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What is the stupidest thing you have ever done with a knife?

Death's Head

Death's Head

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Mine was before my FMA days. I purchased an Emerson Karambit and saw the video of Ernest twirling one in each hand. I was twirling it in my right hand and started to twirl it as fast as I can. Then it happened. It stuck my right on my wrist. I covered it up right away. When I peeked at it, the cut wasn't really bleeding. I was able to see how deep it was. I could see my tendons inside my arm. I couldn't drive because everytime I try to shift I would have a tremendous sharp pain shoot up my arm. My wife had to drive. At the ER, they taped the cut closed with a special tape called steri-strips, prescribed some antibiotics, oh and, gave me a shot in the ass with a tetanus injection. When I got home I looked at te knife and saw the shiny discoloration that was left on the blade. I measured it and saw that it had penetrated at least 3/4 of an inch at least. Later that week, I had to be seen by a hand specialist who told me that the knife stabbed me right between the 2 main tendons that you can feel on you inner wrist. I couldn't use my right arm for about 3 weeks. I could write and hold a remote and things like that, but really not much more. After about 5 months I gradually recovered.
There you have it. I thought I would entertain you guys with my misfortune. Now its your turn.
 
I sold an old Harry Morseth custom knife too cheap. Young and foolish, I thought I was getting big bucks, but it turns out the guy who resold it made twice as much as I did, shortly after;OUCH
 
I was slashing through some brush in the woods behind my house as a kid and I must have been overzealous...I slashed through something and followed right through to my thigh. From memory (this was more than a decade ago) it was probably about an inch, so not that big a deal I suppose, at least, compared to the author's incident. It blead like crazy though. I just put pressure on it for awhile and covered it well with something, and a little while later, I was on my way. It must have been an amazingly sharp knife, because I didn't feel a thing.
 
I was carrying my freshly-sharpened Fallkniven A1 through some woods, and thought that I'd try some knife throwing. I lined up on a tree about 30' away and let fly.

The A1 hit butt-first. The "rubber" grips did their rubber thing. The A1 flew back towards me at high speed and smacked into my chest.

Luckily it hit sideways on.

I nearly fudged my frillies.

No more knife throwing for me.

maximus otter
 
I put a kabar into my thigh. Just a little bit of the tip. It didn't even bleed (i'm surprised) but it stung like hell. I still have a red triangle on my thigh :/
 
Lent my small Rodgers fixed blade (3" razor sharp Sheffield carbon steel, stag scales, brass guard and pommel) to my "£$%^%^$$$ brother in 1972.

I have not seen it since...... and I know he traded it for another knife!!!



Like all little brothers, he was/is totally irresponsible.

But he has two great kids...... so I suppose I forgave him.
 
During a long outdoors trip in Patagonia with my dad when I was around ten or twelve, I was chopping some bamboo to build some kind of frame (I don't remember) and was puting my hand too close to the part of the bamboo I was hitting with my knife (big, sharp bowie). My dad warned me, I decided I knew better, I ended up with my index finger almost split in half.

It's funny how many of my screw-ups started by thinking I knew better than my dad... The worst part of the cut was the shame, I was afraid that since I had disregarded his advise my dad could very well restrict my access to my lovely knives, so I did say anything and just dressed the wound and kept on going like noting happened.
 
Wow, so many people got it in the thighs, so did i trying to cut a cable on an overseas exercise in New Zealand...haha
 
Many years ago........... I had one piece of candy in my pocket. This crazy girl in front of me wanted half of it. So I took out a brand new pocket knife and cut through a jolly rancher. The candy broke in half and the blade went through my thumb all the way to the bone. I later married this crazy girl. I guess love does hurt.:)

V-man
 
Back in my "Combat-Drinking Days" I had just finished about my 8th martini and decided I wanted something to munch on. I found an English Muffin, held it with the edge up and with an extremely sharp serrated knife sawed right through the damn thing and right through my left index finger. I almost passed out.

