What is the dumbest thing you have seen a non-knife person do with a blade?

After 4 hours in the ER and this guy using every ploy he knew to get hard drugs from every nurse, doctor and candy striper who walked by, he was sutured up, given his painkillers and all was well with him again.
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This is a common joke I hear people saying when they have to go to the hospital/emergency room. I find it offensive and I don't think much of that person after that piece of info becomes apparent to me. Let him bleed. The meth part didn't surprise me in the least.
 
All through school I carried a SAK Spartan, kept it shaving sharp. In 11th grade my girlfriend asks to hold my knife. She opens the longer blade to ninety degrees using the nail nick, repositions her hand with the blade pointing up and one handed opens the blade the rest of the way by pressing the edge with her thumb pad. YEEOWCH!

That day I resolved not to lend my knife unless I was sure the recipient understood proper blade etiquette. This has saved me much grief, and probably protected some friends from avoidable injuries, too.
 
Puer Aeternus said:
The dumbest thing i've seen.....
I grew up on Butterfly knives and so did my friends. 40 years later we can still flip them w/ ease, I always figured men of my generation just know how to use one. One day when traveling I came across a Butterfly knife, I did a few flips w/ it and then passed to my friend, he's my age (44), he took it w/ out saying a word and did a few awkward flips then handed it back to me w/ a big gash on his palm and said "No idea how to use this thing".
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Funniest thing I have read in quite awhile, thank you. I think because I have a friend who would've done the same thing with the same deadpan response.
 
NetshadeX said:
I posted this a while back, 7:15 and up is hands down the dumbest thing I have ever seen a person do to a knife. It's hard to watch.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZVMI0n_Xnas
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I'm sorry, but that is a completely legitimate test. It can't be just me who gets attacked by bricks often right? I NEED to know if my knife would survive such an attack. I hope to never encounter a wild brick. I've only come across domestic ones, and they're pretty aggressive. JK, LMAO.😂 Honestly, I don't know or care what the point of dropping bricks on a knife is going to prove. I think I may have eaten some, because I swear I sh!t bricks when I saw what he was about to do, lol.
 
My friend feels the need to flip open my knives and get into some silly "knife fighting" pose everytime I show him a knife
 
I saw a guy complain about having to use the edge of his folder (a CRKT) to scrape carbon off a M16 bolt. Somehow it didn't occur to him to use the spine instead.
 
I didn't see it happen, but I heard the story today. I had made a knife for my wife's aunt to give to her husband for their 50th anniversary last week. Apparently he has been making me proud and carrying and using it. Well while he was at work a coworker was looking at the knife and said "it doesn't look very sharp" and proceeded to put it to his face and tried to shave himself. The only thing he managed to do was put a 2.5" gash in his face. His response, "I guess it is pretty sharp."

Damn right it's sharp, if he knew how to use a straight razor he would have ended up covering the knife with stubble instead of blood. Why do some people have so much confidence, with so little knowledge?
 
Interference Fit Co. said:
I didn't see it happen, but I heard the story today. I had made a knife for my wife's aunt to give to her husband for their 50th anniversary last week. Apparently he has been making me proud and carrying and using it. Well while he was at work a coworker was looking at the knife and said "it doesn't look very sharp" and proceeded to put it to his face and tried to shave himself. The only thing he managed to do was put a 2.5" gash in his face. His response, "I guess it is pretty sharp."

Damn right it's sharp, if he knew how to use a straight razor he would have ended up covering the knife with stubble instead of blood. Why do some people have so much confidence, with so little knowledge?
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People try to impress each other all of the time, and knives seems to be an excellent way for them to do it.
 
My first knife was a Victornox Spartan. I used it as a screwdriver and broke the tip off the largest blade maybe 6 months after I got it. I think I was about 10 years old but still pretty stupid. I still have it and look at it occasionally to remind myself to always use the right tool for the job.
This knife was a birthday gift from my father, may he rest in peace. He's still alive, but needs the rest.
 
A year ago I was hanging out with some friends at the basketball court near my house and we were sitting on the benches that are made out of bricks, I pulled out my Ontario Rat 1 to show it to them and somehow we ended up talking about knife sharpening, I asked them if they ever sharpened a knife while one of my friends has the Rat 1 in his hand he tries to show me his method of sharpening, he rubbed the cutting edge directly on the brick as if he was trying to cut the the brick and said that it was his method of sharpening, I immediately took the knife out of his hand before he damaged it more.
 
I had a SAK Classic in my pocket once. We were on a farm and setting up an incubator for some hatchlings. We blew the heat bulb with a dodgy fitting and the owner walked off to reset the RCD whilst we pulled out the cord on the old one and plugged the new lamp in. We did that in about 30 seconds and then I noticed that I had a tear in the quick on my nail. I set about cutting it off with the blade on the Classic. My mate turns to me and makes a comment about it being the tiniest knife he's ever seen. I laugh good-naturedly at the heathen. He then enquires as the sharpness of the blade. I say that it should be shaving sharp. He asks if he can check it out and I hand it to him (handle first of course) he then tests it on his leg but turns the blade too steeply and cuts himself across the leg. Fortunately he notices quite quickly and stops. It was still well and truly sharp and left a 3 inch shallow cut across his leg.
He turned to me and said. "Well you weren't lying were you" He said some other stuff as well but the language rules wouldn't let me retype it. :D
 
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