Massachusetts man wears “knife necklace”, trips, stabs himself…dies. Why do these things even exist?

Not The Bee ^ | Dec 10, 2023 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Saugus, Massachusetts, Patrick Kenney Jr. was leaving Saugus' Kowloon Restaurant when according to authorities, Kenney fell and stabbed himself with his necklace knife.

I'll repeat that just so we're clear.

A necklace knife.

That's a necklace with a knife hanging on it.

Common sense and a minutiae of self-preservation makes it hard for me to believe such an accoutrement even exists in the world, but I checked. Amazon has dozens of these little death baubles for sale.

Whoever invented these should get a visit from Will Smith.

And the reason why they're a bad idea should now be obvious; you could stab yourself like Patrick Kenney Jr..

And even worse, Kenney passed away from his injuries, leaving behind a wife and two young children.

His bereaved family issued the following statement:

"Our family is mourning the loss of Patrick, focused on his wife Lauren and two young children, and trying to make sense of this horrific tragedy. Patrick was a loving father and husband, brother, son, and loyal friend to many. This is a horrible tragedy."

It is indeed a horrible tragedy.

A tragedy that could have easily been avoided by not wearing a knife on a necklace.

[ansel12]

It looks like not many here have lived the hard life, I guess they would really be shocked to learn there are guys out there who sometimes carry sawed-off double-barrel shotguns around their neck.

[COBOL2Java]

Well, at least he wasn’t carrying a gun!..............

ROFL

[Yo-Yo]

A knife necklace, not a neck knife?

[MayflowerMadam]

Thanks for the memory. Back in the good ol’ days when SNL was funny.

[Responsibility2nd]

Let me guess. This doofus also used to run with scissors as a child.

Despite what his mother said.

[Responsibility2nd]

“It is indeed a horrible tragedy.”

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I disagree.

[Red Badger]

This is what we used to call a ‘teachable moment’...............

[Rennes Templar]

He wasn’t, but it sounds like he had the sharpest knife in the drawer.

[grimalkin]

Touché

[Responsibility2nd]

I feel like there’s probably a huge intersection between man buns and knife necklaces.

I don't know. Man bun boys usually strike me as too metrosexual as to carry/wear a weapon.

Men with small units who compensate by driving a huge 4X4 strike me as those who might wear a knife necklace.

[Responsibility2nd]

Dude shoulda stuck to wearing that tie clip. Instead of a knife. He’d still be alive today.

[Ezekiel]

Who takes a slice out of life literally?

[Responsibility2nd]

I have a rule: dog tags only.

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I’ll admit it. I used to wear puka shells. Remember those? But that was 50 years ago.

lol

[dfwgator]

Don't wear one of these.

[ChildOfThe60s]

I had to wear a medical alert necklace for a while years ago when I was on anticoagulants. I hated the damn thing.

I don’t like wearing jewelry of any kind. I’ve never worn a wedding ring my wife took my ring and traded it for a ring that she wanted lol. I haven’t worn a watch in 30 years. Even before the Advent of cell phones.

[MeanWestTexan]

Took me a long time to stop wearing mine (under clothes).

Became a bit of a superstition or something.

I still put them on when feeling out of place.

[Rennes Templar]

I don’t know, but I think the knife must have has a sir-rated edge.

[MeanWestTexan]

I disagree mainly because he managed to breed.

[Billthedrill]

Not a neck knife, but a piece of sharp unsheathed jewelry. Neck knives have been around for decades - I know a climber who carries one in case he gets bound up and can't get to his belt knife. They have sheathes. His has a thumb retention button.

This thing in the story, though, is really dumb. Harmless enough except if you get killed...

[higgmeister]

I am a USAF Viet Nam Era Vet on active duty in the last two months before the Era close out.   Saigon fell when I was in Basic Training.   I was not issued dog tags but I still had to wear the chain with locker keys on it.