What's the stupidest thing anybody ever did with your knife?

Oboy, do I have a few of these..........
Had a Benchmade/Emerson, loved it and was my daily carry for a while. Loaned it to one of my partners at work, he went out of the room, come back and handed me my closed knife. Got home, opened my knife and found about an eigthth of the tip missing. He used it to pry open a desk drawer. Same guy used my LM Supertool to scrape ice from the side mirrors on the rig. Another brain trust used my LM Wave to fix a reading lamp in the rig while I was sharpenin his Gerber Multitool. He arced the straight blade across both wires (live) at the same time, causing about an 1/8 x 1/16 section of the edge to go buh-bye. Neither one of these goofs ever offered to pay for repair or apologized.
 
When I was in high school, one of the first knives I bought with my own money was an "Eagle" lockback sold in the Sears/Craftsman catalog. It was a small <3" all SS lockback. Me and several friends go to a clam bar in Rockaway NY, and one asks to use the knife. The dumb thing was ME giving it to him.

Ever see a nice sharp blade after it's shucked some oysters?
 
Trying not to bleed too much on the keyboard...

Don´t open a knife and place it in your lap with your feet comfotably on anoyher chair (hold on, it´s really started to bleed now - have to get some bandaid... Alright, writing with both hands again). Then you start to read about the dumb people in this thread, was going to take another sip of my nice 18year Glenfiddich and moved the thumb across the just opened blade. Nope, it didn´t hurt. Bleeding? Yes.

Sheesh :rolleyes: talk about dumb. It´s like reading the warninglabel on a can and then taking a sip.

Have a nice weekend,
Colinz
 
mine would have to be when my friends and i were hanging out at a sonic and on the way out of the parking lot my friend asks to see my timberline vallotten. after i hand it to him, he proceeds to snap it open and launch it into a tree. it bounced right off the tree and onto concrete, then immediately one screw came out and won't go back in. luckily after i used some 12 hour epoxy on the handle it's stronger than it was from the factory. from now on i'm the only person who handles my knives.

brandon:rolleyes:
 
I still have nightmares about this one! I will give the condensed version. Brand new Benchmade Stryker(when they first came out), a friend asked to borrow the "new knife", he had an intake manifold from a POS Ford Taurus sitting on a table that he tried to JB Weld back together, it did not work and he started scraping and prying the JB Weld off the manifold!
Of course, I immediately tackled him and took my knife back.....
woody
 
Coworker-stupidest thing he did was try to give it back to me after screwing it up, apparently not realizing he had just bought himself a "new" knife (just bought me a new knife, might be a better way to put it).
 
Ok...I used to manage one of the major chain pawn shops in Dallas, and this airhead secretary asked to borrow my SOG Tomcat to open something. UPS, had arrived shortly before her asking, so I suspected she was going to cut tape on a box or something. I went on to the vault, and when I returned I saw her standing behind the gun counter opening a large can of Foldgers brand coffee in the big red can. I freaked!! She had already cut and gouged half of the top open, when I snatched up the Tomcat from her hand, and scolded her. I then gave her a SAK from the counter, and told her to put it in her desk when she was through using it. Since that time I am very careful who uses my knife.

RattlerXX
 
have 2 of these...
last spring(2001), I was camping... one of my buddies decided to try and spydiedrop my cricket after seeing me do it repeatedly. Needless to say HE spent 2hrs looking in the field before he found it.
LAST NIGHT, 8:45pm... over at my freind's(yet another dumbass), and he wants to see my ken onion boa... he proceeds to open it like most ppl, and slips... too bad it wasn't deep enough for stiches.
 
I have learned from here to be careful about letting people see your knives. Just recently a friend asks to see my knife. "What for?" I said. "I've gotta pry open this can of paint, this screwdriver isn't working very well." :eek: :eek: :eek:
 
A good lesson to learn here is that mistakes made by others are sometimes the fault of the knife owner who should know better than to hand off a knife that may damage, or be damaged by, a novice.
 
