Have you ever accidentally stabbed yourself with a pocket knife?
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Have you ever accidentally stabbed yourself with a pocket knife?
You can check the answer of the people under the question at Quora “giving a penny with a knife“
About Quinn
Have you ever accidentally stabbed yourself with a pocket knife?
I have only had one serious self-induced injury with a pocket knife, and it wasn’t a stab.
I got my first pocket knife, a Swiss Army Knife, when I was five or six, for Christmas. I was immensely excited. It meant that all the things I needed a pocket knife for, I could do without borrowing my Mom or Dad’s. It also meant that I was a little bit more of an adult, that they trusted me with the responsibility of a pocket knife. I felt very big.
A few weeks after, I was building something in my room. I believe it may have been a cardboard bunker for my Star Wars figures to fight over. I used to build rather elaborate sets out of cardboard.
My mother called me downstairs to help with something, and upon returning to my room I got back to work. Except the knife wouldn’t cut. I put my finger on the spine and pressed, to no avail. Then I realized I’d picked the knife up upside down. I removed the blade from my finger. Everything seemed fine. But after a moment, it started bleeding rather profusely. The blade had been very sharp, and had only stopped cutting into my finger because it had hit bone.
I wrapped my hand in my shirt and went downstairs to find my Mom. I told her I needed a band-aid. She asked why and I showed her my finger. As she recalls the story, she says she tried very hard not to panic or react, in order not to spook me. I was very calm and businesslike and wanted it to stay that way.
She cleaned my finger, applied the band-aid, and asked me what I had learned. I said something to the effect of “Make sure that I pick up my knife the right way so I don’t cut myself again.” Then she sent me on my way, and I got back to work.
I still have the scar today, on the tip of my right pointer finger. While my parents told me about knife safety, this was my first practical lesson, and has been a life-long reminder. Thankfully, a lesson was learned with only a bit of blood and scar tissue. But that lesson built lifelong habits of safe behavior that has precluded more serious injury.
On the other hand, my little brother stabbed himself in the leg, to the hilt, with an exacto blade in college, because he was overly fatigued and careless. I’ve noted in life that he’s injured himself with a knife more often than I, and I carry one every day. He doesn’t. I gave him three SAKs as gifts before I realized he wasn’t losing them, he just doesn’t carry one.
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Stabbed? No.
Slashed to the bone? Yes.
At the tender age of 10, I borrowed one of my dad’s outdoorsy pocket knives to do what every little boy did before the age of iPhones…whittle sticks.
All was good until I tried to handle this one really nasty hardwood stick. Oak man. Fucking oak.
Well, the knife jammed in a knot, and no matter how hard I pulled, I couldn’t get the thing out!
So there’s this rule in knife-handling where you’re not supposed to put your fingers in front of the blade edge. But that’s just one of those rules that goes out the window when you’ve pilfered your dad’s favorite knife and got it stuck in a stupid piece of wood.
Fuck the rules, I needed leverage. And the only way to get enough leverage was to put my left hand in front of the blade, just below the knot, while pulling up on the handle with my right hand.
Given how stuck that knife was I levered back on the handle real hard. Too hard. The blade came loose immediately, and the extra force rotated that knife right through my left index finger.
I didn’t feel any pain. But when I looked down, there was a lot of blood. Whatever, the knife was free and for some reason it didn’t hurt. So like any sane child I decided to look into the wound.
I wanted to know things. Like, how deep is the cut? And what’s really inside a finger anyways?
Well, the answer to the first question was: real deep. To the bone, deep. And the answer to the second question was: bright red stuff and pearly white bone.
It was kinda cool because I never did see human bone like that again until I started working as an EMT.
Anyway, I covered the wound in roll of bounty and held it till the bleeding stopped, dipped the finger in rubbing alcohol, and mummified it with gauze.
After a day, all that was left was a sleek, 2 inch scar across the PIP. Healed so fast I considered applying to the X-men.
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This week? Not yet ;-).
But in the past? Times without number. I have a really good “in and out” from a karambit in my left forearm from a bit of ‘heroic-yet-eventful’-derring-do a few months ago.
Knife-folk get scars. That’s just a thing ;-).
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Yup. I was about 10, I was in the wood near my house whittling. I set my knife down on the ground to do something – can’t remember what – and then my mother called from the house. I jumped up and took one step towards the house, and stepped right on the knife. The blade slipped right through the bottom of my Chuck Taylor’s in into the bottom of my foot about an inch. Not fun.
