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

Make a gear shift for a 440 Duster out of a Buck 124 leaving the blade razor sharp. His son 8 year old took 18 stitched through his palm.
 
I think I have seen more bad cuts TO 'knife persons', than bad cuts to 'non knife persons'. Dumb and careless know no bounds. :rolleyes:
 
Student762 said:
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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Wow. Why do people do crap like this? Its a blade, dammit! Assume it is sharp enough to hurt you!
 
I worked part time at an outdoor store for awhile. A gentleman came in one Friday night explaining his wedding was the next day. He wanted to get the groomsmen some gift knives. He was a police officer, as were most of his groomsmen.

I show him a few. He narrowed down to two. He is looking at one closely when he decided to close it. For whatever reason, he decided to close it by pushing on the edge. Hard.

The knife did what it was meant to do. He looks at me and says "That was dumb." I couldn't argue as I handed him paper towels.

He came back that night, and bought 5 knives. With 5 stitches in his thumb.
 
Rockabillypunk13 said:
And yes, I'm a knife person but I have my own emberassing story, we went camping last week and i decided to clean out the Bronco this weekend. I picked up my knives from my seat and for some stupid reason I had my fixed blade hunting knife upside down. It has a very basic leather sheath woth to snap closure or anything and as I closed my door my knife decided it would be a good time to give to the laws of gravity and landed on the top of my foot! Of course it landed point down, why wouldn't it right? So I bleed for a good long while and was emberassed...
But we all have room to learn! Knife people or not!
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What year's that Bronco? :)
 
22-rimfire said:
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.
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I agree with you totally. Except this wasn't a joke. It was how I felt sitting there watching this go on. And I spent another two days with him on painkillers to get home. If I came across like I admired the guy, I didn't. Interesting things happen when you cross-country with someone you don't know that well. You'll note my phrase, "last I saw of him..." :)
 
Spyderco-man said:
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.
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That was great! I'm totally ripping that one off!
 
I was just at my local state park and I saw two guys using 12" gas-station survival knives to dig holes. They were using metal detectors then these knives to dig two plus feet deep. I was just waiting for one of them to snap their blade and impale themselves on the broken pieces...
 
Ferahgo said:
I was just at my local state park and I saw two guys using 12" gas-station survival knives to dig holes. They were using metal detectors then these knives to dig two plus feet deep. I was just waiting for one of them to snap their blade and impale themselves on the broken pieces...
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I just hired a Marine who served in Iraq, and when I saw his EDC knife (a CRKT folder, forget the model, that was issued to him over 10 years ago), I could tell it had been well used, so I asked him about it. Larger knife, 4" or so tanto blade, partially serrated flipper. In terms of lockup, blade play, etc., that end was in surprisingly good working order considering its condition. Blade itself was a whole 'nother story...it had roofing tar all over it (his old job), literally too dull to open a box, and as he put it, it was used more as a pry bar than a knife at that point. I kept it overnight to get it cleaned up and sharpened. I could not believe the edge that old thing took for the amount of time I spent (not a lot).

I wouldn't call it dumb stuff, but I really do enjoy learning about how non-collectors utilize their EDC knives.
 
the dumbest thing i have seen is people NOT carrying a knife(ves).

NEARLY that dumb is lending these people one of yours and expecting them not to hurt themselves. If they do not carry a sharp knife, they often do not know how to use one without hurting themselves. Or messing up your knife.
 
knifehoarder said:
I just hired a Marine who served in Iraq, and when I saw his EDC knife (a CRKT folder, forget the model, that was issued to him over 10 years ago), I could tell it had been well used, so I asked him about it. Larger knife, 4" or so tanto blade, partially serrated flipper. In terms of lockup, blade play, etc., that end was in surprisingly good working order considering its condition. Blade itself was a whole 'nother story...it had roofing tar all over it (his old job), literally too dull to open a box, and as he put it, it was used more as a pry bar than a knife at that point. I kept it overnight to get it cleaned up and sharpened. I could not believe the edge that old thing took for the amount of time I spent (not a lot).

I wouldn't call it dumb stuff, but I really do enjoy learning about how non-collectors utilize their EDC knives.
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My sister in law is ex-EOD (Army) and she told me the knife of choice for the IED crews in the desert was the CRKT M16 in AUS 4/6. Cheap, solid, handled getting sand in them well and the soft steel could be sharpened on boot heels.

My wife isn't dumb but in a brain fart moment she used the spine of a Tremor to open an envelope by pushing her thumb on the edge...ouch. But who am I to talk? I once dropped an open Voyager and instinctively tried to catch it...worked as well as you'd expect :(
 
I once handed my M21-14SFG to a co-worker, who preceded to throw it into the ground to test the sharpness. I think the "throwing the knife into the ground test" might have been a common practice in the part of the country where my co-worker moved form.
 
EDCanAdamas said:
I once handed my M21-14SFG to a co-worker, who preceded to throw it into the ground to test the sharpness. I think the "throwing the knife into the ground test" might have been a common practice in the part of the country where my co-worker moved form.
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And where was he from exactly?
 
Not sure this totally counts, because the girl in question is sort of a knife person... Or, she carries a pocket knife, at least.

Trying to cut up apples for a dessert at a party, and I loan out a fixed blade to help peel and slice them (since obviously mine's sharper than any of the kitchen knives.)

I look over and see her trying to use the back of the blade to cut the apple, pushing on the edge with her thumb. Now, granted, it's a hawkbill with a swedge, but the swedge isn't exactly made to look sharpened... I had thought that someone who carries a knife would know what an edge looks like, but I guess not...
 
Grease said:
Not sure this totally counts, because the girl in question is sort of a knife person... Or, she carries a pocket knife, at least.

Trying to cut up apples for a dessert at a party, and I loan out a fixed blade to help peel and slice them (since obviously mine's sharper than any of the kitchen knives.)

I look over and see her trying to use the back of the blade to cut the apple, pushing on the edge with her thumb. Now, granted, it's a hawkbill with a swedge, but the swedge isn't exactly made to look sharpened... I had thought that someone who carries a knife would know what an edge looks like, but I guess not...
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Lol! One of my mates was doing the same with my SAK. He got mad that is kept closing when he was trying to use it.
 
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