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On a job a while back, was given a "safety trincket", a nice thin metal lock blade knife. Very easy to open one handed with a 3" blade, carries very comfortable in my back pocket.

Part of my daily routine is to take a nice long walk in the park. Today on my walk I came to a isolated area with a service road access to rather large lawn area surrounded by trees. Cant see the lawn area from the barracaded service road entrance.

As I get to the lawn area, a guy was playin fetch with his pit bull about 80 yrds from me. Pit bull sees me, drops stick and charges straight to me at a full sprint. I stop, get knife from my back pocket and wait...I'm at defcon 1, not knowing if this dog is gonna maul me or lick me to death.

Everything went ok. Pit bull came to me and retreated when his owner called him. This was a very scary situation that could have went really bad. I sure hope that my county goes shall issue some day. For now, knife is next best option.