What's the stoopidest thing you've ever done with a knife?

Splitting kindling with my Carothers LC on concrete. Still have to send the knife back to Nathan to fix my stupidity.
Not nearly as bad as most of these stories but still stupid.
 
We would take broken cheapo folders apart and attach some bank line to the blade through the pivot hole ( also used some broken pairs of all metal school scissors )
Me and my friend called them whip darts, and would flail them around then let go at just the right moment to stick them into a target drawn on his backyard fence.
One time mine came untied and stuck into the side of his house. After that we decided it was probably best to put super glue on the knots, we should've decided these were jusg too dangerous but we were 13.
 
Hickory n steel said:
We would take broken cheapo folders apart and attach some bank line to the blade through the pivot hole ( also used some broken pairs of all metal school scissors )
Me and my friend called them whip darts, and would flail them around then let go at just the right moment to stick them into a target drawn on his backyard fence.
One time mine came untied and stuck into the side of his house. After that we decided it was probably best to put super glue on the knots, we should've decided these were jusg too dangerous but we were 13.
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Out of all the stories this is probably the dumbest and most dangerous i've seen.

It wasn't like split second and you didn't have time to see how dangerous that was....

You got lucky that didn't end badly.


I'm no saint though ill admid that.
I've made my own fireworks in the past, which i made in the house, on a wooden desk, next to books....
 
basmca said:
Out of all the stories this is probably the dumbest and most dangerous i've seen.

It wasn't like split second and you didn't have time to see how dangerous that was....

You got lucky that didn't end badly.


I'm no saint though ill admid that.
I've made my own fireworks in the past, which i made in the house, on a wooden desk, next to books....
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Yep. Childhood wasn't very safe back then...

And that's the way we liked it dammit!!:D
 
basmca said:
Out of all the stories this is probably the dumbest and most dangerous i've seen.

It wasn't like split second and you didn't have time to see how dangerous that was....

You got lucky that didn't end badly.


I'm no saint though ill admid that.
I've made my own fireworks in the past, which i made in the house, on a wooden desk, next to books....
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I don't know how we never got injured, but we would literally do this all the time.
We used to do so much dumb stuff though.

One time we used a Dremel to carve a fancy shape out of a piece of shale, then we attached it to a string and told his little brother it was ancient and cursed.
We buried it in the backyard then told him he had to dig it up then find some different flowers and stuff on a list we made and had to say some sort of chant or be cursed for ever.
 
Chad McCoy said:
Picked up my knife and put my thumb on the jimping to bear down on some cardboard. Picked up the knife wrong, pressed my thumb right into the blade with some serious force.
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kinda did that with a couple balis years ago..where i wasnt paying attention didnt start with the safe handle and blade into knuckle. not fun, couldnt flip until healed.
 
Chad McCoy said:
Picked up my knife and put my thumb on the jimping to bear down on some cardboard. Picked up the knife wrong, pressed my thumb right into the blade with some serious force.
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Now that you say that, I remember doing that too! Helluva surprise!
 
At around age 12 or so, I used an Old Timer 340 to "troubleshoot" a nightlight that quit working. I shorted two wires while the unit was plugged in. It made a good light show and blew (well, melted) two chunks out of the blade. In hindsight, it was not the right tool for the job.
 
Chad McCoy said:
Picked up my knife and put my thumb on the jimping to bear down on some cardboard. Picked up the knife wrong, pressed my thumb right into the blade with some serious force.
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Done that a few times, but always realized my thumb was on the edge before it was too late.
 
Hickory n steel said:
I don't know how we never got injured, but we would literally do this all the time.
We used to do so much dumb stuff though.

One time we used a Dremel to carve a fancy shape out of a piece of shale, then we attached it to a string and told his little brother it was ancient and cursed.
We buried it in the backyard then told him he had to dig it up then find some different flowers and stuff on a list we made and had to say some sort of chant or be cursed for ever.
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That is absolutely hilarious.
 
lieferung said:
That is absolutely hilarious.
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He actually got grounded for hopping the fence to get some of the required flowers from the neighbors garden, we were happy because he was always annoying us.

Now just to keep this on track, i remembered another dumb thing I've done with a knife.

I took another broken tac force or something and screwed the blade at a right angle into a $1.50 hammer handle to make a makeshift throwing hawk.
The first time I tried to throw it the blade tip snapped off into my brothers throwing knife target, this broken blade tip resulted in my brother breaking many cheap kunai's Because I didn't bother to dig it out.
 
When I volunteered at the soup kitchen I sharpened all the knives. The first time I made them maximally sharp and one of the volunteers went to the hospital. He was using the tip of an 8-inch chef's knife to open a 10-pound tube of ground beef and stabbed the palm of his hand. Another time I was in a store doing a reset on some advertising displays. I lent my swiss army knife to a store employee to cut a cable tie. He ended up in the hospital as well. I of course cut my hand while sharpening a machete with a file. I got busted carrying and also smuggling switchblades. It is embarrassing when they strip search you at the border and take a 5-inch Italian PB out of your underwear. There was a hole in the back wall of our garage behind my knife throwing target that you could climb through. As far as foolish self injury I recall throwing a knife at a pigeon--but it was definitely the wrong knife. I had added a heavy steel knuckle-duster handle to a razor-sharp double-edge dagger. With the D-shaped handle it could not be thrown by the handle. I absent-mindedly used a thumb and finger grip meant for an ordinary throwing knife and sliced the hell out of my fingers when I threw the heavy dagger hard. The stories go on and on...
 
When I was 17, I bought a buck 110. Sitting in the living room that evening, my younger brother asked to see it. After looking it over he stated that it didn't impress him. I opened it, grabbed the blade sideways, told him to put his hand on the coffee table, he did and I swung the knife down, breaking one of his fingers with the brass bolsters. As I calmly put it back into it's sheath, my mother just held out her hand. No words were spoken, but the meaning was clear. I went back to carrying a small trapper, my brother had a popsicle stick taped to his finger for about a month, and my grandfather got a nice buck 110 for his birthday.
 
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