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    First Anti-Stab Knife Prevents Deadly Kitchen "Accidents"
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    Image of Eric Van Brunson Eric Van Brunson
    06/15/09

    In reply to First Anti-Stab Knife Prevents Deadly Kitchen "Accidents"
    People should just use hammers.
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    06/15/09

    @Eric Van Brunson: It's a little messy cutting up a tomato with a hammer, but it gets the job done.
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    Image of Raidah Raidah
    06/15/09

    In reply to First Anti-Stab Knife Prevents Deadly Kitchen "Accidents"
    so... you couldn't slash with this knife?

    or... everything else in your kitchen is totally fatality-proof, so that a random burglar wouldn't be able to carry-in their own weapons or to smash your hear with a frying pan? dumb
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    Image of Rabid Penguin Rabid Penguin
    06/15/09

    @Raidah: All the knife handles have gyroscopes and accelerometers in them. If you make any sort of stabbing, slicing, or hacking motion, the blade instantly disintegrates rendering the knife completely harmless.
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    06/15/09

    In reply to First Anti-Stab Knife Prevents Deadly Kitchen "Accidents"
    [eagleswords.com]"/>


    For when you do accidentally stab someone -- and it will happen, it's inevitable -- you can finish them off quickly.


    "Don't let your friends writhe in pain. Do what's Humane. Gunblade."

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    06/15/09

    In reply to First Anti-Stab Knife Prevents Deadly Kitchen "Accidents"
    I just don't see the big deal. As long as you incinerate the body afterward, stabbing is a victimless crime.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    06/15/09

    In reply to First Anti-Stab Knife Prevents Deadly Kitchen "Accidents"
    For a second there, I thought it said "Anti-skub"
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/15/09

    In reply to First Anti-Stab Knife Prevents Deadly Kitchen "Accidents"
    I can stab someone with a pen, I can stab someone with a pair of scissors. There is nothing preventing a strong enough person from driving a thin shard of metal into the flesh of another person.


    I for one will not be buying any gimped kitchen knives.

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    06/15/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: And this is exactly why I say to people: I'm always carrying a weapon. It doesn't matter if I'm on a plane, at a concert, whatever. Just because you don't perceive it to be a weapon doesn't mean I can't use it as one.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/15/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: do you find it as awkward as i do that when ever i watch dart competitions on tv everyone is always british? you would think they would have outlawed throwing sharp instruments while drinking copius amounts of brew.
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    Image of DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his stapler. DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his stapler.
    06/15/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Oh yeah? well I can ride MY bike with no handlebars.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/15/09

    @DeusExMach: You've been bested by every clown and unicycle-riding bear with a funny hat on earth.
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    Image of stre stre
    06/15/09

    @DeusExMach: not if i end the planet in a holocaust first.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/15/09

    @stre: wait. what?
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    Image of frigg frigg
    06/15/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Knives, shmives.


    I can stab someone just by spelling the word "stab" on freshly fallen snow with the urine of a feral cat.


    As a scout, I learned how to render lard into a shiv.


    In Tortola, a shaman taught me how to stab someone with a single thought, although I've never been able to cause more than a superficial bruise and what victims describe as a "queasy, bloated feeling."

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    06/15/09

    In reply to First Anti-Stab Knife Prevents Deadly Kitchen "Accidents"
    Wouldn't someone who buys a knife to prevent stabbing have a higher statistical likelihood of stabbing someone?
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    06/15/09

    @frigg: You mean when the rage takes over as you're trying to cut straight pieces of cheese off the block the government gave you?
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    06/15/09

    @Carradine Dies of a Stroke Film at 11: Lite: I hadn't even thought of that. But now that you mention it....
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    06/15/09

    In reply to First Anti-Stab Knife Prevents Deadly Kitchen "Accidents"
    My guess is that if you're in a house with someone that you think might kill you, you've got bigger problems than figuring out which knife would be the hardest to do so with.
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    Image of Heliophage Heliophage
    06/15/09

    In reply to First Anti-Stab Knife Prevents Deadly Kitchen "Accidents"
    Really? Couldn't you go all Jack the Ripper on someone's throat with it?