I always carry my knife to school with me, and I brought it out to sharpen my pencil with it. Then my friend asked me if he could see it. I gave it to him thinking that he knew how to properly care for and cut something with it. I was sadly mistaken. he then proceded to "rake" the edge across the metal end of a mechanical pencil. needless to say, i will nevewr let anyone handle my knife unless i know that they know what they are doing
 
An advanced FMA student wanted to see my freshly sharpened BM Bali. I said, "O.K., but don't flip it. I just spent a lot of time getting a razor edge on it. Furthermore, I don't want it dropped on the concrete floor." He took it and promptly started to flip the thing. While I'm again asking him not to (about 7-8 seconds) the blood hit the concrete floor and I saw my Bali flying through the air. Luckily, the knife landed on a duffle bag. The advanced student cut the tip of his fourth finger almost to the bone.
 
I posted this a long time ago. I will admit to occassionally throwing a knife into a tree. But a friend of mine had just bought a HALO II and after seeing a few of us throw some of our cheapies and stick them into the tree (or not), he says "stand back" fires the HALO and throws it, missing the tree and landing in heavy brush. It is getting late and we have to leave. An hour later he gives up. It is still there somewhere.
 
Gave a spyderco civilian to my wife as a gift. The !@@**# is now my ex and I surely miss the knife more than her Ohh well we live and learn.
 
Wow! After reading all these horror stories, I'm glad to say that my own recent other-person-related knife mishap didn't involve damage to my knife! I feel sympathy for all you people who got nice knives damaged by morons.
I was preparing dinner with and for a friend who was visiting overnight. She didn't want to be useless so she asked if she could help in the prep of the fettucini alfredo primavera I had planned. I can't remember if it was my Spyderco Santoku or just the paring knife, but I had each of them plenty sharp and made sure she knew it. A couple of minutes into her chopping the broccoli, she asks me if I want to cut. I said sure, but why? "Because I just sliced my finger." This is a girl with a very forceful and confident personality who would have given me lots of guff if I had suggested that she "be careful." You all know the type (as evidenced here): they SAY they know it all, but the fact is they don't know all that they don't know, and they find out usually in our presence, sometimes at our expense and theirs.
I never really thought about the dangers of handing some (undiscovered) idiot one of my knives until I read all your stories here. I think I've done that near-impossible thing: I've learned a lesson without having to suffer the experience of learning it the hard way myself. Thanks, your sacrifices are not unappreciated.:)
 
Originally posted by Knife Medic
Neither one of these goofs ever offered to pay for repair or apologized. [/B]
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Several of these posts about knives damaged by idiot "friends" mention that no offer was made to pay for the knives they damaged. Who waits for an OFFER? Hell, I'd say, "Look, I didn't loan this to you expecting you to screw it up or break it. I fully expect you to pay for a new one." Hey, at least you'll find out if they're really a friend. But no way would I let a person who damaged my stuff get away with that sh*t.
 
Well I have a few stories, here are a selection...

About five years ago a friend of mine was trying to cut free hanging paper with my 9" Tanto blade. I had my back to him and somehow the blade slipped from his grip and went sailing past me ear! It then smacked right into a chail chair at full speed edge first:eek: . The child chair was made from stainless steel and it cut into it by about 2cm or so about 3/4 through it. The edge suffered a fair bit of damage from this but 20 mins on a sharpener and it looked ok. This was not even a 'real' Magnum tanto, just a 440a copy.

