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

Handed a $120 Cold Steel to a friend... he proceded to stab a can of spray paint... I've stabbed said knife through car doors/hoods before just for the hell of it but... it's hard as hell to get yellow paint off of Black Zytel. I had a Wiz Khalifa knife for a very long time. BA DUM TSSSS

Handed a $230 Benchmade to my brother, he proceeds to throw it at a tree. I now carry a beater, mostly for situations such as this.
 
Sometimes the tree is just asking for it and I doesn't matter how nice the knife is. As for the paint can that's just hilarious.
 
Ferahgo said:
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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I'm at a loss for words with stories like this one. WHY is this so common!? People this stupid actually exist? :confused::thumbdn::(
 
Krissig12 said:
I'm at a loss for words with stories like this one. WHY is this so common!? People this stupid actually exist? :confused::thumbdn::(
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Happens to me almost every time I lend out my Leatherman. They try to cut with the spine and then complain that its dull.
My answer is usally "other way round" and "I'll get you a band-aid, you're bleeding"
 
manowar669 said:
When someone tries to pry with a blade.
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Ha! I work with a guy (in the military) who carries a cheap copy of the A.G Russell CIA letter opener at his appendix. I too carry a SLCC AIWB, so one day we struck up a conversation about knives. I assumed he carried for weak hand self defense/weapon retention. He precede to tell me why he liked his "letter opener" so much... Because it's one piece of steel it's makes a "great breaching and prying tool" followed up with several stories of abusing it as such.

Myself and everyone else in the unit asked him why he just didn't opt for an actual prybar... Needless to say, I don't hand my folders or fixed blades to anyone.
 
C_Becker said:
Happens to me almost every time I lend out my Leatherman. They try to cut with the spine and then complain that its dull.
My answer is usally "other way round" and "I'll get you a band-aid, you're bleeding"
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Haha, nice.

I can't comprehend how people could do this though...... Do they not even glance at what you just gave them? And if they did, don't we all have a natural understanding of roughly what an edge looks like? :confused:

It's sad beyond belief
 
Krissig12 said:
Haha, nice.

I can't comprehend how people could do this though...... Do they not even glance at what you just gave them? And if they did, don't we all have a natural understanding of roughly what an edge looks like? :confused:

It's sad beyond belief
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I bet they learn quick, though.
 
I actually just today witnessed a person hand another person a knife. The person being handed the knife grabbed it by the sharp end and cut all four fingers! Luckily not a deep cut so we were all able to call him an idiot and not feel bad! Knife was razor sharp, guy was lucky!
 
I just got back from visiting my brother. He is a chef, chief cook and bottle washer at a restaurant (the Venetian, say hi Pinnah).

Anyways, they get fairly decent big French knives sharpened and replaced every week or so. He has a couple at home and uses them for everything from prying to fixing the sink to... well you get the picture. He scared me to watch him, it's a wonder he has any fingers left.
 
efreedma said:
...but that's when I started carrying a beater/loaner knife.
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I've done enough stupid things with a knife myself, although not for a very long time, so I learned my lesson. But having a beater/loaner knife is a great idea. Back in high school in Minnesota, in the mid-1960's, when I was also dumb enough to smoke, I worked in a drugstore where I had access to very old and stale packs of cigarettes. Thus I carried a pack for myself and a second one which I termed my leech pack. It then became popular because smoking the junk I kept it stocked with was an adventure in itself. Old friends still ask me about it. Thanks for the memory.

Sam
 
I got a benchmade assisted opening knife sent to work as a trade and proceeded to show ny coworkers over the course of the day. I warned them that the thing fires like a rocket and to hold it firm. Each one tried opening it like a traditional which of course fired it right into one of their palms. Luckily it was just the tip and not that deep. Bum dum tiss
 
Do any of you remember Apollo 13? NOT the movie, the event. Well, one of the engineers that solved the carbon dioxide problem (it was solved in Huntsville, AL not Houston, thank you) was the guy that actually cut the limb off behind him with my knife, that I referred to earlier. He had a degree from Auburn University.

We used to climb up small trees until they would bend down and lower us back to the ground. One day (yes! this is real!) a noob to our group of Scouts saw a guy climb a tree and it would not lower him down (it was too strong for his weight) so our hero took a large knife and gave the tree a few whacks at the base, while his friend was high in the tree. Well, you know the rest...
 
Quite a few years ago I had a small folder I carried with a 1 1/4 inch long X 5/8 inch wide blade. I was sitting at the kitchen table in a heated discussion with my brother in law and was cutting a small pc of cuticle from the side of my finger when I dropped the knife. My legs closed to catch it and I drove the knife up to the handle in my thigh. I pulled it out and went to the bathroom to drop my pants and inspect the damage. I pull the cut open to see how bad it was and blood shot across the room. Next stop was a trip to the emergency room for a few stitches. I bet 4 or 5 different nurses and or doctors at the hospital asked me how it happened. I think they didn't believe the story and perhaps thought someone stabbed me.
 
I suppose this doesn't really have to do with being stupid, but people constantly remark on how sharp my beater work knife is. I do tune it up pretty often. I always ask them what good is a dull knife? In my mind a knife is supposed to cut like a razor. It really makes me wonder exactly what they do with a knife. This thread here proves that they use them as shovels and pry bars. I've had people even get angry at me for not loaning them my knife too. Weird. I usually tell them they should already have one.
 
KBamhi said:
Quite a few years ago I had a small folder I carried with a 1 1/4 inch long X 5/8 inch wide blade. I was sitting at the kitchen table in a heated discussion with my brother in law and was cutting a small pc of cuticle from the side of my finger when I dropped the knife. My legs closed to catch it and I drove the knife up to the handle in my thigh. I pulled it out and went to the bathroom to drop my pants and inspect the damage. I pull the cut open to see how bad it was and blood shot across the room. Next stop was a trip to the emergency room for a few stitches. I bet 4 or 5 different nurses and or doctors at the hospital asked me how it happened. I think they didn't believe the story and perhaps thought someone stabbed me.
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...ouch
 
I'm not sure but my son in law always wants to skin my deer,fox ect.and every time he gives my knife back it makes noise going acrossed my steel! Can't understand what he could be doing. He can turn a razor into a serrated butter knife in minutes. (As long as he keeps skinning,I'll keep my mouth shut though) :)
 
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