When you owed it to your knife...

[Rat Finkenstein]

Not a knife story, but similar- at the Beer Distributor where I used to work a door opener broke down, and nobody could read the numbers on the unit as it was too high in a cluttered area. I let the warehouse manager borrow a scoped rifle to read the numbers.

 

[ExMachina]

We were able to hold on to the turtle and cut off the plastic without any difficulty. It was a happy sight to watch it swim off.

great story. :thumbup:

would be a good one to tell to all those folks who think that carrying a knife is only a hair's breadth away from acting like a viking...not that there's anything wrong with vikings

 

[DMgangl]

Cut a baby out of a car seat one night. Vehicle was turned on its side in the middle of the highway EMS wasn't there yet. Of a handle full of people who had stopped I was the only one with a knife. I make sure to have at least 2 on me at all times now.

DM

 

[stitchawl]

great story. :thumbup:

would be a good one to tell to all those folks who think that carrying a knife is only a hair's breadth away from acting like a viking...not that there's anything wrong with vikings

There are actually several dive venues where one isn't permitted to carry a knife (or wear gloves.) This is due to really stupid uncaring divers who think nothing of grabbing onto a coral head or cutting off sea fans to bring home. Having been stuck at the end of some 'swimthroughs' (long winding tunnels in jumbles of boulders) in the South China Sea because of broken drift nets covering the exits, I won't swim without one.

There is also the situation where one runs into a nasty shark. I want to be able to cut my dive buddy's Achilles tendon so I can swim away faster than he can...

Stitchawl