The bad part was having to get the wife up and have her drive me to the ER as I couldn't get the thing to stop bleeding and it did go to the bone. Stitches; tetanus shot; and the usual discussion about my drinking habits.

In 1994 I received the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Absolut Vodka Company, so I retired from the drinking thing. Anytime I get the urge to have a drink, I simply look at that scar on my finger....the urge goes away.

Sobriety ain't so bad afterall.

Peace
 
I had a RAT-3 with the teklock on me one night and I had, "had a few" with my friends. One friend needed me to cut something and me being the "knifeguy" grabbed my sheath with my lefthand and pulled the RAT out with my right. Unfortunatley my left index finger was over the entrance of the bottom of the blade and when I whipped it out, it cut my finger to the bone about 1-1/2 inches accross my finger.

It bleed like a siv, I went to the ER at 12 at night, they put me in a room and FORGOT ABOUT ME. I had a doctor come in with another patient and then got me over to get my stiches. I only needed 4, but a tetnis shot was standard too. They said I was lucky because of the force I had gripped the sheath with if it had been the inside of my nuckle and not the outer part of the finger I could have done tendon/joint damage or darn near cut the thing off.

Another stupid thing I did, was when I was around 15 someone had said something to piss me off, and I had an orange in my hand and I was about to peel it. When I got upset I drove the knife through the orange through my hand. and the blade went between the bones that connect your middle and 4th finger in my palm. When I pulled the knife out of my hand there was citric acid in the wound and I had to push some of the meat back into part of my hand, that required several stiches and a lil while w/o usin my hand.

I got others but I think thats enough of my own stupidity for a day
 
Went into a bar in Fla... Forgot the knife was in my pocket.... Someone (who could have minded their own business) saw the pocket clip and told a cop that they saw me with a knife that I was trying to "conceal".

Spent the night in Jail:(

They stay in the car now.
 
Genuinely truly ashamed of myself for this one:

At a beach party in my youth, myself and a mate were drunkenly throwing at a tree, I missed and it sailed right past and sunk itself into a crate in the midst of a group of people. It missed someones leg by about 2 inches. They were about 10 meters away and hadn't even registered in our toasted brains.

Luckily everyone was wasted and found it funny at the time, the next day the horror set in.:o :jerkit:
 
Spydie Ronin a few years ago. Little more than halfway through my left pinkie. 6 stitches. Possibly not the stupidest thing I've done with a knife, but certainly the most painful.

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At a skeet range, a friend rushed up and asked to borrow my folder. Who denies a friend?

The knife was returned to me minus about 1/4" of the blade tip. He used it to pry a stuck shell case out of a Remington 1100 shotgun.
 
i once was opening a Balisong butterfly knife. I loosely gripped the knife with thumb and forefinger and swung the blade open horizontal . The knife swung open too fast and flew out of my grip and landed open only inches away from my newborn baby that was sleaping on our bed across the room. :eek:

I NEVER did such a stupid thing again :o
 
I must be lucky as I've never had anything even remotely close happen to me.

The worst I've cut myself is maybe a 1/4" long slice about 1/8" deep.

I guess I'm just careful with my knives. :)
 
Strange as it seems, I can't remember ever doing anything stupid with a knife, at least, not enough to matter. Of course, I'm an elderly gentleman, so maybe it's just my memory that has gone stupid.:confused:
 
I can recall two things as being on the stupid side involving sharp steel blades eventhough they aren't knives. From my Sho Kosugi wanna be days(remember him?:o ), I made some ninja stars and wanted to see if they worked, so I proceeded to successfully bury one into my shin as I missed my intented target; the ground. Fast forward twenty odd years to 2005 when I was showing one of my partners at work my ice climbing tools. To demonstrate how they worked, I placed them on the frame of the door and did one successful pull-up. The second rep wasn't quite as good as the pick on the right tool turned side-ways and smacked me pretty much right in the middle of my forehead. Thankfully, the tool twisted sideways, or I would have had some 'splainin to do to the front-office and the ER.
 
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