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GeneChing

01-26-2009, 11:04 AM

Can't trust them Chinese sushiya... watch the vid.

Jan 23, 2009 9:18 pm US/Eastern
SUSHI RAGE: Chef Accused Of Going Knife Wild (http://wcbstv.com/topstories/sushi.road.rage.2.916482.html)
Traffic Dispute Gets Out Of Hand As Victim Gets 100 Stitches To Head, Tells CBS 2 HD: 'I Thought I Was Dying'
By JOSH LANDIS, CBS 2 HD News

NEW YORK (CBS) ―
Jack Zaiback is dealing with 100 stiches to his face and head after angry sushi chef allegedly attacked him during a road rage incident on Staten Island on Jan. 23, 2009.

A wild road rage incident on Staten Island could've been a scene right out of a movie.

An angry sushi chef is accused of slicing up another driver during a dispute on the side of the road. But as CBS 2 HD found out, both drivers are facing charges.

"I thought I was dying," Jack Zaiback said. "I actually said a couple of prayers in the EMS."

One minute Zaiback was driving to work; the next, he said, he was fighting off a knife-wielding sushi chef.

"What he did to Mr. Zaiback was he treated him like a slab of tuna. I'll put it that way," attorney Alex Grosshtern said.

Zaiback, 23, was commuting from Brooklyn to a cell phone store he owns in New Jersey when he crossed paths with 37-year-old Yao Zhou and an incident of road rage went off the deep end.

The two men were driving south here on the Western Shore Expressway. Zaiback said he pulled over after accidentally cutting off Zhou. That's when he said Zhou started cutting him.

Zaiback said Zhou first approached the car, but when Zaiback tried exchanging license and insurance information, the attack began.

"He kept trying to reach for my neck and he actually got me right here," Zaiback said pointing. "He did it like seven, eight times."

Zaiback received 100 stitches.

Police have filed assault charges against Zhou and Zaiback, but Zaiback's lawyer said his client's wounds should convince the court his client is a victim.

"This could have easily been a homicide and in my opinion should be charged as attempted murder," Grosshtern said.

Zhou's lawyer declined to speak on camera but told CBS 2 HD there are two sides to every story and, "the truth will come out in time."

Zaiback said he sees meaning in his brush with death.

"I guess God did make a miracle," he said. "Maybe he's trying to make me wake up to something that I'm not doing the right way."

But, he said he has no idea what struck a sushi chef's raw nerve that day.

Zaiback said if it weren't for a passing highway NYPD unit that intervened he could have been killed.

Both men are due in court next month.

Jack Straw

02-16-2009, 05:26 AM

It's people like this that make it hard to train in public. Granted I don't run around swinging my sword like a lunatic, but I have had the police called on me for practicing open handed forms in a dark deserted corner of a hotel parking lot. It was frustrating. There were no cars or people or anything, but someone saw me out of their hotel room window and called the fuzz.

TaichiMantis

02-18-2009, 12:17 PM

Our class got "busted" one summer because a lady called the police to report some "ninja type people dressed in black with swords" on the tennis courts.:eek:

The cop took a look at our swords, understood what we were doing but warned us we could not practice with them in the park because it "might scare someone". He said we could practice with our long poles...:rolleyes:

Taryn P.

02-19-2009, 03:12 AM

One of my classmates was practicing with his Bagua instructor in a park, and someone called the cops to report that a man was mugging a nice little old Chinese lady. One the police got there and found that the "nice little old Chinese lady" was in fact mugging the young man, everything was fine. :)

sanjuro_ronin

02-19-2009, 07:09 AM

The cop took a look at our swords, understood what we were doing but warned us we could not practice with them in the park because it "might scare someone". He said we could practice with our long poles...:rolleyes:

That sounds like the making of an excellent porn movie !

TaichiMantis

02-19-2009, 07:18 AM

That sounds like the making of an excellent porn movie !

...the way men's minds work...or not :rolleyes::p

Taryn P.

02-19-2009, 09:10 AM

...the way men's minds work...or not :rolleyes::p

LOL.... you have a bit of a one-track mind, don't you, Sanjuro? :rolleyes:

sanjuro_ronin

02-19-2009, 10:45 AM

LOL.... you have a bit of a one-track mind, don't you, Sanjuro? :rolleyes:

Yeah, I really need to get one of those yin-yang balancing things, too much yang here.
:D

GeneChing

04-09-2009, 01:47 PM

There's probably more to this story.

Woman dies after intervening in sword fight (http://www.indystar.com/article/20090409/NEWS02/904090456/0/SPORTS19)
By Kevin O'Neal
Posted: April 9, 2009

A Northwestside fight involving a sword early this morning left three people stabbed, one of them dead and one under arrest for attempted murder.

Christopher O. Rondeau, 39, is being held on preliminary murder charges at the medical holding facility at Wishard Memorial Hospital. He was arrested by the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department after a fight at 5259 N. Raceway Rd. Rondeau was in stable condition.

The fight was reported about 1 a.m. today. Rondeau and Adolf Stegbauer, 69, both of Indianapolis, were “actively involved in a sword fight,” IMPD spokesman Sgt. Matt Mount said in a statement. One man used what police described as a World War II Japanese officer’s sword and another had a thin blade sword, although investigators were not immediately certain which weapon was used by which man.

Preliminary reports from police said that Franziska Stegbauer, 77, Indianapolis, tried to break up the fight and was fatally stabbed. Police found all three victims inside the residence on Raceway Road when they arrived early this morning.

An autopsy performed today has determined that a stab wound from a sword was the cause of death.

Adolf Stegbauer was taken to surgery at Wishard, and was reported in serious condition this afternoon.

Police said Rondeau was Franziska Stegbauer’s grandson.

Police do not know how the fight started or who stabbed Stegbauer, Mount said.

Charges Filed in Swordfight Incident (http://www.wibc.com/news/Story.aspx?ID=1080767)
By Amber Stearns
4/9/2009

Indianapolis Metro Police say a 77-year-old woman who tried to break up a sword fight between her grandson and brother-in-law died of the stab wounds she sustained.

Franziska Stegbauer was attempting to break up the fight between 69-year-old Adolf Stegbauer and 39-year-old Chris Rondeau in the 5200 block of North Raceway early Thursday morning.

IMPD Sgt. Matt Mount says officials will wait for further tests to determine who delivered the fatal blow to the woman before making any arrests on murder charges.

Rondeau has been arrested for attempted murder for the wounds he inflicted upon Adolf Stegbauer. Adolf remains in critical condition.

Rondeau is being treated at Wishard Hospital in police custody.

yenhoi

04-09-2009, 05:48 PM

German Fraternity's and some American house's have real sword fights regularly. Im sure there was a few threads about 'it' on this forum a few years ago.

:eek:

Old Noob

04-10-2009, 06:22 AM

There's probably more to this story.

There can be only one.........

GeneChing

04-22-2009, 10:47 AM

bad ninja...:rolleyes:

Sword-waving ninja accused of attempted robbery (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h6ziXi5FAkyFzksw3eRJYpybTbNAD97N4KN01)
19 hours ago

WEYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Police say a man dressed liked a ninja used a sword in an attempt to rob a Weymouth dry cleaner. According to police, a convenience store clerk called police Monday after she noticed a man walking into the store wearing a ski mask and carrying a sword in a sheath on his belt. When the man noticed her, he pulled his mask off and asked if she was calling about him, police said.

When she said she was, police said the man left the store and walked into nearby Galaxy Cleaners.

There, police said he pointed a sword at the register and asked a clerk to give him all the money inside. Police said he left after she told him she couldn't open the drawer.

Police still are searching for the man, who witnesses said appeared to be in his late 20s.

TaichiMantis

04-22-2009, 10:59 AM

bad ninja...:rolleyes:

More like "pathetic ninja".:rolleyes:

GeneChing

05-05-2009, 02:55 PM

Too much hobbit leaf for these wannabes.

Drunken 'sword fight' leaves one seriously injured in St. Lucie (http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/may/05/sword-fight-leaves-one-seriously-injured-st-lucie/)
By Will Greenlee (Contact)
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
'Sword fight' leaves one seriously injured in Port St. Lucie

Pictured is the sword used during an altercation Monday. The fight left one person seriously injured, while two others were treated at the scene and declined to be taken to the hospital.

ST. LUCIE COUNTY — Two roommates were jailed following a Monday confrontation that involved an 18-inch sword and that sent a third person to a local hospital in serious condition, according to arrest reports released Tuesday and officials.

William L. Luciano, 60, and his 48-year-old roommate, Patricia D. Best, were arrested following the attack that happened about 8 p.m. on Hidalgo Lane in the Spanish Lakes community east of U.S. 1 and south of Prima Vista Boulevard.

A witness told St. Lucie County Sheriff’s investigators she saw Luciano “walking around outside swinging a sword and yelling at everyone,” an arrest report states.

The victim’s mother reported seeing Luciano chasing her son out of a home. Luciano cut her son on the arm, and her son broke a dresser and used a piece of the dresser to defend himself.

At least one other witness said Luciano hit the victim with a knife, which a sheriff’s official said was an 18-inch sword with a 13-inch blade, and that the victim defended himself with a broken dresser piece.

Luciano, who was sprayed with pepper spray when he didn’t follow a deputy’s orders, said the victim was trying to hit Best and that he was defending her, reports stated.

“Mr. Luciano told me he was the equalizer to (the victim) because (the victim) was six-foot-four,” a report states.

Investigators said Best admitted hiding a sheath, and they found about a half ounce of marijuana in her room. Best denied knowing about the pot, but Luciano said it was hers, reports stated.

All participants were drunk, according to authorities.

Luciano faces charges including aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and resisting arrest without violence, while Best was arrested on charges including tampering with evidence, accessory after the fact, possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

The victim was taken to a local hospital in serious condition, a St. Lucie County Fire District spokeswoman said.
God I love this thread.

Raipizo

05-12-2009, 02:21 PM

This is great, really resourceful of the victim maybe he's the next Jackie Chan, Lol

Lucas

05-15-2009, 01:26 PM

that last guy sounds like a wannabe legionnaire lol

was that a gladius he was using?

TaichiMantis

06-08-2009, 04:54 AM

http://www.kauaiworld.com/articles/2009/06/06/news/kauai_news/doc4a2a38e90d1fe841694890.txt

LIHU‘E — Michael Cole, 29, of Kapa‘a, had a very bad day Friday.

First, yoga students, unafraid of the machete he was carrying, tackled him in a Kalaheo yoga studio, thwarting his alleged attempt to snatch a purse.

Then, after fleeing from the scene and police, hitting several vehicles and street signs, he ended up being the star of street theater for patrons at Olympic Cafe in Kapa‘a enjoying a late, birthday-celebration breakfast.

Eyewitnesses said they saw seven Kaua‘i Police Department vehicles finally corner Cole, with many of the officers with shotguns drawn and aimed, while the arresting officers accidentally pulled down Cole’s pants as they cuffed him.

Cole was arrested on first-degree robbery charges Friday morning following a police pursuit that started in Kalaheo and ended in Kapa‘a, according to a county news release.

He was being held in the KPD cellblock.

According to police, Cole entered a Kalaheo yoga studio with a machete in his hand at around 9:20 a.m. He was wearing sunglasses and his face was covered with rags.

Cole grabbed a purse in the studio and attempted to leave, but several people in a yoga class tackled him and retrieved the purse.

Leaving the purse behind, Cole exited the building, got into his vehicle and proceeded eastbound on Kaumuali‘i Highway.

Police gave chase and, along the way, Cole collided with street signs and several vehicles.

Cole finally came to a stop in Kapa‘a.

Police are continuing their investigation.

TaichiMantis

06-08-2009, 04:58 AM

Lakeview man accused of attacking cat with sword charged
by The Grand Rapids Press
Thursday June 04, 2009, 5:57 PM

Chad GregoryMONTCALM COUNTY -- A Lakeview man who prosecutors say tried to behead a cat with a sword is now facing an animal abuse charge.

Chad Gregory, 31, of Lakeview, allegedly tried to kill the cat May 30 at his home.

"Someone from where he lives called it in and said the guy was going after the cat," Montcalm County Prosecutor Andrea Krause said.

Gregory allegedly chased the cat around the house with the weapon, but was unsuccessful in killing it, Krause said.

The cat was cut on an ear, but otherwise is "going to be fine," Krause said.

A judge set a $2,000 bond for Gregory, who is charged with attempted killing or torturing an animal, a two-year offense.

His lawyer on Monday sought judicial permission for a psychiatric exam for Gregory to see if he is competent to stand trial. The exam may take several weeks to complete.

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/06/lakeview_man_accused_of_attack.html

kwaichang

06-09-2009, 05:12 PM

Who cares its just a Da** Cat KC

TaichiMantis

06-10-2009, 04:53 AM

Who cares its just a Da** Cat KC

....ahhh, a budding samarai...uh...shaolin serial killer? :rolleyes:

You know they all start with cats :eek:

GeneChing

07-28-2009, 10:12 AM

The mayor even!

Jousting match turns painful for Vt. mayor (http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gnQ4PIfIP6q-_FKcbB_u4oeVMprwD99N2BKO1)
(AP) – 19 hours ago

BARRE, Vt. — A Vermont mayor who agreed in fun to a jousting match with padded sticks and helmets ended up in the emergency room after he broke some ribs.

Sunday's joust at a festival in Barre was a modern-day re-enactment of a fabled fist fight over the city's naming. Mayor Thomas Lauzon and Jeff Blow, chairman of the town's selectboard, teetered on padded pedestals in the middle of a ring as they wielded their jousting sticks.

The Barre-Montpelier Times Argus reports Blow toppled Lauzon in less than 15 seconds and the mayor returned the favor with a below-the-belt thrust.

In a deciding third match, Lauzon broke his ribs when he lunged toward Blow and slammed into his pedestal. The mayor's wife, Karen Lauzon, said Monday he's OK.

Information from: The Times Argus, http://www.timesargus.com/

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

GeneChing

07-28-2009, 10:15 AM

I'm very serious about that.

Samurai sword used in woman's fatal stabbing (http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20090727/NEWS01/907270322/Samurai-sword-used-in-woman-s-fatal-stabbing)
By NICHOLAS PERSAC • The News Journal • July 27, 2009

A 21-year-old woman died early Sunday when her boyfriend stabbed her with a four-foot-long samurai sword at their apartment after the pair got into an argument, police said.

Officers found Angel Zurlo dead from a stab wound in the upper torso. Her body was in a rear bedroom of the couple's home in the Glen Eagle Village Apartments near Newark shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday, said New Castle County police spokesman Cpl. Trinidad Navarro. Police arrested Michael Kolesar, 21, and a friend of the couple, who was released without being charged, Navarro said. Kolesar is charged with manslaughter and possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony.

According to court documents, the pair had been in an argument at Mango's, a nearby bar. It continued when they got to their home on the first block of Sandalwood Drive.

Police arrived after receiving a call about a stabbing and court documents show Kolesar told police, "She's in there, she's in there, she's dying, please come help her." Officers said they found Zurlo stabbed with the sword.

As Kolesar was being arrested, he said, "I didn't mean to do it. I killed her, she means everything to me," according to documents.

Kolesar and Zurlo showed signs of physical abuse, and he had a scratch on the left side of his neck, documents show.

A witness told police Zurlo carried the sword into the room. When Kolesar tried to disarm her, the argument continued and then he stabbed her.

Kolesar told police he was intoxicated and remembers choking but not stabbing Zurlo. He said he couldn't "remember exactly what happened," that he was "in a rage, and probably at fault," court documents show.

Navarro said Kolesar was charged with manslaughter because the case seemed to involve self-defense.

Apartment complex residents said they weren't worried because the incident was not a random crime.

GeneChing

07-28-2009, 10:18 AM

Solomon Kane is a classic Robert E. Howard hero, same author as Conan.

28 July 2009 08:11
JAMES PUREFOY - PUREFOY STABBED ON MOVIE SET (http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/purefoy-stabbed-on-movie-set_1111044)

British actor JAMES PUREFOY has opened up about a movie set accident which nearly cost him his life - he was stabbed in the head during a fight scene.
The 45 year old was filming action epic Solomon Kane in Prague, Czech Republic, last year (08) when a fight scene went badly wrong.
The Rome star was hit in the head by a stuntman wielding a sword and was rushed to hospital for emergency treatment.
Purefoy explains, "This seven foot Czech stuntman came at me with his sword but I ducked too late and he caught me."
Director Michael J. Bassett admits the incident left him fearing the worst for his star.
He adds, "James went down like a sack of spuds (potatoes). There was blood all over his face, and I thought, 'Is he OK?'"
Bassett was relieved when the actor was discharged by medics, having just suffered a minor injury - but the accidents onset continued with Purefoy on the end of the second stunt which went awry.
He explains, "(Purefoy) got his own back on his return, accidentally stabbing an extra just below the eye."

GeneChing

07-28-2009, 10:25 AM

...this is really harsh and swords were involved.

POSTED:
SAPD: Mom Killed Baby With Knife, Sword
Otty Sanchez Charged With Capital Murder (http://www.ksat.com/news/20183983/detail.html)Sunday, July 26, 2009
UPDATED: 9:29 am CDT July 28, 2009
Scott Wesley Buchholtz Sanchez
SAN ANTONIO -- Stuffed animals, flowers, and handwritten signs adorned the lawn in front of the home where police said a mother killed her child early Sunday morning.

The parents of a 3½-week-old boy, Scott Wesley Buchholtz Sanchez, were talking about restarting their relationship hours before the child's death, said the baby's paternal grandmother.

The child's mother, 33-year-old Otty Sanchez, decapitated and stabbed her son with a knife and two swords, ate parts of his body and attempted to kill herself, said San Antonio Police Chief Bill McManus.

Sanchez stabbed herself in the torso and sliced her own throat, McManus said. Sanchez was recovering at University Hospital, where she was charged by proxy with capital murder. Bail was set at $1 million.

McManus said that the attack happened one week after the baby's father moved out of the home at 351 Wayside Drive. McManus wouldn't say if the breakup was a motive for the slaying.

The child's paternal grandmother, Kathleen Buchholtz, said Otty Sanchez showed no signs of any emotional problems when she saw her and the baby on Saturday evening. The child's parents had spoken of restarting their relationship, Buchholtz said.

"I'm heartbroken about it, " she said. "That's all I can say. Heartbroken. I just don't understand it."

The child's aunt and two cousins, ages 5 and 7, were in the house at the time of the killing, but none of them were harmed, police said.

McManus said that Sanchez told officers that "she was hearing voices" and that the devil made her kill her child. Police said Sanchez was found sitting on a couch screaming, "I killed my baby! I want to die!"

The police chief said that the crime scene was so horrific that officers at the scene were disturbed and severely affected by the slaying and may need counseling.

"There are a few officers who have had issues since that scene," McManus said. "There were some unspeakable atrocities associated with this crime. You just don't sit it in this business that often."

Luis Yanez, a neighbor, said that everyone on the street was appalled by the news.

"Give (the child) to me, I'll take care of it," Yanez said. "Give it to anybody else. Drop it anywhere else, but don't kill a baby."

Eliane Colchin, a neighbor who gave Sanchez a crib for her baby a few months ago, was devastated by the news.

"When I heard that, I couldn't stand it. I just cried, you know," Colchin said.

Copyright 2009 by KSAT.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

TaichiMantis

07-28-2009, 11:21 AM

...way to keep it going

...and yes, swords and mental illness are never a good match:(

GeneChing

08-21-2009, 12:16 PM

It's such a harsh story given the kid has cerebral palsy. I only mention it here because their making a big deal about the sword.

Missing boy's foster dad's angry text message (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/20/MN9419BA1A.DTL)
Henry K. Lee,Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writers
Friday, August 21, 2009
(08-20) 12:48 PDT FREMONT --

The foster father of a missing 5-year-old boy with cerebral palsy sent an angry text message threatening to leave the child alone at a BART platform just 10 days before Hasanni Campbell vanished, according to court documents released Thursday.

In addition, Louis Ross "voiced some misgivings" about caring for a disabled child when he talked to officers investigating the child's Aug. 10 disappearance, according to a statement that Oakland police submitted to justify obtaining a search warrant of Ross' Fremont home.

According to the police account, Ross sent an expletive-laden text message July 31 to Jennifer Campbell, his fiancee and the aunt and foster mother of Hasanni.

