The most stupid thing that you've done.

calyth

calyth

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I just have done the stupidest thing I have ever done.
I was hitting an SRK to a cardboard box. However I'm not used to the length of the knife, and near the tip, it struck the wire of the lamp, and zap.......
there's now two electronic caused chip near the tip.....
:(
 
When I was 4 years old, I got a knife and cut a wire of a working lamp sitting on the table. ZAPPO! I was scared silly, and the blade got 2 perfectly shaped serrations... I was not allowed to go near blades until I was 9.
Accidents happen, and whatever doesn't kill you makes you wonder why... :D
 
The thing is I gotta try and fix it up.
Having no diamond hones doesn't help.
 
at 10 i wanted to be Tarzan (Jonnie Wiesmueller...sp?), so i stuck my 5" camping knife in my belt without the sheath. when i took it out i gave myself a 1" cut deep enough to see fat nodules through.

my father, being a drill sergeant, was used to people doing stupid things and patched me up without much comment.

Metis
 
Ouch....
Well it's all fixed up now... no more dents or chips.
 
Originally posted by calyth
I just have done the stupidest thing I have ever done.
I was hitting an SRK to a cardboard box. However I'm not used to the length of the knife, and near the tip, it struck the wire of the lamp, and zap.......
there's now two electronic caused chip near the tip.....
:(
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"Stupid is as stupid does"...Forrest Gump.

Did you at least learn NOT to do anymore chopping or stabbing around live wires?.:D. (As long as we learn from our mishaps, we can feel smart again.).
 
Not getting a basic 9 when 1sks had them on closeout for... $90:( :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

kicked myself for that one for a long time.
 
Originally posted by glockman99


"Stupid is as stupid does"...Forrest Gump.

Did you at least learn NOT to do anymore chopping or stabbing around live wires?.:D. (As long as we learn from our mishaps, we can feel smart again.).
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Actually the wire hanging around is pretty inconspicuous... pretty hard to spot by itself.
Yes I've learned my lesson.... in a pretty damn harsh way.
 
I've done way too many stupid things to remember what the stupidest thing was. I do know one thing I have regretted for the past six months was not registering for bladeforums when I stumbled across it a few years back. Better late than never I guess.
 
When I was about ten years old I went off a jump on my bike. My friends and I were letting the bikes fly out form underneath us as we went off this jump. My bike was an old clunker, heavy, and did not fly out from underneath me. I hit the back end of the bike with my torso. The knobby tire rolled up my right chest and tore my nipple clean off. It hurt to bad that I limped home. :mad: :eek: :confused: :( :barf:
 
Clearly, Calyth so far has led a life of unusually good judgement.

At 6, I was trying to figure out what the cigarette lighter in the car was. (I didn't understand the drawing of the cigarette with smoke coming off of it. I also thought the burning side had a neat electronic look to it.) The upshot is, after figuring out that you could push it in, and it would pop out later, I then pushed my palm right onto the burner.
Then again, when I was 13 (and really should have known better) I tried to step out of a (slowly) moving car. Fortunately, I got away with minor injuries.
What is it about cars that makes me stupid?:rolleyes:
 
NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART:

the stupidest thing i've ever done in recent memory was when the entire base of my foot had dried and died over, leaving a very unpleasant, thick dead layer that was annoying the crap outta me. I tried just rubbing it off, too slow and too much work, tried a file, again too slow.
So then I had a moment of brilliance!(*rolls eyes*) I bust out the wood saw on my Leatherman WAVE... it worked really well, I was getting off alot of excess very quickly, until... and I saw before I felt it, a whole Sh**load of very bright red stuff leaking from my foot...

I will never do that again.
 
Stupidest thing I ever did - not buy that Spyderco Q (at less than MSRP!!!) when I looked at it in the store a few years ago :(
 
Stupidest thing I've ever done was probably falling through the roof of the workshop I used to work in.

Stupidest knife-related? I have no idea, too many to pick ;)

Stupidest thing I've ever seen done was in the workshop. Andy decided he was going to re-wire a Hilti hammer drill, don't remember the exact model. He got his stanley knife and hacked throught the power cable. Yep, he'd forgotton it was plugged in. Flah, bang, the blade has a 1/2" diameter hole in it.
 
I broke my ankle when I was 16 chasing some friends over a fence, bad enough to require surgery and lay me up for a few months. Still hurts sometimes, and seriously derailed my ambitions at the time.
 
The stupidest thing I've done is selling and/or trading the following:
Randall Thorpe Bowie, '76 Gerber Mk II, Randall Model 2, Case Garter Belt dirk, Sykes Fairbairn Commando and to many others to list...I'll never do that again...until the next knife show...
 
The stupidest thing I've ever done:

Sleep with my best friends girlfriend and sister at the same time.
 
Originally posted by shortgoth
Stupidest thing I've ever seen done was in the workshop. Andy decided he was going to re-wire a Hilti hammer drill, don't remember the exact model. He got his stanley knife and hacked throught the power cable. Yep, he'd forgotton it was plugged in. Flah, bang, the blade has a 1/2" diameter hole in it.
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That actually made me feel better.. the melted part ain't that bad and I've got it all fixed up now...
It's only noticable if you inspect it ;)
 
Both of these events happened when I was 10 or 11 years old, so I can claim youthful ignorance as my excuse.

Knife related: I had a cheap ($3.00 in the early 70s) bowie knife and my friend had an equally cheap POS. We were just learning how to throw knives and make 'em stick in trees and fences, so we decided to tape a grasshopper to the fence and use it for target practice. (I know that was cruel but he came out of this better than I did). I got a good throw in and the tip was deeply embedded in the fence plank somewhere in the vicinity of the grasshopper. When I pulled the knife free, my elbow came up against the rough wood and tore this huge wart I had on it right off. I guess I got what I deserved.

Non-knife related: We were at my friend's house (the same friend as in the above story) and no adult supervision was around. We decided to see if we could make a molotov cocktail. We took a bottle of model paint and poured some gas or lighter fluid in it, then rolled up a piece of toilet paper as a fuse and stuck it in and screwed the lid on over it. We lit the paper and threw it against the brick siding that went halfway up the side of the house. Luckily the glass was way too thick to break easily and the screwed on lid effectively kept the burning "fuse" from getting anywhere near the fluid. After a few tries, the enormity of our stupidity sank in and we quit.

We did lots of other stupid things but only occasionally were they dangerous.
 
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