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My 8 year old son did. He was given a Boy Scout knife for his birthday with the instructions that it be used only when an adult was present. Yeah, you know what’s coming next. He was in his bedroom, playing with the knife and cut his thumb. Very minor, but there was some blood. He comes running into the living room screaming “I’m gonna die, I’m gonna die, I have lost too much blood in my life!”
One band aid and 20 years later he is still alive.
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You name the knife or cutting tool; I’ve cut myself. Most were razor-sharp!
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Stabbed? As in deeply? No… poked in the process of using or making knives? Several times. Never deep enough to warrant a doctors vist, though – I am CAREFUL with sharp objects.
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Cut a small piece of me off the side of a finger about 40 years back. I did “stab” myself thru the web of my left hand using my brothers blow gun and vodka.
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No, but I have stabbed myself with a kitchen knife accidently. The worst time was when I was trying to pry the meat from a coconut and the knife slipped and I sliced my thumb to the bone. It really really hurt. And bled. I still have the scar.
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I sure did, and I learned several valuable lessons in the process. More about that shortly.
I was in my late teens, and had just purchased a CRKT neck P.E.C.K.
This was a small, but extremely sharp knife. It also had a VERY sharp point. I was working on putting a paracord wrap around the handle like this:
(Not my actual knife, photo from Google images)
As I was pulling on the cord to tighten up the last wraps, I was holding it around the black plastic sheath. I pulled too hard and the knife popped out of the sheath. My instinct reaction was to push it back in to the sheath thinking it was not all the way out, but it happened so fast and I didn’t realize it WAS all the way out, so instead of pushing it back in, I pushed it into the inside of the knuckle on my middle finger. It went straight in, point first, and stopped when it hit the bone. I had to actually pull to get it out of the knuckle bone, and was looking at a small puncture wound about 1/4″ wide. It hurt incredibly bad, but had not really started to bleed yet. I held my hand above my head, and went into my bathroom to get some Krazy Glue. When I curled my finger slightly, the slice opened a bit and I squeezed a small bit of glue into it. I then straightened my finger and the slit closed up. In a few minutes the glue dried and it was like magic. The wound was sealed up, there was no blood, and you could barely even tell that anything had happened. It was almost invisible due to the clean cut and the clear glue. I was feeling like a genius, and thought I had just accomplished a miracle. This was a bad stab with a knife and I thought I had fixed it without even bleeding! When it stopped hurting for the most part, I went on with the rest of my evening, and working on ways to carry my new knife on my belt.
I went to sleep and when I woke up in the morning it was throbbing pretty bad. When my mom walked it to say good morning, I had just gotten out of bed and stood up. I started to tell her what had happened, and turned my palm up to show her. I tried to close my hand slightly, and the next thing I remember I was looking up at the ceiling from the floor, my head hurt, and mom was screaming bloody murder. My finger was locked up in a semi curled position, and I had apparently fainted from the instantaneous immense pain of closing my finger. To make matters worse, when I passed out, I banged my head on the nightstand on the way down. My mom was hysterical to say the least, but when I came to and sat on the bed, I realized what had happened. The knife hitting into the bone had caused the joint to swell and lock up, so my genius fix was not so genius at this point. It hurt like CRAZY, and took me a few days to be able to bend my finger all the way again correctly.
Lessons learned:
Knife safety is paramount when using any kind of knife, big or small. Always be aware of what you are doing, even if you have the knife in its sheath.
Super glue is great for sealing cuts, but puncture wounds are a different category.
Stabbing into bone hurts like crazy.
Don’t faint in front of your mom, she will freak out….
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Took a chunk of skin out of my thumb getting used to a buck metro knife I received as present one year. I was flicking it open getting used to it than after a few minutes I looked down and saw this weird looking thing that almost looked like a chunk of skin. I touched it and it felt like it was, looked at my thumb and saw a very nice chunk missing from it and 2 small pinpoint drops of blood. I didn’t feel a single thing from the cut, it was a knife clean cut. Went huh that’s weird I am missing a large chunk of my thumb, didn’t feel pain, and it’s not bleeding. So what do I do, I poke it, and than it wouldn’t stop bleeding (pretty good too I might add) for probably around 30min with direct pressure. And a band aid wasn’t going to cut it as it was too much blood.
For those who don’t know a buck metro has a very small blade, smaller than a leatherman micra or small SAK. It looks puny, but after this incident it has earned my respect.
As for running my hand across the blade and cutting myself, don’t think I cut myself that way off hand. And I stop people who decide to test knives that way.
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