"This is f- over, I will watch her but he will be out on the BART and its your responsibility to hey (sic) him so f- you," Ross texted at 9:50 a.m., police said. The references appear to be to Hasanni and his 1-year-old sister.
No trace of boy

Ross reported Aug. 10 that the boy had vanished from outside a shoe store on College Avenue in Oakland's Rockridge neighborhood where Campbell was working. Ross said he had briefly left the boy when he went around to the front of the store.

Police have searched the neighborhood, Ross' home, a Hayward auto wrecking yard that he visited earlier in the day and local parks, but have not found the boy.

A neighbor in Fremont told police that Hasanni had not been seen for about two weeks before Ross reported him missing.

Oakland police Officer Ross Tisdell wrote in the court papers that the relationship between Ross, 38, and Campbell, 33, "appeared to have some instances of domestic violence."

Police said they had heard reports of a "sword being brandished by Ross at Campbell," but did not elaborate.

A "sword or cutting instrument" were among the items that police sought in a search of his 2002 BMW and the home on Roxie Terrace in Fremont where Ross lives with Campbell and the two children.

Nothing was seized from the home, but Ross voluntarily gave his cell phone to police, court records show.
'Misgivings' about care

In talking to police, Ross "voiced some misgivings about caring for a developmentally disabled child," Tisdell wrote.

Ross says Hasanni wears arch-support braces because of his cerebral palsy, but that he can walk on his own.

Ross, reached by phone Thursday, downplayed any domestic disputes with Campbell. He said he had sent the text message in frustration at a time when he planned to break up with her.

"It was me venting about a situation in our past that had come back up," he said. "I was ending the relationship at that point."

Ross said he never left Hasanni alone at the BART station. He said he had wanted Campbell to pick up the children, but that she had been unable to do so. The dispute quickly cooled, Ross said.
Sword under mattress

As for the sword, Ross said he had told police about it and that officers had later returned and picked it up. He said he kept it under a mattress.

"It wasn't a big deal," he said.

Campbell, who is six months pregnant, has declined interview requests.

Ross has said he is cooperating with officials "100 percent" and that he told the truth when he took a polygraph examination last week.

John Burris, an attorney who has consulted with the couple, emphasized Thursday that Ross has always cooperated with the investigation.

"He's very responsive," Burris said.

The case has been puzzling to authorities, in part because bloodhounds could not detect Hasanni's scent outside the Rockridge shoe store where Ross says he left the boy.

In the search warrant affidavit, police said it was a mystery that Hasanni could disappear from "a crowded business district with no witnesses."

There is a $10,000 reward for information leading to the boy's whereabouts. Officer Jeff Thomason, an Oakland police spokesman, said the department still considers the case a missing person investigation. However, a homicide investigator has been put in charge of the probe.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/20/MN9419BA1A.DTL#ixzz0OqZn99JD

GeneChing

08-25-2009, 10:49 AM

I hope these weren't our swords (http://www.martialartsmart.com/weapons-shaolin-forge-weapons.html). Y'all know that our swords can only be used for good, right?

Hero teacher 'didn't have time to think' (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/25/BASE19DFN6.DTL)
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
(08-25) 10:21 PDT SAN MATEO --

In the moments after a young man detonated two pipe bombs at Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, English language development teacher Kennet Santana didn't have time to think about what he should do.

Instinctively, as students crouched for cover in their classrooms, Santana, 34, moved toward the explosions. He was confronted with the sight of the youth, wearing a tactical vest with what turned out to be eight other pipe bombs.

The teacher didn't know the devices were bombs. He also didn't know that the suspect, identified as a 17-year-old former student at Hillsdale, was armed with a chainsaw and a sword with a 2-foot blade.

All Santana knew was that this boy was a threat - and that he had to stop him. Without hesitation, Santana tackled the boy shortly after 8 a.m. Monday and yelled at other teachers to call for help. Principal Jeff Gilbert, counselor Ed Canda and Santana held the teenager down until police arrived.

Now, the campus community and authorities are crediting Santana with helping to avert what could have been a disaster: A law-enforcement source said the boy, whose name has not been released because of his age, nursed a grudge against some teachers and had planned to detonate all 10 pipe bombs before attacking students with the chain saw and the sword as they fled.

Santana had just arrived at school and was heading to the office when the attack began.

"It just happened so fast. He didn't even think about it," said his wife, Angelique Vega-Santana, 35.

"Of course I'm proud. The first thing, though, that went through my head was fear, terror of what could have gone wrong," she said. "When I read what the kid actually had and what he was planning to do, the whole thing kind of overwhelmed me, and it's still fresh."

Hillsdale remains closed today while officials clean up from Monday's incident, but Santana was back at work and meeting with other staffers.

Vega-Santana said her husband, who has taught at Hillsdale High since 2007, "is the most loyal person I know, and integrity is like his middle name." The couple have a 23-month-old daughter and live in San Francisco.

Classes at Hillsdale will not resume until Wednesday. "The district will need time to examine and repair the site in order to ensure student safety," officials said on the Web site of the San Mateo Union High School District. Those who left belongings on campus will be able to pick them up once the "site is secured," officials said.

Students, parents and staffers who need a place to go today can report to the San Mateo Adult School at 789 East Poplar Ave. Counselors, psychologists and teachers will be available there.

The chaos began shortly after 8 a.m. Monday when the teenager made his way through the school with bombs secured to a tactical vest, said San Mateo Police Chief Susan Manheimer. The youth lit two of the pipe bombs and threw them in a hallway near the school library.

After the suspect was subdued, police descended on the school at 3115 Del Monte St. and evacuated students and staffers to a nearby middle school, then combed the campus in search of more bombs and evidence.

The school year at the 1,200-student campus began last week, and classes had just begun Monday when the youth came onto campus.

Officers cordoned off the youth's San Mateo home in the Villa Serena Apartments on Casa de Campo with crime scene tape and evacuated nearby units for several hours as they searched the suspect's home, neighbors said.

Those neighbors described the teenager as shy and reclusive, saying he rarely ventured outside.

"He was just a really quiet kid. Not many friends. He kept to himself," said April De Guzman, who lives nearby and has known the suspect since middle school.

Neighbors said the boy has lived with his mother and a sister in the complex of two-story, townhouse-style apartments for several years.

"It's strange," said neighbor Annette Stevens. "You never know who's living next door to you."

Chronicle staff writers John Koopman, Kathleen Pender, Jaxon Van Derbeken and John Coté contributed to this report. E-mail Henry K. Lee at hlee@sfchronicle.com.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/25/BASE19DFN6.DTL#ixzz0PDbx7uCR

donbdc

08-26-2009, 05:48 AM

I hope these weren't our swords (http://www.martialartsmart.com/weapons-shaolin-forge-weapons.html). Y'all know that our swords can only be used for good, right?

My wife is a middle school teeacher, Things are scarey out there. Parents don't believe their little Johnny or Suzie are even capable of a bad thought, and should only get A's. If they don't get A's then it's the teachers fault and they should be fired immidiately!
I actually worry, w/ our litigous society and concern for childrens self esteem, that if my wife were attecked and blead on the student (her attacker) would we be sued ! Have to ask Terrence ;)
Don Berry DC RKC

GeneChing

08-27-2009, 12:09 PM

...that certainly narrows it down. :rolleyes:

Police: 'Techno-wizard' suspect fooled family (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/26/MNL719DH0L.DTL)
Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
(08-25) 17:49 PDT SAN MATEO --

The 17-year-old held in the pipe bomb attack on a San Mateo high school was a "techno-wizard" who told his family he was building model rockets as he assembled his explosive devices from material he bought over the Internet, authorities said Tuesday.

Angry with teachers who had given him bad grades at Hillsdale High School, where he dropped out more than a year ago, and smarting over how other students there had treated him, the youth began planning the attack months ago, said law enforcement sources briefed on the interrogation of the boy.

On Monday, he walked onto the campus with 10 pipe bombs strapped to his vest and toting a chain saw in a violin case and a "martial arts-style" sword with a 2-foot blade, authorities said. He set off two bombs before faculty members wrestled him to the ground. No one was injured.

'Cold-blooded plan'

"It was a cold-blooded plan of execution," San Mateo Police Chief Susan Manheimer said at a news conference Tuesday. The teenager's goal, she said, was to cause "mass casualties."

"He was interested in hurting and maiming many people," Manheimer said, to make up for "perceived wrongs."

Without elaborating, the chief added that the boy "did have intended targets ... on the faculty."

Sources have said they believe the youth planned to hack at Hillsdale students and teachers with the chain saw and sword if they were not killed by the bombs.

The chain saw, according to one source, was intended to "differentiate his attack" from other acts of school violence over the years.

The boy's name has not been released because prosecutors have not decided whether to charge him as an adult. He has been booked into juvenile hall on suspicion of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and explosives charges.

Mother 'in the dark'

Authorities said that in March, the teenager began making Internet purchases of chemicals needed to make the pipe bombs. He lives with his mother in a San Mateo apartment where authorities seized potential bomb-making materials and computer hard drives during a search late Monday, authorities said.

Officials believe his mother had not been aware of her son's alleged plans. "She was in the dark," one law enforcement source said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing.

Some of the materials the teenager obtained can legally be purchased only by an adult, authorities said. They said the boy had told family members he was making model rockets.

The law enforcement source described the boy as a "techno-wizard," an assessment echoed by his grandmother. Shirley Youshock said the boy was skilled on the computer and had earned straight A's in school.

Youshock called him a quiet boy and said she knew of nothing that would have prompted Monday's attack.

"I just think that his mind was somewhere else," Youshock said. "He wasn't thinking clearly. ... This is totally out of character.

"Obviously, something went very wrong."

The boy was enrolled in continuation courses, Youshock said. Authorities believe he was taking the classes over the Internet.

Youshock, 78, who lives in Sewell, N.J., said the boy's parents divorced seven years ago. The boy's father, Richard Youshock, lives in Santa Clara. The youth's mother, Carol, and an older sister live in the townhouse-style apartment in San Mateo.

Although investigators believe he was angry at Hillsdale teachers and students, Shirley Youshock said she knew of nothing that was gnawing at her grandson.

"There didn't seem to be anything bothering him," she said. "I'm at a loss, I really am."

The suspect's father declined to comment to The Chronicle on Monday, and efforts to reach his mother have been unsuccessful.
Father talked of college

"Every time we ever talked to (Richard Youshock), he never said there were any problems with (his son)," Shirley Youshock said. In fact, when she spoke to her son about two weeks before, they talked about the boy going to college, Youshock said.

"He is well-behaved," she said. "I never heard a problem about him at all. He was just a very quiet boy. When we were out there, he was just so polite."

Youshock said she spoke to her son early Tuesday and did what she could to comfort him.

"I'm just so sorry that something like this had to happen," she said. "I'm just thankful that nobody got hurt. ... God was looking out for everybody."

Chronicle staff writers John Koopman and Henry K. Lee contributed to this report. E-mail Jaxon Van Derbeken at jvanderbeken@sfchronicle.com.

On a totally different news item, our govenator keeps his Conan sword in his office - click for vid and pic

ValleyWag on the Gov's growing office arsenal (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?entry_id=46231)

Gawker's Valleywag, aka Ryan Tate, illustrated the (il)logical progression of our governor's apparent fondness for keeping weapons around his Sacramento office in a post today. Obviously it ends with a Gatling gun and the Governator telling the press: "I've put a few new issues into the ROTATION, guys. I hope you don't mind if my answers sound a little CANNON-ED."

It began, however, with a video posted through Twitter in which Schwarzenegger brandishes an enormous knife for no obvious reason

Schwarzenegger followed up that act by uploading a photo of his Conan the Barbarian sword, also stored in his office

Lucas

09-10-2009, 10:10 AM

thats rad, i dont care what anyone says, if your governor has a hand and a half broadsword in his office, hes cool.

TaichiMantis

09-15-2009, 08:08 AM

Hopkins student kills intruder with samurai sword (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-sword0915,0,4027961.story?track=rss)

A Johns Hopkins University student armed with a samurai sword killed a man who broke into the garage of his off-campus residence early Tuesday, a Baltimore police spokesman said.

According to preliminary reports, a resident of the 300 block of E. University Parkway called police about a suspicious person, department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. An off-duty officer responded about 1:20 a.m. to the area with university security, according to Guglielmi. They heard shouts and screams from a neighboring house and found the suspected burglar suffering from a nearly severed hand and lacerations to his upper body, he said.

The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.

The student told police that he heard a commotion in the house and went downstairs armed with a samurai sword, Guglielmi said. He saw the side door to the garage had been pried open and found a man inside, who lunged at the student.

Detectives were still interviewing the student and his three roommates Tuesday morning, Guglielmi said. Burglars had already stolen two laptops and a Sony PlayStation from the student's home Monday, according to Guglielmi.

Dennis O'Shea, a spokesman for Johns Hopkins, said all four residents of the house are undergraduate students at the university.

The suspected burglar, whose name was not released pending notification of next of kin, had prior convictions for breaking and entering and had just been released Saturday from a Baltimore County facility, Guglielmi said.

uki

09-15-2009, 03:54 PM

A Johns Hopkins University student armed with a samurai sword killed a man who broke into the garage of his off-campus residence early Tuesday, a Baltimore police spokesman said.

According to preliminary reports, a resident of the 300 block of E. University Parkway called police about a suspicious person, department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. An off-duty officer responded about 1:20 a.m. to the area with university security, according to Guglielmi. They heard shouts and screams from a neighboring house and found the suspected burglar suffering from a nearly severed hand and lacerations to his upper body, he said.

The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/193310-Maryland-Hopkins-student-kills-intruder-with-samurai-sword-police-say

Lucas

09-15-2009, 04:35 PM

live a life of crime and expect to pay with your life, i say.

sounds fair enough to me, id have chopped his hand off too.

hell go to the middle east and the law would have it done for you!

David Jamieson

09-15-2009, 04:59 PM

Lucas

09-15-2009, 05:22 PM

then that would be murder.

personally i dont converse with home intruders, i just kill them so its always defense. :p ;)

and it wasnt tools or rims it was laptops and playstations.....idk how that makes any difference what so ever...but ya. :cool:

Boston Bagua

09-15-2009, 05:59 PM

anyone who breaks into a home deserves to be dealt the harshest response from
that homeowner.

It is disgusting to think it okay or pc to think anyone who commits such crimes a victim of anything but their stupidity.

There are sacred spaces and your home is one of them.

SPJ

09-15-2009, 06:28 PM

college kids are as poor as church mice.

some laptop, gameboy, x-box, PS2, --whatever.

stinky socks, worn shirts, worn sneakers, loaned textbooks,

--

what to rob or take?

is it worth taking a life over these junks?

--

I thought that it was over diamonds or golds or antique or collectible items.

ya ya, they will be insured.

nothing valueable in a college off campus house.

I lived in one before. I have some handwritten notes about mantis, but, I may rewrite them anyway.

having a weapon grade sword in your garage, someone will be hurt if not yourself.

ar mi ta ba.

--

:eek:

bawang

09-15-2009, 06:29 PM

there is something rich people cant understand about the poor people
you shouldnt judge someone because they robbed people. everybody needs money everyone needs to live.

B-Rad

09-15-2009, 07:37 PM

what if the guy actually cornered the guy, called the cops and then killed him?

does that make him weird for killing over something as paltry as material goods?

Well, you risk running into somebody armed who's not too happy to see you when you break into people's houses. I'm not going to feel sorry for a guy that gets messed up trying to rob others.

B-Rad

09-15-2009, 07:40 PM

there is something rich people cant understand about the poor people
you shouldnt judge someone because they robbed people. everybody needs money everyone needs to live.

Been poor before, and knew plenty of poor people. Most didn't break into people's houses.

Hebrew Hammer

09-15-2009, 07:55 PM

there is something rich people cant understand about the poor people
you shouldnt judge someone because they robbed people. everybody needs money everyone needs to live.

Who said either one of these guys was rich or poor? Being poor makes life difficult, not criminal.

There are lots of assumptions about who deserved what and why in this tragic event, a man lost his life quite horribly and another has to live with taking it. I'm sure he won't be having many ez night's sleep after this.

I'd think twice before celebrating or talking trash about the death of someone you don't know.

Lee Chiang Po

09-15-2009, 08:04 PM

When a person breaks into an occupied structure he commits a far more serious offense. He is likely prepared to injure or possibly kill the inhabitants, or that would be the perception. However, the police are going to ask questions, and the answers can make the difference between him being charged or not. If the individual was not armed, he might be facing serious charges later. Nothing will happen until everything is presented to a grand jury. The question will be, did he have to kill the man. The authorities can not make that call. A grand jury will do that.

Xiao3 Meng4

09-15-2009, 08:54 PM

This one's a bit old, but it happened in Ottawa. The verdict was this summer.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/story_print.html?id=1635563&sponsor=

OTTAWA-Amid tight security in a tense, emotion-packed Ottawa courtroom Wednesday, a jury delivered a stunning victory to the six men accused in the “Midway” murder trial.

A jubilant Wahab Dadshani, who defended himself throughout the trial on charges of first-degree murder, shouted at the departing jury: “God bless you all. Thank you very much.”

Dadshani was found guilty of the significantly lesser charge of manslaughter — the only defendant found guilty.
...
Dadshani’s elder brother Tawab, 33, Mohamed Abed, 25, Tarik Echrif, 28, Shaun Hulbert, 25, and Fahim Payman, 30, were cleared of all charges.
...
Wahab Dadshani admitted beating and slashing Chaar with a sword but denied intending to kill him. He was kept in custody and will be sentenced later.
...
“I’m utterly shocked,” said lead prosecutor Robert Wadden, “that they could come to this verdict with the evidence they had in front of them. They arrived (at Midway) with carloads of weapons and chased the man.”

Wadden had characterized the Midway incident as a clash of rival drug dealers and their associates.
...
Chaar, 26, was kicked, beaten and fatally wounded by the sword-wielding Wahab Dadshani at the end of a corridor inside the family fun centre, across from the Museum of Science and Technology.

He bled to death after suffering more than a dozen cuts, including a severed artery in his wrist and a 10-centimetre gash to his abdomen that caused his intestines to spill out. The middle, ring and pinky fingers of his right hand were also severed.

Dadshani, an admitted drug dealer, testified that he was lured to Midway by Chaar, who intended to kill him. He denied intending to kill Chaar.

“Mr. Chaar died from my actions, but I did not murder him,” Dadshani testified.

He also claimed throughout the trial that his five co-accused were innocent victims of wrongful prosecution and simply tried to defend him against the unexpected attack by Chaar and his armed associate Michael Estephan.
...
Estephan fired a shower of bullets towards the Dadshani group, wounding Abed in the foot as he approached the Midway entrance.

Hulbert and Abed ran for cover in the parking lot and Payman remained in his Mercedes but the Dadshani brothers trailed by Echrif, carrying a sword, pursued Chaar into Midway.

(The gunman Estephan, the only witness in a position to potentially counter the Dadshani group’s version of events, was subsequently released on bail. He apparently fled Canada the day after his release).

When police arrived minutes after the attack, the 315-pound Chaar was bleeding to death next to a row of brightly coloured children’s arcade games but refused to tell an officer who had attacked him.

Ottawa police Sgt. Raymond Sabourin told the court during testimony that he tried to coax the 26-year-old into naming his attackers.

“He just shook his head from side to side. He wouldn’t say anything,” Sabourin said, describing how he spoke to Chaar as paramedics worked to save his life near a rear exit. “He was making comments that he was going to die.”

Dadshani, who defended himself after dismissing his lawyer early in the trial, admitted to assistant Crown prosecutor Robert Wadden that he trafficked in marijuana but claimed that Chaar was a feared local gang leader who dealt hard drugs such as crack cocaine, ecstasy and crystal meth.

“The incident at Midway was a fight between drug dealers. Correct?” asked Wadden.

“Well, if I was dealing drugs and he was, then you could say that,” replied Dadshani. “But I don’t characterize it that way… I wasn’t selling crack cocaine out of a children’s amusement centre or extorting money out of people.”

Much of the incident was caught by surveillance cameras outside and inside the Midway and that footage was a major part of the evidence for both prosecution and defence, who often had radically differing interpretations of what the images revealed.
...
Echrif testified that he owned the “replica” sword because he was a collector and Wahab Dadshani testified that after the gunfire, he was in such a state of disorientation that when he grabbed the “replica” from Echrif said he didn’t know what it was he was grabbing.

