What is the weirdest way you have ended up with a knife?

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I was a Bamajam this year and we had a RV spot. My Dad,who was in the market for a RV, went over to a camper a few spots down. The man and my dad made friends. Turns out he had been and army ranger and at the time just got done doing VIP security in Iraq. Later that day we were having a shrimp boil. After we cooked it my dad gave him a whole platter of it. The guy gave my dad a a Benchmade knife around 2.5 inches long, it has green coated aluminum handles?

The numbers below the insignia on the blade read 9051.

It is 154 cm blade steel.

So you guys share some of your stories.
 
I got screwed out of a deal by a scammer from Saudi Arabia. A BF member sent me a Tasman Salt PE. I later waved it and did a give away here to keep the karma going.
 
when I was 14 my father(OldPhysics) took me to the Ren Fair in maryland. The knife maker and my father were(are) friends, and my dad was buying a bastard sword from him. I was looking at the daggers and some cool looking deadly jewelry when the man came up to me and handed me a matching set of dagger earrings. He gave them to me for free and offered me a job when i turned 17. Still stands as the oddest way, and those earrings are still used as the knives they are in my art work.
 
Nothing too weird on my end, but I once got a free folder (maybe an AO?) because I placed an order with a certain online retailer and it was initially missing an item. The freebie came with the missing part of my order a little later. :thumbup:
 
I was in downtown Tampa about 2:00 AM with my female roommate when a homeless guy walked up to us and pulled out a knife... then asked if I wanted to buy it. It was the old style flat handled Gerber folder. Pretty good deal at $5.

We were coming from the Hub if any Tampaites are here.
 
During deer season my old long departed beagle "Snoot" carried a stag handled, fixed blade Case up in the yard.

Some deer hunter had gutted a deer and left it and it had blood on the stag handle. Snoot smelled it and thinking it was a bone carried it home!

I still have it and have to smile and remember him, every time I see it.
 
Benchmade CQC7. I wanted one so bad in high school and while cleaning up after a horse race to earn money for our FFA my advisor freaking found a brand new one on the ground. I offered him $50 for it and he wouldn't take it. He later went to Virginia Tech to earn his masters and phd and while I was there earning mine he became my advisor. Well to make a long story short he and I became good friends and while babysitting for him one day he gave it to me to sharpen for him. I just sent it back to BM cause he tore it up cutting drywall with it and rather than pay for the fix he just gave it to me. It cost me like $7 to ship it and they fixed it for free. So it just took about 7 years to get it but it's mine now. MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!


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It didn't happen to me, but I had a teenager come into the shop with a fairly beat-up Benchmade CQC-7 and had me sharpen it. I asked him how he came by it to make conversation...turns out he had been stabbed with it in the Bronx! :eek: That being said, he made it out ok, and with a cool knife to boot! :D
 
Probable this one, a 1950's Queen dogleg jack, that a friend that repairs air conditioners found stashed inside an old window unit.

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on a trip a bud lost his BM AFCK M2 in my car, we looked and looked, he had been drinking so we figured he lost it in a club we were in, 3 yrs later he passed away (auto accident) and a few months later i found the thing under the rear seat of my car, i called his sister (his only living relative, no kids)and was gonna give it to her but she told me to keep it, and i still have it to this day.

IIRC i posted about this a long time ago, '01 or so, every time i see the thing i think about my bud we had a lotta fun together thru the yrs.
 
was fixing the dash on my old toyota 10 years ago and when I pulled it off there was a full serrated spyderco delica covered in dust and lint!!!!

Spent a year pounding the dash to get it to stop rattling and decided to pull it apart as the radio was screwed as well. Knife was bouncing around in there causing the noise. It is my truck knife in the ashtray of my newer toyota 4x4
 
My father-in-law sat down on a log next to a stream to fillet some fish. After finishing the first fish, he stabbed his fillet knife in the log, so he could grab another fish from his basket. When he reached over to pull the knife out he noticed two fillet knives in the log. Someone had been filleting fish in the same spot and left their knife. He said that knife he found was the best fillet knife he ever had.
 
One time I was out getting the mail and I opened my SAK to cut open a letter and my Mailman said nice knife then we compared EDC knives and he gave me this old slip joint one. Too bad I lost it when I went up to New York.
 
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