    Yes. That is, until its successor, the anti-cut knife is released.

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    Image of Alphamazing Alphamazing
    06/15/09

    In reply to First Anti-Stab Knife Prevents Deadly Kitchen "Accidents"
    I'm glad America isn't the nanny state the UK is becoming.
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    Image of iatacs19 iatacs19
    06/15/09

    @Alphamazing:


    no one is making you buy this, it's just another choice.

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    06/15/09

    @Alphamazing: God I want to stab you.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/15/09

    @iatacs19: But... but, giving some people more freedom takes away freedom from the rest of us. That's how it works with religion and same sex marriage, anyway.
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    06/15/09

    In reply to First Anti-Stab Knife Prevents Deadly Kitchen "Accidents"
    As someone who enjoys stabbing, I see no reason to "upgrade" to this. I'll stick with my ordinary, stabby kitchen knives.
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    06/15/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: well, while i appreciate their first stab at creating a non-lethal knife. i, too, will not be upgrading.
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    06/15/09

    @Nick: remove the period in the middle of my comment
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    Image of Ozzie's Secret Code Name: MisterWho Ozzie's Secret Code Name: MisterWho
    06/15/09

    @OMG! Ponies!: Perhaps you should look into developing a kitchen knife made only for stabbing. It would be a huge success. You'd make a killing.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/15/09

    @misterwho: That would be an ice pick.
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    06/15/09

    In reply to First Anti-Stab Knife Prevents Deadly Kitchen "Accidents"
    Anti-stab knives don't kill people....
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    06/15/09

    @GitEmHomerJay!: Dangerous minorities kill people. ;P
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    06/15/09

    @AnalysisDialysis (and a MudkipNDS): bahahahaha
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    Image of kagekiri kagekiri
    06/15/09

    In reply to First Anti-Stab Knife Prevents Deadly Kitchen "Accidents"
    I'm pretty sure any cleaver or Chinese butcher knife has the same effect. I mean, what do you need the point for if it's hobbled with the "anti-stab" area of the knife?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    06/15/09

    @kagekiri: While they both achieve the same end result, a Chinese cleaver and a carving knife are different. I can't stab people with my cleaver just like I can't hack a giant gash in someone's collar-bone area with my carving knife.
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    Image of MacBandit MacBandit
    06/15/09

    In reply to First Anti-Stab Knife Prevents Deadly Kitchen "Accidents"
    They call them slasher flicks not stabbing flicks so clearly the creator does not know what's dangerous about a knife.
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    06/15/09

    @MacBandit:

    Usually people killed by knives are stabbed (many times a ridiculous number of times too...)


    Still, I think this is pretty absurd. I remember when doctors in the UK called for a ban on pointy knives and everyone basically told them where they could stick them... now I guess someone decided to capitalize on the idea.


    I guess soon everyone will be required to use plastic safety scissors? Then you won't be able to carry anything over a certain weight in case you were going to throw it at someone... then everyone will have to wear brightly coloured jumpsuits like prisoners to ensure they're not trying to hide from police... Yes, it's completely absurd, but look at the story I'm posting this on. Glad I'm not in Britain.

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    06/15/09

    In reply to First Anti-Stab Knife Prevents Deadly Kitchen "Accidents"
    Yeah, absolutely. Often here in the UK, victims are said to have been "stabbed" to death, but I'm wondering how many of these are actually slashings.


    Yes, it's an anti-stab knife, but it can still kill someone. It's sharp, people. And this is NOT the way to try and cut the number of fatal knife attacks here.


    My prediction: FAIL

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/15/09

    @mac_kix_windoze: It is difficult to believe that this will significantly reduce stabbings. However, if the difference is small but non-zero, like 1%, it's still rational to use this design if there are no extra costs.

    (Of course, the problem is that there are extra costs, since knife manufacturers would need to change their processes to accommodate the new design. As further disclaimer, I do have a tendency to academically oversimplify things like this.)
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