Stories,how you faced evil with Spyderco

[harpyslayer]

Does anybody have interesting stories where comming face to face with a difficult situation was eased by the prescence of a Spyderco? Share them! Thanks!

[patogordo]

are you from mexico, where do you buy your spyderco knives??

[harpyslayer]

Dear Patogordo,

Mexico City had a chain of personal security stores in the main malls called Security Planet. For a complete year (2000) they carried Spyderco Products, unfortunately the market is not that big or their marketing that good, but they decided just last week not to continue to sell these products due to the price and people being on a tight budget.
I have been buying most of my poket folders from them. Now there are only Rescues and a single Police model on their counters. (Thinking of buying them at a lower price hi,hi,hi) The rest of my collection comes from several outdoor suppliers in California that I always visit whenever on vacation in the U.S. Hope that this will clarify your question. Greetings! Ah! Que sabroso se comen los cortes de carne con una cerveza Casta por tu tierra! (How delicious is to have a beef and a Casta beer in your location...)

[patogordo]

so you have the same problem that I have,there is a shop that sells them but I have all the models they sell, and being near the border y buy them by internet and go to Laredo to pick them up
El Cabrito me gusta mas <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle>

I want all of them

[harpyslayer]

Lucky you being near the border! Hope you complete your collection soon. I will be also stalking each of them till I own them all. Do you have an interesting story related to my topic? Hope you can share. Buen d&#237;a!!! (Have a nice day!!!) Cabrito is also O.K.

[patogordo]

no stories in Monterrey is much more peaceful than Mexico city, but there is a story about a laydbug and a thief that I think is cool, it was around christmas time

I want all of them

[earthworm]

While hiking in a local park a fellow came running up the trail shouting for a knife as his rock-climbing partner was tangled half-way up the cliff.I handed him my Delica &amp; showed him the one-handed opening technique.When he returned the knife(to my surprise:I'd written it off) he stated he planned to get one himself.I suggested he look at the Merlin or Harpy as the full serrated curved blade will go through rope like butter.
BTW for good info on self-protection I recommend 'In The Gravest Extreme'by Massad Ayoob,'Principles of Personal Protection'by Jeff Cooper,&amp;'Armed &amp; Female'by Paxton Quigley.While these are gun-oriented books the emphasis is on principles,attitude,alertness &amp; mindset.I also suggest you look up the Cooper Color Code:an excellent tool for learning levels of alertness.If you can't find it contact me(trk187@bellsouth.net)&amp; I'll explain it:it'd take too much space here*G*.Respects.

[spyder_man]

i have never been in a bad situation with my spidie but i am glad to know that it will work perfectly when i need it.

[fool]

I was in the middle of a mob in downtown Nairobi back in 1996. 50-75 people were beating a boy (15-17yrs old)for stealing an emerald pendant necklace from my sister. The crowd became very hostile and calls for gasoline went out throughout the crowd. Noone wanted to let me and my brother take the kid to the central station. At this point, I pulled out my aluminum Civilian, and combined with my size (6'1, 240), drove home the message that we did not want this to go any further. I have carried my Civilian for at least 6 years now, and have used it in many situations without trouble. For sheer seriousness, their is nothing like the look of the Civilian.

[harpyslayer]

Excellent stories! Thanks for sharing! I am glad that I am not into climbing or Nairobi trips... I feel like naked when not having my Spyderco with me.

[obi-wan]

I faced an evil Sithlord and destroyed him with my Spyderco.

Real Jedi's carry Spyderco........

[dd]

quickly butchering a quote,

God created man, Spyderco made them equal.

DD

[Joyce Laituri]

Here's one for you.....

We had hiked over 12 miles that day, the August sun driving, pounding the back of our heads. Our only canteen of drinkable water was gone by two and at 13,000 feet it was dryer than old bones. The sun started down, we staggered, crawling into our camp.

The ulitmate evil awaited us.....

No spit left and lips cracking we dug deep for the energy to make it to our cooler.....

