Where's the silliest place you've ever left a knife?

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Jared

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Sep 8, 2005
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Wales
Whilst working putting in styles, posts, and general path work one particulary hot summers day.

Somehow, somewhere lost a little 2.5" fixed blade, a rugby top and a wax barbour drifter hat.
 
Nov 29, 2004
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Scotland
I once stored an original A G Russell Sting in the bottom of a Billingham camera bag, along with several other sharps, just for safe storage, I didn't use the bag day to day and it sat atop a wardrobe.

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AG Russell Sting
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Billingham Camera Bag

Several years later (and post 9-11), living at a different address and suddenly finding myself having to jump on a flight from Edinburgh to London at short notice, I grabbed the now 'empty' Billingham bag, shoved my laptop and washbag into it and caught my flight.

Later that evening, sitting in my hotel room trying to shove various recently purchased cables and bits 'n' bobs into the camera bag I found the Sting sitting beneath the base padding, it had passed though the security x-ray machine without anyone noticing, lucky for me.

Before catching my return flight the next day I popped into a corner shop and purchased a couple of padded envelopes to post it home.

:)
 
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resnikov

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
SAK with open blade back in to my trouser pocket. Was only a few hours later when I reached in to my pocket to get said SAK that I felt the blade with my fingers. Very very carefully I removed the SAK and then verbaly abused myself for being so stupid. Luckily I didn't cut myself. To this day I have no idea how or why I did it but now i'm very careful about where I put my knives.
 

Retired Member southey

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Jun 4, 2006
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your house!
This knife bought at the camp victory px

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though in my defence I had been very drunk and trying to whittle a piece of 2" by 4" at the time, fell asleep on the sand bags around our tent, awoke due to a mortar attack when I returned to the tent in morning I couldn't find it, the knife that is, the tent was still there:D I reckon a yank marines had it away, I also dropped a Gerber down a long drop loo, but it was issued and I was more than happy to be billed rather than retrieve it, but that one doesn't count as i know exactly where it is, I just don't want it:yuck::buttkick:
 

grey-array

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Feb 14, 2012
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Never lost a blade before, but boy have I entertained myself many times looking for my sheath in autumn...
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picture related its the sheath, and you see why it is hard to find
takes me an average of 2 hours nowadays ^^
 

Opal

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Dec 26, 2008
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My Champ SAK is lying on the bed of the River Dane, my son asked for a loan of it, walked back to his peg through some scrub and then I heard"whhhhhhoooooopppps!" ........well it was some expletives but as this is family friendly. :)

As he slipped by his peg, the knife landed at least six feet out, I tried in vain to retrieve it with my landing net but........about 15yrs ago I imagine.
I cried for months (secretly, every time I visited the toilet). :(
 

Erro Telcontar

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Mar 23, 2012
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Sheffield
I once had a beautiful emrald green folding knife, only about the size of my thumb when folded. I used it for orange peeling and general bits and bobs. Anyways, I used to wear a cowboy hat at the time and being reletively young I thought it would be 'cool and what not' to keep it under my hat ala various Hollywood movie scenes. Safe to say the knife now lives somewhere along a 20 miles stretch of countryside between camps, I don't remember on which occasion it was but I had removed my hat a good three times before I remembered it was supposed to be keeping my knife safe.
 

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