I ordered a Kershaw knife from Amazon. The packaging has me wondering. It came in one of those bubble padded envelopes. Normal enough and easy to take care of. it was what I found inside that got me shaking my head.
Someone had taken the knife, in it's little Kershaw box, and wrapped that with packing tape. Then they put it inside a plastic bag and wrapped that with packing tape. Thus, ensuring that the only way to get to my knife is..... you guessed it, if I had a knife.
I mean, yeah, I had my choice of about a dozen knives within arms reach, but still.

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The best I can with what I got

They wouldn't want someone having easy access to such a dangerous weapon. Look at the UK.

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No baby we aint

it is my belief that someone, somewhere, un-named and location kept a military secret has invented a clear see thru Kydex plastic wrap for tools.....bought a punch set from Lowe's that was encased in such a material...needed a chain saw to cut thru to get the punch set out.....

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Hipcocked & Locked

Which is why I ALWAYS have a knife clipped to the right front pocket of my pants.

Tin snips arent just for sheet metal lol

Still undefeated after 54 years.

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Music/Sports/Beer fan

bought a special electric snipper to open those tough plastic enclosures for the mother in law... it was of course enclosed in plastic... ugh

Yep. That's the only way I've found to open my hearing aid battery packages.

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What, me worry?

Printed on the package:-

"Instructions to open inside"

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Release the Kraken

Sometimes ya just gotta get mean. Real mean!

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Waiting For The Sun.

Yep, sometimes a man has to spit in hands and raise the black flag. AaarrGG!

De Oppresso Liber

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Music/Sports/Beer fan

Or, "Open at other end" Printed on both ends.

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"I drank WHAT?" (Socrates)

What, no instructions written in Chinese?

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Why duck?? It's a 9mm!

I like keeping original boxes. Wrapping it with tape probably damaged it.

That is why I buy directly from the website or another retailer. I really don’t need to buy gas for bezos yacht.

I have a Stanley box cutter that I keep next to my recliner.

For protection? I have a violent rocking chair, myself.

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The best I can with what I got

I cannot say I have a shortage of knives....but there's always another on the horizon.

I started using one of those folding box knives for opening those dadblasted plastic encasement devices.

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Even older, even crankier....

Biggest lie in the world: "Tear here".

I HATE packaging.

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2 Blessed 2B Stressed

It's for your protection, you should feel safe now.

Whenever I get something that has instructions consisting of only illustrations without any text I say, "Oh look, they're written in Swedish."