CORONAS! A dark cloud of dispair covered us completely....we had no bottle opener!

Just then we remembered we had a SpydeRench with a pair of slip joint pliers.

Okay so it wasn't really all that frightening but I don't get out much.

Joyce

[TEXinEX]

Yo Amigo,
What difficulties, if any, might one encounter with the gendarmes when carrying a knife in Mexico?

Any words of caution or wisdom?

I found out personally that wearing a camo t-shirt or old camo M-65 jacket in Mexico can you into some serious stuff.

Thanks for any knife advise that you might pass along.

TEXinEX

[sal]

Often times a dangerous situation is a thing to cut, such as a rope that's choking a horse, etc.

Tex, welcome to the forum.

sal

[Paul D.]

My Spydercos have come in useful many times. I can only think of one time that one saved me from a beating or maybe something worse. I used to live in a medium sized college town. Not exactly a high crime center, but no place is 100% safe now. I was walking home one night around 1:00 or 1:30, about the time the bars close. It was dark and the streets were not really well lit in the downtown residential area I was walking through. I always try to be aware of my surroundings, and I noticed that two young guys were following me. At first I thought maybe they were just going the same direction. Since they were 100 yards back I decided to cross the street and walk on the other side. The crossed the street then too. I crossed back to the other side a minute later to see what they would do, and they crossed again. They were definitely watching me very closely, and looked like they were having a low volume conversation. I was really starting to worry as they were getting closer to me. I decided to take a couple of turns and start heading towards the Police station. They followed me at every turn. Well, I knew I had my old style, serrated Endura in my pocket, but I didn't really want to fight two guys, and I didn't want to go to jail for cutting up two guys. I suspect that they thought I was drunk (which was not the case), and perhaps an easy target. Instead of running which I thought might set them after me like dogs after prey I decided to let them see my claw. I increased my gate to gain a little distance on them and headed for the nearest corner that had a good street light. I stopped in the area of brighter light (thinking it would be good for them to see me, and so I could see if either of them was carrying) and pulled out my Endura, thumbed it open quickly and started to clean my fingernails. I then looked up and smiled as innocently as possible in their direction. My two &quot;shadows&quot; quickly crossed over to the other side of the road and turned down the street the other direction. The smirks they had been wearing were certainly gone as I watched them turn the corner. I don't know if they wanted to rob me or just thought it would be fun to beat up some lone person. They certainly weren't following me to tell me about Jesus, of this I'm certain. After watching them walk away (while looking over their shoulders this time), I closed up the Enudra and kept it in my hand with my hand in my jacket pocket. I then walked on towards the police station in case they wanted to follow again. I strolled around the police station and turned back toward my home.

I was glad that they did not up the ante with a gun or knives of their own. I was also glad that I didn't have to hurt anyone, even these two bums. I tried avoiding them and that didn't do it, so all I could think to do was show them that I was not afraid and that I was not going to be so easy to tangle with. There is a lot of talk about people wanting all black knives for that tactical look etc. That night I was very glad that my Endura had a nice shiny blade that reflected the light of that street light so nicely.

Oh yeah, if they had continued to come at me, I would have definitely tried to run for it! I'm no coward but I don't believe in fighting for fun or honor.

Paul Davidson

[earthworm]

Joyce:there are emergencies &amp; EMERGENCIES;I'd put slaking my thirst in the latter catagory*G*. PaulD.:Good moves &amp; a good attitude:avoidance(running)beats confrontation.Been there myself*wink*.

[roloss_valdes]

All the people from Monterrey NL Mexico, I am organizing a Self Defense seminar here so if you are interested on it please let me know send me an email to rvaldes@solucionesdebolsillo.com and visit out page: http://www.solucionesdebolsillo.com/bm/blade.html

[Jeff/1911]

Joyce,

That situation with which you were faced certainly qualifies as a first class emergency in my book! Glad you made it through OK. Aaaaah, Corona! By the way, did you have something with which to cut the limes? I can't count the number of times my Spyderco knife of the day has performed this task...always with a flourish and to moans of appreciation or the occasional &quot;Oooooh, lucky someone had a knife...&quot; from the non-knife carrying folks present. Honestly, what would they do without us?