Dadshani said he believed at the time that swinging what he called a dull “replica” sword at Chaar was the only way he could save his own life.
...
“It was a potential massacre,” testified Dadshani. “He was trying to kill me. Mr. Chaar wanted me to go back outside and die. He said, ‘Go back outside and die.’ It was his turf and he unleashed hell on me. I lost it. I didn’t know where I was. All I could see was Mr. Chaar.”

“You remained focused on him until you had killed him,’ said Wadden. “Until he was stabbed, slashed and beaten and left for dead.”

“It’s not fair to say I left him for dead,” Dadshani responded.

...

bawang

09-15-2009, 09:16 PM

Who said either one of these guys was rich or poor? Being poor makes life difficult, not criminal.

There are lots of assumptions about who deserved what and why in this tragic event, a man lost his life quite horribly and another has to live with taking it. I'm sure he won't be having many ez night's sleep after this.

I'd think twice before celebrating or talking trash about the death of someone you don't know.

how did i talk trash? i said dont judge the robber. he had his hands cut off and disemboweled, i think ppl should not say he deserved it.

Hebrew Hammer

09-15-2009, 09:22 PM

how did i talk trash? i said dont judge the robber. he had his hands cut off and disemboweled, i think ppl should not say he deserved it.

I was not referring to you in that regard, it was in response to what others had said, only my first two sentences were in response to your post...sorry about that. I should have spliced the other comments in there too.

bawang

09-15-2009, 09:26 PM

I was not referring to you in that regard, it was in response to what others had said, only my first two sentences were in response to your post...sorry about that. I should have spliced the other comments in there too.

its ok no problems

i just thought it was funny people talk about chan and dao and qi on this internets forum but have no compassion for real people
dying from sword is a very very painful and long way to die

Hebrew Hammer

09-15-2009, 09:38 PM

uki

09-16-2009, 02:24 AM

Agreed, my friend, that is the double edged sword of the internet. It allows for free and open exchange of dialogue coupled with disdain and pettiness all covered by the security of anonymity. Some people say things online that they would never say in public or in front of their mothers.the best part is people get all worked up about what people say on here too... almost as if they take it personally...

i am with dale here... break into my house and i am gonna hurt ya. period. i have young children in the house... i need no other explanation when the cops arrive to remove the lifeless body from the premesis. in pennsylvania, we still have the freedom to kill home intruders - it is justified according to the law books as of now(not that it would make a difference to anyone i know)

i just thought it was funny people talk about chan and dao and qi on this internets forum but have no compassion for real people
he who cares for no one in particular, cares for the whole world in general...

dying from sword is a very very painful and long way to diethen maybe people should think twice about breaking and entering someone elses house. as for myself, i might have simply gave him a warning stab and let the guy pull the sword out of his own body... oh and blocking sword attacks with your hands and arms is stupid. :)

Boston Bagua

09-16-2009, 02:26 AM

Again,

anyone who breaks into any house should be dealt the harshest of all punishments.

seems some people think it's okay to rob people.

It is not acceptable behavior.

I have a cute little wife who does not need to have to fear if she is going to be raped, murdered or what have you if someone breaks into the house. If there were kids involved, it would be even more of a moot point for the criminal.

In this day and age where we have programs to help people who have the need to eat, or get treated with medical care, seems there are people who want what others have and rather step up and take the steps needed to help themselves that way, would rather stoop to taking what is not theirs in the first place.

You do not want to receive such treatment, then do not break into houses or commit crime.

sorry that some here feel the need to emote on the side of criminals. I hope they never have to deal with someone who has invaded their home.

uki

09-16-2009, 02:39 AM

sorry that some here feel the need to emote on the side of criminals.its the new politically correct mindest... peace, love, happiness... ahhhhh... life is wonderful - the police and laws will protect us all. :rolleyes:

I hope they never have to deal with someone who has invaded their home.i'd hate to be the criminal that invades mine. :)

and just on the side note... LOL... i can't help but wonder if your door is always open, might that invite perps to your house dale?? :p

oasis

09-16-2009, 03:07 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/15/samurai.sword.killing/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

uki

09-16-2009, 03:21 AM

ummm... yer late... i posted this yesterday - consequences of breaking and entering. :p

David Jamieson

09-16-2009, 03:25 AM

I think the article said the guy was in the garage. Not in the house.

seriously, whatever happened to "held the suspect til police arrived"?

uki

09-16-2009, 03:31 AM

I think the article said the guy was in the garage. Not in the house.property and possesion is 9ths of the law... obviously the guy picked the wrong garage to ransack... boo hoo...

seriously, whatever happened to "held the suspect til police arrived"?i am sure he attempted to hold on as long as he could, but you know them **** samurai swords are viscious. :D

David Jamieson

09-16-2009, 03:38 AM

If we advocate summary execution of petty criminals, then we sink to the depths of depravity and savagery.

The bravado of "oh he deserved it" has a weird karma to it.

Why do you abhor when cops taze people who are committing a minor offense but cheer when someone is killed for stealing some meaningless thing from a garage?

This seems more than a little misguided and to be honest, insane to me.

TaichiMantis

09-16-2009, 04:36 AM

ummm... yer late... i posted this yesterday - consequences of breaking and entering. :p

actually, I beat you and posted it under "Samurai wannbes" thread;)

Dragonzbane76

09-16-2009, 04:41 AM

awesome....

Dragonzbane76

09-16-2009, 04:54 AM

If we advocate summary execution of petty criminals, then we sink to the depths of depravity and savagery

and you are to say that you know exactly what the intruder was going to do. Opportunity is an excuse for more violent measures. Yeah the guy might have stole a TV, PS3, whatever, but if a woman or child would have been there and no one there with them, at the time, would you take that chance with your loved one? I know I wouldn't. shot first ask questions later, your in my house, and I don't know you, and I do not know your intentions.

I agree with most here, if you break in to a house, then if you get killed doin it then you'll get no pity from me.

LSWCTN1

09-16-2009, 05:26 AM

from a UK perspective....

if someone breaks into my home, they're getting it.

I'm going to come downstairs with either my snooker cue case, which is a modified copper pipe, or my BJD (which, although i havent learnt the form/applications, i'm still going to hurt you with)

if you run i'm going to let you go. if you come towards me i'm going to do whatever i need to do to protect my sleeping babies.

US has more freely available firearms, and if i lived there then that is what the burglar would be facing. not some copper pipe or overgrown, blunt, knives. again if he ran then he would be allowed to leave.

think about it. how does a burglar enter your property? with his tools of the trade. a crowbar, a hammer or a screwdriver at the very least (the last of which is by far the most dangerous weapon, outside of a firearm, in the hands of someone intent on doing you harm). i agree with Bawang that a lot of house-breakers are desperate men. therefore i am absolutely sure that they would have no hesitation in using any one of these 'tools of the trade' to make good their escape.

stealing from other people is plain wrong. i genuinly feel for the guy who is going to have to live with taking a life for the rest of his days, however justified he may have been. and and the threat of prosecution for probably the next 2 years or so.

sanjuro_ronin

09-16-2009, 05:57 AM

Killing someone over a breaking and entry of a garage...not sure how the courts are gonna like that one....

Dragonzbane76

09-16-2009, 07:00 AM

Killing someone over a breaking and entry of a garage...not sure how the courts are gonna like that one....

sketchy... yes....

you say the wrong things... well you might go to prison. Living with it.. I would have no problem with... I was justified in my right, he's on my property, stealing my stuff, and with ill intentions that could turn from bad to worse. I wouldn't know if the guy had a gun. Pretty easy to conseal. Takes a split second and he could have shot me, or my wife, or someone in family. Doesn't matter if he was in garage. Still my property, some houses are connected to garage with live in area.

If it came down to it, look the cop dead in the eye and say. "He said he would kill me, and I believed him."

xcakid

09-16-2009, 08:14 AM

what if the guy actually cornered the guy, called the cops and then killed him?

does that make him weird for killing over something as paltry as material goods?

Is a set of tools or some rims worth a life?

Yep. Its the persons choice when he decides to burglarize a home. Its is the right of the resident to protect his/her property to the extent he/she is able to, willing to, up to his/her limit or unlimited force.

If it were me, you come into my home uninvited and steal even a piece of paper, one of us is going to the hospital. I be sad about it. But the less criminals around the better for us all. I HATE anyone that would take ANYTHING from another. If death is the lesson, then so be it.

I believe one of the 10 Commandments is Thou Shalt not Steal.

David Jamieson

09-16-2009, 08:32 AM

a) this was not a home invasion

b) this was a petty thief in a garage

having said that, do people really advocate a vigilante summary execution of a petty thief?

really?

death? Seems a bit final for stealing from a garage.

Dragonzbane76

09-16-2009, 08:47 AM

yep... you should not be in someones personal space no matter what.

Petty? well could be, I don't know, hell he might have been on a 6 day crack binge and willing to do anything, I don't know, you don't know, and the guy that used the sword sure the hell didn't know. Are you willing to put yourself at risk and your family? Guess that's your perogative.

But to me i'll blow your dam head off, you have about 5 sec. to explain yourself and if you make one move that isn't what it should be i'm shooting. No, i will not feel guilty either.

You probably think the death penalty is stupid as well?

My opinion, they should put an express line in.

Lucas

09-16-2009, 08:58 AM

well, if you re-read the story, the perpetrator lunged at the person weilding the sword......

you do the math....

would you attack a guy with a ****ing katana and expect nothing to happen? please......

oh and btw for those interested in how some view people who bring about their own doom throug stupidity, being poor has nothing to do with it, no ones is forced to break and enter and steal. i lived on the street/road for a few years, never once did i break into a home or steal from another person. i relied upon myself to survive, not the fortune of others and the stealing of it. pathetic.

did the guy deserve it? who knows. did he get what was coming? well, hes the one who lunged at a guy with a sword after breaking into his house.

we all reap what we sow.

GeneChing

09-16-2009, 09:09 AM

I merged the two threads off the main forum into this one. There are permanent redirects so it'll stay lively. I love that this thread has done so well. Who would have thought?

I'll be very curious to see the legal implications on this one. It could have happened to any of us who have swords in our homes.

College student with sword kills burglary suspect (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/15/national/a034921D65.DTL)
By BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press Writer
(09-15) 16:05 PDT BALTIMORE, (AP) --

A Johns Hopkins University student armed with a samurai sword killed a suspected burglar in a garage behind his off-campus home early Tuesday, hours after someone broke in and stole electronics.

Some shocked neighbors said they heard bloodcurdling screams in an area just blocks from the university. Police held the student, a junior chemistry major who turns 21 on Sunday, for several hours, but he was not charged with any crimes Tuesday, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.

Around 1:20 a.m., the student heard noises behind the home and noticed a door to the garage was open, Guglielmi said. He grabbed the sword and confronted the intruder — identified by police as Donald D. Rice, 49, a habitual offender who had just been released from jail.

Rice was crouching beneath a counter, police said. The student asked him what he was doing and threatened to call police.

"When he said that, the suspect lunged at him, kind of forced the kid against the wall, and he struck him with the sword," Guglielmi said.

Rice's left hand was nearly severed — Guglielmi described it as "hanging on by a thread" — and he suffered a severe cut to the upper body. He died at the scene.

On Monday, two laptops and a Sony PlayStation were stolen from the student's home, which he shares with three other students, but police were not sure whether Rice was responsible, Guglielmi said.

There was a pool of blood Tuesday morning in the brick courtyard between the back porch of the home and the garage. The courtyard was strewn with debris, including what looked like broken glass.

Guglielmi did not know why the student kept a sword. He said he may have had some martial arts training, but was not an expert.

Rice's criminal history includes more than two dozen arrests for burglary, breaking and entering and auto theft. According to court records, he was charged in 2007 after he pulled a gun on a police officer, though prosecutors placed those charges on hold because the officer was on military leave.

Rice was convicted in 2008 of unauthorized removal of property and sentenced to 18 months. He was released Saturday from the Baltimore County Detention Center.

Several nearby residents said the community has experienced a rash of petty crimes in recent months, including home, garage and vehicle break-ins. Many homes have bars on windows and stickers advertising alarm systems.

Michael Hughes, 43, said he was getting ready for bed when he heard the screams.

"There was fear in the voice. I could tell someone was scared," Hughes said.

Hughes called 911, and several police cars arrived while he was on the phone. Campus security officers and an off-duty city officer who were in the area responding to a suspicious person report also heard the screams.

The diverse neighborhood includes a mix of students, professors and families, said Hughes, who lives with his wife and young children and works for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, which is on another campus across town.

"There seems to be a noticeable increase in crime in the neighborhood," Hughes said. "I am concerned for my family's safety."

Kenny Eaton, 20, a junior political science major at Hopkins who lives nearby, said there was some tension between students and lower-income residents of nearby communities. The private Johns Hopkins is known for its health and science research and has about 4,600 undergraduates on its main campus.

"You take kids who are paying $50,000 a year (in tuition) and then put them out in a very dangerous city environment, it's almost like a clash of civilizations," he said.

Three young men, including one in a Hopkins T-shirt, were sitting on the front porch of the home Tuesday morning. A police officer was standing in the doorway, and a single police car was parked nearby. The men refused to talk to an Associated Press reporter.

Susan Boswell, the dean of student life at Hopkins, said in a statement that she was "relieved to report that the student was not harmed," but she also advised other students not to follow the swordsman's example.

"If you ever suspect that there is a prowler in your residence or on your property, call 911 immediately," Boswell said. "Experts advise that you do not attempt to confront the intruder, but rather secure yourself in a locked area until police arrive."

Guglielmi said police would consult with prosecutors about whether to file charges against the student. As in most states, self-defense in Maryland is defined by common law rather than by statute. People who confront intruders inside their homes have a greater degree of latitude to use force, and prosecutors consider whether to file charges in such incidents on a case-by-case basis.

"One can genuinely and reasonably be in fear of one's own safety even if the burglar is unarmed," said Andrew D. Levy, a Baltimore defense attorney and an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Law. "But nonetheless, it would be something that a good prosecutor would consider."

Dragonzbane76

09-16-2009, 09:29 AM

One can genuinely and reasonably be in fear of one's own safety even if the burglar is unarmed," said Andrew D. Levy, a Baltimore defense attorney and an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland School of Law. "But nonetheless, it would be something that a good prosecutor would consider."

in the heat of the moment... can you honestly say you knew he was unarmed. Guns fit neatly in belts and concealable places along with knives and such. Theres not going back if he pulls a gun out and shoots you. Like I said shot first ask later.

Lucas

09-16-2009, 09:32 AM

boy would one feel the fool if they assumed an intruder was unarmed and acted accordingly to that assumption only to have themselves or their little baby children shot to death because they didnt proactivley protect themselves or their family.

id rather have my concience plagued by the death of some dead beat than the lack of action that led to my families deaths.

GeneChing

09-17-2009, 09:44 AM

His sister is right - Rice didn't deserve to die for burglary. But if he didn't try to burgle Portillo, this wouldn't have happened, so he's still at fault. Portillo was just the guy on home defense. I can't find blame in his actions at all. He had no idea was Rice might have been packing.

How would this play out differently if Portillo had greeted Rice with a gun?

Police: Md. student swordsman didn't mean to kill (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/15/national/a034921D65.DTL)
By BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press Writer
Thursday, September 17, 2009
(09-17) 09:23 PDT BALTIMORE (AP) --

Baltimore homicide detectives don't believe a Johns Hopkins University student had "the intent to kill" when he used a samurai sword to confront an intruder behind his home, a police spokesman said Thursday.

John Pontolillo, 20, a junior chemistry major from New Jersey, killed the man with a single blow early Tuesday after police said the suspected burglar lunged at him.

Pontolillo has not been charged in the death of Donald D. Rice, 49, who had a long rap sheet of burglary arrests and was released from jail just two days before the altercation. Prosecutors will determine whether charges are appropriate after consulting with police, a process that could take weeks.

"We do not believe he went down there with the intent to kill somebody," police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said of Pontolillo. "We're looking to see if he was the aggressor, and so far the evidence doesn't suggest that."

When Pontolillo saw Rice, he raised the sword and yelled for his roommates to call police, Guglielmi said. Rice lunged at the student, who backed up against a wall. At that point, Pontolillo struck Rice once with the sword, nearly severing Rice's left hand and causing a severe wound to his upper body. Rice died at the scene.

Guglielmi said Thursday that when the student found Rice, he was was hiding in the small, fenced courtyard between the back porch and the detached garage behind Pontolillo's off-campus home. Police had initially said Rice was hiding inside the garage.

Police also revealed that Pontolillo and his three roommates, all Hopkins students, had been warned by a city officer and a campus security officer late Monday about a suspicious person in the neighborhood just east of campus.

At that point, the students told the officers that Pontolillo's XBox video game console and two laptop computers had been stolen from their home earlier that night. Police investigated and found no signs of forced entry, according to police reports about the thefts.

After the officers left, Pontolillo retrieved the sword and decided to perform a more thorough search, including the garage and his car, Guglielmi said. The officers heard the screams during the encounter with Rice and rushed back to the scene, he said.

Pontolillo has not returned calls seeking comment. A man who answered the phone at the home of John A. Pontolillo of Belmar, N.J., said he had no comment.

Rice's sister, Peggy Rice, told WJZ-TV in Baltimore Wednesday that her brother did not deserve to die and that the student should be charged.

GeneChing

09-17-2009, 09:46 AM

A baseball bat, knife, a wrench and a three-foot sword? They forgot the candlestick and the rope...

Wash. teen gets 22 years for dad's murder (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/16/national/a131524D39.DTL)
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
(09-16) 13:15 PDT Spokane, Wash. (AP) --

A teenager who helped beat and stab her father to death has been sentenced to 22 years in prison.

Eighteen-year-old Jackie Wortham said in Spokane County Superior Court on Wednesday that she thinks about her father every day and regrets what she did.

Daniel Wortham was attacked in March 2008 when he returned home from a plumbing job. Prosecutors say Jackie Wortham and her boyfriend used a baseball bat, knife, a wrench and a three-foot sword.

KXLY reports the boyfriend, Edmond Washington, pleaded guilty Wednesday and will be sentenced Oct. 28. Prosecutors are recommending a 22-year sentence.

uki

09-21-2009, 04:18 PM

LOL

A man who was apparently was upset after finding a soda can in his room allegedly used a sword to cut two of his roommates. Michael Angel Zamago was jailed on Friday on a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon related to family violence. Bail was $25,000.

A police report indicates Zamago was upset to find a soda can in his room, thinking someone entered without permission. Zamago allegedly used the sword to poke holes in a closed door to a room where the pair fled.

One roommate has a cut under his right arm pit. The other suffered a cut in the shoulder area.

A jailer who declined to provide his name said there was no record of an attorney for Zamago.

from: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/193611-Texas-Man-Accused-of-Sword-Attack-After-Finding-Soda-Can

GeneChing

10-02-2009, 11:09 AM

Obi-Wan Obama :cool:
http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2009/09/16/image5315830x.jpg

GeneChing

10-06-2009, 09:35 AM

Reggae and samurai swords. Wow.

Reggae star vs. 'Samurai' (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/reggae_star_vs_samurai_4EfDD5lySk3RYhcW9Bz4UK)
By JESSICA SIMEONE
Last Updated: 10:55 AM, October 5, 2009
Posted: 5:13 AM, October 5, 2009

A reggae star was slashed by a samurai-sword-wielding neighbor in Brooklyn yesterday during a fight over a woman, authorities and witnesses said.

Major Mackerel, whose real name is Garfield Dixon, 41, suffered deep cuts on his hand and head in the 8 a.m. assault with the 2-foot-long blade.

Oscar Joseph, 37, flew into a rage at their building on East 91st Street in East Flatbush because he suspected Dixon -- whose songs include "Fren Enemy" and "Pretty Looks Done" -- of harassing his wife, witnesses said.

"I came out this morning, walked past him singing my song, and we had a little fight," a bandaged Dixon said as he returned to his house yesterday.

But the exchange got hotter than a Jamaican summer, and Joseph allegedly whipped out the blade.

"When I saw him rush at Major, I ran right in," said Dixon's girlfriend , Novia Watson, 51.

"When I came back out, the damage was done. I could see him bleeding a lot."

