Stabbing in the Dark; Pinakai and Leeches or Himbata

I watch 'Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader' when I do get the chance. I was very amused  like ROFL when one participant said that she likened herself 'stabbing in the dark' with her guess- answer to a question. She didn't have a clue as to the right one. I was imagining a Kadazan scenario (such a scenario exists in my head). Pardon my guilty head. My imagination is probably way way out of base. Gory. Pinakai is a machete if I remember correctly. So imagine someone in somekind of a sarong hiked to the thighs running, brandishing a pinakai wading through mud and crossing dykes on paddy fields  after an undescribed figure or creature. Can't imagine?

I had my time getting really creeped out by leeches in paddy fields. Once I had to go a good length of a dyke on my parents' paddy field just to be rid of a leech latched on to my shin. I was out of my wits. I was so so fearful of the creature. My scream was echoing all around. At the same time I was rubbing my shin mightily against a dyke on the paddy field. Come to think of it, I guess it just got started that was why it didn't budge easily. So, there I was getting frantic in disengaging the sucker. You ask me, I'm still scared of that sucker. Super scared!