keeperovdeflame Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 Roasted a nice little 3lb chicken with potatoes, carrots, onions, and celery last night. Came out great, and my wife and I enjoyed half of it. After dinner I sliced up the remaining breast and pulled the meat off the bone. I set my 8" Global on the bottom edge of the cutting board, and started to put the chicken in a ziplock on it's way to the fridge. The zip lock bag caught the handle of my knife and sent it off the cutting board and sliding off the edge of the granite counter and down to the floor blade first. The tip struck me directly in the top of my foot, cutting right through the top of my shoe and penetrating my foot. Stabbed me pretty good, but missed the veins on the top of my foot, and didn't need stitches. None the less it scared the heck out of me. After the incident and no serious damage to my foot, I laughed at thinking at least the tip didn't hit the ceramic tile and break, I love that knife. Be careful out there deity6667, Boater, philpom and 3 others 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Potsticker Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 Ouch! That still had to hurt!!! Glad your OK! keeperovdeflame 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daninpd Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 I'm glad you're OK. I little related story: When I was in Army basic training one of our training areas was "Bayonet". You charged through it with your bayonet fixed to your rifle, stabbing various straw filled dummies, growling loudly the whole way (if the drill sergeants didn't think you were aggressive enough or growled loudly enough, you got to do it again). The last obstacle was a slanted pit you jumped into with a dummy you stabbed while jumping in and another you stabbed while running out. We had a Korea War vet who reenlisted for Vietnam and had to do basic again with the rest of us, but he was the most impressive (for a old guy, as we thought then) and his growling on that course was epic. One trip through the course we all heard him growling and grunting as he stabbed dummies, until he abruptly went silent for about 10 seconds and then started screaming "Medic!". In that last obstacle he missed the dummy and instead got his left foot resulting in about 2" of bayonet sticking out of the bottom of his combat boot. The sergeants rushed over, detached the bayonet from his rifle and had some of us carry him over to the tables set up in the waiting area to await the medics, bayonet still through his boot (well, technically, his foot), because none of us were about to pull that thing out of a 3/4" thick combat boot sole. There were a lot of recruits not looking at him or each other while waiting for the ambulance. We never saw him again. Glad you didn't need stitches. I have no idea what he needed. keeperovdeflame 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philpom Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 Yikes, push things to the back of the counter! daninpd, keeperovdeflame and JeffieBoy 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeperovdeflame Posted September 26, 2021 Author Share Posted September 26, 2021 11 hours ago, philpom said: Yikes, push things to the back of the counter! Absolutely, I learned that lesson the hard way, unfortunately. daninpd 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
len440 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 Keeper your lucky in another way. Several years ago I was building a rc model airplane at my buddies house and he had an exacto knife roll off his work bench and just by pure reflex he grabbed and caught it in mid air. Result was a trip to the ER with blade through his hand. Glad your ok and the knife too. keeperovdeflame 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack. Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 1 minute ago, len440 said: Keeper your lucky in another way. Several years ago I was building a rc model airplane at my buddies house and he had an exacto knife roll off his work bench and just by pure reflex he grabbed and caught it in mid air. Result was a trip to the ER with blade through his hand. Glad your ok and the knife too. I was told by a chef I worked for many, many years ago that a falling knife has no handle--only blade edge and point. JeffieBoy and keeperovdeflame 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
len440 Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 Jack sounds like an ancient Chinese proverb or the teachings of Yoda. But it is so true keeperovdeflame 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeperovdeflame Posted September 26, 2021 Author Share Posted September 26, 2021 4 hours ago, Jack. said: I was told by a chef I worked for many, many years ago that a falling knife has no handle--only blade edge and point. 4 hours ago, len440 said: Keeper your lucky in another way. Several years ago I was building a rc model airplane at my buddies house and he had an exacto knife roll off his work bench and just by pure reflex he grabbed and caught it in mid air. Result was a trip to the ER with blade through his hand. Glad your ok and the knife too. You know, it happed so fast I didn’t even have a chance to grab for it. ( probably a good thing) It came off my cutting board and then skittered off the hard granite counter top falling tip down into my foot. I got a pretty good lecture from my wife len440 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnarngr Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 Yikes! You're lucky it wasn't worse but golly! Are those Skechers? keeperovdeflame 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keeperovdeflame Posted September 26, 2021 Author Share Posted September 26, 2021 40 minutes ago, lnarngr said: Yikes! You're lucky it wasn't worse but golly! Are those Skechers? Yeah, ILove em. lnarngr 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
len440 Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 16 hours ago, keeperovdeflame said: You know, it happed so fast I didn’t even have a chance to grab for it. ( probably a good thing) It came off my cutting board and then skittered off the hard granite counter top falling tip down into my foot. I got a pretty good lecture from my wife we got the "LECTURE" from his wife also. I got an extra one because she thought I was trying to drop him off and escape before she got home keeperovdeflame 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJTerp Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 Did this once, jumped out of the way, and left the knife sticking a good half inch into the linoleum floor like some sort of cartoon keeperovdeflame 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K_sqrd Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 Had this happen a while back with a Henkle's 8" chef knife. It went down tip first, hit the ceramic tile and broke about .25" section off. Fortunately, there is a knife sharpening shop not far from me and they reshaped the blade. They did a great job and I'm a lot more careful now. keeperovdeflame 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnarngr Posted September 29, 2021 Share Posted September 29, 2021 On 9/26/2021 at 5:38 PM, keeperovdeflame said: Yeah, ILove em. Me Too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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