Dixon was taken to Kings County Hospital.

"It's just a big surprise to me," said Dixon, sporting a hospital gown, with gauze wrapped around his head and hand. "I was just trying to not get stabbed."

Dixon claimed that he was not the one who harassed the suspect's wife.

Joseph was charged with assault, menacing and weapons possession

GeneChing

10-20-2009, 10:01 AM

...but good day for this thread.

Sword-wielding man arrested in Upper Darby (http://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/64756327.html?cmpid=15585797)
By Mari A. Schaefer
Inquirer Staff Writer

A man wielding a Samurai sword attacked an Upper Darby police officer who was attempting to take him into custody, after the man threatened to set his rowhouse apartment on fire and commit suicide, authorities said today.

George Henry Rogers, 36, of the 4000 block of Dayton Road, called police just after midnight yesterday and said he was barricaded in his bedroom and had covered the apartment with gasoline.

When police arrived, Rogers tried to stab Officer Dan Lanni with a sword, officials said. Lanni used a Kevlar "Bat" shield to protect himself. The shield is shaped like a large bat with wings that fold around the user. The sword was bent from striking the shield.

Lt. Mike Kehrle subdued Rogers with a taser weapon, police said.

Rogers was taken to Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby for evaluation, and released. He was charged with attempted murder, assault and other crimes, and was in Delaware County Prison.

Step-father stabs woman with sword (http://www.wivb.com/dpp/news/crime/Step_father_stabs_woman_with_sword_20091019)
Updated: Monday, 19 Oct 2009, 4:41 PM EDT
Published : Monday, 19 Oct 2009, 4:41 PM EDT

ROCHESTER, NY (WIVB) - Rochester Police officers responded to 47 Green Knolls Dr for a report of a person stabbed.

Upon arrival, officers located the victim, Shanice O'Brien, of Green Knolls Dr. O'Brien was bleeding profusely from several wounds, and stated that her step father, Omar Williams, became angry when he found her in her apartment with her boyfriend.

Williams retrieved a Samuri sword from a bedroom and began to swing it at both Shanice and her boyfriend.

The boyfriend fled the apartment, however O'Brien received several serious slashing wounds prior to fleeing. O'Brien's right hand was almost severed.

Williams was charged with assault in the first degree. He was taken into custody after a short foot chase within the apartment complex.

Fallon man accused of assaulting girlfriend (http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_13595011)
The Associated Press
Posted: 10/19/2009 12:35:17 PM PDT
Updated: 10/19/2009 12:35:17 PM PDT

FALLON, Nev.—A 19-year-old Fallon man has been arrested for assault and battery after he allegedly strangled his live-in girlfriend and threatened her with a sword.

Fallon Police Chief Kevin Gehman says Dakota Lumsden allegedly attacked the woman at their home Thursday about 1 a.m. He said she had bruises and abrasions on her neck and other places, but was not seriously harmed.

Police Capt. Vern Ulrich says she told officers in addition to choking her, Lumsden threatened her with a 39-inch sword with a 26-inch blade.

He was being held in the Churchill County Jail on $35,000 bail on charges of domestic battery and assault with a deadly weapon. If convicted of both, he could be sentenced up to 11 years in prison and fines up to $20,000.

GeneChing

10-20-2009, 10:03 AM

...I enjoyed this piece immensely.

If only people were allowed to carry swords (http://www.uab.edu/kscope/kaleidoscope-article-1759.html)
Aaron Graf, Staff Writer
Published On: 10/20/2009

I am a firm supporter of the second amendment right to bear arms. In the state of Alabama there is one aspect where our second amendment rights are being heinously violated. The aspect I am referring to is the fact that it is illegal for people to openly carry a sword. Some prefer tazers, pepper spray, or pocket knives as a means of self-defense, but swords are simply not allowed.

Why is it perfectly fine to have a concealed .44 magnum with a permit, but completely illegal to have a gladius on your belt? Why is it acceptable to own an AK-47 and a thousand rounds of ammunition in Alabama, but not acceptable to sell a fully sharpened sword? I support the right to own a gun for self-defense, but I personally detest them. So what am I supposed to carry to protect myself when the best alternative is illegal to carry in the streets?

They rationale for banning the open carrying of swords is that it is a means of intimidation. This is only understandable if the carrier has the sword in his or her hand and it is out of its sheath. Some say it’s barbaric and terrifying beyond reason.

This is completely ludicrous; it’s much easier to reattach a severed arm than it is if someone was shot in the arm. By comparison it’s far more humane (so to speak) to die from a sword than from a gun. Not to mention it’s easier to identify the body if you are stabbed in the face than if you were shot in the face.

To be injured from a gun would bring up a twisted form of a scarecrow line from the Wizard of Oz. “They shot me in the kidneys and blew them over there! Then they shot me in the lungs and blew them over there! Then they shot me in the face and all that’s left is hair!”

Guns are far more intimidating than swords. Have you ever tried running from a bullet? Having a sword at your belt is a more reliable close quarters defense than tazers or pepper spray. The reason is that a sword is easier to see making it far less likely that one would have to use it.

Unlike a sword carrier, a violent gunman is not only barbaric and cruel, but just plain cowardly. Most cops I ask about carrying a sword will tell me very simply, “never take a knife to a gun fight.” To some police it might seem intimidating because a sword can, after all its disadvantages, pierce Kevlar.

Despite this, over 90 percent of policemen who die in the line of duty are killed by their own guns! As far as homicide rates go, two out of every three murder victims are killed by firearms. That leaves swords to be lumped into one out of every three, except it’s also lumped in with other means of death.

Over a third of non-firearm homicides involve the victim being beaten to death. By the time we get down to stabbings, there’s roughly the same rate as the beatings; however, virtually all of those involve switch-blades, kitchen knives, and ice picks.

Alabama’s weapons code has hardly any mention of carrying a sword, but for the most part it’s deemed as a form of intimidation. Now I’ve never been fond of the legal code of this state in the union, but Alabama’s only mention of swords in the legal code is just downright ridiculous. Below is the only mention of swords within Alabama’s weapons laws:

“The term “deadly weapon” as used in this section means a firearm or anything manifestly designed, made, or adapted for the purposes of inflicting death or serious physical injury, and such term includes, but is not limited to, a bazooka, hand grenade, missile, or explosive or incendiary device; a pistol, rifle, or shotgun; or a switch-blade knife, gravity knife, stiletto, sword, or dagger; or any club, baton, billy, black-jack, bludgeon, or metal knuckles.”

Let me see if I get this straight. How could you conceal a sword like a knife or a pistol (with the exception of cane swords)? Bazookas, hand grenades, missiles, and incendiary devices are in no way like a sword. Can you think of a sword that could kill from over a mile away in the manner of a high powered rifle? Has a high school massacre ever occurred where the assailants believed they were William Wallace and the pep rally the army of Edward Longshanks?

Name one instance where a sword could be used in a fashion other than sheer self-defense in modern times. It can’t be done.

The plain fact of the matter is that nearly all homicides involve concealed weapons. Openly carried weapons are usually not used in cases other than self-defense. Police routinely harass those who openly carry a firearm enough as it is, but at least you can receive a permit to carry one.

If people were allowed to carry swords openly, muggings would be a lot less common. Don’t worry, a swordsman will rob nobody, he’d be pretty easy to spot.

Just think of it from the fact that the country is in a lot of debt. Issuing sword-carrying permits to law-abiding citizens would provide the government with another source of income. I’m not saying to let someone walk into a bank, school, hospital, or a place of business with a sword, rules must be applied. But for someone like myself, for someone who has a very big mouth, I would feel safer if I had a saber rather than a can of pepper spray in case of attack.

David

10-20-2009, 01:51 PM

<interlude>
Without wanting to derail the thread, I was recently surprised to discover pepper spray is illegal in the UK. You cannot carry _anything_ for protection here.

Now, back to the swords</interlude>

TaichiMantis

10-21-2009, 12:23 PM

GENE HIT THE JACKPOT!
Thanks for some great additions...gonna have to check out this batwing shield thingy :D

And it's true "right to bear arms" does seem to be slanted toward guns...:mad:

GeneChing

11-12-2009, 11:20 AM

What is it about samurai swords (http://www.martialartsmart.com/ninja-samurai-kendo-samurai-kendo-weapon.html)?

Four held as samurai sword seized (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8354654.stm)

Four men have been arrested and a samurai sword seized in Bangor, County Down.

Police received a report of suspicious activity in the Carlton Heights area of the town in the early hours of Wednesday.

A car with the four men on board was then stopped by officers at Clover Hill at about 0210 GMT.

A number of items were recovered by police, including the sword and a baseball bat.

The men, who are aged 32, 22, 21 and 18, are being questioned.

Jail for Samurai sword Post Office raiders (http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/2009/11/12/jail-for-samurai-sword-post-office-raiders-91466-25151275/)
Nov 12 2009 by Robin Turner, Western Mail

TWO brothers who robbed a post office armed with a Samurai sword and a starting pistol were jailed yesterday for a total of 19 years.

Ryad and Richard Morgan, 28 and 25, of Briton Ferry, disguised themselves with black balaclavas when they burst into the Briton Ferry Post Office in Neath Road, Briton Ferry in May.

Ryad Morgan kicked postmaster Andrew Ball in the face, breaking his nose, and his brother ****ed the pistol in front of his face as if to shoot. Mr Ball handed over £26,000.

Ryad Morgan, who denied his part in the armed robbery, was jailed for 12 years yesterday and Richard Morgan, who pleaded guilty was jailed for seven years.

The court heard Mr Ball needed plastic surgery for his facial injuries.

In a victim impact statement, he said: "I will never forget the madness in the eyes of the man with the sword ."

Sentencing delayed in Oroville woman's samurai sword killing (http://www.chicoer.com/news/ci_13760254)
By TERRY VAU DELL-Staff Writer
Posted: 11/11/2009 12:00:00 AM PST

OROVILLE — Sentencing was postponed Tuesday for an Oroville woman convicted of killing her mother with a samurai sword, so her lawyer can seek a motion for a new trial.

The attorney for Rachael Ann Porteous, 36, said he could not elaborate, but among issues he is exploring is whether the jury that found her sane at the time of the first-degree murder may have been "influenced by outside information.''

Porteous will be back in court Dec. 29 for setting a hearing date on the new trial motion once it's filed.

Porteous was found guilty by the jury of stabbing her 62-year-old mother, Theresa Shaw, 10 times with a relative's ceremonial Japanese sword, at the victim's Oroville home Oct. 21, 2008.

Porteous, who had a history of mental and drug problems, was found legally sane by the same jury after hearing conflicting psychiatric opinions in the case.

In her closing summation to the jury, deputy district attorney Kennedy Rizzuto had pointed to a series of "stressors" in Porteous' life around the time of the slaying, including a recent breakup with a boyfriend in prison and the fact she was facing prison herself for using her vehicle to assault another man.

Her mother, who had legal guardianship of the defendant's four children and was raising them in her home because of her eldest daughter's continued drug use, had gotten into a heated discussion with her just a couple of hours before the killing, the prosecutor noted.

The defense contended Porteous suffered from a mental disorder which prevented her from forming the intent to kill and had asked the jury to find her guilty of a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter.

A psychologist for the defense testified Porteous had been treated for several years for a bi-polar mental condition, and was not taking her prescribed medication at the time of the slaying.

It was the psychologist's opinion a person with that mental disease, facing the same set of circumstances, would have been unable to rationally premeditate the mother's murder.

Defense attorney Eric Ortner said Tuesday that in preparing his motion for a new trial, he has since requested and received a written transcript of one of two prosecution doctors who testified at the trial as to their opinion the defendant was legally sane when she stabbed her mother to death.

Ortner told Judge William Lamb Tuesday he is considering seeking permission from the court to contact jurors regarding their verdict.

Lamb noted that under law, members of the jury would have be notified regarding their right to be present in court to voice any objections they may have to unsealing personal juror information.

Outside of court, Ortner declined to discuss the specific grounds for seeking a new trial.

"Until I have it finalized, I prefer not to comment because I want to keep all the options open," Ortner told the media.

As for wanting to contact jurors, the defense lawyer said, "I want to know whether there were any outside influences as far as their verdict."

Ortner said he did not talk to any of the jurors following the verdict, but has a "specific" reason for doing so now.

Deputy district attorney Kennedy Rizzuto said while she did not know what the defense lawyer was referring, she agreed to postpone sentencing in the homicide case "to avoid any appellate error."

"I'm committed to making this verdict stick because I believe it was fair and the truth came out at trial," the prosecutor said.

GeneChing

11-16-2009, 10:29 AM

This one is messed up.

Gang holds baby at sword-point, loots flat (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata-/Gang-holds-baby-at-sword-point-loots-flat/articleshow/5233797.cms)
TNN 16 November 2009, 03:34am IST

HOWRAH: A gang of 15 criminals all aged between 18 and 20 and armed to the teeth held a sword to an eight-month-old's throat and looted a flat in Belur early on Sunday.

When the gang barged into Sandip Goswami's residence at Jajoria Garden government quarters around 2.30 am and asked him to hand over the keys to his almirah, he refused. One of the gang members then picked up Sandip's daughter Rishu and threatened to kill her, forcing Sandip to relent. The gang decamped with cash and jewellery pegged at a total value of Rs 4 lakh.

Residents alleged police were phoned repeatedly, but arrived at the spot much later. No arrests have been made yet.

Sandip, employed in a private firm, lives in Flat 10 of Block B in the quarters with Sunita, his wife of two years, and his child. Sandip's brother and his family also live in the same flat but they were not at the house on Sunday.

Though the gang seemed to have information that the family had jewellery and cash in their flat, they were not sure which of the three blocks the Goswamis lived in. They first tried to break into Flat 10 of Blocks A and C but were thwarted by collapsible gates.

They finally found the correct Flat 10 and knocked on the door. When no one answered, they broke into the flat. Before entering, they warned other residents on the same floor to not come out of their rooms.

Sandip refused to give in to their demand at first, but when they threatened to kill his daughter he handed over the keys to the almirah. The gang ransacked the almirah and other rooms, looting cash, jewellery and three mobile phones. The family told police that the youths were wearing shorts and spoke in Hindi. None of them had his face covered.

The other residents of the building complained of police inaction. "The Bally police station is hardly 10 minutes from the housing complex. I called up police several times and also telephones one of them on his mobile phone but they came an hour after the robbery. The gang was here for 45 minutes and police could have easily nabbed them," said Atanu De, one of the residents of the building.

Police said the force had left the police station much earlier to conduct a raid as they had a tip-off that a gang would assemble near number 40 Belur Gate at Courtbagan. Howrah additional SP (town) Sukesh Jain went to the spot on Sunday afternoon.

Skip J.

11-18-2009, 01:44 PM

You folks must not have spent much time in Texas......

About a year ago a nice upstanding guy in the Houston area confronted a coupla thieves leaving his neighbors house who had no weapons. He pointed a shotgun loaded with deer slugs at'em and said "stop right there". They were recently from New Orleans and didn't understand proper Houston talk, they walked right by him and kept on goin'. He shot'em both in the back at close range and they both died. The police interviewed him but did not charge him, even tho they were not on his property, did not threaten him, and had no weapons.

You see, we have this law in Texas about defending your own PROPERTY... it's very broad and hard to prosecute someone who is clearly on his own property....

Of course, there were marches of lots of folks in front of his house saying thievery did not deserve the death penalty.. but counter-marchers met'em on the street and there was a nice riot on tv with the cops watching from the sidelines...

Laws must be somewhat different in New Orleans....

sanjuro_ronin

11-18-2009, 02:09 PM

We need samurai like this
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Fn_QsQL4mHg/ScIpZCve2FI/AAAAAAAABNo/lCpcwCVeceM/s1600/frh_520098_images_5037_171900_loc.jpg

sanjuro_ronin

11-18-2009, 02:11 PM

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2102/2211335127_28344ea685.jpg

Lucas

11-18-2009, 02:15 PM

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2102/2211335127_28344ea685.jpg

now THATS hot!

TaichiMantis

11-19-2009, 06:51 AM

Dang, can't find the video but the current season of "So You Think You Can Dance" had a warrior/princess dance that featured a katana...pretty cool!:D

Ok, found a link (http://vodpod.com/watch/2452934-nathan-trasoras-and-mollee-gray-bollywood-video)...it was a bollywood dance with sword that looked like a katana...except he's gripping the blade end with his hand :rolleyes:

GeneChing

11-25-2009, 05:22 PM

But none best SJ's fan & sword post above...:rolleyes:

Arrest warrant for sword man (http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/news/4759672.Arrest_warrant_for_sword_man/)
2:30pm Wednesday 25th November 2009
By Alex Hill »

A 47-year-old man alleged to have been found in possession of a sword faces arrest after failing to appear in court.

Stuart Cannings, of Chauncey House, Croxley View, Watford, was due to appear at St Albans Magistrates' Court this morning.

When Cannings did not turn up, District Judge Gill Allison issued a warrant for his arrest at the request of the prosecution.

Cannings faces a charge of possession of an offensive weapon in a public place, namely Chauncey House, Croxley view on Wednesday, August 12.

Man Stops Intruder With Sword (http://www.abc2news.com/news/local/story/Man-Stops-Intruder-With-Sword/bJ9X33zzs0iyb9q8apL4fA.cspx)
Contributor: Dave Clark
Last Update: 11/23 10:47 am
Middletown police say a 40-year-old man used a Samurai sword to defend himself when a dispute over a business transaction turned violent.

Police say 42-year-old Milan Reid made threats and indicated that he had a weapon when the resident of a Middletown, Delaware home asked him to leave on Friday night.

The resident, who does subcontracting work for Reid, ran inside but Police Chief Henry Tobin III says Reid kicked in the door and attacked him in the hallway. That's when Tobin says the resident grabbed the sword on display in the living room and chased Reid out.

Police say Reid, who also was wanted on an outstanding warrant, was arrested a short distance away and charged with burglary, aggravated menacing and five other offenses. No weapon was found.

Coquille man charged in sword death of brother (http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/updates/23558193-55/story.csp)
By Karen McCowan
The Register-Guard

COQUILLE — A man accused of killing his brother with a homemade Samurai-style sword was arraigned in Coos County Circuit Court Monday on murder and methamphetamine possession charges.

Bail was set at $1.5 million for Nathan Todd Wallace, 41, Coquille Police Chief Mark Dannels said.

The stabbing reportedly occurred early Sunday morning at a trailer Wallace leases in exchange for care-taking duties on the grounds of the Veterans of Foreign Wars building.

The victim, Lee Edwin Wallace, 38, died at a Coos Bay hospital about six hours after police responded to a 2:36 a.m. 911 call.

El Mirage police: Man uses sword to rob another man of cell phone (http://www.azcentral.com/community/surprise/articles/2009/11/23/20091123abrk-swordrobbery.html)
by Christina O'Haver - Nov. 23, 2009 03:16 PM
The Arizona Republic

A man was arrested in El Mirage early Saturday after he allegedly robbed another man of his cell phone while armed with a sword, police said.

At approximately 3:38 a.m., a man arrived at the police station and told officers that while he was attending a bonfire, another man threatened him with a sword and threw his cell phone into the fire, said Assistant Police Chief Bill Louis, a spokesman for the El Mirage Police Department.

According to Louis, the victim and the suspect were both attending the bonfire at a residence in the 14100 block of North Verbena Street when the suspect reportedly demanded that the victim give him his phone.

After the victim refused, the suspect allegedly held up a long renaissance-style sword to the victim's throat and threatened to kill him, Louis said. The victim then handed the suspect his cell phone and charger.

The suspect kept the charger but reportedly threw the phone into the fire. The victim, who was not injured, left the scene and went to the police station.

When officers arrived at the residence, they found 26-year-old Angel Tonchez Reyes sitting on the sword with the phone charger in his pocket, Louis said.

The victim positively identified Reyes as his attacker, and police arrested him on suspicion of armed robbery, criminal damage and threatening.

Louis said both men had friends at the bonfire and it appeared they were welcome at the gathering, but they did not know each other.

Police did not have details about Reyes's motive for throwing the phone into the fire as of Monday afternoon.

uki

11-29-2009, 04:43 AM

i have a hanwei "banshee" on the dashboard of my truck. :)

GeneChing

11-30-2009, 02:53 PM

In PA. Good thing he didn't cross paths with uki.

