Strange things you've done with your Swiss Army Knife

[mopaul]

I've used mine for thousands of things, driving screws, the little pliars are very handy for a roach clip, the toothpick is invaluable and the little tweezers are great for nose hair.

the awl is what i use the most for gouging holes in things, and the bottle opener and cork screw are neccessary equipment for drunks.

if you put it on a rope, it would make a good weapon. and of course the knife blades are great for oranges, muffins, whittlin', and scraping out the bong.

some day i'm sure my Swiss Army Knife will save my life. I always have it with me, even when sleeping.

[Worst Username Ever]

1. Trimming toe nails with the scissors

[trof]

2. I built an entire log cabin.

Got the "Deluxe" model with the chain saw and the planer.

[Tuttle]

3. A friend told me:

passing a kidney stone was like 'peeing out a Swiss Army knife with all the attachments open"!

Tut-tut

[salvorhardin]

4. Not a Swiss Army Knife

but I once slipped with a largeish pocket knife which has become known as "The Tragic Hole-In-The-Thumb Incident of 1977" -- not to be confused with "The Tragic Bagel Incident of 1989".

Basically I was about 11 years old and playing with the pocket knife my parents had given me a few months ago for my birthday. I don't really remember what happened but the next thing I knew I had a pocket knife embedded hilt deep in the base of my thumb on my left hand.

It wasn't very painful but I didn't know what to do so I went downstairs to show my mother who yelled at me, "Fer christ's sake, take the damn knife out of your thumb." Of course, as soon as I did that blood started gushing out of the wound and so I did what seemed quite logical at the time -- I stuck the knife back in the wound to stop the blood.

I've still got the scar today and somehow I managed to avoid nerve damage (unlike The Tragic Bagel Incident of 1989 which cost me most of the feeling in the tip of the third finger of my left hand).

On edit: I guess this is more along the lines of "the stupidest thing you've ever done with a knife -- Swiss Army or otherwise".

[mopaul]

5. I HATE it when that happens

you need the salvation army knife

[Tempest]

6. Creating a circuit between two wires

I needed to jump a gap between two wires with no slack on the starter in my truck so I used the knife blade.

Did the job, but partially melted the blade.

[Misunderestimator]

7. I delivered a baby in the back seat of a taxi with one...

:crazy: amazing tool

[da_chimperor]

8. I fought off a horde of charging wombats in Botswana with one

A plastic toothpick and a corkscrew can be deadly in the right hands. I saved an entire girl scout troop. I got SO many boxes of thin mints afterward it would blow your mind if you knew the half of it.

[Lisa]

9. A friend of mine used his to climb a barn

He was looking around for handholds and didn't see anything, so he took out his knife, flipped out the corkscrew, and screwed it into the wood for a secure (?) hold.

I did minor surgery on a chicken. I was farmsitting and noticed that one of the roosters was limping -- it had gotten a piece of string (from one of the feed bags) badly tangled around its foot some time before, and now its leg was all cut and swollen. I grabbed the rooster, and used the small blade on my knife, which I keep very sharp, to sever the string and untangle it. I had to dig around a bit, in the feathers (matted with blood and mud), to make sure I got all the string out. The rooster's foot started bleeding again, and I felt pretty sorry about how much it must hurt, but the blood flow did help clean the wounds out.

I rinsed the whole leg well with lots of clean water, and I'm happy to report that after a couple of days, I saw the bird actually walking around again, and the swelling had gone down.

[oneighty]

10. I done watched my sister in law

with my missing Swiss Army knife slip it back into her pocket book as she said "I do not know where I found this knife but I sure do like it a lot."

Since she obviously liked it a whole lot I did not comment.

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[Thor_MN]

11. I thought sex threads were banned?!?!?