Jun 15 2009Alleged Anti-Stab Knife Won't Stab To Kill
Allegedly this New Point knife was designed to be unable to stab someone to death. Questionable, I know.
Mr Cornock, 42, from Swindon, said that the knife will cut vegetables, but will make it almost impossible to stab someone to death and will reduce the risk of accidental injuries.
He said: "It can never be a totally safe knife, but the idea is you can't inflict a fatal wound. Nobody could just grab one out of the kitchen drawer and kill someone.
I call shenanigans. There's no such thing as a stab-proof knife. I could hands-down kill somebody (or something -- I'm looking at you, zombie robot) with this thing. Shit, one time I stabbed a guy to death with a brick.
First Anti-Stab Knife Prevents Deadly Kitchen "Accidents" [gizmodo]
Thanks to Pew³, who doesn't need knives because the dude's made of lasers.
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Reader Comments
1. The Chort - June 15, 2009 4:37 PM
First
2. naas - June 15, 2009 4:39 PM
Wouldn't putting a clown nose on the tip of it make it even less fatal? I could still gouge a few eyes out with that thing if you know what I mean @1
3. STOMPY - June 15, 2009 4:40 PM
Et tu brute?
4. catch22 - June 15, 2009 4:43 PM
ill hafta resort to just slashing
or ill just keep a fork in my other hand
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6. Leonidas - June 15, 2009 4:50 PM
No stabby-stabby? Meh, I'll have to stick to cutting throats from now on.
7. Dr.Freak - June 15, 2009 4:53 PM
That's not a knife, it's a spoon...
8. Octopus Pie - June 15, 2009 4:56 PM
I'm guessing that if someone was REALLY intent on stabbing someone that a blunt tip wouldn't really stop them...
"Oh gee... this knife has a blunt tip on it. I guess I'll just have to put off my murder-suicide until I can get a knife that has a sharp point on the edge on it. Aw shucks."
9. 3.14chan - June 15, 2009 5:01 PM
Next news: Murder with a Anti-Stab Knife!
10. eeBs - June 15, 2009 5:15 PM
Give me 3 seconds with that knife and I could kill someone.
Wow that sounds terrible, forget I said that.
11. Pew³ - June 15, 2009 5:17 PM
"Thanks to Pew³, who doesn't need knives because the dude's made of lasers."
You're welcome!
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12. none none - June 15, 2009 5:29 PM
is it slash proof too? This is retarded.
13. ShaggyChunxx - June 15, 2009 5:34 PM
whats to prevent you from sliding the blade across someone's throat? That'd be a fatal wound..
14. Receptical - June 15, 2009 5:34 PM
FAIL!
15. John - June 15, 2009 5:36 PM
This is the dumbest idea ever!
16. Tennist0 - June 15, 2009 5:39 PM
funny, I can still see 500 ways to sever a limb... Or neck
17. J-red - June 15, 2009 5:46 PM
What's the fun in having a knife that cuts down on accidents? Sharpen your skills if you really have problems with accidental injury. Sure, my mom could have used something like that once (key word: once) but it just slashed any doubts I had that the knife could be used as a home defense weapon. With the half-point on the blade, the whole thing seems a little dicey anyway. To think that someone would fail so hard by even trying to make a "safety knife" just cuts me to the bone.
Okay, I'll stop stabbing your intellect with knife puns.
18. ffffff - June 15, 2009 6:01 PM
Im sure if you were mad enough you could stab someone with a spoon. besides, why stab when you can cut an artery?
19. Buch Whacker - June 15, 2009 6:05 PM
It doesn't matter how dull the end of a knife is, if I'm coming at your with a knife shaped object and a pretty fast velocity, you're getting stabbed.
20. Pew³ - June 15, 2009 6:12 PM
DEFINATELY! BY NO MEANS!
Should you bring this knife to a gun fight.
21. 3.14chan - June 15, 2009 6:34 PM
Big Boss stabs with a fork!
