True Spidey Stories

[Tonie Nichols]

Anybody got a story of potential embarassment involving a Spydey they'd like to share?

About three years ago, my wife and I were visiting around the local churches looking for a new church home. This meant that I was getting involved with a lot of very unfamiliar territory and buildings which always makes me nervous.

At the time I was carrying a Civilian left hand carry (I'd moved the clip myself) and a Millitary on the right.

This particular morning we were at a church that had huge aisles on all four sides of the pews and we were setting in the very back pew with heavy traffic behind us just prior to the beginning of the service. As I sat there attempting to concentrate on the bulletin I caught a glimple of a large bear of a man as he came rushing through the door into the sanctuary just a few feet away from us. Evidently he had seen somebody he felt he had to talk to RIGHT NOW, because as he burst into the room he let out with a rather loud bellow of greeting.

The combined affect of his sudden appearance and bellowed greeting brought me half out of my seat with my hand on my Civilian that I hadn't quite drawn. As I sat back down, my wife put her hand on my arm and with a giggle, reassured me that I was probably safe. I didn't get a lot of service that day.

[dedguy]

I have occasionally thrown spyders across the room or hard into the floor while pulling from my pocket or drop/flick opening. My Harpy which I have had the longest shows the most signs of these occasional accidental tossings. I once threw it hard into a concrete floor to cause it to bounce.

[eastr]

my son wanted to see my knives no big deal were in the process of learning knife saftey. He was looking at my manix he laided it down and said can i see that big knife meaning my mini manix these are my most fav folders!!!! not thinking i left the manix open while he was looking at the mini and my little girl ran into the room i won't let her around him with the knives cause he is not trained in saftey yet. I chased her out in time to turn and see my son bang the blades on my manix mini manix together he did this twice before i could stop him im still working the knockes out of the blades. This store just makes me sick but lesson learn one at a time from now on OWCH!!!!!!! :o :o

[warthor]

It would have to be when I was demonstrating knife safety to a cousin of mine. I showed him the knife and showed him how to handle it. I then said "When youve been around knives a lot longer you can do tricks" I flipped it around my hand a sliced my thumb open. Got a bit to confident

[Firefighter880]

Warthor's story reminded me of this.... didn't happen to me, but I saw it.

My first Spyderco I ever bought was a Spyderco Endura, which I purchased from a place called Gart's Sports. I was brand new to knives, looking at a few different brands, and I wasn't really sure what to get. The older guy at Gart's behind the gun & knife counter had always been nice to me when I had stopped to look before (and they had a pretty good assortment), so that's where I went to make my first purchase.

Anyway, I was looking at a few different knives and I had been playing with a Cold Steel Recon 1, and the guy says "Take a look at this one" and pulls out the Endura. I immediately liked it because of the round hole. He was kind of showing it off, opening and closing it, doing the Spyder drop, etc etc. So this other guy who had been standing close by, who was probably about 25 (this was when I was like 17 or 18), butts in and says "You have no idea how to use that. Let me show you. :rolleyes: "

He takes the Endura from the salesman and starts snapping it open and closed and flipping it all around like it's a frickin butterfly. He's basically acting like a little girl with a cheerleading baton, just short of throwing it in the air. Anyway, the saleman and me just kind of look at each other, and the guy eventually puts it back on the counter, all impressed with himself for his little demonstration.

The salesman then says, "Well, that was real nice and thank you for showing us how to use a Spyderco, but maybe you should head to the hospital now." I take a look at the guy again, and he had cut himself about 1/4" deep up his arm from his wrist to his elbow, and it was starting to bleed pretty good! :eek:

:spyder:

[Darkfin]

Does nearly being arrested by US marshals in a federal courthouse or nearly severing a hand while cutting cheese count?

[warthor]

Lol id like to hear the courthouse story

[Darkfin]

I was running late trying to get to the Clerk's office of the 11th Circuit Federal District Court in Atlanta. I Parked in a no parking zone since the public parking lot was a 10 min walk to the building. I always carried my Delica, but usually remembered to pull it out of my suit pants pocket before entering the Russell Federal Bldg. (They have not one, but TWO separate metal detector security locations to get to the clerk's offices.) Anyway, I literally ran through the 1st metal detector, since the clerk's office was about 1 minute from closing and I had a HUGE Motion to file.

