# Check out this knife. Watermelon loses.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 18, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956 "2008-07-18T14:55:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Vihaga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vihaga)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2008, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/21 "2008-07-19T15:23:07Z")
Ugh. I’ll just agree with what Preston and Steve said about that on MMR yesterday: “Can we uninvent that, please?”
(They were talking about officials in England being worried that gangs and such were going to start using them.)
The idea of something that can inject you with cold expanding air just squicks me out.
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### Author:  [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2008, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/22 "2008-07-19T15:49:55Z")
I’m gonna get me one, and I’m gonna coat it _with poison_. That way, I can kill people three times as dead with just one stab! Awesome!
They wouldn’t’ve had so much trouble with Rasputin had those things been around back then…
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### Author:  [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/23 "2008-07-19T16:34:13Z")
[QUOTE=Half Man Half Wit]
I’m gonna get me one, and I’m gonna coat it _with poison_. That way, I can kill people three times as dead with just one stab! Awesome!
They wouldn’t’ve had so much trouble with Rasputin had those things been around back then…
[/QUOTE]
And then we need gas canisters filled with hydrogen.
We can stab, poison, expand and ignite the target.
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### Author:  [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/24 "2008-07-19T16:37:15Z")
I wonder if they make one with canisters of angry bees?
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### Author:  [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/25 "2008-07-19T17:33:22Z")
Now they only need to make a sword-sized version.
(Why, katana for preferance, thank you, but I’ll go for the flamberge if you have nothing else)
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### Author:  [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2008, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/26 "2008-07-19T17:42:04Z")
These would make wicked science-fiction / outer space hand to hand combat weapons. You nick the other guy’s suit, he’d perhaps be able to patch it, or perhaps his suit is self sealing, but …
-POW-
…you inflate his suit with a basketball sized bolus of gas, (+/- angry bees) shredding his suit and decompressing him.
And if you’re really in a bind, you could use the gas as an impulse engine to zoom around short distances in space.
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### Author:  [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2008, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/27 "2008-07-19T18:59:17Z")
I’ve submitted my patent for the deer-hunting arrow version, with teriyaki marinade suspended in the C02
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### Author:  [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2008, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/28 "2008-07-19T19:06:53Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove]
I’ve submitted my patent for the deer-hunting arrow version, with teriyaki marinade suspended in the C02
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Teriyaki and bees? Or do you want to consider honey-mustard and bees.
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/29 "2008-07-19T19:39:40Z")
Damn, now I’m hungry.
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### Author:  [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/30 "2008-07-19T19:43:55Z")
From the website:
[quote]
The WASP Injector Knife is ideally used as a:
- Diving Knife
- Hunting Knife
- Tactical Knife
WASP Injection Systems, Inc. does not condone the killing of innocent creatures.
[quote]
That shark was guilty, I tell ya! Guilty as sin!
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### Author:  [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2008, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/31 "2008-07-20T06:59:47Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove]
I’ve submitted my patent for the deer-hunting arrow version, with teriyaki marinade suspended in the C02
[/QUOTE]
[Like this?](http://www.seasonshot.com/Home.cfm)
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### Author:  [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2008, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/32 "2008-07-20T12:59:58Z")
[QUOTE=nd\_n8]
[Like this?](http://www.seasonshot.com/Home.cfm)
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I can’t decide if that’s brilliant or stupid. Hell, I can’t decide if it is real or a whoosh.
I also can’t get the vision out of my mind of being accidently shot, a la Dick Cheney, and lying there thinking “Sage? Why do I smell sage?”.
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### Author:  [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2008, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/33 "2008-07-20T13:18:55Z")
I think the garlic shot should be a staple in each self-respecting vampire hunter’s arsenal.
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### Author:  [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/34 "2008-07-20T13:52:15Z")
I saw the CO2 reference and I thought it turned the blade into a bullet – that it actually fired the blade some distance into a target. Then I watched the video.
I like my idea better.
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### Author:  [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/35 "2008-07-20T14:03:47Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]
I saw the CO2 reference and I thought it turned the blade into a bullet – that it actually fired the blade some distance into a target. Then I watched the video.
I like my idea better.
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Finally, a knife you could bring to a gunfight!
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2008, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/36 "2008-07-25T03:59:35Z")
There’s a news story on this knife [here](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035729/Britain-alert-deadly-new-knife-exploding-tip-freezes-victims-organs.html).
I started [a thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=10037025#post10037025) on it after having failed to see this one.
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### Author:  [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2008, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/37 "2008-07-25T12:39:33Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam]
There’s a news story on this knife [here](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035729/Britain-alert-deadly-new-knife-exploding-tip-freezes-victims-organs.html).
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> [@](#):
>
> Police are concerned that the £200 weapon could fall into the wrong hands.
There are _right_ hands for this knife? 😉
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2008, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/38 "2008-07-30T12:54:35Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]
I saw the CO2 reference and I thought it turned the blade into a bullet – that it actually fired the blade some distance into a target. Then I watched the video.
I like my idea better.
[/QUOTE]
[They exist.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_knife)
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### Author:  [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2008, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/39 "2008-07-30T13:29:07Z")
Hey, I remember Edward Woodward killing Adam Ant with one on those on “The Equalizer!”
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/check-out-this-knife-watermelon-loses/456956/40 "2008-07-30T13:36:29Z")
> [@](#):
>
> Quote:
> Originally Posted by Boyo Jim
> I saw the CO2 reference and I thought it turned the blade into a bullet – that it actually fired the blade some distance into a target. Then I watched the video.
>
> I like my idea better.
>
> They exist.
Watch the movie **the Sword and the Sorceror**. It’s set in one of those Conan-like Hyborian ages, and the hero has a _three-bladed_ sword , two of the blades of which seem to be _jet-propelled_ !!!
(Using Hyborian Age CO[sub]2[/sub] canisters, I guess.)
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084749/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084749/)
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