EDC knife recomendations for college?

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Cross Ink Pens were part of the uniform.
Chrome for patrol, 10k yellow gold filled for some ranks and the 14kygf for higher ups.
Sterling Silver and Gold ones for some special higher up deals.
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This I can attest to. Not from being a subject of interest, but ambulance/fire work. The Cross may be a wonderful writing implement (I would not know) but it is most definitely cop bling.

From an EMT instructor/local LEO: When you roll onto a scene and you have to control or utilize the locals, look for people without tunnel vision, physically fit guys with short hair or anyone not in a suit with a really nice pen.

I think he was kidding us. Halfway.
 
Arf wrote:
Steve, it's not that they wouldn't want to meet you, personally, it's more that they don't want to have to hack through the jungle where you live, beset on all sides by prehistoric bikers in loincloths and red-headed Amazons in short shorts.
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You forgot the Plumbers, Maintenance, Painters, Drywall ...

I actually have fun with all this.

Setting : College.
Problem: Safe door failed in open condition.
They opened the safe and heard this "clink" and the S&G dealie bwoke...

I was in the Rec Room playing pinball, and listening to a live band at the time, shooting the bull with folks.

I was summoned...
"Call the lock and safe folks, don't bug me, I'm busy". - I said.
"No, we don't know how to get this door out without folks realizing the door is busted".

I knew the Professional Lock/Safe/Alarm folks.

They wanted to remove door, take it back to the shop, fix it, and bring it back.
Now this was a real safe, a big sucker with two doors.

College kids can't see past the stud-puppy or hot chick in mini-skirt.

Asked some EMT folks to roll up, with lights and sirens...everyone was at that side of the building wanting to know what had happened while the safe folks eased out and stuck this door onto a big wrecker.

This door would cause a van to get low on the springs and the front be pointed upward.

Faculty went for hours not realizing the door was off this safe, the back of the safe is what folks saw, and unless you walked around, you could not tell.
College students wanting to know what happened.
Mr. "Pillows" was having chest pains...

So the next day was the start of 3 days of Awareness.
Gideons are going to arrive and pass out little Bibles.
Insurance Company is going to have a car all totaled from drunk driving.
Safe Sex folks...
Free Cokes, pizza and fruit...college kids only do one thing better and that is "free booze".

Safe folks show back up, nobody paid any attention. I mean armed security baby sat that dept overnight.
Safe folks finished and I am going to show them where the free food is.
They are cracking up...
Nobody paid any attention to me carrying a fish bowl full of condoms across that part of the campus.
It was a good 15 minutes after I set this bowl onto a table, that it dawned on folks, what was in the fish bowl.

This was before I ever attended college myself.
I have fun with this stuff, Soc and CJ depts used to have me do stuff all the time.

I ran in and "stole" the CJ's breifcase...more than once.
I did this in other Depts too...

Now I am a 6' white male with a mustache.
I have been described as anything from a short fat gal with red hair to a "heavy chested" black lady, to you name it.

My other dealie in some classes was to "peg" folks.
Just to drive in the point many folks advertise too much.

Soc upper level with 80 students:
Brenda's parents have a gun safe, the combo starts with 81 and you deduct 12. (81-69-57-45.)
Joe's dad's Lincloln you push 1-9-1-1 to open the door.
Lisa's home alarm code is "In-In" (4-6-4-6)
Mark's gun safe is electronic and his code is "Mark" (6-2-7-5)

Like I keep saying...folks advertise too much

Don't look like prey - think like a criminal.
 
SM wrote:

I'm not being argumentative, I am being a Mentor.
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I don't for a minute think you're argumentative. My point is that I don't want to live in the places you describe or be in your shoes, no offense intended. I am very happy to live away from dealing with the bad guys. And if I do cross their path I'm usually gone before they notice. And that's just fine with me.

I think you've lived enough for a few hundred of us. And again, that's just fine with me. Lucky for us you're still around to talk about it. Carry on!
 