Posted on Fri, Nov. 27, 2009
Pa. man jailed in Thanksgiving sword stabbing (http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/pennsylvania/20091127_ap_pamanjailedinthanksgivingswordstabbing .html)
The Associated Press

AMBRIDGE, Pa. - A black western Pennsylvania man has been charged with attempted homicide after police say he used an 18-inch sword to stab a drunk white man who yelled racial slurs at his own dog and the suspect.

Forty-four-year-old Vernon Bridges, of Ambridge, allegedly stabbed 48-year-old Ronald Book with an 18-inch blade concealed in a cane on Thanksgiving. Police say the blade went in Book's abdomen and came out his back.

Book was in critical condition at UPMC Presbyterian hospital.

Police say the stabbing happened after Bridges overheard Book, his neighbor, yelling racial slurs at the animal and Book's son , who is also white and had allegedly let the animal run free. Police say Book began yelling slurs at Bridges after he told Book to quiet down.

It's not clear if Bridges has an attorney. Police say Bridges is claiming self-defense.

Ambridge man still hospitalized after being stabbed with sword (http://www.timesonline.com/bct_news/news_details/article/1373/2009/november/28/ambridge-man-still-hospitalized-after-being-stabbed-with-sword.html)
By: Bill Vidonic
Beaver County Times
Saturday November 28, 2009 11:54 AM

AMBRIDGE — An Ambridge man stabbed with a sword blade hidden in a cane remained hospitalized Friday.

Ronald Book, 48, was run through with an 18-inch blade by Vernon Bridges during a fight filled with racial slurs, Ambridge police said. Book underwent surgery Thursday evening at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh; employees there refused to release additional information on his condition Friday, though police said he remained hospitalized.

Bridges, 44, was charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, owning a prohibited offensive weapon and reckless endangerment; he remained in the Beaver County Jail Friday.

Bridges confessed to stabbing Book, according to Ambridge police officer James Mann, but said he did so because he wanted Bridges to stop attacking him and that he not mean to stab Book in his upper body.

“(Bridges) stated God was testing him today and he failed God’s test miserably by stabbing Mr. Book,” Mann wrote in a police report.
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Mann said a drunken Ronald Book was arguing with his son, Joseph, 18, outside their 78 12th St. apartment building. The elder Book was upset that the family dog had gotten loose, calling his son and the dog racial slurs, Mann said.

Bridges, who also lives in the apartment building, came outside and commented on Book’s racial slur, Mann said, and Book then began using the slur toward Bridges while telling him to mind his business.

Book punched Bridges, knocking him to the ground, Mann said, and Bridges pulled the sword out of the sheath of the cane and thrust forward, the blade going all the way through Bridge’s abdomen and out his back.

Book collapsed, then tried to go after Bridges again, Mann said, but family members pulled Book aside.

Bridges told police that he meant to stab Book in the leg “to get him off of me,” Mann wrote in the police report, and continued to express remorse hours after the stabbing.

And another, for good measure... clearly swords and racial slurs don't mix.

Man arrested after he assaults man with sword (http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/crime/man-arrested-after-he-assaults-man-with-sword-425119.html)
By Staff Reports 8:08 PM Sunday, November 29, 2009

Jimmy D. Eads, 24, of Sherman Avenue, was arrested Saturday, Nov. 28, on charges of felonious assault and criminal damaging.

According to a police report, Eads was yelling racial slurs at a man. When the man turned toward him, Eads went into his apartment and returned with a sword.

Eads chased the man and cut him on the hand with the sword, the report said.

The man went into a house, then Eads put the blade of the sword through a window in the front door, shattering it, according to the report.

Eads told police he got the sword to defend himself after the man pepper-sprayed him, but the report stated a witness told police he saw the man walk away from Eads twice.

Eads was placed in the Clark County Jail.

uki

12-01-2009, 03:23 AM

In PA. Good thing he didn't cross paths with uki. if someone pulled a sword on me i'd probably laugh...

clearly swords and racial slurs don't mix.i do my best to be honest and sincere with everyone... if i was to degrade myself by using a racial slur that inadevertly results in me getting stabbed with a sword, obviously i had it coming. i marvel at the entire racism agenda, it makes no sense to me... people are different, if you can't accept who you are, you are never gonna be able to accept who someone else is. :)

Skip J.

12-01-2009, 09:18 AM

...i do my best to be honest and sincere with everyone... if i was to degrade myself by using a racial slur that inadevertly results in me getting stabbed with a sword, obviously i had it coming. i marvel at the entire racism agenda, it makes no sense to me... people are different, if you can't accept who you are, you are never gonna be able to accept who someone else is. :)
Amen brother, keep on truckin'........

Dragonzbane76

12-01-2009, 10:33 AM

i marvel at the entire racism agenda, it makes no sense to me... people are different, if you can't accept who you are, you are never gonna be able to accept who someone else is.

nail on the head :)

GeneChing

12-02-2009, 10:58 AM

You'd think we'd sell more samurai swords. (http://www.martialartsmart.com/35-1070.html) Not that I condone sword attacks in any way. I'm just sayin...:rolleyes:

Police find samurai sword in Bondi raid (http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/police-find-samurai-sword-in-bondi-raid-20091202-k48g.html)
December 2, 2009 - 7:34AM

A Samurai sword, ninja jacket and Indian Gurkha knife were among a stash of weapons discovered in a unit in Sydney's east, police say.

The weapons were allegedly uncovered during a search of the Ramsgate Avenue home at Bondi on Tuesday morning.

Police also allege they found a black dive knife, fireworks, a set of silver nunchaku and two silver flick knives in sheaths.

A 51-year-old man was charged with 13 counts of possess prohibited weapon and resist and intimidate police.

He was also charged over a domestic assault matter.

The man was refused bail and will appear at Waverley Local Court on Wednesday.
I'd be so busted in Sydney. I have all of that and more stashed away.

Man 'attacked Pc with samurai sword' (http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/Man-39attacked-Pc-with-samurai.5877893.jp)
02 December 2009
By Karon Kelly

QUICK-thinking and "blind luck" saved a policeman from serious injury when an attacker smashed a samurai sword down on his head, a court heard.
Pc Dave Martin had been called after reports of trouble to Drummond Crescent in Simonside, South Shields, in the early hours of May 6, where he was confronted by David Golightly, armed with two samurai swords.

Newcastle Crown Court yesterday heard only his own quick thinking saved Pc Martin from serious injury when Golightly used one of the weapons to strike his head.

Julian Smith, prosecuting, said: "In deliberately and viciously bringing that sword down on Pc Martin, actually striking his head, he was intending to cause really serious bodily harm.

"The fact he did not cause really serious bodily harm is only due to the actions of Pc Martin in defending himself and acting quickly to essentially protect himself and perhaps, frankly, blind luck."

The court heard police had been called after reports of cars being damaged in the Drummond Crescent/Henderson Road area.

When Pc Martin arrived at Drummond Crescent, he was confronted by Golightly, who lived in the street.

Mr Smith said: "As Pc Martin looks towards the front door, it bursts open and out comes Mr Golightly. He has a weapon in each hand. He comes across the drive and approaches Pc Martin, both (weapons) are raised and he's saying 'come on, I'm going to kill you', words to that effect.

"Pc Martin, who will tell you he was very frightened, has drawn his CS gas from his hip and raised it.

"He said 'put them down' but there was no effect on the defendant at all, he just kept coming towards him.

"He sprays him in the face but that has no effect, it does not slow down Mr Golightly.

"With great presence of mind, with Mr Golightly still coming towards him, Pc Martin lunged forward at the last moment as Mr Golightly brings down, quite deliberately, this sword.

"The Crown say a blow was struck with the sword. The intention is very clear. It is as well he stepped forward and became entangled with the defendant in the way he did because maybe that is what spoilt the aim.

"There was contact. Pc Martin's recalls a blow to his head with the flat of the sword."

The court heard Pc Martin's colleagues arrived at the scene and Golightly was restrained.

Golightly refused medical treatment to injuries he received in the struggle during his arrest.

In a police interview, Golightly admitted he had picked up a piece of wood but denied being armed with swords.

Golightly, 32, denies attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent, affray, assault, having offensive weapons and damaging four cars.

The trial continues.

GeneChing

12-07-2009, 04:07 PM

But I'll try....;)

Sword-wielding mum lashed out at crowd as she hunted for son (http://www.herald.ie/national-news/courts/swordwielding-mum--lashed-out-at-crowd-as-she-hunted-for-son-1966397.html)
By Eimear Cotter
Monday December 07 2009

A MOTHER-of-three brandished a large sword while she shouted at a group of people after fearing her son had been shot.

Jean Ellis (35) said she was at home making dinner when she heard a bang and thought her 16-year-old son had been shot.

When she couldn't see him, she got into her car and started trawling the neighbourhood looking for him.

She then came across a gang of people who verbally abused her and threw a hammer and the sword at her car.

Ellis was shouting at the gang and brandishing the sword when gardai arrived on the scene, a court heard.

A judge said that a sword is a "horrendous and frightening" implement, and she feared Ellis would have used it if the gardai had not come along.

Judge Mary Collins ordered Ellis to donate €400 to Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children and said she'd leave her without a conviction.

Ellis, with an address at Lissadell Road, Drimnagh, admitted before Dublin District Court to threatening and abusive behaviour and possession of a dangerous weapon.

The incident took place at Knocknarea Avenue, Drimnagh on July 3.

Threatening

Garda Peter Dunne said he was on mobile patrol around 10pm when he saw Ellis standing at the passenger side of her car and holding a sword. She was shouting and threatening a nearby group.

The court heard that Ellis, a childcare worker, has no previous convictions.

The court heard Ellis needs garda clearance to work in childcare and a conviction would affect her job.

Cathal O'Braonain, defending, said Ellis was at home making dinner when she heard a loud bang and her son screaming, and thought her son had been shot.

She went looking for him, and while she was searching the neighbourhood she came across a group of people who started shouting abuse at her and throwing items at her car.

Mr O'Braonain said Ellis had just got out of her car and was holding the sword when gardai arrived.

The gang that was hanging around quickly dispersed.

Mr O'Braonain said that Ellis is hard-working and of good character. She had simply found herself in an "extraordinary" situation while she was searching for her son.

This one has video.

Police searching for armed robbery suspects (http://www3.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO131261/)
Posted: Today at 6:45 am EST

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Police in Manchester, New Hampshire are searching for three suspects involved in a bizarre early morning armed robbery.

According to police, two masked men armed with a sword held up a Tedeschi Food Shop on Maple Street around 4:30 a.m. Sunday. A third female suspect acted as a getaway driver.

The two men forced the clerk to open the register after they attacked him with a sword.

“He described this knife as having a curvy blade and two skulls around the handle area...The subjects entered the store, pushed him up against the counter, he was able to break his way free of them,” said Lt. Ernie Goodno of the Manchester Police Department.

Police said the suspects ran after the clerk when he tried to escape.

He attempted to fight off his attackers in the parking lot with the coffee pot in his hand when one suspect stabbed him in the back with the sword.

Customers are shocked.

“A sword? That’s crazy. Manchester’s turning into a bad city,” said Ashley Brown, a customer.

The two men then forced the injured clerk back inside the store to open the register. The suspects demanded money and got away with an unknown amount of cash.

Police in Manchester are increasing patrols and are hoping the surveillance pictures and unusual weapon choice will help them catch these violent suspects.

Police said the men escaped in a red car that was waiting for them in parking lot.

The clerk went to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries and is expected to be okay.

Barefoot bandits armed with shovel, 'sword' hold-up service station (http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,,26456494-3102,00.html)
Sophie Elsworth
December 08, 2009 06:15am

BAREFOOT bandits armed with a "sword-like" weapon and shovel held up at service station south of Brisbane last night.

About 10pm three men approached the service station on the corner of Park Ridge Rd and Chambers Flat Rd at Park Ridge and two of the men demanded money from the console operator.

One man was armed with a weapon similar to a sword and another with a shovel.

The third did not have a weapon.

Two of the men entered the service station while the third men keep at look out.

The console operator handed over cash to the men who then ran from the store.

All of the men were described as Caucasian and about 175cm tall.

The first man who was barefoot and was wearing white board shorts with black marking on the sides.

He had a purple beanie with holes cut into it covering his face.

The second man who was also barefoot was wearing a black baseball cap and a blue bandanna over his face.

The third man was wearing a black beanie with holes cut into it over his face and had black sports shoes on.

Anyone with information should contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

4 nabbed with swords from PU
(http://www.indianexpress.com/news/4-nabbed-with-swords-from-PU/551332)
One of the youths was posing as a Punjab Police officer

The Chandigarh Police arrested a youth posing as a Punjab Police officer from the Panjab University campus on Monday evening and recovered a sword from his possession. His three accomplices have also been rounded up by the police.

Manminder Singh, a resident of Ludhiana, was arrested from near the Law Department auditorium where he had come in his Tata Safari around 5.15 pm.

Sukhbir Rana, station house officer of the Sector-11 police station, said the youth was caught when the police searched his vehicle (CH 03 J 0001) and found a sword in it.

The youth told the police that he had come to the city to take Rs 20,000 from a boy whom he had lent money some time back. “Manminder, who is in his mid-twenties, said the boy had been evading him,” the SHO said.

TaichiMantis

12-08-2009, 05:03 AM

Man, you are really running with this theme! I salute you sir!;)

GeneChing

12-08-2009, 10:52 AM

another samurai sword (http://www.martialartsmart.com/ninja-samurai-kendo-samurai-kendo-weapon.html)... click link for vid.

Bend teen gets 7 1/2 years in samurai sword stabbing (http://www.ktvz.com/Global/story.asp?S=11638320)
Posted: Dec 7, 2009 09:22 PM
Last Updated: Dec 8, 2009 09:22 AM
By Barney Lerten and Kelsey Watts, KTVZ.COM

One year, two months and a day after Tracy Rost was stabbed through the chest with a samurai sword, his girlfriend's now-17-year-old son, Kaleb Brown, was sentenced to 7 ½ years in prison in a packed courtroom Monday afternoon.

Brown, initially facing murder, manslaughter and assault charges, entered a conditional "Alford plea" of guilty in mid-October to lesser charges of criminally negligent homicide and unlawful use of a weapon. It's a plea that means the teen was not admitting to the charges, only that evidence could convince a jury to convict him.

Brown, dressed in a dark suit and wearing handcuffs and waist chains, sat beside defense lawyer Aaron Brenneman, listening in Deschutes County Circuit Judge Michael Sullivan's courtroom as Deputy District Attorney Darryl Nakahira laid out the details of what Brown, his mother, Kelli Fischer, and younger sister said had happened the night of Oct. 6, 2008.

But first, Sullivan warned the crowd to turn off its cell phones, or risk being kicked out of court, and to do as directed. "I know people feel strongly about this case," the judge said, describing what constitutes contempt of court.

The teen had moved from his grandparents' home to his mother's only a month before, and he and his mother said Rost, who had lived with Fischer for about 10 years, was heavily intoxicated that night, and prone to getting angry and picking fights in that condition.

"They had decided a week (earlier) to break up," Nakahira said.

The medical examiner found that Rost had a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit that night.

Nakahira said Rost was arguing with and accusing the teen of smoking marijuana in the house, which he steadfastly denied. After Brown went to his room upstairs in the home, Rost followed, and the argument intensified, with Brown shutting the door on Rost, and his mother trying to keep Rost from bursting in, as he pounded on the closed door..

"Leave my mom alone – don't touch her!" Brown was quoted as saying, before Rost got through the bedroom door and threw him to the bed.

"I'm not afraid of you!" Brown told Rost, his mother told police.

According to the accounts shared in court, Brown picked up a hammer he had been using to put decorations on the wall, and Rost grabbed the hammer and all three fell on the bed.

At some point, Rost let go of the hammer, but raised his fist, at which point Brown grabbed a samurai sword off the wall, pulled it out of its sheath, and the stabbing took place.

Fischer, frantic, put pressure on the wound to try to stop the bleeding and had her daughter call 911; Rost died later at the hospital.

"Mom, I'm sorry," Brown reportedly told Fischer, "but I didn't want him to hurt you."

Brown told a neighbor he stabbed Rost after "he came at me with a hammer."

Brown did not speak at his sentencing, having been advised by his lawyer not to speak due to a $3 million civil lawsuit filed by Rost's ex-wife. The suit alleges Brown's guardians were negligent for buying him the sword, and describes the killing as an accident.

But Sullivan said Brown's refusal to speak in court offered no closure for Rost's family.

"So I will say, to the family and friends of Mr. Rost, I'm sorry abut the tragic and needless death of your loved one," the judge said.

Brown is eligible for early release, but Sullivan told him he must earn it. The teen also can appeal the sentence, but must file the papers within 30 days.

Both the teen's and victim's families offered emotional pleas in court, and both sides said it wasn't the outcome they wanted.

Rost's family, as it has before, expressed anger over the sentence, saying it was not long enough, and that the justice system had failed them.

Meanwhile, Brown's family said the teen acted not only in self-defense, but also defending his mother, and that he did not deserve to go to prison as a result.

During the emotionally charged sentencing, members of Rost's family - many of whom traveled long distances to be there - spoke to the judge about the man they love and remember, begging for Brown to get the maximum sentence possible.

The Rost family had wanted brown to be sentenced on a murder charge - a Measure 11 crime, with 25 years behind bars, if convicted.

One family member said, "I had a discussion with God the other day. He said everything would work out. I want him (Brown) to know, he's going to carry this with him the rest of his life. Every day he wakes up, he's going to carry this bag of rocks with him."

Brown's mother also spoke before the packed courtroom, telling her son not to listen to the "negativity."

"I am not without sorrow or sympathy for the loss of Tracy's life," Fischer said. "However, it is my family and my children that I will continue to love and support as we all go through the healing process, and go on with our lives."

But Brown's attorney said the potential for a long prison term, if convicted of murder, prompted them to accept the plea deal.

"I don't think it's a happy ending for anybody," Brenneman said. "I think the families - and I can't speak for the Rosts - are glad this is over."

"It's not closure," the victim's tearful brother, Bobby Rost, said outside the courtroom. "It's the end of the criminal phase, but there's a civil litigation that's starting. But it's far from closure - this is ... a very disappointing day for us in the justice system."

"We really miss Tracy," he added, tears filling his eyes. "Sorry. It's just unbelievable how much we miss him."

GeneChing

12-11-2009, 10:58 AM

samurai sword vs. tazer

Suspect dies after being tased by Hampton police (http://www.wvec.com/news/Suspect-dies-after-being-tasered-by-Hampton-police-79062207.html)
by 13 News
Posted on December 11, 2009 at 11:18 AM

HAMPTON -- A 36-year-old man died after being tased by police in Hampton Thursday night.

Police say they were serving a warrant at the man's home on Overlook Court about 11:00 p.m. when the man started swinging a samurai sword at the officers.

Police say they used a taser to subdue the man but he removed the taser probes and continued to swing the sword at the officers.

Police used the taser a second time on the man and attempted to place him in custody. That's when police say the man stopped breathing.

Police called paramedics and began CPR. He was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead at 1:15 a.m.

Police say they will release the man's identity when family members are notified.

The officers involved in the incident have been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. Police say this is standard procedure.

Dec 11, 2009 11:44 am US/Eastern
Sword-wielding Va. Man Shot With Stun Gun Dies (http://wjz.com/wireapnewsva/Man.wielding.sword.2.1364306.html)
HAMPTON, Va. (AP) ― Hampton police are investigating the death of a man who was shot twice with a stun gun by officers after he repeatedly swung a samurai-style sword at them.

Police spokeswoman Cpl. Paula Scheck says the 36-year-old man was pronounced dead at a local hospital at about 1:15 a.m. Friday. He wasn't identified.

Scheck says the officers went to the man's home Thursday night to serve an emergency custody order to take him for a mental evaluation.

A police statement says the man swung the sword at the officers and they shot him with a stun gun. He continued to swing the weapon and was shot again.

He then stopped breathing. The officers began CPR and called medics.

The officers are on administrative leave.

GeneChing

12-14-2009, 10:59 AM

This sort of dangled anywhere else so I'm posting it here for contrast.

Yemeni daggers convey history, changing times (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/13/MN631B0VRF.DTL)
Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
Sunday, December 13, 2009
(12-13) 04:00 PST Sanaa, Yemen --

There's disagreement in the dagger market.