Paul D - Well done. I'm glad things worked out for you the way they did that night.

All the best, Jeff/1911.

Edited by - Jeff/1911 on 10/28/2002 9:37:36 AM

[sc_rebel1957]

No life saving stories yet! but my youngest kid plays college footbal in the next stat(N.C.) and always comes back home with us till Monday classes, more so to see his GF instead of he misses us for sure.

This involves ME taking him back up every sunday night usually/well always late.

I do find it comforting to reach down and feel the steel clip on my current favorite Spydie at rest stops on the interstate (read b/r breaks) at 3 am.

Ron

[Big-Target]

My biggest thing I did with my <img src="spyder.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>, was with my <img src="spyder.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>salsa(red)at Don Pablo's. They were all out of clean knives I needed to cut my taco shell bowl. A <img src="spyder.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> Salsa and Don Pablo's reataurant just seem to go together!!!!<img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

BIG-TARGET>>>>>" If I survived an old lady ass kicking, I'd be bragging about it"--Tula(My Big Fat Greek Wedding)

[firespec35]

1996 Downtown Detroit. I just got out of seeing ZZtop at the Fox theater. I parked on one of the crappy sidestreets to avoid paying for parking. As I walked back to my car, this crackhead jumped out of the shadows yelling &quot;Gimme yo money b#$%@&quot; Well, I just happened to be carrying a spydie Rescue. After exposing that I asked him &quot;Excuse me?&quot; He said naw man we cool and walked off. I figured I saved me a beating or worse that night.

[BOK]

Pulled my Gunting in South Africa. Fortunately didn't need to use but it was unsheathed and ready to go.

Even though I didn't use it, just the fact that I had it there put my mind at ease though.

[AllenETreat]

Awhile back in FLA ( Ft. Lauderdale )
a coupla gangbangers REALLY got under my skin
( they claimed they had guns...&quot;You won't use
that blade white boy!&quot; )

They were mistaken ; One look at the EnduraHawk sent'em packin'!

AET

Let me win your hearts & minds, or I'll burn your damn huts down!

[ken]

Well ya see-One evening in Los Angeles,Calif. (AKA- L.A., Latin America, City of Angels) I accidently ran out of gas in East L.A. (Not a good place for a white boy). Heck no problem! Just take this short cut down an alley to the nearest gas station, and I'll be on my way! Well no more than half way down the alley I notice about a gang of 25 &quot;BLOODS&quot; behind me, I turn around and there are about 30 &quot;CRYPTS&quot; in front! &quot;What To Do?&quot;

So out comes the BO1 SpyderFly in one hand and the C84 Karambit in the other! Next thing ya know I'm by myself in that alley. You see I'm a &quot;Street Fightin' Man&quot;. I'm a hero in my own dreams-and than I woke up...

And now for the real story!

A friend and myself went camping in the Anza Berrego desert. (this is the arm pit of the world). We went on a hike into the &quot;bad lands&quot; and it started to get dark so we made camp, rolled out our sleeping bags, and made a camp fire. We sat around drinking beer and taking tequlia shooters and just talkin'. Well we decided to go to bed and my friend was about half way in his bag when he heard rattles! He called me over and said he had a rattle snake in his bag and what should he do? I said to slowly crawl out but no sooner than he tried that damn snake bit him on the end of his &quot;tally wacker&quot;. Man he was yelling in pain and asked what we should do? I said I'm no EMT-I don't know!!!He said run into town and ask a doctor. No problem I ran 12 miles into town and told the doctor what had happend...The doctor said just cut between the puncture wounds and suck the poison out. So back I go to camp...My friend is looking real bad and looks up at me and asks- what did the doctor say???