My dad used the tip of my Spyderco Military the other say as a screwdriver... No damage!:confused:

My friend playing with my Formite inlay Military a couple of weeks ago for about 5 mins as we talked knives. Then in the middle of opening it he realised at some point he had cut himself and not even noticed... drink and knives is not a good thing!:p

The time my old boss asked for a knife and my BT2 coated M2 blade was pulled through old cardboard that was FILTHY with little stones and sand etc. The edge held up ok, but the BT2 coating which had been perfect for 6 months or so now looked like crap personified.:(

The time I underestimated the cutting power of my M2 812 and hammered it into the top of a toughened glass counter. Went right into the glass about 1cm. Slight tip damage... M2 eh?;)

The time I went camping with some friends and one girl decided she needed the call of nature but was to frightened to go on her own... Hmmmm:eek: , what did I do? Hehehehehe I handed her my M9 Phrobris III field knife and said this will keep you safe. She looked at it and just had to throw it right into stony ground...:confused: What is it about a knife and an idiot? The tip was not badly damaged but why do this? I asked her not to do this and she was quite happy taking the knife with her! Later on I saw a gaggle of people eyes bulging looking at the knife she was now waving around like Conan the Barbarian!:confused: , I stepped in when someone asked if it would open a tin can... Scary people.:mad:
 
Yup! Yup! as previously stated my most regretful incident was loaning my Sebenza to a foreman who cut a bunch of barricade fencing against a brick retaining wall. believe it or not, I didn't say a word to him... (Me apprentice laborer, him very grumpy supervisor, me keepum mouth shut) Guess I have a pretty high tolerance for taking sh!t when it comes to providing for my family. Although boy howdy! you shoulda seen the things his brand new purty 4X4 Ford was found capable of doing while I took it off to get some material :D :D The happy ending is that all damage was quickly repaired by a professional knife sharpening for $5.00 a heck of a bargain when considering several hours spent leaning over an Arkansas stone...

The second incident my knife got away undamaged...

I'd just bought a Dalton Cupid that was NIB, as most of you folks know we're talkin' about an awfully powerful spring here....

Within a couple of days I stopped in to see a good friend of mine at his work place (a car dealership) Now, I know this guy was never exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he supposedly knows his way around knives reasonably well. Just when I'd handed him my Dalton and probably said something like "check this out, cool, huh???!!!" my four year old son went trotting off out of my sight. Well....I went to get my lil' guy back into custody and turned around just in time to see my buddies eyeballs bulb out about the size of soft balls and watch his face turn completely white.

It seems that in my absence (which was all of a few seconds) he had decided to fire the knife, and for some reason had assumed it was a side opener. He was kinda "hiding" it from view cause I guess his boss don't take kindly to things that sever or go bang, So...anyhow, my young genius friend had managed to put the blade of my Cupid about 1/3 of an inch into his palm. I ran to my car, grabbed my jump kit, and disinfected him, Steri-stripped him, and sent him off for a tetanus shot. He admitted that he'd pulled a pretty bonehead stunt by firing it without knowing a damn thing about the knife. Thing is I actually feel kinda bad due to the fact that knives like Daltons, etc. aren't exactly commonplace with most of the population, and I feel I should have warned him a bit sooner that it opens out the front. So...at his expense I guess I've learned to warn someone about the specifics of a knife before it even hits their hand. nice thread, helps to learn something and to relate these traumatic incidents!;)
 
I've watched someone try to cut through the tubular steel leg of a desk with my (then)new Victorinox money clip knife just because I said it was very sharp.

I handed a friend a Kershaw Black Horse lockback, saying: "This one has to go back, because if you press on the back of the blade it folds right up." He proceeded to wrap his fingers around the handle and lean into the back of the blade, until it swung shut on his hand, cutting him pretty badly.

Once I passed two recently acquired POS butterfly knives around a group of people. When one person got both of them in his hands, he repeatedly smashed the edges together while making kung-fu movie sound effects, and notched both knives irreparably.

The worst, and dumbest, though, was handing someone a slipjoint because they asked to "borrow" a knife, just to watch them throw it as hard as they could into a field of tall grass, with no explanation whatsoever.

It appears that some people believe that the knives we are constantly sharpening, pampering, cleaning, and losing are magical items that can cut through anything, be thrown impossible distances into improbable targets, and impart villainous superpowers. No one seems to understand, though, that Rambo didn't use a stockman.
 
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