IT BEEPED. :eek: "What? :confused: I NEVER beep!" I think to myself. "I am always scrupulous about only carrying my valet car key, not carrying wallet or sunglasses and of course removing my Delic...OH SHEEEEITE"
Not only was I packing a fully serrated, Black handled Delica, but this was back in 1995 when few folks had ever seen serrated blades, not the least of which a 60 yo security guard! I say "oops, I forgot to take my pocket knife out of my pocket, I'll just run back to my car and..."Lemme have it" he says. So I hand it to him. His eyes go wide as he opens the blade and sees the serrations. "I'll just run that back to my car...""Wait right here" he says, and walks over to his supervisor--a very stern looking matron of the guards. By this time, the young military-looking marshals in this room have noticed the hubbub and started to converge on my pos. As I was trying to recall the US criminal code for carrying an illegal weapon into a Federal courthouse (the rules got MUCH stricter after OK city), the matron (who recognizes me) looks at me sternly and says "If you promise to never bring this knife in here again, I will let you take it back to your car."
Sphincter Factor '7' situation ends w/o incident. (I even got the Motion in on time, but only because I knew the clerk!) THE END! :D

[Tonie Nichols]

Yeah Darkfin, that counts

[Darkfin]

Heh. You should hear my cheese story. Mmmmm Tillamook Arrrrrrgggggghhhh.

[Th232]

Please tell the cheese story!

[Dslteck]

I don't know if this is embarassment but it did make me angry.

Yet another Delica abuse story. I'm about 15 feet in the air on my lift ( I work in a warehouse) I'm pulling an order. I pull the knife out of my pocket and flick it open. I slit the box open and remove a filter. I close the knife like I have a million times before and go to replace it back in my pocket.....
Just then I hit my elbow on the saftey bar of the lift effectivly forcing my hand to open. The knife fell (in slow motion by the way) all the way to the floor! :mad: needless to say I was pissed! The only damage was about a 1/4" was broken off of the tip.

[villageidiot]

I had my endura fall in a toilet yep, I got that kinfe out and between the bleach and the hot water we both almost changed color hope no one lost
their cookies on that story

[v8r]

I was showing the range marshall at the shooting range I frequent my latest knife .He always asks me what Spyderco I have purchased lately( He is in to knives and has quite a few of different manufacture).I pull my Forager out and say" check out how crazy sharp this thing is" as I start to try and shave my arm with it :rolleyes: It ends up biting a little more than just hair :o and you know whats funny is I was stupid enough to do it again a second time! Well he kinda chuckled and said let me get some Band aids for ya. We still joke about it. :D

[The Mentaculous]

I have occasionally thrown spyders across the room or hard into the floor while pulling from my pocket or drop/flick opening. My Harpy which I have had the longest shows the most signs of these occasional accidental tossings. I once threw it hard into a concrete floor to cause it to bounce.

LOL yeah I made a fool out of myself when I first learned how to spydie-drop..I was showing it off and got careless--all I can say is I'm lucky to still have all my toes :eek:

[Domanfp]

I was flicking around my blue PE user dodo and I flung it across the room, luckily nothing happened except a small ding on the back of it. The .5 seconds it was in the air seemed like an hour

[Mitko]

It was a not very cold day with sun shining. I had my G10 cara cara in my right pocket and a waterproof jacket on me. About a meter and a half ahead there were a mother and a small kid. We are walking fast...and naturaly i start to feel too hot...(wrong jacket)...So as we are walking fast i decide to take the jacket off...the edge catches on the Cara cara clip and it goes out ot the pocket...and it falls just behind the mother and child group with a loud noise...oh! you should see her face and the way she looked at me...

I just said "Sorry" and rushed ahead...since then i'm very careful...

[Simple Man]

If any of you remember the "Brownie Pop" opening method from several years ago, this applies, if not, you're better off not knowing. Anyway I tried out my new found way of opening my Endura at a family gathering and dang near sliced my future SIL standing behind me. It would have been left hip to mid-beltline, would not have been good, she laughed.

Never tried it again.

[TrojanDonkey]

I gave a coworker a older model Spyderco Rescue in mint shape.He lost his work knife for the day and I thought he should try a serrated edge.I showed him how sharp it was by raking it across my calf.I am usually bald armed from stropping knives and testing them.Well I shaved hair off(factory edge) like I have done many times before with my serrated knives,just a tiny bit faster .He said I bet you cut yourself.I denied it but then felt a stinging burn.I looked at it and I had a bloody leg.We both laughed.It eventually bled all the way down into my shoes-sock was soaked in blood.Later I showed him how it would shave what little arm hair I had left.He keeps the Rescue in his car and uses it from time to time.Im still addicted to shaving hair after honing/stropping.

[Jazz]

My wife and I were walking in the woods in the mountains all peacefull like when we heard a low, gutteral growl... then another - most likely a Cougar. My wife tried dragging me off but knowing animals love to chase their lunch, I stayed still and instantly had my Military out. No, I'm not gonna say I killed a Cougar - after looking everywhere, we could see only trees. The Cougar was probably way up high. That got the hearts beating. :eek: Anyway, while telling the story later to her daughter, my wife said my knife was the size of a Cougar's paw or something humorous like that - I can't remember exactly. I made a thread about it a while back. I bet secretly she is glad it was that big. I thought it was funny...... afterwards. :o

- best wishes, Jazz.