Seems to me that the only possible way anybody can ever get stabbed by a scrench carried tip-up in their back pocket ... is if they somehow bend backwards at the waist far enough for the backs of their knees to hit their shoulderblades. (OW!)Ah, for years you've carried a scrench pointed tip pointed upwards at your kidneys or maybe lungs if you get knocked back wrong, but it ain't killed you yet, so it's OK and you won't be a clumsy moron until something big hits you unexpectedly. And nothing has ever hit you unexpectedly.
Only way I see that happening is if you break your back, in which case, maybe getting stabbed with a scrench is a blessing.
You keep bringing up the straw man of "carrying a scrench on a string." Has anyone, ever, anywhere in the Universe, suggested that?
I can think of about 10,000 things to fret about that are 100 if not 1000 times more likely than getting stabbed with a scrench, such as:
1. Being struck by lightning while riding a unicycle, playing an accordion, eating green eggs and ham and winning the Powerball lottery
2. Getting eaten by a Bengal tiger escaped from the Philadelphia Zoo
3. Catching rabies from a violent prison gang of myotis bats
4. Flying crocodiles hijacking your airliner en route to DisneyWorld
5. Parasites. Literally. Everywhere.
6. Baboon sniper attack...