Worst Knife Reaction?

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I had a job that required visiting the Federal Building where I commonly entered with my Delica without incident. One day, the two young rent-a-cops stopped me at the metal detector while they examined my knife and repeatedly said, "Well, I don't know." I offered to exit the building and return without it and he said, "Well, I don't know." About the fifth time they said that, I was thinking, "Just what the &%#* do you know? Don't you guys get any training?" They eventually let me pass, I suppose because they couldn't figure out anything else to do.
 
Mecha said:
I haven't had much trouble with blade freakouts, but there was this one time I flew in my hovercraft to a top secret high-level meeting with the King of Lichtenstein, and the Elite Guard Unit commander didn't recognize me because of my new light-bending ninja suit. While I was being patted down, they noticed the machete I always keep duct taped to my back under my electro-armor. There was a bit of a kerfuffle, but then they found my credentials and immediately apologized, saluted, and returned my edc machete. Then the King of Lichtenstein arrived in his purple limousine and gave me his personal duct tape roll so I could remount the machete. Then we partied with ZZ Top.
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That is AWESOME!!! :D

You might like this. Check out this titanium knife I made a couple weeks ago. :)

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Perfect for when meeting kings. ;)

Goes good with the one I made for my dad in Nitro-V.

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You guys are going about this all wrong...if you wanna carry your knife at the courthouse there's an easy solution:D Take yer pick...FRN, Cobalt, Ceramic, Titanium :cool:

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When I was doing my service in the Swiss army we had an inspection by some Lieutenant-general or one of those headquater chair jockies. We were on manouvers, spent the whole day, in cold and rainy weather running around so this polished-booted gentleman could play his chess game. I had a Gerber Guardian I clipped in my boot, he noticed it and made a remark of that not being quite kosher. I replied, with all due respects, that if my country trusts me to defend it some day, they trust me with a full-auto Stg-57, a bayonette (which I took home between yearly repetition courses, and kept in the attic together with a goverment supplied box of ammo), and a M-109 self-propelled artillery tank, why would anybody worry if I have a dagger in my boot. He moved on....
 
Quiet said:
I don't think the guard's reaction was UNreasonable, because it's her job to be suspicious of people. So a guy walks in, puts a knife she (not being a knife person) can barely operate without almost hurting herself, into the collection basket. She reacts to this device that has a long, sharp blade on it, by calling over another guard, just in case this person who just put a long, sharp knife in her basket decides to get aggressive.

All of this happened at a government building. Now, without going into the political arena, can you off the top of your head think of ANY reason why security guards at checkpoints in government buildings might be, you know, on edge? Any reason at all? Hmmmmmm.....
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I'll try it this way.

This is how I think a reasonable reaction by the security guard would go. "Sir, we can't keep items for visitors at this checkpoint. You can't take a knife past this checkpoint, and you'll need to return this to your vehicle."

There is no reason for the first guard to open the knife. I think it is unreasonable to attempt to operate anything you can 'barely operate without almost hurting' yourself. To what end was it opened?

There is no reason for her to call it a sword or to say that the OP has to leave. It is objectively not a sword, and the only two explanations for calling it one are that either the OP is exaggerating what happened, or the security guard had an unreasonable and hyperbolic reaction to a pocket knife.

The fact that the second guard did not have this same reaction and simply told the OP to leave and come back without the knife suggests to me that the first guard was in fact, being unreasonable.

Now, as to your question, sure, I can think of several reasons why security guards at government buildings would be on edge. Someone placing a pocket knife in the basket at a metal detector is just not one of them.
 
Mecha said:
I haven't had much trouble with blade freakouts, but there was this one time I flew in my hovercraft to a top secret high-level meeting with the King of Lichtenstein, and the Elite Guard Unit commander didn't recognize me because of my new light-bending ninja suit. While I was being patted down, they noticed the machete I always keep duct taped to my back under my electro-armor. There was a bit of a kerfuffle, but then they found my credentials and immediately apologized, saluted, and returned my edc machete. Then the King of Lichtenstein arrived in his purple limousine and gave me his personal duct tape roll so I could remount the machete. Then we partied with ZZ Top.[/QUO
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That has to be the best story I’ve ever seen posted on this forum.
 
For the OP, from the Ohio knife laws: "you cannot carry any knife inside a school building, onto the grounds of a school, or into any courthouse.".

Never had any bad reactions. But then again, CA knife laws are quite generous (for some counties it's a different story), people see my knives only in normal use, and are probably more apprehensive of me being on the larger side (6'5", 280 pds), than of a knife I use.
 
I don't carry a knife. I wear several though. ;)
 
Quiet said:
Which, if that's the case, still means that this thread is ultimately about bashing people who do not react well to knives being presented. Those types of threads are denigrating, and condescending. Would you agree?

Edited to add: And actually, my opinion is still that if you are going somewhere you know weapons are not allowed, why would you carry something to that place to surrender to people you don't know, when you could just leave it in a locked car instead? I certainly would not give an expensive knife to a security officer, that's for sure. Those places have "XYZ is not responsible for lost belongings" signs for a reason.
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People that are freaked out to the point of behaving badly by one of mans oldest and most useful tools deserve to be denigrated.
I am a little bit disappointed to see people here defending these cowardly simpletons that almost certainly have bigger knives in their kitchen.
 
DMG said:
People that are freaked out to the point of behaving badly by one of mans oldest and most useful tools deserve to be denigrated.
I am a little bit disappointed to see people here defending these cowardly simpletons that almost certainly have bigger knives in their kitchen.
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Being offended on the behalf of others and then letting everyone around you know about it has become a virtue in this modern day and age. Having unreasonable people have unreasonable reactions to a daily carry knife does come with the territory unfortunately, but I see nothing wrong with sharing stories about such common occurrences.
 
Grayman1984 said:
Being offended on the behalf of others and then letting everyone around you know about it has become a virtue in this modern day and age. Having unreasonable people have unreasonable reactions to a daily carry knife does come with the territory unfortunately, but I see nothing wrong with sharing stories about such common occurrences.
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I agree.

Fearfulness and weakness have become virtues in western societies. This fear of knives is part of that.
 
I'm a fan of both rights and responsibilities. When I read things like this, I think, "There's another knife person, doing their part to encourage everyone else to support more restrictive knife laws." It kind of reminds me of the open-carry movement - which has to be covertly sponsored by anti-gun groups. Want people who aren't into your thing to try to restrict it? Then act scary and then insult them for being scared. Brilliant!

-Tyson
 
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