Well what would you do??

I told him the doctor said your gonna die!!


ken



Edited by - ken on 3/12/2004 9:53:36 PM

[CKE]

Good one Ken!
I too had the ol Corona problem, the mark is still in the G-10 of my Millie. Is there anything the Millie won't do?
Sorry no life saving stories with any of my Spydies. My Buck M-9 has gotten me out of a few bad situations. I was out fishing with some friend and a BAD storm came up. We were all in shorts and tank tops as it was hot. I have no idea where the storm came from, thunder lightning, sleet, hail you name it. Not expecting this in the middle of summer we tryed to head back to camp. We had to get the boat off the lake as it was getting really bad. We found an old abandoned cadet camp. We were looking through the run down buildings looking for matches to start a fire in the sheltered pit. We found the storage shed still locked. I put my M-9 between the clasp and door and POP! We found matches and were just about to get the fire going after finding some dry tinder when...the sun came out and it got hotter than hell out. I have only once been on a lake that has blown up that fast in my life since then. Quite scary. You just never know when somthing like that will happen.
Two summers ago my friend fell and broke his leg about 20 minutes back in the bush. In total 14 rescue people to carry him out. They were glad I had the M-9 to clear a path for them. That is one non-Spydie that has definetly earned its place in my collection. I never go into the wilderness without it. Good thread idea, Take Care!!!

&quot;everything else is just a jeep&quot;

Edited by - CKE on 3/13/2004 8:26:16 AM

[jbake]

Hmmm... Never really written this out before. Wasn't a spydie, but...

5 or so years ago, I and a business associate attended an industry trade show in a big southern city. We got in really late the night before the stuff started, so we decided to leave the festivities early and go back to the hotel to catch some shut eye before we went out and drained our expense accounts.

So, I'm asleep in my room, it's around 7:00PM and I awake. I realize someone is messing with my door. I didn't realize it, but I had not deadbolted or chained the door. It was one of those card swipe doors that lock automatically. I figured my buddy was ready to go out and I had overslept. I got out of bed, and picked up my keys and my BM Stryker that was sitting on the night stand. I had made it half way to the door when this stranger just opens my door and walks in.

I think I asked him if I could help him. The knife was closed and in my hand behind my right hip. He just stood there looking at me. Then, he looked behind back and took a step toward me without a word. Alarm bells were going off in my head.

So, I asked again what he wanted and he raised his hands and started saying something about me calming down that he was here to take care of something - and he took another step forward.

I don't remember deploying it, but the next thing I know the Stryker is up and open and I'm crouched and moving forward. I have absolutely no idea what I said to him, but my intention was to exit the room and if necessary cut through whatever stood between me and the door.

He backpedaled and started fumbling in his pockets. He pulled out a hotel ID badge and told me to take it easy. My buddy was in the room across from mine - he must have heard the commotion because he came out of his room. So now this guy was caught between the both of us. he just turned and quickly walked/ran down the hall.

I really got worried after he left. He had used keys (I remembered hearing them) to open the door (it had a scanner and a keylock). He had a badge (although I couldn't read it). I was afraid that he was going to call the cops on me for his innocent mistake.
I decided not to call the front desk, and to certainly not call the cops.

But, something kept bothering me. Why had he acted so suspiciously? Why didn't he knock, or did I just sleep through it? Why was he so intent on getting into my room (until he saw the knife)?

Fast forward to checkout time: I try to settle up, and they want to charge me for almost a thousand dollars worth of long distance calls made from my room. I check the time of the calls. Yup... Mr. intruder had been in my room all day. he had been calling chicago, watching my cable, using my toilet and god knows what else. He was probably returning for more free calls when I surprised him.

I didn't pay for any of those calls or movies. I started to get loud about hotel employees breaking into my room and they got the account credited pretty quickly.

My Matriarch is now my hotel knife. I sleep with it and a tiny red LED light. A Surefire 6P is always near.

I'm thinking about getting a Civie for backup.