22. jake - June 15, 2009 7:10 PM
"the idea is you can't inflict a fatal wound." i could slice your neck with it. or tie you up and cut your wrists. or make lots of cuts all over your body and you would bleed to death in my bed
23. Agent Mark - June 15, 2009 8:19 PM
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24. Pat - June 15, 2009 9:09 PM
@19
You're right. Put enough force behind anything and it will eventually penetrate flesh.
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26. Chef Eric - June 15, 2009 9:22 PM
Been reading this thing for a while, bout time to post something...
I think these came first, just saying!
http://www.macknife.com/original.html
Cheers
27. FDSY - June 15, 2009 9:42 PM
I once stabbed i guy to death with a pillow...................... full of knives.
28. Stan Winstone - June 15, 2009 9:45 PM
Stabbing is just one of dozens of ways you can kill with a knife or any other sharp object. Maybe this guy should just blunt his own head instead.
29. led screen - June 15, 2009 9:57 PM
at 9# funny ...Next news: Murder with a Anti-Stab Knife! haahahah
30. Leonidas - June 15, 2009 10:30 PM
@29: Funny… you getting to share your prefecture with a billion other people! haahahah
31. GLADIATOR - June 16, 2009 12:21 AM
Give it to a inmate and I bet they'll prove this guy wrong ....
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32. Linah - June 16, 2009 2:26 AM
I can totally slit someone's throat with this .. and kill them! .. no anti-stab knife will stop me !
33. mandrew - June 16, 2009 4:29 AM
@23 was it any good?
34. Jaded Icon - June 16, 2009 8:28 AM
I'm sure this will sell like three units. Then people will go back to the old stuff. Besides, in America we have guns! And soon Lasers! And then after that robots with lasers! And two centuries after that robots, riding dinosaurs, shooting lasers.....from their eyes!
35. The Envoy - June 16, 2009 9:37 AM
What's the difference between this and a knife with a broken tip?
36. Quik - June 16, 2009 9:48 AM
Man, tell someone you made something that can't kill other people and the first response seems to be: "I can totally kill someone with it."
@16 - Really! 500 ways. You must be like a trained assassin or some kinda ninja!
1. cut off pinkie 2. cut off ring finger 3. cut off other pinkie
37. sokka - June 16, 2009 10:27 AM
wasnt this invented as the "meat cleaver?
38. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - June 16, 2009 1:02 PM
Um... no. You could still stab someone with this. Although It would be far more effective to chop into their neck, seeing as how it's less dense than say... veggies...
Dumb diddly dumbdumb!
39. Naterator - June 16, 2009 1:41 PM
You can't stab, but you can sure as hell chop!
40. FIRSTTARD - June 16, 2009 2:36 PM
FIRST!
41. Rhialto - June 16, 2009 4:32 PM
This is good thinking.Is it necessary for a kitchen knife to have a sharp point?
42. john cornock - June 16, 2009 5:07 PM
This knife was tested on the same aparatus that's used for police stab vests. The round nose combines with the undercut makes it extremely hard to penetrate, especially through a layer of clothes. It is not impossible to kill someone with this blade - that is a misquote - its just a lot harder. Ask any ER doctor if they would rather treat a slash wound or a deep stab wound and I guarantee they'll so for the slash injury every time. It's intended to help reduce the risk of accidental stab wounds as well. By the way, why are you guys so wound up about it? A lot of carving knives don't have points and what about bread knives? Are you all expert chef's or something?
43. Dominuse - June 17, 2009 12:31 AM
I'd like to test it out on GLADIATOR and all of the other spammers. Death to you all!
44. Ciao - June 17, 2009 1:33 PM
Odd shape, yet beneficial. Won't get stabbed by your klumbsy self nor a psycho who wants your gold.
Well...it's anti stab, but you can still cut things....besides knives are just saws in general.
45. runs_wif_skizzers - July 9, 2009 3:25 AM
can i run with this? i'm looking for something to hold on to when i run down my fire escape in the dark.