The next time someone asks why you carry a knife, tell them this story

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/19/maine-logger-hailed-hero-after-crawling-into-sunken-car-to-save-baby/?intcmp=latestnews
A Maine logger helped save an infant from drowning when he crawled into a car that was upside-down in water and used a knife to cut the straps off her car seat and pull her out, police said.

The baby wasn't breathing and another bystander performed CPR, reviving the girl, police said.

Leo Moody, 44, of Kingman, was driving home from work Monday when he saw a flipped SUV in a culvert in Kossuth Township, about 175 miles northeast of Portland. Moody said he called 911 and rushed to the vehicle.

Moody said one of the SUV's passengers told him her baby was in the back seat, and he swam to the vehicle and cut through seatbelts to free the seat. He said he then took the 3-month-old to the banks of the culvert and handed the baby and seat to another passer-by, Wade Shorey of Greenbush. Shorey performed CPR on the child, resuscitating her, Moody said.

Moody said it was cold and his hands were chilled to the point where he couldn't feel them while he was cutting the straps, and he "kept telling myself, don't drop the knife." He said he always carries the knife -- usually for peeling an apple or whittling piece of alder.

"They come in handy, I guess. Monday night really proved it," Moody said.
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That's a nice story- and everyone SHOULD carry a knife IMO... preferably a reasonable blade that serves a purpose suited to your environment.

What I mean by reasonable & suited to the environment, means not hearing:
"yes, I carry this 13" tanto switchblade in case I have to save a baby... you never know" or
"why wouldn't I bring this machete into the office? what if I have to cut a seatbelt later?"
 
Thanks for sharing. I don't watch the news because they usually don't like putting this type of positivity on TV.
 
Nice story.

Honestly, though "just in case I have to save a baby" is kind of a lame answer to that "why do you carry a knife?" question, in my opinion.

"Because I like to." is a much better answer to it.
 
My grandfather and father always told me this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_circus_fire

One of the survivors of the fire, Maureen Krekian, discussed her ordeal in 2007. She was 11 at the time, and lived on the same road where the circus was held. On the day of the event, she was supposed to go to the circus with a woman next door and her daughter. When she went to their house, she found that they had already left without her. She decided to go to the circus on her own, where she seated herself in the bleachers.[12]


I remember somebody yelling and seeing a big ball of fire near the top of the tent. And this ball of fire just got bigger and bigger and bigger. By that time, everybody was panicking. The exit was blocked with the cages that the animals were brought in and out with. And there was a man taking kids and flinging them up and over that cage to get them out. I was sitting up in the bleachers and jumped down — I was three-quarters of the way up. You jump down and it was all straw underneath. There was a young man, a kid, and he had a pocketknife. And he slit the tent, took my arm and pulled me out.[12]

As she was being pulled out, Krekian grabbed another little girl's arm and pulled her out as well.[12]
 
This is what should be front page news. People from this country doing good things instead of the bs that the mainstream media wants the population to see. Good for him
 
"He said he always carries the knife -- usually for peeling an apple or whittling piece of alder."
Oh and just in case someone needs a hero! Nice job
 
At my brother's wedding, his ZT 0551 saved a bridesmaid from having a loose thread hanging from her dress. :)
I saved a cute female Chinese student from an evil staple that needed removal from a university paper (the library had a power stapler, but no staple remover...:confused:).

I used some inch-thick cardboard and my SmF to make a handy "knifebrella" when torrential rain hit and I had no raingear at work. It actually worked pretty good. :thumbup:

There's a ton of good reasons, but I certainly am happy to recount the stories of people who have saved babies and kittens through the timely use of a knife.
Why would anyone object unless they hated babies and kittens...you don't hate babies and kittens, do you? ;)
 
The next time someone asks why you carry a knife, tell them this story[/B

I erased my post and will just say that marcinek has done it again.

Thank you, sir. Reflects my opinion also.
 
Sonnydaze said:
I might do that, and then that someone will gasp and say..."Oh yeah? What's the odds of that happening? Just admit it, you just wanna kill somebody..."
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Look them dead in the eye and say "I didn't...until now." :D

(Disclaimer: the previous is not actual advice. All of us at stabman industries take no responsibility for any jail time which may result. ;))
 
Love the story but hardly ever been asked to be honest!
 
Sonnydaze said:
The next time someone asks why you carry a knife, tell them this story[/B

I erased my post and will just say that marcinek has done it again.

Thank you, sir. Reflects my opinion also.
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You said it better! Glad stabman quoted you! If you say you carry a knife because you might have to save a life, people are going to think you are some goofball, EMT/firefighter wannabe. Better to say you like them and use use them to cut things that need to be cut.

Though I, like stabman, saved a female coworker in distress. Sliver. Vic Classic tweezers saved the day! :D
 
I've never been asked that question but my answer would be "because I like to". This asinine, politically correct culture actually doesn't have any friggin business asking me why I carry a knife!
 
marcinek said:
Though I, like stabman, saved a female coworker in distress. Sliver. Vic Classic tweezers saved the day! :D
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My Swisschamp made it far easier for me and the elderly man I was working with on election day to get all those taped up signs off the pillars. :)
He was impressed with all the tools...he hadn't seen a Swiss Army Knife with pliers before.
 
I am convinced that No story is ever going to work on an anti knife advocate.
So it's Best to keep it well away from prying eyes
till a real dire situation presents it self to shine on you.
Even then, I suspect there will be countless folks out there
who are simply out to demonise man's best invention.
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GIRLYmann said:
I am convinced that No story is ever going to work on an anti knife advocate.
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Actually, on the very, very few times I ran across an anti-knife person, one argument really worked out well: expense.
They might have left thinking I was a fool to spend so much on a knife, but they didn't think I was a potential murderer. :)
 
Just tell them knives aren't weapons, they are tools that come in very handy.

The best way to get them to worry less about your knife is to say "This gun is my self defense weapon."

They forget all about the knife. :-)
 
timbo813 said:
The best way to get them to worry less about your knife is to say "This gun is my self defense weapon."

They forget all about the knife. :-)
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Omg! I think You just nailed it!
Only, I would suggest demonstrating the effects of a healthy dose of pepper spray
to instantly prove its immediate sd effectiveness on such fretfully over imaginative characters.
 
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