The old man with the gold-threaded turban and magnifying glass has set a price, but the younger man examines the curved blade, shakes his head and walks away into the shadows that play off awnings in the late morning light.

"He'll be back," says Shalan bin Yehaye Hbubari, a merchant of supreme patience, sliding the magnifying glass into his blazer pocket and brushing dust from his tunic. He offers a piece of candy.

Another man makes an inquiry and conversation turns to the black rhinoceros, whose horns for centuries were carved into dagger handles. Today, molded plastic and horns from lesser beasts are used.

"I refuse to sell those knockoffs. I get sad when I see them," says Hbubari, gripping the rhino-handled dagger, known as a jambia, stuffed into his belt. "This will endure forever. Those cheap plastic ones last only a few months, like a pair of shoes. This dagger has been in my family for 800 years. It's a symbol of honor, and besides, we Yemenis like our weapons."

Yemen began losing its stake in the trade in 1982, when international regulations were strengthened to protect the endangered animal from poachers. Since then, rhino horns occasionally appear on Sanaa's black market, but daggers these days are made mostly with other materials, which Yemenis refer to as "Chinese products," even though none of them comes from that far away.

"If something bad pops up in the market, we blame the Chinese," Hbubari says. "My business has dropped 1,000 percent over the years."

To purists such as Hbubari, the pervasiveness of knockoffs has damaged the majesty of the dagger and degraded tradition in a land where a man's identity and standing can be gauged by the shape of his sheath, the quality of his hilt. It also has inflated prices of rhino-handled knives, which can sell for tens of thousands of dollars; there are reports of thieves blowing spices into the eyes of old men and vanishing with daggers in the alleys around the 1,400-year-old Grand Mosque.

Slip through the old city gate, past spice, salt and linen sellers to the spot where steel glints in the sun and boys in workshops soften leather and hammer gold studs into sheath belts. Dagger handles catch the light; their colors, ranging from brackish green to lighter shades of mixed yellow and shallot onion, are examined by men who hold the jambia as if it were as delicate as a bird's wing.

They feel the weight, the balance of metal and horn. The bargaining begins, and men, sometimes with their sons trailing, traipse from merchant to merchant, offers and counteroffers echoing through the souk. Those who aren't buying ask for estimates of their jambia's worth, discussing its age, who wore it, whose father's father bought it and where, in the mountains or along the sea.

Sparks flying off his grinder, the scent of plastic hanging over him, Abdullah Kaidami is not so wedded to tradition.

"The rhino dagger is decreasing by the day," he says. "The prices rise and rise. It's good for our business, though. We make handles out of plastic and cow horns from India. Look at it, it looks just like a rhino horn, except if it falls and hits the ground, it'll break."

He smiles, gives a reassuring nod.

"We add chemicals to make the rhino color."

His daggers sell for $15; the rhino jambias are priced from $1,500 around the corner. Yemeni men like to say that President Ali Abdullah Saleh's dagger is worth $1 million, made before anyone thought of protecting the rhino or sprinkling the powder of its horns into aphrodisiacs.

"A lot of people have been deceived by jambia knockoffs," says Kaidami, a slender 17-year-old with a shopkeeper's quick eye who has been selling jambias since he was 10. "Many tribesmen still believe in the power of the rhino. They think if a snake bites you, you put the rhino dagger on the bite and you will be healed. The kings used to have rhino cups, and if anyone tried to poison them, the cup would absorb the poison and the king would be saved."

Kaidami begins smoothing the edges of another imitation handle.

"I wear my rhino jambia at weddings," he says, "but in everyday life, I wear this one made of cow horns."

A woman dips her hands into sacks of cashews and pistachios, a holy man hurries toward the mosque, and a few men try on sheath belts at Luft Abdullah Sanubani's shop on the corner, a crossroads of commerce, lore and gossip. Sanubani says his rhino dagger is 150 years old, worn proudly over his belly like a huge belt buckle shaped like a glittering crescent moon.

"I was 15 when my father gave it to me. It was then I became a man," he says. "I was married quickly after that, the same year, in fact. I had 14 children, but seven died. My wife is a strong, good woman."

He doesn't say how they died, and nobody presses him. He goes silent for a moment and then comes back to himself. His son, Abulmalik, sits nearby surrounded by shiny threads and studs, a small hammer in his hand, rows of sheath belts hanging from the ceiling.

"A good jambia handle has three colors for morning, afternoon and night," Sanubani says. "The morning color is yellowish. In the afternoon, it is green, and by night, it deepens close to black. That's because the rhino horn was created by God, not man. There's something alive inside the horn, inside the handle. It grows and changes colors."

He slides his dagger out of its sheath. It is worn, the way a river smooths a stone; the handle's gold and silver designs and speckles have faded. It might have been a weapon years ago, but these days, it is an ornament, a link to who he is, and sometimes, when he passes other men, he recognizes in their daggers a tribal flourish or the blade of an honored elder.

In the next alley over, the man who walked away from Hbubari returns like the old man knew he would. More bargaining; men gather to listen. A radio is turned down, and even passing women, loaded with bags in the way that men are not, take a quick glimpse.

"What can you afford?"

The man purses his lips, consults a whispering friend.

A brief silence, a bit more haggling. The price is agreed at $29,000. A certificate is drawn up, hands shaken. Hbubari is happy, another rhino dagger sold amid the knockoffs.

GeneChing

12-15-2009, 10:57 AM

I'm getting samurai sword (http://www.martialartsmart.com/ninja-samurai-kendo-samurai-kendo-weapon.html)envy. It's never a tai chi sword. (http://www.martialartsmart.com/weapons-chinese-weapons-tai-chi-swords.html) Is that wrong of me? :o

Published December 15 2009
Wife goes after husband with Samurai sword (http://www.riverfallsjournal.com/event/article/id/93765/)
By: Phil Pfuehler, River Falls Journal

River Falls police were sent to a home on West Johnson Street early Sunday Monday where a naked woman was chasing her husband with a katana – often called a Samurai sword. Officers found the 30-year-old woman holed up in the basement. After some persuading and with one officer aiming a stun gun at her, she finally dropped the sword.

A female Pierce County Sheriff’s deputy assisted in getting the woman dressed.

The suspect was described as incoherent. She sang, said she was trying to move objects with her mind, worried that Satan would take over her body but that George Carlin was alive and is God, and that she wanted to take a spaceship to the moon for a concert with dead rock musicians Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison.

While the woman said she and her husband smoked pot the night before, there was no indication drug use brought on the wild, violent behavior.

The woman’s two small children were upstairs sleeping. The disturbance woke and upset them. A grandmother came to take them away.

The woman was eventually transported to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation. She could face charges from the district attorney for endangering safety with a weapon.

Sword-Wielding Man Charged After Fleeing Police (http://www.wlky.com/news/21972768/detail.html)
Woman Called Police When Man Tried To Cut Screen
POSTED: 11:32 am EST December 15, 2009
UPDATED: 11:45 am EST December 15, 2009

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A Louisville man faces several charges, accused by police of trying to break into a house using a samurai sword.

According to the arrest record, police were called to a house on 24th Street after a woman saw a man trying to get in her window.

When officers arrived, they saw Dwayne Quisenberry cutting a window screen with a samurai sword, police said.

The arrest record said Quisenberry ran as officers tried to arrest him. After a short chase and repeated orders to put his hands behind his back, police finally subdued and arrested Quisenberry.

He's charged with burglary, fleeing and evading, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

GeneChing

12-17-2009, 10:58 AM

My friends on the force often use this term. They hate it.

E. Peoria cops kill sword-wielding man (http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1943242,police-shooting-sword-peoria-121609.article)
December 16, 2009
ASSOCIATED PRESS

EAST PEORIA, Ill. — Authorities say a 48-year-old man allegedly armed with a sword and knife is dead following a police-involved shooting in East Peoria.

The Peoria County Coroner’s Office has identified the man as Samuel Craft.

He died of multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead Tuesday evening at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria. Police in East Peoria went into the man’s house about 6 p.m. Tuesday after a 911 call about a suicidal man. Officers allege the man was armed with a sword and knife and ignored demands to drop weapons.

Police Chief Ed Papis says the officers had no alternative but to shoot the man.

Papis says the incident is under investigation.

Family of East Peoria man questions shooting (http://www.pjstar.com/news/x967377153/Man-fatally-shot-by-EP-police-IDd)
Patrick Oldendorf/JS
Posted Dec 16, 2009 @ 08:46 AM
Last update Dec 16, 2009 @ 10:57 PM
EAST PEORIA —

The family of the man fatally shot by East Peoria police Tuesday is searching for answers to their questions about the tragedy.

"We want to know why they shot him and killed him," said Kathy Wolf, the man's mother-in-law, on Wednesday. "Why couldn't they shoot him in the arms or the legs like they do everywhere else to (criminals such as) murders?"

Samuel Craft, 48, of 116 Sun Valley Court, Apt. C2, was pronounced dead at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria about 8 p.m. Tuesday.

At a news conference Wednesday, East Peoria Police Chief Ed Papis commended his officers for showing "great" restraint.

Craft was armed with a knife and a three-foot sword and was within 10 feet of the officers when they opened fire, Papis said. He was ordered several times to put his weapons down prior to the gunfire. Three shots were fired by two officers. Papis declined to name the officers or say how long they had been with the department.

All three bullets hit the man, one each in the head, abdomen and arm.

Officers are trained to shoot when a person with a knife is within 21 feet because it takes only seconds to cover that distance, Papis said.

But Micke Craft, the slain man's wife, said she still didn't understand the officers' decisions to use lethal force.

"They should have shot him in the knees . . . not fatally like they did," she said.

Police were called to the Sun Valley Apartments, 116 Sun Valley Court, about 6 p.m. Tuesday after a 911 caller reported a man was holding a sword standing outside and threatening to kill people. Officers arrived on the scene within minutes.

The reason Samuel Craft ignored commands to drop his weapons wasn't clear to police on Wednesday. He had tried to commit suicide in 2003, Micke Craft said. He also had a history with the police, but Papis declined to comment on what that history was.

The shooting is now being investigated by the Illinois State Police, a common practice in officer-involved shootings. Once that investigation is complete, the report will go to Stewart Umholtz, Tazewell County state's attorney, for review. Papis said that all preliminary reports show his officers made the right, and legal, decision to open fire.

Samuel Craft had the sword as a collector's item, his wife said.

Before the shooting, Samuel Craft, who worked as a welder at Caterpillar Inc. and in the kitchen at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, was known as a kind, caring man, and his family says that's how he'll be remembered.

"He was always there to help," Micke Craft said. "No matter what, he was willing to help out. He was just kind and compassionate."

That sentiment was echoed by Craft's neighbors.

"He was always helping people out with their cars," said Michael Hampton, a resident of the Sun Valley Apartments. "That's how I knew him, he'd come and help me with my car."

Craft's handiwork seemed a well-known trait around the Sun Valley Apartments.

"He seemed like a nice fellow," said Rick Meyer, Samuel Craft's neighbor. "He did a lot of wood working and was always outside working on stuff with his boys."

The Crafts have four sons, 18, 9, 7, and 1, and Samuel Craft was always there for them.

"He always made sure his boys had everything they needed, even if it meant that he would go with nothing," mother-in-law Wolf said. "One year I called and told him that it was getting cold and that the kids needed new coats. He went out and bought them right away, and not the cheap ones, either."

GeneChing

12-18-2009, 03:34 PM

Don't drink and sword.

Yavapai County Man Cuts Off Girlfriend's Finger With Sword So She Could "Earn His Trust," According to Police (http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2009/12/yavapai_county_man_cuts_off_gi.php)
By James King in Crime Blotter
Fri., Dec. 18 2009 @ 11:51AM

Most trust-building exercises entail things like telling someone a secret or having someone fall backwards as the other person catches him or her. It seems 48-year-old Ronald Gene Olivier is unfamiliar with these approaches, because in attempt to "trust" his girlfriend, he chopped her finger off with a sword.

The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office says, on December 12, Olivier spent the majority of the day drinking beer and getting upset.

After getting good and hammered -- as well as nice and ****ed off -- Olivier locked both his girlfriend and his mother in a room for no apparent reason and went and got his sword.

After threatening to kill both women, and hitting the girlfriend with the sword, Olivier seemed to develop said trust issues with his lady friend, telling her that in order to gain back his trust, he wanted to chop off her pinky finger.

After being threatened with death, the woman reluctantly put her finger on a table, and Olivier hacked it off with his sword.

When the girlfriend -- now sans one finger -- tried to track down her missing appendage, Olivier refused to let her look for it, so she escaped from the room where she was being held and ran to a neighbor's house.

When police got to the scene, Olivier had run away, according to his mommy, but returned home a few hours later, where police were waiting to slap the cuffs on him.

Olivier was booked on two counts of kidnapping per domestic violence, two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of preventing use of a telephone per domestic violence, criminal damage, and resisting arrest.

As for the pinky: Olivier's girlfriend may want to make the switch from gloves to mittens this winter because paramedics were unable to reattach it.

YCSO: Man Cuts Off Girlfriend's Finger (http://www.kpho.com/news/22006647/detail.html)
POSTED: 11:34 am MST December 18, 2009
UPDATED: 12:00 pm MST December 18, 2009

PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- A 48-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion he cut off a portion of his girlfriend’s finger with a sword, Yavapai County sheriff’s deputies said.

Ronald Olivier had also threatened to kill her and his 68-year-old mother during an incident on Dec. 12, deputies said.

Deputies said the victim told them Olivier had been drinking all day and became upset with her attitude toward him.

Olivier locked her and his mother in a room and threatened to harm them with the sword if they attempted to leave, deputies said. At one point, he began hitting her with the sword and threatened to kill both of them, sheriff’s investigators said.

Olivier's girlfriend attempted to escape at least twice, deputies said. Olivier told her she needed to be punished and earn his trust and demanded to cut off one of her fingers, deputies said.

Under threat of death, he placed her hand on a table and cut off a portion of her left pinky finger with the sword, deputies said. Olivier refused to let her recover the severed finger, investigators said. The victim ran to a neighbor's home and sought help, deputies said.

EMS personnel later located the severed finger and the woman was taken to the Verde Valley Medical Center.

Olivier was booked into the Camp Verde Detention Center on two counts of kidnapping per domestic violence, two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of preventing use of a telephone per domestic violence, criminal damage and resisting arrest.

He remains in custody on a $150,000 bond.

Doctors were unable to reattach the victim's finger.

GeneChing

12-22-2009, 11:10 AM

Who the heck is giving the homeless swords?

Police hunt for sword-wielding man in Gilroy (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/21/BAJ81B7UBN.DTL)
Nanette Asimov, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, December 22, 2009

(12-21) 20:13 PST Gilroy -- A sword-wielding man reportedly stabbed another man with the weapon early Monday in Gilroy, police said.

Police are searching for 52-year-old Lee Brazwell, Jr., whom they described as a 5-foot-9 transient with brown hair and eyes, weighing about 140 pounds and wearing blue jeans and a denim jacket.

The victim, 40, was stabbed about 5:30 a.m. at 5920 Travel Park Circle. His wounds were not life-threatening, police said.

The assailant was gone by the time officers arrived.

Anyone with information may call the Gilroy Police Department at (408) 846-0350.

Gilroy police look for homeless man accused of attack with sword (http://www.mercurynews.com/valley/ci_14042005)
By Lisa Fernandez
lfernandez@mercurynews.com
Posted: 12/21/2009 09:13:54 AM PST
Updated: 12/21/2009 11:38:30 AM PST

Gilroy police are looking for a 52-year-old homeless man who they say attacked someone this morning with a sword.

Police said the victim, a 40-year-old man, and another witness identified the attacker as Lee Brazwell Jr., a 140-pound white man with brown eyes and brown hair wearing blue jeans and a denim jacket. They said he was about 5 feet 9 inches tall.

The victim sustained non-life-threatening injuries. He told police he was assaulted about 5:30 a.m. at 5920 Travel Park Circle.

Police did not disclose a motive for the attack or describe the sword in any detail.

Anyone with information about this case was asked to contact the Gilroy Police Department at 408-846-0350.

Contact Lisa Fernandez at 408-920-5002.

GeneChing

12-23-2009, 11:13 AM

two samurai swords (http://www.martialartsmart.com/ninja-samurai-kendo-samurai-kendo-weapon.html)...

Jailed samurai sword killer dies (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/8427936.stm)

Daniel Leather killed his father with two samurai swords

A man who admitted killing his father with two samurai swords in the family home in southern Scotland has died.

Daniel Leather, 23, from Sanquhar, was being held in Manchester Prison at the time of his death at the weekend.

He was 17 when he killed his father, John, at the family cottage, claiming Satan had told him to carry out the attack.

Leather was originally charged with murder but was jailed for five years in 2004 after admitting culpable homicide.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard he was suffering from a depressive mental illness at the time of the attack.

A Prison Service spokesman confirmed paramedics had been called to Leather's cell in the early hours of Saturday morning.

He was taken to Manchester Royal Infirmary where he was later pronounced dead.

The spokesman added: "Our thoughts are with Mr Leather's family and friends.

"As with all deaths in custody, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman will conduct an investigation."

GeneChing

12-29-2009, 10:39 AM

At least they distinguished it as 'ornamental'.

Dad drew sword during family row (http://www.runcornandwidnesworld.co.uk/news/4820645.Dad_drew_sword_during_family_row/)
7:40am Tuesday 29th December 2009
By Hannah Bargery »

A FATHER has been given a restraining order after brandishing an ornamental samurai sword in a room where there was an 18-month-old baby.

David Flynn, 41, of Milton Road, Widnes, was charged with affray after a family argument escalated and Mr Flynn threatened to use the sword to harm himself.

Mr Flynn pleaded guilty at Warrington Crown Court on Friday.

Peter Hussey, prosecuting, said: “The defendant was in the living room and had been drinking.

“He began swearing during an argument which stems from continuing friction with his daughter and ex-partner.

“When sober he admitted there had been a row and he had picked up the sword during the course of the argument.”

The court heard that Mr Flynn brandished the sword in front of his 20-year-old daughter, an 18-month-old baby and two other children.

Simon Berkson, defending, told the court that Mr Flynn’s wife had attacked him in the past.

Judge Nicholas Woodward ordered Mr Flynn to complete 160 hours of unpaid work and prohibited him from contacting or approaching his wife or daughter for 24 months.

He said: “It must have been an upsetting experience for them in such a small room.

“At your age, the time for nonsense has gone and you have got to show a level of responsibility.”

GeneChing

12-30-2009, 01:32 PM

Bad choice in BFs.

Dec 30, 2009 9:34 am US/Central
Minn. Man Accused Of Threatening Teen With Sword (http://wcco.com/crime/sword.threatening.teen.2.1397046.html)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ―

A Richfield man is accused of abusing his girlfriend's teenage son, breaking his nose and threatening to cut him open with a samurai sword.

Forty-four-year-old Craig J. Kurzawski was charged Tuesday with a felony count of making terroristic threats and a gross misdemeanor count of malicious punishment of a child.

The teen's mother tells authorities Kurzawski punched the 14-year-old in the face and torso while forcing him to do push-ups, sit-ups and squats.

She says Kurzawski also took a sword off the wall and ran it along the boy's chest from his neck to his stomach, saying he could "cut (the boy) open like a dead fish."

A Hennepin County court official says Kurzawski did not have an attorney listed Wednesday morning. Kurzawski is due in court Wednesday afternoon.

uki

01-04-2010, 04:11 AM

Bad choice in BFs.w... t... f... seems like a crazy polish guy - military backround perhaps?? :p

uki

01-04-2010, 04:16 AM

people are really whacky... i have swords all over the house(the sharp ones are outta reach or sight) my two year old is now getting into holding a small spring steel broadsword, while the 5 year old is now interested in doing "ballet dancing" while holding the sword - swords are just an ordinary part of our life i guess. :D

Lucas

01-04-2010, 04:25 PM

Bad choice in BFs.

i thought we just considered that good martial arts instruction?!?!

