Safety First: Attacked by an RTAK II: Gore Warning

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If we are going to start talking about comic books, then it is time for me to enter into this conversation. Sam Owens can be Forge, Sam Cade can be Wolverine, HSO can be Professor X, JShirley can be Gambit and I can be Colossus.

Because I am big, you see.
 
Timbo,

Sam and I wished many times yesterday that you were here, helping move the safe up the stairs!

I stuck about an inch and a half of a fillet knife into my left thigh when I was a teen
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Oddly enough, I did the same thing to my right thigh. I had my little sister put a Band-Aid on it (I stuck it into the back of the leg), and forgot to tell my parents I'd stabbed myself. :scrutiny:

John
 
Ohhhh, I can't tease Sam too much (well, yes, I can), but I've had to effect repairs due to self inflicted knife injuries on a couple (wellll, perhaps more than a "couple") of times. Michaela patched up the worst one I ever had when she was just a kid (and, yes, I should have gone to the ER, but she did a good enough job that I just have an ugly scar inside my left elbow to show for my foolishness).
 
Jeez...I haven't done THAT one. Though John and I did talk about what might happen if the sheath doesn't have quite enough retention and it goes a 'wandering around inside your shirt...
 
I am guessing you guys were just really pining for my expert supervision since ol' Bear Arms probably picked up the safe and carried it up the stairs one handed.:p
 
Geeez. Yeah, just tossed it. Like two ants pushing a locomotive up K2.

There's a really cute Winnie the Poo story about a bad storm and some flooding in the forest and Poo has a fantastic way of describing riding a barrel through the flood waters. Something about sometimes he rode the barrel and sometimes it was the other way 'round.

Pretty much like that.

There was a come-along winch involved, which should forever be re-named a "How 'bout you just stay there" winch. Leaping from stairways. We squashed the dolly I brought. And the electronic keypad. I'm going to have to come back to spackle and help repaint some stuff. And I did have to clean blood off the walls in three or four places.
 
I told John that he should maybe tape a bit of foam over the corners so y'all wouldn't be so likely to scratch the paint....bwhahahaha!


I'm just glad that no one got pinned under the safe and was forced to saw their own arm off with a Chinese multitool.
 
Where it stuck point first.
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Seen it at Blade (but the guy wasn't barefoot). Luckiest unlucky guy I ever saw. Fumbled one of Rob Simonich's Crowfoots and tried to catch it. The rest of us did the "knife drop hop" while this guy tried to take every finger in each hand off grabbing and slapping at it to keep it from hitting the concrete under the thin rug. He almost got it several times, but all he seemed to be able to do was pop it back up a few inches and have it resume its path to the floor. Finally it eluded him, or he just got tired, and it stuck point down in the top of his shoe. We looked to see if there were any fingers to pick up and with the luck of a noob/fool the guy hadn't even cut himself juggling the live blade.

Still, there he stood transfixed to the spot with this pointy piece of razor sharp steel sticking its butt proudly in the air like a happy lawn dart at a kindergarten playground. He didn't scream or shout or say a word. He just stood statue-like looking down at his foot. In honor of his composure we stood equally still until the inevitable words were uttered. "Did it get you?" There was a pause as we were released from our spell and we drew closer to look at the knife in its new display and then he said quietly "Dunno" (as if he was afraid of disturbing it and making the knife somehow angry).

A discussion broke out about what to do and it was generally settled that a first aid kit would be acquired (instantly produced by some former 18D sort), the shoe would be loosened (almost equally quickly done by some guy with a knife), and the guy with the new appendage would pull his foot slowly, or quickly, out of the shoe. Luckiest unlucky guy I ever saw. Not a mark on him (although we didn't check his underwear). Somehow the knife had gone through the top of his shoe and between the toes without injuring him. I don't even remember if he bought the thing, but he should have because he had a dozen opportunities to have bits bitten off and hadn't lost a drop of blood.
 
Townsend Whelen famously remarked that "Only accurate rifles are interesting". As a corollary I offer this "Only sharp knives are interesting."

The factory edge on the RTAK II is absurdly obtuse, hampering performance and increasing the chance of a glancing accident.

Regrinding the edge to a thinner profile makes this knife a much more efficient cutter all around, but especially for notching and kitchen duties.
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Indeed. :cool:
The mod that causes the guard to get stuck by lightning every time they say it is well worth the download. :neener:


In other knee related news:



Bill for my stitches was nearly $900.


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