and demonstrated to my boys how one should always cut away from you and not toward your hand. Stitches in my thumb.
Sonny
 
My friend when she is handling my balisongs scares the hell out of me. She likes to grab it by the blade and swing the handles... :hopelessness:
I warn her every time. Well the last time...
ME: "Don't do that, It's not safe and that's not how you use it, let me show you a basic open and close."
HER: "Nooo, I don't want to learn, I like doing this."
ME: "I'm telling you, don't do it, your gonna hurt yourse...."
HER: "Ouch! That thing is dangerous! This is why I don't like them!"
It slipped... and she cut her finger...
ME: "I f***in told you NOT to do that, it's not the knife that hurts people, it's not the knife that's dangerous, it's the people using them for the wrong thing or using them the wrong way. God D***it."
HER: "I still don't like them cause they're dangerous."
Me: "Oh whatever."
I love the girl to death. But that was soooo dumb.

But I managed to catch a balisong by the blade trying to learn a trick(no I didn't tape the blade) and sliced my hand so bad you could see inside my hand.... I should have went to the doctor... I didn't. The scar is still there, and so is the tenderness.
 
I used to work in a group home for juvies. We tried to run it as much like a family as we could so home cooked meals and such were the norm. One thing that drove me knutso was the one decent chef's knife we had was always getting used to the point of being nearly uselessly dull. Having the need to use it and finding it little better than a butter knife I decided to bring it back to sharp. After a bit of stoning and stropping it was back to useable so I put it away. Hours later the director was in the kitchen fixing a bite to eat and he gets to cussing about whoever sharpened the g.d. knife since he had just filleted his index finger. My bad, I should have labeled it "SHARP!!"with masking tape but I kept the knife sharp after that and I told everyone to upgrade their knife handling skills.
 
I watched a guy try to "flick" the blade out on a cheap Chinese Buck 110 copy. It slipped from his hand and hit a stack of cinder blocks and the blade snapped in half. He was at a Lowes, an employee.
 
Let's see... I had a guy I worked with ask to borrow my knife. We were working on a magnetometer and it had tape all over it. I *ASSUMED* he was going to cut the tape off. He proceeded to try to use my Bucky Odyssey ( ATS-34 ) to back out a screw. I don't know what upset me more... that he used MY knife to do it, that he did it RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, or the fact that I HAD A SCREWDRIVER IN MY HAND... *sigh* I started carrying a $1 Chinese knife in my left front pocket after that day. Never again did anybody I work with get the knife in my RIGHT front pocket.

I have had several people ask to borrow my knife and then either tell me that it was "too sharp" or hand it back to me while trying to hide the fact that they are bleeding. Most of them tried running their thumbs across the blade to see if it was sharp.

Sometimes... Sometimes knives are just bloodthirsty... I bought an H&K G3 bayonet for my PTR-91. MOST bayonets are butter knife dull. For whatever reason, this one was not. It had a VERY snug sheath. The first time I drew it, I had to try 2 or 3 times to get it out. When it did slide out of the sheath, it cut my thumb pretty good. I guess I'd repositioned it to get a better grip on the sheath... I put the bayonet away for a few days after cleaning up my thumb. The next time I took it out, I decided to see if it fit my PTR-91. It fit, but it wasn't quite right. The bayonet was crooked. I tried to straighten it and somehow hit the release button. The rifle was pointing straight up and was clamped between my knees. When I accidentally hit the release, the bayonet went straight up about 2 inches and flipped end over end. It stabbed my in the thigh and probably penetrated about 3/8". It bled a LOT and for a LONG time. Since this one blade had drawn blood on my twice, I decided that I needed to thoroughly clean and oil the blade. I had just finished cleaning it and put it down to go and fetch some vaseline. My brother walked by and I guess bumped the handle that was hanging slightly over the edge of the counter... I got the vaseline and was walking past the bayonet to get a paper towel when my arm brushed the tip of the blade. That knife has been in its sheath ever since. I'm convinced it's out to get me.
 
How about your first balisong (that you'll be learning to flip with) being double edged? Yeah, it looked really cool until I needed to get my fingers sewn back together. That blade should've been laser etched with "not for beginners." You can't cure stupid....
 
Was fishing with my cousin.....he asked to see my AGR Acies, so thinking he just wanted to handle it I go back to fishing. I hear what sounds like metal on metal, so being the inquisitive kind I look over my shoulder to see what the noise was. This bonehead was cutting his worm in half on the metal seat. Never mind the fact that he could of just pulled it apart with his fingers. This is the same guy that I witnessed trying to bait hook with a leech using needle nose pliers. This guy is 35 yrs old.
You can pick your friends but not your family. :D
 
I've also had one of my friends ask if my knife was sharp and run their palm down the edge. A few seconds later she was bleeding. Well no **** it's sharp, it's a knife. Lol.
 
jeffphansed77,

That was a good story about trying to use a boot knife as a slingshot projectile. Here's a guy who made a slingshot to shoot a throwing knife:

[video=youtube_share;iK5XvHWKVD0]http://youtu.be/iK5XvHWKVD0[/video]

And here's my stupid story:

A co worker of mine used my Al Mar Ultralight to open a box that had those copper colored staples to close it. Rolled the edge . Last time he borrowed a knife from me.

Ric
 
For my bachelor party I went camping for a few days. I also got myself a new Kershaw. After a lot of beer and a nice looken fire I decided it was time for the knifes maiden voyage. I grabbed me some kielbasa, I thought if I cut really carefully towards my hand I wont cut myself. I was of course wrong. Underestimating the knife sharpness and over confident in my skills as a drunken man I cut open my pinky finger, from one side of the pad to the other. If you drink and cut have the bandaids ready.

I just glad Im not like a lot of all your friends. Some of those guys are idiots. :)
 
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