:confused:

;)

GeneChing

01-05-2010, 10:58 AM

At least they aren't samurai swords (http://www.martialartsmart.com/ninja-samurai-kendo-samurai-kendo-weapon.html). ;)

Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Lynn man charged with sword attack (http://www.itemlive.com/articles/2010/01/05/news/news05.txt)
By Robin Kaminski / The Daily Item

LYNN - A Lynn man charged with wielding a long sword while chasing a victim down Franklin Street and screaming he was going to die was ordered held for a mental health evaluation Monday at Lynn District Court.

John A. Hensey, 28, of 28 Franklin St., #9 was arrested around 4:30 a.m. Saturday and charged with armed assault with intent to murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, sword, and carrying a dangerous weapon, sword.

Hensey was scheduled for an arraignment Monday at Lynn District Court, however, Judge Albert Conlon ordered it continued until Jan. 21 while Hensey undergoes a mental health evaluation. Hensey is being held in Middleton Jail in the meantime.

According to the victim, he had gone over Hensey's house around 4 a.m. and noticed the suspect in the foyer of the building, holding a long sword.

After a short conversation, the 6-foot, 1-inch, 240 lb. Hensey, who is unemployed, reportedly told the victim that he smelled "like dead bodies" and asked him, "Are you sure you didn't kill anyone tonight?"

The victim later told police that he left the building and started walking away in the middle of a snowstorm, when he noticed Hensey coming up from behind him on the quiet street. As the victim turned around, he said Hensey was reportedly holding the sword above his head and quickly swung it at him, forcing the victim to jump backward to avoid being cut by the sword.
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Hensey then began wildly swinging the sword multiple times, cutting the victim and causing a minor injury to his left hand. As he continued to swing the sword, the victim said Hensey shouted, "You killed someone, you raped someone, now it's your turn."

Fearing for his life, the victim said he ran away toward City Hall Square, while Hensey continued to chase him and yell that he was going to die.

The victim managed to run to his girlfriend's apartment on Essex Street and called the police.

Upon arrival, police found Hensey walking through City Hall Square toward Franklin Street, carrying a sword by his side. With drawn firearms, officers ordered Hensey to drop his weapon into the snow and get on the ground.

He was handcuffed, taken into custody and booked without incident.

A martial arts enthusiast? Hopefully not one of our forum members...

Man holds police at bay for 4 hours (http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/26/2010/january/05/man-holds-police-at-bay-for-4-hours.html)
By: DAVID LEVINSKY
Burlington County Times

MEDFORD LAKES - A nearly four-hour standoff between a borough man and police officers ended without serious injury Monday morning when the man was taken into custody without incident.

The standoff occurred at a home on Mohawk Trail and ended in the arrest of 22-year-old David A. Simpkins on charges of unlawful possession of a weapon, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, borough police Chief Frank Martine said.

According to Martine, Simpkins began acting strangely Sunday night by wielding a sword inside his parents' home. His behavior became more disturbing and prompted members of his family to flee and call police at 3:05 a.m.

Medford Lakes Officer William Thompson responded and found Simpkins on the front porch with the sword in his hand. The officer began talking to Simpkins and convinced him to discard the sword, but Simpkins ran inside the house and locked the door.

Other borough officers arrived and attempted to talk him into surrendering, but Simpkins refused to speak to them and damaged his cell phone, Martine said.
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A New Jersey State Police tactical team responded and arrested Simpkins after convincing him to come outside.

"They were able to talk him out of the house with a (public address) system. He was very belligerent and was yelling, swearing and threatening before he went back inside the house," Martine said. "He then came outside a second time and (officers) were able to move quickly on him before he went back inside."

Simpkins suffered a hand injury before his arrest and was taken to Virtua Marlton hospital, Martine said.

He was returned to police headquarters for processing. He later was released on his own recognizance in lieu of $22,500 bail, police said.

Simpkins was a martial arts enthusiast who kept several swords in the home, Martine said.

Alcohol was believed to be a factor in the incident, but police aren't sure what triggered Simpkins' behavior, the police chief said.

A neighbor on Mohawk Trail said she was surprised by his arrest.

"Around here everyone considers him a very polite and nice young man," said the neighbor, who asked not to be identified. "We don't know what to think."

GeneChing

01-06-2010, 10:22 AM

I suppose that's odd in a city intersection...:rolleyes:

Written by Kye Parsons
Sword-Wielding Man Arrested by Cambridge Police (http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S=11765402)
Posted: Jan 4, 2010 10:29 AM

CAMBRIDGE, Md.- Cambridge police say a 48-year-old man is facing weapons and related charges after being accused of waving a sword in a city intersection.

Police say that on Dec. 30 at 1:49 p.m., officers responded to a report of a man standing in the intersection of Choptank Avenue and School Street waving a sword.

Officers who arrived on the scene observed the suspect, identified as Zackaris Eaddy Jr., of the 200 block of Choptank Avenue. Police say officers ordered Eaddy to drop the sword and he complied. However, when officers tried to arrest Eaddy, they say he became combative.

Eaddy was taken into custody and charged with second-degree assault, disorderly conduct, possession of a dangerous and deadly weapon and resisting arrest. He is being held in the Dorchester County Detention Center on $70,000 bond.

uki

01-06-2010, 10:38 AM

Hopefully not one of our forum members...LOL... if i ever get into trouble with my swords, i'm gonna tell em "gene told me to do it for this thread!" :p:D

SnowDog

01-06-2010, 12:28 PM

I suppose that's odd in a city intersection...:rolleyes:

But, is there a better place to wave a sword around than CHOPTANK AVE. :D

TaichiMantis

01-06-2010, 01:50 PM

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10422279-1.html

If anyone is looking to send me a 50th birthday present next month...;)

/shameless begging

GeneChing

01-12-2010, 11:17 AM

If your posts on this forum come up in court, we'll just cite your drug references. ;)

Pipes, Swords Used In Fight, Police Say (http://www.wmur.com/news/22208404/detail.html)
Two Pipes Found Near Area Where Fight Broke Out

POSTED: 3:03 pm EST January 11, 2010
UPDATED: 3:25 pm EST January 11, 2010

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Police in Manchester are investigating a fight in which pipes and swords were reportedly used.

Police responded to Conant Street near Rimmon Street just after midnight on Sunday after receiving a report that a fight had broken out between two groups of people and pipes and chains were being used.

Police said when the first officer arrived at the scene he saw 10 to 12 people fighting in the area. When the officer ordered the groups to stop fighting all but one person complied, and instead shouted obscenities at the officer and punched the side of a building, according to police.

The man then fled the area but was later arrested in a nearby apartment, police said. He was identified as 20-year-old Joshua Scott, of Manchester. Scott was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and unlawful possession of alcohol.

Joshua Scott

Police said the fight broke out over an argument about missing cigarettes. Police said some witnesses told them that some of the participants were armed with metal pipes and sword -- two pipes were later found at the scene.

An investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information should call Manchester police.

Pair Of Medics Attacked By Sword Wielding Patient (http://www.kwtx.com/offbeatnews/headlines/81233032.html)

LAUDERDALE COUNTY, Miss. (January 12, 2010)-Two Emergency Medical Technicians responding to a routine medical call are shaken up but otherwise uninjured following a bizarre weekend attack by a sword-wielding patient.

News 10’s sister station WTOK-TV in Meridian, Miss. reports the EMTs were attacked as they entered the house.

A Metro Ambulance spokesman says the attack happened on a routine “decreased level of consciousness” call.

Neither medic was seriously injured but they were certainly shaken up by the ordeal, the spokesman said.

It was not clear early Tuesday if assault charges would be filed against the patient.

Virginia Man Allegedly Assaults Fiance, Sister With Sword (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582626,00.html?test=latestnews)
Monday, January 11, 2010

ASHBURN, Va. — Authorities say they have arrested an Ashburn man they say assaulted his fiance and attacked her sister with a sword.

The Loudoun County sheriff's office says 27-year-old Richard V. Muse II has been charged with felony assault and domestic assault.

Deputies went to a home on Omeara Terrace early Monday for a report of a stabbing. They say Muse assaulted his 24-year-old fiance in a domestic dispute.

Sheriff spokesman Kraig Troxell says the woman's 28-year-old sister had arrived at the scene and Muse assaulted her with what's described as a samurai-style sword, nearly 6 feet long. She suffered injuries to her hand.

GeneChing

01-12-2010, 11:22 AM

George Kitayama wanted a wooden sword cane to show in his report on our local NBC news station. We only have metal canes (http://www.martialartsmart.com/45-40.html) and we blunt them because sword canes are illegal. I do have access to a wood cased sword cane, but I would have had to skip practice to meet with George to make the 11:00 news last night, so I bailed. I need my practice. :o

Blades Hidden in Walking Sticks Stun Owners (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126316871968524007.html?mod=rss_Today%27s_Most_P opular)
By MATT PHILLIPS

Saeed Sanjideh decided to take the cane with the lion's head on top.

The retired deli owner was traveling from San Jose, Calif., to visit his nephew in the Seattle area and figured the embellished walking stick befitted a special occasion.

"This one was fancy," said Mr. Sanjideh, 78 years old.

But as Transportation Security Administration officers examined the cane, they discovered it had a special feature hidden within: a 16-inch sword.

"It was so interesting," Mr. Sanjideh said of the cane, which his wife bought for him at a flea market. "I didn't know it had a sword in it."

Airport police were cautious. They questioned him until they finally decided that he didn't pose a security threat. He was eventually allowed to board his flight, though his walking stick -- along with its mysterious contents -- was confiscated.

The Christmas Day bombing attempt on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit has already resulted in beefed up safety measures -- and prompted debate about the use of body scanners and other sophisticated weapons-detectors. Sunday, protesters from the Pirate Party of Germany went so far as to walk through Berlin's Tegel Airport in their underwear to protest all-seeing body scanners, which Germany plans to test later this year. The hope, of course, is that enhanced screening methods will keep potential terrorists off flights. But what about those folks who unwittingly bear arms?

Since 2002, TSA screeners have found more than 200 canes concealing either swords or knives. Many of these incidents involve elderly travelers who are just as surprised as the security screeners to find sabers hidden inside canes they may have inherited, found at antique shops, or received from charities. In September alone, four such incidents occurred according to documents provided by the TSA.

"The passengers who travel with these unusual items are often surprised to discover that a prohibited item is concealed inside," says Lauren Gaches, a spokeswoman for the TSA. "However, it is important that our officers identify modified canes to ensure they are not carried on board an aircraft."

On Sept. 15, an X-ray machine operator at San Diego International Airport discerned the outline of a 2 1/2-inch knife concealed in a cane. "The passenger stated that he bought the cane online and had no idea the knife was inside. The knife was removed from the cane and passenger was allowed to keep the cane," a TSA report said. That same day, when another woman's walking stick was found to contain a 13-inch sword at Philadelphia International, she explained that "her doctor recommended she use one and she just borrowed the prettiest one she found from a friend."

Recently, TSA officials at San Antonio International Airport informed a woman that her cane contained a double-sided metal blade more than 2 feet long. "She stated that she didn't realize that her walking cane contained a sword and that she has had it for 30 years," an incident report said.

Toting weaponry to the airport, accidentally or not, is a recipe for trouble. Yet it happens with surprising regularity. Some 12 firearms were found at TSA checkpoints during the week of Dec. 27 to Jan. 3, according to the latest weekly statistics published on the agency's Web site. The TSA also discovered four prohibited items that were "artfully concealed." The agency uses that term of art to describe prohibited, and potentially dangerous, things that are camouflaged.

During the Middle Ages, members of the nobility carried walking sticks with blades on pilgrimages. And at the peak of cane popularity, in the 19th century, men would have an array of canes including so-called defense canes. Romantic poet Lord Byron wrote about carrying one in an 1816 diary entry describing a mountain hike. "Guide wanted to carry my cane; I was going to give it to him when I recollected that it was a swordstick and I thought the lightning might be attracted toward him; kept it myself."

Over time, canes grew more complex, featuring spring-mounted stilettos and handles that squirted "vitriol," or acid, in the eyes of would-be assailants. France was a leader in the production of such items, featured in catalogs with names such as "La Terrible" and "La Diabolique." Despite such monikers, sword canes probably didn't see much violent action in those days either, says Henry Taron, an antique-cane dealer in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass.

"The sword cane was more to be brandished," says Mr. Taron. "I doubt there was much running-through with sword canes."

In December 2008, Connie Escareno, an 85-year-old former state worker, found herself sitting in a wheelchair facing several police officers at western New York's Buffalo Niagara International Airport. Her cane was on a nearby desk. One of the officers picked up the walking stick, which Ms. Escareno said she had found a few years back at a Catholic charity in Camarillo, Calif., where she lived. The police officer removed some tape, twisted the handle, and gave the cane a shake. From its base, an 18-inch blade emerged. "I thought, 'What the heck is going on,'" Ms. Escareno recalled. "I had no idea."

After a brief conversation with police officers from Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, which runs the airport, Ms. Escareno -- who passed away in March -- convinced the officers that she was unaware of any blade inside. In any case, "It was very dull," said C. Douglas Hartmayer, director of public relations for the NFTA. "It wasn't like a sharpened Marine saber or anything."

Some who've inadvertently spirited complex canes into airports wonder whether they might able to recover the contraband. "It was beautiful," said Lori Massaro, describing a walking stick with a gold handle that she'd brought for her mother to carry on a trip from Fort Myers, Fla., to New York. Ms. Massaro, who was traveling with her mother in December 2008, had placed the cane on the X-ray belt. The pair were questioned closely by a female security officer. "She said to me, 'I don't want to hear any stories, people get locked up for this, this is not a laughing matter.' " The two were permitted to board their flight -- sans cane.

Ms. Gaches, the TSA spokeswoman, had no direct knowledge of the exchange. The agency, she says, has a "highly trained work force whose mission is to ensure the safety of the traveling public."

Of course, getting to the gate can be problematic for unsteady seniors without their canes. A wheelchair was produced for Mr. Sanjideh, of San Jose, after his sword cane was confiscated. And once he reached Seattle, his nephew's wife bought him a new -- if less sharp-looking -- walking stick. Upon receiving it, he took a peek to see if it contained any secret compartments. "But there was nothing to open," he said.

GeneChing

01-15-2010, 10:41 AM

Sad story. Wonder what the back story was...

Sarasota County man is accused of killing his friend with a sword
Victim reportedly said roommate 'went crazy' and attacked him (http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100115/ARTICLE/1151034/-1/NEWSSITEMAP)
By Zac Anderson
Published: Friday, January 15, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 8:29 p.m.

VENICE - David Brasure and Thomas Elliott were old friends who lived together as roommates on and off for years. With his marriage dissolving, Brasure moved back into Elliott's house in the Venice East subdivision two months ago.

People who knew both men said they got along well, but on Thursday morning, Sarasota County sheriff's deputies discovered a gruesome scene at Elliott's home and charged Brasure with killing Elliott.

Deputies believe Brasure, 41, killed his friend with a sword.

Brasure called 911 at 1:07 a.m. Thursday and said Elliott was "cut and bleeding badly," according to the Sheriff's Office.

Before he died, Elliott reportedly told deputies that Brasure "went crazy" and attacked him. The sheriff's report called the attack unprovoked.

Brasure is being held at the Sarasota County jail without bail.

Gathered near his home on Sunnyside Drive, friends of Elliott, 49, struggled to make sense of the attack.

"Tommy was one hell of a nice guy," said Ed Hickson, who lives across the street from Elliott's house and spoke with him nearly every week.

Elliott was among a group of neighborhood men who socialized in Hickson's garage. One of them, Bob Hogan, sold Elliott his house and helped him land a job with Sarasota County's utilities department nine years ago.

"He's the type of guy who would give you the shirt off his back, just a good guy," Hogan said.

The men described Brasure as quiet and timid.

"I can read people pretty well, and this is just baffling," said Larry Pulkrabek, a retired police officer who lives in the neighborhood.

Brasure worked at Venetian Cleaners. He recently showed co-workers a tattoo on his left arm that was burned and disfigured.

A co-worker said he had apparently tried to remove the tattoo because he was upset over a split with his wife.

Brasure's wife, Lynn Brasure, now lives in North Port with her mother, Marcella Lippincott.

Lippincott said the couple married on Valentine's Day in 2004 but had recently separated and planned to file for divorce soon.

Lippincott described Brasure as mild-mannered and said he attended Bible study every other week.

On Tuesday the couple spoke on the telephone and Lynn Brasure told her husband it was definitely over, Lippincott said.

Elliott grew up in New Jersey. He worked at a pet store in Venice for years before joining the county as a waste-water technician. He bred snakes as a hobby and liked to go on bird watching trips.

He has no children and was never married, friends said.

GeneChing

01-22-2010, 11:00 AM

Taser vs Sword = Taser wins

Man with sword subdued with Taser (http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2010/jan/22/man-sword-subdued-taser/?city_local)
By Asher Fusco
January 22, 2010

A 50-year-old man was tased Thursday afternoon after wielding a sword in a confrontation with police officers.

According to Lawrence Police Sgt. Damon Thomas, officers responded to the 2500 block of Redbud Lane about 4:15 p.m. after a woman reported her son was acting suicidal. When officers arrived they saw the man holding “a large sword in a martial arts pose.”

Police immediately removed the man’s mother from the home and spoke to the man at the door of the residence. The man refused to drop the sword, and officers used a Taser to subdue him.

“It was a good example of the Taser doing exactly what it was supposed to do,” Thomas said.

The man was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital for a mental health evaluation. As of Thursday night, he had not been arrested or charged with any crime.

Short sword or big knife?

Sword used in Enniskillen bank robbery (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8474501.stm)

Three masked men, one of whom was armed with a short sword, have robbed a bank in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh.

The trio entered the Halifax bank at High Street shortly before 1030 GMT on Friday.

They ran off with a small sum of cash and are believed to have left the area in a silver Volkswagen car.

Police believe they transferred to a silver Toyota vehicle, which was found abandoned at Culmore Gardens in west Belfast shortly before 1400 GMT.

A police spokesman said: "We are keen to speak to anyone who saw the men in Enniskillen, either before or after the robbery, and anyone who saw the Toyota being abandoned in west Belfast.

"The cars involved were a silver Volkswagen Passat which bore a WKZ registration plate and a silver Toyota Avensis with an English plate, SO 05 OGB.

"We would like to hear from anyone who saw the cars in Enniskillen, in Belfast or travelling between the two locations."

GeneChing

01-27-2010, 10:44 AM

Gun vs. sword = gun wins

Police shoot, kill man brandishing sword in north suburb (http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/2009652,CST-NWS-sword25.article)
January 25, 2010
BY CAROLINE KYUNGAE SMITH Staff Reporter

A domestic dispute escalated to a barricade situation Sunday, which resulted in police shooting and killing a man who came at them with a sword.

Arturas Kolgavas, 39, of the 3200 block of W. Parkway Drive in unincorporated Glenview was pronounced dead at 9 p.m. Sunday at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, according to a Cook County Medical Examiners office spokesman.

About 4 p.m., the Cook County Sheriff's Police responded to a domestic dispute at Kolgavas’ residence in unincorporated Glenview, according to a release from the Cook County Sheriff's Police. During the dispute, the victim ran from the apartment and called police.

When police arrived, Kolgavas had barricaded himself in a second-floor apartment, the release said. He refused to come out and was threatening to harm himself and the police.

The apartment complex was evacuated and the Sheriff's Police Hostage Barricade Terrorist Team was called for assistance, the release said.

The situation lasted for an hour. When he emerged, Kolgavas advanced on police brandishing a large sword "in a threatening manner," the release said. Police shot the man in the chest.

Kolgavas was initially hospitalized and underwent surgery.

The Illinois State Police Public Integrity Unit is investigating the shooting. No one else was injured.

GeneChing

01-28-2010, 10:49 AM

There was a road rage case in Malta that I just posted on the Busted Martial Artists thread. (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=987208#post987208)

Man brandishes sword after getting case of road rage: Lakewood Police Blotter (http://www.cleveland.com/sunpostherald/index.ssf/2010/01/man_brandishes_sword_after_get.html)
By Sun News staff
January 28, 2010, 8:47AM

WEAPONS OFFENSE, MADISON AVENUE: A man attacked another man with a sword in a bad case of road rage at 1:35 p.m. Jan. 19. The victim stated that a man in a Ford Focus cut him off. When the victim yelled at the suspect, he reportedly got out of the car with a sword and then drove off. Officers arrested the man for carrying a concealed weapon and drug paraphernalia.