What I am trying to convey is - I do not always reside in a such bad areas.
I do have experiences in living in such areas, and having to travel and in be in such areas.


Part of what I do is assist those in staying safe, such as
College kids going off to college.
Take Rhodes in Memphis for example.

Now I have had some members ask me, what should they do about a kid heading to Rhodes.
First thing I share is to go see Tom Givens.

I mean go do the Rhodes bit in checking out the school, attending the orientation... still go see Tom and find out what is what about where to live, travel and the like.
Yes! Do consider having your kid take some classes from Givens. Still your kid has to live long enough to take them classes!

I guarantee you, if I am going to be in Indiana, I am going to holler at El Tejon, Daniel Flory and others I know, and get some information!

Now I am done with this thread, you folks can do what you please.

EDC knife recomendations for college? - Good luck, no more input on me on this.

I have those I do things with behind the monitor.
Some are THR members and we use PMs, some are in real life.

Don't ask me what to do about valuables while at college, as I will not share about that either - publicly.

Now in PMs and in real life I have , and am currently assisting with College Kids and that very subject as well.


There are a number of instructors and trainers that do not post on forums.
Some do, on private forums.
There is a reason.


*smile*
 
Interesting comments about Cross pens. I've been carrying one for about 40 years, a gift from my father. He gave it to me when I was leaving home as I had enlisted in the army. Told me on no uncertain terms he'd be most upset with me if I didn't write mom once a week to let her know I was okay. That pen served me well for the 10 years I was in the service, untill medically dishcharged. I don't know how many letters home it wrote, project reports, MOS evaluations and many other things. It was not untill I was a police officer for a couple years in the mid 70's that it was thought of as something else. Great compliance tool when pressed into a mastoid gland.

I still have that pen, battered with most of the chrome worn off, leaving it brassy, dented, scratched, and looking like its been through a war. Which of course it has. But it still is a great writing tool, and it still is carryed in shirt pocket now and then for old times sake. I don't think I could make out my checks with anything else.:D
 
The way I've always interpreted SM's advice on these matters is that you need to really read the tea leaves as it were WHEREVER you are (rural North Dakota excepted perhaps)...

The greatest, most salient point he ever makes, in my book, is that these things don't happen "out of the blue" if you know what to look for...
 
Per the discussion here, check out Robert Mika's knife concealment holster.
 
Purdue - Calumet area crime:
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Purdue is actually in the City of West Lafayette, Tippecanoe County. The crime in the Lake County/Calumet area is much, much higher.
 
I decided on the Spyderco Tenacious w/ G-10 handle.

It arrived today and I am in love. Solid lock, quick open, incredible blade, I definitely feel like I got my money's worth!

Now if I can just find an allen wrench that'll fit the screws and switch it to tip-up carry so I can put on a ghetto wave!
 
I'm sure its been mentioned before in this thread, but my CRKT M16 (walmart ammo counter for $20) has provided me with all my college pocketknife needs. Now if they made a Swiss Army Knife with a keg tap, I'd probably switch to that ;)
 
Now if I can just find an allen wrench that'll fit the screws and switch it to tip-up carry so I can put on a ghetto wave!
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I'd probably skip the ghetto wave. It's hard on pockets, isn't reliable unless you remove some metal and turn the hole into a U, and is people unfriendly.
 
To tell you the truth, if I were you I would go with the Swiss Army Knife of your choice.

Until you have had one for a while, you cannot imagine how handy they are, and how often you will use the screwdrivers and other tools. Plus, they are inexpensive, and totally unthreatening. If you run across anyone who is afraid of a SAK, you may as well go ahead and kill them somehow because you don't want them breeding.

My 11 year old stepson has a nice SAK, and he uses it literally every single day for something. My wife took him to see a play at a local theater, and at intermission, they serve wine, etc... But the day he was there, they had lost their corkscrew and couldn't open any wine. Stepson whips out his SAK and saves the day.

I like and own many knives, but for pure utility and value, nothing is even in the same league as a SAK.
 
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