magicdiscoman wrote:very important point and i should point out that knives were i lived were used for intimidation not for hacking chunks out of each other.
Hehe
Fortunately I've never been involved with a real knife encounter, however a few years ago, I was at a class with my Karate club, which involved a day of learning knife fighting techniques, then a mini tournament thing. Don't worry, we were using rubber knifes
I "won" all the bouts I was in, due to hitting with what would have been rapidly fatal strikes, but the instructor pointed out that I would have been dead fairly shortly due to massive blood loss from cuts to the arms - had the knives been real. Anyway, everybody had a good time.
The point being that getting involved with anyone carrying a knife means that in all likelihood you will get badly hurt - even if you know what you're doing, and manage to disarm or incapacitate your opponent. Also, generally carrying weapons of your own means you're more likely to injure yourself unless you have good training (no, watching a rambo movie doesn't count
), not to mention legal and moral issues.
Just thought it would be worth setting the record straight in case any impressionable people read this. rant over...
Back to the tongue-in-cheek magic theme, if that ever happens to me, I'll pull out a bag of woofle dust, and make myself disappear. They'll also be so disgusted at my poor cover to ditch stuff in my pockets that they'll probably just walk off anyway.
;)
