"What do you need that weapon for?"

[Charlie Mike]

Why did you even let a person you don't know to get close enough to touch you? (Don't answer that... I'm being rhetorical)

You need to start carrying and using a knife just like this (especially at the park).

[video=youtube;m_Wl7XtZWq0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_Wl7XtZWq0[/video]

 

[i_the_prodigy]

I was pulled over for "speeding" back in April and when the LEO came up to the car he have the regular questions/demands and then ran all my stuff (came back clean &#128077. He returned to my vehicle and asked why I was "speeding", told him I had no excuse, just didn't think was speeding. The conversation changed when I saw his pocket clip protruding from his vest, I asked what kind of blade is that and he was quick to pull it and show me. He was a HUGE knife nut like the rest of us and he asked if I was carrying one and I pulled out my Adamas I was carrying that day. He loved it and he asked my opinion about it in all aspects. I got off with a warning and he said he was going to have to look more into an Adamas the next time he was looking to buy a knife. Tomorrow, on Ripley's believe it or not..

 

[Metal Made Fox]

What has happened to respecting ones elders and a little yes maam and no sir.

That whole "respect your elders" saying is BS. I respect everyone equally, and furthermore I respect anyone who deserves my respect.

No one deserves automatic respect just because they are older than us. They deserve respect if they are well mannered people with good intentions and morals. I have seen many older folks who are unworthy of anyone's respect. If some old lady or ANYONE for that matter comes up to me and starts harassing and trying to lecture me, you can be sure that I will rudely tell them to get away from me.

 

[WRGreen]

"What do I need this weapon for?" ... "well, I'm getting a custom red & white ceracote finish put on my DS&S "Hello Kitty" handled tactical nano-finish Tiger Tongue Tanto to match the blood and semen stains on my clown costume."... No, really its easier to just be cool and discreet.

 

[EpicHam]

Why are you sitting on a park bench with your blades about tho?

People usually aren't too trusting of teenagers with tools that has been used as a weapon.
Interestingly , screwdrivers and hammers which have been used as murder weapons far more often than anything are just tools while utility knives and tactical knives are the bane of humanity.
Maybe if we pink the blade pink and add hello kitty stickers to the handle we can get the ladies into it.

 

[Bob6794]

Why are you sitting on a park bench with your blades about tho?

People usually aren't too trusting of teenagers with tools that has been used as a weapon.
Interestingly , screwdrivers and hammers which have been used as murder weapons far more often than anything are just tools while utility knives and tactical knives are the bane of humanity.
Maybe if we pink the blade pink and add hello kitty stickers to the handle we can get the ladies into it.

Next time I'm given a knife to sharpen I think I am going to have to do the hello kitty tiger stripe before giving it back to the owner .

Though I bet you she wouldn't have questioned him one bit had it been an SAK. It's hard for people to see those as weapons it seems, I guess we have to thank Macgyver for that. For our one handed folders we can thank mall ninja's with youtube accounts and movies for giving them a bad reputation.

 

[timberweasel]

I thought I would share a recnt experience I had involving some rndom stranger. I was sitting on a bench in a downtown park while making some paracord accesories for friends. I had a couple people come up to check out some check my works, and they all asked if I actually made them. After the few people wnt about their day, I put my earbuds in and started rockig out. I was minding my own business while cutting and burning cord endes, when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I took my earbuds out and somE random lady started berating me with a ton of different questions. My favorite was, "What do you need that weapon for?" Kep in mind, this is my Mini Griptillian, so I would have undertood if i was using soe type of rambo knife. I calmly explaned that it was a tool, not weapon. She kept trying to tell me all knives were weapons, so I finally srrted heing a smart ***. I am fifteen and I try to be more mature than my peers, but I decided not to be right then. I tarted telling her that the purse she had was also a weapon and tha I felt threatened by it. From there I wnt on a rant about hw everything was a weapon, to which she stormed off. I am typically a very calm person, and love sharing and teaching about knives. Most peope are understanding of my knife after I explain, but this lady was just being an idiot about my "dangerous weapon".

I hope you guys enjoyed m little story about the other day. I know a lot of you people can relate. Have you had any smilar experiences?

I believe you were simply being admonished. If she had truly considered you a threat, she would never have approached and it would have been a couple of cops tapping you on the shoulder instead. Think about it...

-Brett

 

[CDKJudoka]

If you think that's scary, I was a local park last summer and there were a whole bunch of kids running around swinging some sort of terrifying clubs at some sort of hard ball being thrown at them by another kid! They acted as if it was some sort of game! Imagine my horror when I saw the parents of these youths actually sitting around cheering and clapping for this dangerous activity! It still makes me shudder just thinking about it.

This has won the thread.

 

[HARDBALL]

Why ANYONE would sit/walk/run etc. with the likes of Earbuds/Headphone/Smart Phones/etc. is beyond me.

HARDBALL

 

[baldtaco-II]

Don't do the work for 'em. Let 'em discover their own errors.

“If you really believed it was a weapon you wouldn't have been confrontational would you. You obviously knew it is just a tool and that I looked friendly and approachable or you would never have come and stuck up a conversation”.

 

[W.M.B.]

That whole "respect your elders" saying is BS. I respect everyone equally, and furthermore I respect anyone who deserves my respect.

No one deserves automatic respect just because they are older than us. They deserve respect if they are well mannered people with good intentions and morals. I have seen many older folks who are unworthy of anyone's respect. If some old lady or ANYONE for that matter comes up to me and starts harassing and trying to lecture me, you can be sure that I will rudely tell them to get away from me.

The idea of respecting ones elders is valid, usually, because believe it or not, most people gain wisdom as they age, and if someone is significantly older than you, there is a good chance that they know more than you. of course, this does not mean that they will always be right, or you will always be wrong, but respect is a pretty good default position. also, it make you look smarter, cause it can save you from eating your words later, when you discover they knew more about whatever the subject than you...

