Scouts Still Not Very PC: The Hobo Knife
By Rocky Thompson on June 12th, 2007
Sending troubled kids off to Scouts seems like a good idea until their Troop Masters begin outfitting them with knives and high-powered rifles. The W.R. Case Boy Scouts of America Hobo Knife is a good alternative to a real knife for kids who still haven’t earned their “Don’t use your Scout knife to mug tourists†merit badge since it has a spoon and fork. You can put a wine cork over the knife point until they prove to you that they won’t stab anyone.
This thing should come with a cigaret lighter and a compass that doesn’t actually point north. This would make it that much easer for the little heathens to burn down the forest and wonder off the trail and get lost.
Somehow, the BSA’s disrespect to hobos doesn’t bother me as much as its institutionalized discrimination.
Dylan Carlson - Eagle Scout.
Definition of Bummer: Having a weeklong backpacking trip in the High Uintas interrupted by a search and rescue mission for a lost Boy Scout. Seeing helicopters constantly overhead, having my favorite drainages crawling with cops and rangers, and four wheelers and horses everywhere I turn just sucks. All because some kid “just wandered off” and ended up walking in circles for two days just a 1/4 mile from camp.
Awww…your private wilderness got violated because someone else, a child no less had the nerve to be in it at the same time? I hope you never get lost because of the inconvenience it might cause others. In fact think how much better the planet would be if you weren’t even born.
As to the reference to Hobo’s:
Get real. None of you even know what a hobo is.
It’s a lifestyle choice. Nowadays we call them “homeless” but that’s just a PC term so we can feel sorry for others and feel better about ourselves.
A hobo is a king of the road. He has his own way of living, traveling and communication.
You guys probably never drank water from a garden hose, rode a bike without shoes and helmet or rode in the back of a truck sitting on the tailgate.
WTFoxtrot,
I wasn’t ranting and raving, saying that we need to eliminate all boy scouts from the backcountry before they do something stupid. I was just injecting a personal experience into a discussion on the boy scouts. Am I glad they found the kid? Sure I am. But maybe if this didn’t happen so often, the BSA wouldn’t be considered such a joke.
Thanks for the nice comment about how much better the planet would be if I hadn’t been born; I appreciate your concern for the Earth’s well-being.
Stumpy,
No, you weren’t ranting and raving.
What you did was to whine about what a bummer it is for you to have to experience real life. How others intrude on you, the center of the universe.
Were the kids playing their stereo in the BC?
Did they leave graffiti? Litter?
I’d like to see the look on the face of a SAR’er when you complain about horses, four wheelers, choppers, cops and rangers looking for a lost hiker. You’d look like a complete a-hole.
What if that child would have been seriously injured? Or worse? What if it wasn’t a child, but your dog?
Try to forgive us, the little people for not being more like you: born with all the outdoor knowledge you have.
You know, millions of kids go through scouting and enjoy time in the outdoorslearning about the BC with no incident. I’ll apologize to you now for all of them for not knowing that Stumpy was going to be in the woods that day.
You’re a joke.
Stumpy,
No, you weren’t ranting and raving.
What you did was to whine about what a bummer it is for you to have to experience real life. How others intrude on you, the center of the universe.
Were the kids playing their stereo in the BC?
Did they leave graffiti? Litter?
I’d like to see the look on the face of a SAR’er when you complain about horses, four wheelers, choppers, cops and rangers looking for a lost hiker. You’d look like a complete a-hole.
What if that child would have been seriously injured? Or worse? What if it wasn’t a child, but your dog?
Try to forgive us, the little people for not being more like you: born with all the outdoor knowledge you have.
You know, millions of kids go through scouting and enjoy time in the outdoors learning about the BC with no incident. I’ll apologize to you now for all of them for not knowing that Stumpy was going to be in the woods that day.
You’re a joke.
More good old boyscouts. The really do not mean to cause harm.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20010728/ai_n13920329
Some old saying about a few bad apples ruining the pie. This can be said for any organization. Its just that the boyscouts make themselves such easy targets.
Yep, kids do dumb things.
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070420/NEWS08/704200331
Yep good kid.
Wow,
You assume to know a lot about me. You are completely wrong, and have taken one statement and turned it into an agenda that accuses me of many things that are completely false. You judge me very harshly, yet you have very little basis for your judgment. I apologize if I touched a nerve… but you sir, are out of line.
Your self-centered attitude comes through loud and clear from the “one statement” you made.
Maybe no one has ever called you on it.
There’s a first time for everything.
you two should just kiss and make up. Just dont try and get into the boy scouts after you do it.