I believe you were simply being admonished. If she had truly considered you a threat, she would never have approached and it would have been a couple of cops tapping you on the shoulder instead. Think about it...

-Brett

Of course, I have little respect for lies, and if she was "admonishing" you, by claiming you were a threat, when you were clearly not, well....

 

[upnorth]

Well you're young so you might understand.

If I had kids running around the park, I would NOT want some stranger sitting on a bench making paracord accessories with a sharp tool, it's not a work bench.

I agree. We live in an imperfect world full of imperfect people. It is instinctive to evaluate strangers upon meeting. Maybe we are hyper vigilant these days helped along by media looping of horrific social events. But this just isn't the 50's Mayberry anymore. The elderly lady has a values\morals set from a past era of greater social responsibility, likely including feelings of responsibility to the youth of their community. The Original Poster here is likely a fine young man, but I would feel uneasy walking up to anyone in public manipulating a knife. And would steer clear if walking with children.

 

[Comeuppance]

I got a similar question at my old job - I was kneeling on the floor opening a taped box using a Tenacious, and a co-worker asked "why do you carry that thing around? Are you going to stab someone?", to which I replied, without looking up, "The reason I carry it is being demonstrated right in front of you." I then stop, having finished, closed the knife, made eye contact, smiled, and followed with "Are there any other questions with plainly and immediately obvious answers you would like to ask?"

Obviously, I had formulated that response well beforehand. It's not the first time I'd been asked about why I carry a knife, and it's always when I've been using it non-threateningly and in a perfectly reasonable utilitarian manner. My patience and grace with such questions had long since evaporated.

She was visibly not amused by my snark, but I had made my point fairly clearly and she walked away without a word. My favorite part is what happened a couple days later - she asked to borrow it. I responded "Why would you need a knife? Are you going to stab someone?"

Smirks were exchanged. I didn't lend her the knife and instead opened the package for her, but I did end up giving her one of my older knives that I wasn't using the next day. She carried it literally every day after that, but ended up breaking the pocket clip after a couple months because her skinny jeans were too tight to comfortably carry the knife in-pocket and she instead carried the knife hanging outside of her pocket by the clip.

Indeed, sweetening the story yet further is that she bought a knife about a week after she broke the clip, and was really angry when it was taken from her when she was going into a courthouse. She was annoyed that the officer treated her like she was a psychopath even after she told him that she worked retail and had come straight from work.

In fact, two of my co-workers were long-haired brunette single moms that wore glasses and skinny jeans that had their knives taken from them when entering a courthouse for a traffic violation. That's really just an extremely specific coincidence, now that I think about it.

 

[cEdge]

Last year I was volunteering at my daughters school where I was thanked for my help and told I should help next year too when the another volunteered noticed I was using a knife to make a make shift picture stand out of a cup. Next comment I hear is why do you have that knife and maybe you shouldn't help next year. WTF! I was using a Kershaw Zing to cut away most of an inverted cup. I explained it was a cutting tool, and without it, we'd be in a real jam right now. Needless to say I got a look. I took it for what its worth and went about what I was doing. I did not give it another thought. Mind you there were no students around either. If there were, I would not have done anything different. I don't feel the need to wildly flipping the knife for use (when I'm out in public anyway). I was using the knife in an appropriate manner.

If I was you, I probably would not have went out of my way to bash the woman but to talk her down. But then again, I wasn't there and sometimes you just can't change a person's mind

 

[Loosearrow]

Gone are the days of playing stretch and chicken on the school yard lawn.

 

[d0nut]

I think many of you are not aware of what the OP has been up to.

He already posted that he likes to wear a Guy Fawkes mask around in public just to agitate people "for the lulz and see the look on people's faces" (link)

He also posted that he sometimes carries a "folding pocket razor saw" (link). So I wonder if the OP is telling the whole story in this initial post? Was he "making lanyards" with his halloween mask on? Did the lady spot the razor saw sticking out of his pocket?

 

[Mannlicher]

I would be inclined to just tell the lady to F off, and to go bother someone else.

 

[W.M.B.]

I think many of you are not aware of what the OP has been up to.

He already posted that he likes to wear a Guy Fawkes mask around in public just to agitate people "for the lulz and see the look on people's faces" (link)

He also posted that he sometimes carries a "folding pocket razor saw" (link). So I wonder if the OP is telling the whole story in this initial post? Was he "making lanyards" with his halloween mask on? Did the lady spot the razor saw sticking out of his pocket?

this would certainly change things....

 

[JPD1998]

I've shared this story before , but it's worth repeating.

I stopped at a western boot shop with my wife and daughter along I95 in North Carolina.
Both bought a pair of boots and my impulsive daughter wanted to wear her pair.
So after I paid I was struggling to take the tags off, I had a pocket knife , but didn't want to take it out in public.

The lady behind the counter said " if you were a good southern boy , you'd have a knife" and started to hand me something to cut the tags.
I just smiled and took out my pocket knife....

 

[A Justice]

He also carries lock picks.

Yeah, I use the to pick padlocks when I have my friends chain me. I do escape art during the summer at the lake. So I get cuffed then chained at the bottom of the lake.

This certainly changes things. Maybe everybody should lighten up on the lady - she seems to have a good 6th sense. Sometimes the criminal with a mini grip cutting rope on the park bench is actually a criminal cutting rope on the park bench. A lot of members thought something was odd about what he was doing, and I think this confirms everyone's suspicions. lol, this is great. BF is full of teenagers, and not only are they involved in way weirder deviance with way less payoff than kids were when I was that age, they publicize it and seek attention (we always tried to hide it and get away with it - how crazy is that!).