GeneChing

02-02-2010, 10:45 AM

Remember Pontolillo (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=959573#post959573)? He got off.

January 28, 2010
Hopkins student cleared in samurai sword killing (http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2010/01/hopkins_student_cleared_in_sam.html)

Baltimore prosecutors today cleared a Johns Hopins University undergraduate student from New Jersey in the killing of an intruder near campus in September of last year.

The State's Attorney ruled that John Pontolillo, 20, reasonably feared for his life when he killed Donald D. Rice, who had 29 convictions that included breaking and entering and car theft. The case brought national attention to Hopkins, in large part because of the unique weapon that was used, and the student has never talked publicly. This link posts the letter from prosecutors.

GeneChing

02-02-2010, 10:53 AM

More sword & pot

Police say man wielded sword, grew marijuana (http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100201/NEWS01/2010352/1001)
Officers say he chased neighbor
By ANNMARIE TIMMINS Monitor staff
February 01, 2010 - 7:01 am

A 30-year-old Concord man spent the weekend in jail after he was arrested and charged with threatening a neighbor with a sword and growing marijuana in his home.

David Matisko of Maple Street is scheduled to be arraigned this morning in Concord District Court on charges of criminal threatening and manufacturing a controlled drug.

According to the police, Matisko ran toward another Maple Street neighbor, swinging a sword back and forth "in an aggressive manner" Saturday at 5 p.m.

The sword blade is 33 inches long, the police said.

The 31-year-old neighbor was not injured, the police said. After allegedly threatening the man, Matisko ran back inside his home and initially declined to come out when the police arrived, the police said. Matisko eventually emerged from his home and was taken into custody.

While checking Matisko's residence, the police discovered marijuana growing inside, they said. They requested a search warrant to further investigate. The police did not say yesterday how much marijuana Matisko was allegedly growing.

Matisko declined bail and was held over the weekend at the Merrimack County jail. The police said he may face additional charges.

Another sword robbery in Belfast (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=985858#post985858) - same dude you think?

Page last updated at 14:45 GMT, Sunday, 31 January 2010
Man threatens staff with sword (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8490105.stm)

A man threatened staff with a samurai sword during a robbery at a takeaway in east Belfast on Saturday night.

The man went into the shop on the Beersbridge Road and brandished the weapon before demanding cash.

He was joined by an accomplice who urged him to leave. The thief escaped with a sum of cash.

Police have appealed for information to help find the culprit. Both men involved are believed to be in their teens.

Golightly (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=973881#post973881) sentenced to 4 minimum

Yob attacked policeman with samurai sword (http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-evening-chronicle/2010/02/02/yob-attacked-policeman-with-samurai-sword-72703-25743695/)
Feb 2 2010 by Garry Willey, Evening Chronicle

CRAZED David Golightly is behind bars indefinitely after attacking a police officer with a Samurai sword.

Golightly had been on a drink and drug-fuelled damage spree, breaching a curfew to smash wing mirrors from cars parked near his home.

He appeared from his house brandishing a sword in each hand as police arrived to arrest him.

And after running at PC Dave Martin, Golightly deliberately swung one of the weapons down on the officer’s head.

A horrified sergeant thought she was watching PC Martin’s murder, Newcastle Crown Court heard. By luck. the flat of the blade rather than the edge struck, causing only minor injury.

But both PC Martin and the sergeant who saw the attack last May have struggled to forget the ordeal, the court was told.

Now Golightly, from Drummond Crescent, South Shields, has been given an indefinite sentence under laws to protect the public from violent offenders.

“I am satisfied there is a significant risk you will commit further offences involving serious harm to the victims,” Judge John Milford said. “You are a dangerous offender.”

He ordered Golightly - who has a previous conviction for stabbing his father-in-law – must serve a minimum four years behind bars.

But he warned: “You will not be automatically released at that point. It will be a matter for the parole board.”

Golightly, 32, was convicted by a jury in December of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent, affray, criminal damage and possessing offensive weapons.

“It is clear what happened has had a very substantial impact on PC Martin, his wife, and to some extent other members of his immediate family,” Judge Milford said. “It clearly made a dreadful impact on the sergeant as well.

PC Martin told the jury how Golightly ran towards him with swords raised above his head.

The officer fired his CS gas and ordered him to drop the weapons.

But Golightly shouted ‘I’m going to kill you’ and brought one of the swords down as PC Martin bravely lunged at him.

Gavin Doig, defending, said the drink and drugs Golightly had taken had caused the ‘night of madness’.

“Were it not for him falling back into old ways this would not have happened,” Mr Doig said. “He had been drinking and taking cocaine.”

Detective Inspector Chris Sybenga, from South Tyneside Area Command, said: “This attack was a horrific experience for all officers involved.”

GeneChing

02-02-2010, 10:56 AM

It's a good day for the Bad Day for Samurai Wannabes thread.

Murderous assault on youth with sword (http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp?articleID=25954)
Bhopal Posted On Tuesday, February 02, 2010
By Our Staff Reporter
Bhopal, Feb 2:
In Khajuri Sadak Police Station area two hooligans made murderous assault on a youths with sword on Monday night. The reason behind assault is love affair with a lady. Grievously injured youth has been admitted to hospital for treatment where his condition is critical. In this connection police have registered a case of attempt to murder against the accused and initiated further proceedings. According to police Javed Khan son of Shajad Khan lives in village Khajurisadak. Last night at 8 O 'clcok he was standing in front of his house. In the meanwhile Ibrahim and Vahid came there and made murderous assault on the youth. After the attack both the accused fled from the scene. On receiving news of the incident police arrived on the spot and got the injured youth admitted to a private hospital. Following the incident police besieged the area and nabbed both the accused. Police have registered case and initiated probe. Sources revealed that the complainant and the accused had love affair with a lady. Owing to this reason there was dispute between them since last few months and hence they made murderous assault.

Another sword suicide by cop

Man shot and killed by deputies (http://www2.highlandstoday.com/content/2010/feb/01/011617/man-shot-and-killed-deputies/)
By BRAD ****ERSON | Highlands Today
Published: February 1, 2010
Updated: 02/01/2010 04:48 pm

The Highlands County Sheriff's Office's Special Response Team (SRT) fired around 20 to 22 rounds of ammunition during Friday's fatal shooting of a Lake Placid man, said Sheriff Susan Benton.

The medical examiner's office and crime scene investigators are still working to determine the exact number of bullets that struck and killed 60-year-old Rocky Allen Watson. Benton said at least seven SRT members opened fire.

Watson was shot and killed Friday night in the woods behind Sunflower Avenue in Sun 'n Lakes after he allegedly hit a deputy in the head with a sword while they were searching for him in connection with an earlier shooting, according to the HCSO.

Watson was armed with several swords and a firearm, the HCSO said.

Authorities starting searching for Watson after a family member called dispatch saying he had just shot someone.

At 6 p.m. Friday, the initial call came in that a shooting had just taken place in Lake Placid. The victim, Henry Bullard, 45, was sitting in his driveway, using his cellphone when he was shot across the chest, the HCSO said. He was taken to Florida Hospital Lake Placid's emergency room for treatment.

Lisa Burley, chief of staff for the sheriff's office, said Bullard's injury was not fatal.

Benton said Monday they did not have a motive for the attack.

"There's really no relationship between the two, other than they lived in the same neighborhood," she said.

A helicopter was called from Charlotte County to assist in the search. When he was found in the woods, Watson reportedly refused to put down his weapons. Deputies tried to subdue him with a Taser, but that was when he is said to have thrown one of the swords.

Special Response Team members then shot and killed Watson, the HCSO said. An assault rifle and at least one other sword were recovered.

Benton said the SRT member was wearing a Kevlar helmet and not injured when the sword hit him. Watson was dead on the scene.

The case remains under investigation and the SRT members, as well as other patrol staff involved in the shooting, have been put on administrative leave with pay according to the sheriff's office general orders, a press release stated.

Detectives are working with the State Attorney's Office to coordinate the case and, together, will determine when the deputies can return to full duty.

Benton addressed reports made by some and said Watson had not been Baker acted prior to the shooting.

Investigators have learned that Watson apparently suffered from a long-term mental illness, and family members had an appointment scheduled with a mental health professional but Watson allegedly refused to go, Benton said.

The victim's son, Rocky Watson Jr., said Monday his father had been in a current state of mental decline after going through a divorce, losing his job and taking Vicodin for three months following surgery to repair a herniated disc in his neck.

He had been on a different medication for about two weeks to counteract the effects of the Vicodin, Watson Jr. added.

The son said his father told him, in person, that he had shot someone before heading off into the woods.

Watson Jr. did not know why his father would have fired at someone, but said he had gotten a call earlier in the day from his dad saying that someone was driving by and possibly casing the house.

"There's only three houses on the street," Watson Jr. said.

The son doesn't agree with investigators' claims that his father had a gun on him.

"He never said what he did with the gun," Watson Jr. said. "Basically, I think that he did have the sword on him, and it was actually mine. It was a katana."

Watson Jr. added he has a few swords hanging on display in his room.

A search of the sheriff's office's records show that Watson was arrested Jan. 5 on charges of cruelty toward a child without great harm and battery.

The arrest report said that, on Jan. 1, Watson allegedly shook an 11-year-old boy forcefully and hit the child's jaw with his fists before throwing him into a couch.

GeneChing

02-04-2010, 01:25 PM

Sword-bearing Salisbury man arrested (http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20100203/NEWS01/100203042/1002/Sword-bearing-Salisbury-man-arrested)
A Daily Times Staff Report • February 3, 2010

SALISBURY — A city man bearing a sword along Baker Street and claiming that his intention was to scare a neighbor, was arrested on a dangerous weapon charge, the Salisbury Police Department reported Wednesday.

Jimmy Jeremaine Allen, 32, was taken into custody by SPD officers on routine patrol and charged with wearing and carrying a dangerous and deadly weapon and reckless endangerment, the agency reported.

The Feb. 2 incident happened in the 600 block of Baker, when officers spotted Allen with the weapon, described by police as 3 feet in length.

When asked why he had the sword, Allen reportedly told police that he intended to use it to scare a neighbor with whom he had argued.

Sword attack at Ga. Tech (http://www.ajc.com/news/sword-attack-at-ga-291288.html?cxntlid=brkng_nws_bnr)
By Larry Hartstein
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A man believed to be a former grad student stabbed a post-doctoral fellow with a sword at Georgia Tech this afternoon, a school spokesman said.

The attack happened at the Weber Building shortly before 1:20 p.m. The victim was taken to Grady Hospital.

A police officer was slightly hurt while arresting the attacker, the school spokesman said.

Melissa Hayes, a psychology student, saw a scuffle as police led the suspect out of the science and technology building. "He made quite a scene being carried out," she said.

Student Jonathan Conley was heading toward the Weber Building when he saw the victim being taken to an ambulance.

"His shirt was off and his hands were covered in blood," Conley said.

2 Injured By Attacker With Samurai Sword At Georgia Tech (http://www.wsbtv.com/news/22465319/detail.html)
Posted: 2:33 pm EST February 4, 2010Updated: 3:10 pm EST February 4, 2010

ATLANTA -- An attacker used a samurai sword to slash a Georgia Tech researcher on campus Thursday afternoon and then injured a police officer when he was arrested.

The sword attack happened inside the Weber Space Science and Technology Building at the northwest Atlanta campus, according to Georgia Tech police.

Police said they have one suspect in custody. Investigators believe the suspect is a Ph.D. candidate at Tech.

During the arrest, the attacker injured a Georgia Tech police officer.

There's no word yet on the condition of the victim, believed to be working at Tech on a postdoctoral fellowship.
Yup, another samurai sword (http://www.martialartsmart.com/ninja-samurai-kendo-samurai-kendo-weapon.html).

GeneChing

02-05-2010, 10:47 AM

Rihanna rocks out with sword (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/music/2840705/Rihanna-sings-into-sword-microphone-at-Pepsi-Superbowl-Fan-show.html)
By NADIA MENDOZA

RIHANNA certainly knows how to steal the fashion headlines from LADY GAGA.

Okay, so there were no exploding cone bras, but the Umbrella singer did rock a bizarre one-legged catsuit performing onstage at the Pepsi Superbowl Fan show.

Rihanna on stage during the 2010 Pepsi Superbowl Fan show held on Miami Beach
Razor-sharp performance ... Rihanna
GETTY

Teaming the odd clobber with white stilettos, Rihanna also bared a black strapless bra in the asymetric outfit.

And not content with mixing things up in the wardobe department, the Grammy-winner decided to morph her microphone into a sword at the Miami Beach bash.

A very cutting edge performance.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/02/05/article-0-08293A18000005DC-674_468x651.jpg

That catsuit's Rated R! Rihanna surprises fans with daring outfit at pre-Super Bowl concert (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1248702/Rihanna-surprises-Super-Bowl-fans-daring-catsuit.html)
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:21 PM on 05th February 2010

She's become famous for her eccentric stage fashion, and last night Rihanna didn't disappoint as she took to the stage in in Miami, Florida.

The pop star paraded around on stage at the Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam in a peculiar one-shoulder, one-leg catsuit that featured white trimming.

Her black strapless bra was on show, and she completed the look with fishnet tights, black leather gloves and huge blonde quiff.

The ensemble was created by styling duo Mariel Haenn and Rob Zangardi, who regularly work with Rihanna on her costumes and red carpet attire.

She stormed the stage with a medley of her hits, including Wait Your Turn, Disturbia and Russian Roulette.

The Barbadian star, 22 later this month, is one of a host of celebs who singed up for the concerts, including Timberland, who joined her onstage during the set.

A second gig will be held on today, featuring the likes of Nelly Furtado, Paulina Rubio and Pitbull.

The two day event comes ahead of Sunday's Super Bowl XLIV, where the Indianapolis Colts will take on the New Orleans Saints.

The event will be hosted by Entourage star Kevin Dillon and former Access Hollywood host Nancy O'Dell.

The Who performed at a separate NFL concert in Miami, and have been given the honour of performing during half-time at the Super Bowl.
Rihanna

Guitarist Pete Townshend, meanwhile, has revealed he feels "saddened" by anti-child abuser campaigners' attempts to prevent their performance.

Activists had demanded the British guitarist be treated as a sex offender, meaning he would have to give a DNA sample, fingerprints and a mugshot before being allowed into the U.S.

The Protect Our Children group had originally called for Townshend to be stopped from entering the country because of his 2003 child porn arrest. However, US authorities cleared him and his band mates to perform.
Rihanna

One reporter asked: 'How does Townshend feel about the Florida child abuse activists who tried, unsuccessfully, to have him pushed back by immigration and asked the NFL to ban him from the concert?'

'I'm really saddened by this and concerned about it," said Townshend. 'I feel like we (he and children's protectors) are on the same side. It's, ahem, complicated and can't be just a sound bite.

'Families who have suffered know to apply common sense vigilance and not vigilantism.'

TaichiMantis

02-11-2010, 12:58 PM

It's a GOOD day for this samurai wannabe!
video of sword here (http://www.woodtv.com/dpps/news/national/west/teen-fends-off-mountain-lion-with-sword_3233614)

Using a Samurai sword, he rescued a dog
Updated: Thursday, 11 Feb 2010, 11:43 AM EST
Published : Thursday, 11 Feb 2010, 11:42 AM EST

A family pet is safe thanks to a Samurai sword-wielding teen who rescued the dog from a mountain lion.

The teen actually fought off the big cat, ninja-style!

GeneChing

02-11-2010, 04:13 PM

12 Year Old Boy Accused of Attacking Playmates With Sword (http://www.local12.com/news/local/story/12-Year-Old-Boy-Accused-of-Attacking-Playmates/bQmGNcxMl0W8pzMjgTdIaQ.cspx)
Last Update: 2/10 5:14 pm

A 12-year-old Butler County boy is charged aggravated menacing - after he's accused of threatening other children with an 18-inch sword.

Police were called to a mobile home park in Lemon Township yesterday. The police report shows the boy was upset when he was told by other children that he couldn't play in a neighborhood football game.

He allegedly threw a stick at the other kids, pushed and punched them, and then left and came back later with the sword. Witnesses say the boy pulled the sword from his coat and yelled, "I got business to take care of."

The other children called for help and the boy with the sword ran away. No one was actually hurt.

Police confiscated the sword and two other ones found at the boy's home on Cranbrook Drive. The boy was released into his father's custody and will soon appear in Butler County Juvenile Court.
'I got business to take care of' - that's like a Dirty Harry line or something.

Dragonzbane76

02-17-2010, 05:56 AM

with a battle ax...

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100212/world/us_ax_attack_vegas

TaichiMantis

02-25-2010, 06:10 AM

Police: SC man faces murder charge for killing his mother with a sword after an argument (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-sword-killing,0,6355243.story)
GEORGETOWN, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man killed his mother with a sword after the two argued late Sunday night in the home they shared in a rural hamlet, police said.

Laura Ferrante, 51, was cut several times with the sword in her modest one-story home in the rural Brown's Ferry community about 10 miles northwest of Georgetown on the South Carolina coast. The fatal wound was a large slash to her neck and head, authorities said Monday.

A neighbor called police after Ferrante's adult daughter found her bleeding on the floor and ran to a neighbor's home, saying her brother had driven away, said Georgetown County Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Neil Johnson.

An officer later saw the car in Georgetown and pulled over 29-year-old Jonathan Maurice White, who was arrested and charged with murder, Johnson said. He would not say what type of sword was used to kill Ferrante and said investigators haven't determined what the mother and son were arguing about.

TaichiMantis

02-25-2010, 06:14 AM

Covington Doctor Accused of Stabbing Patient (http://www.local12.com/mostpopular/story/Covington-Doctor-Accused-of-Stabbing-Patient/ETtvrg6Z-UazrpTpVjGVLQ.cspx)

A Covington doctor who's had several problems with the State Medical Board is now locked up for stabbing a female patient. Dr. Douglas Rank faces an assault charge after neighbors say they caught him attacking the woman with a sword.

Local 12's Joe Webb is following the story and shares more information.

Dr. Rank has been in the news before. We've covered his troubles in the past with state medical boards. But this is very different. Police say he was admittedly drunk and on drugs when neighbors rushed in on a violent scene.

Dr. Douglas Rank owns 12 West Pike Street in Covington. He has an office on the first floor and an apartment on the third. It was upstairs, about 7:45 last night, when things apparently got ugly.

Doug Hamilton, Neighbor: "All I heard was a scream. But it was the type of a scream that you know something is wrong. I went up to the top of the steps and they were fighting."

According to the police report, several neighbors intervened, but not before the woman was stabbed several times.

Lt. Col. Spike Jones, Covington Police: "We would consider her injuries to be life-threatening at the time she transported to University Hospital for treatment of those injuries. Based on that criteria, he was charged with assault first."

According to the police report, Rank had consumed a fifth of brandy and taken two Clonezapam muscle relaxers.

Doctor Rank is board certified in psychiatry and internal medicine, but his problems with medical boards have generated reams of paperwork. He admittedly had sex with one patient and got into more trouble for allegedly prescribing medication to another. But what happened last night was a surprise to everyone.

"To my information, we haven't had any problems with him as far as criminal behavior in the past. To me this is a new occurrence for this individual."

"He has some inner demons, apparently, that he needs to be working with and now he'll get the help that he needs."

Dr. rank is charged with first degree assault. He's being held in the Kenton County Jail on a 50-thousand dollar cash bond.

Prosecutor Rob Sanders says the stabbing investigation has raised new questions about the doctor's medical practice.

GeneChing

02-25-2010, 10:45 AM

Here's one that just reeks trailer trash. From TN no less, where the East Coast Tiger Claw (http://www.tigerclaw.com/home.php) office is - I'll have to let them know.

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 24, 2010
Cops: Boozed-Up Mom Waves Sword at School (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/24/national/main6238258.shtml)
Tenn. Woman Drank a 40-ounce Beer, Then Went to Son's Elementary School to Confront Other Parents

(AP) Police say the mother of an elementary school student drank a 40 ounce bottle of malt liquor before brandishing a sword in her child's school.

Bennie Price told WMC-TV that her daughter, 32-year-old Toni Price went to Riverview Elementary School in Memphis intending to confront the parents of another child who had been in a spitting match with her child the previous day.

According to court records, an employee reported a drunk woman armed with a sword was running through the halls of the school and had threatened to cut her.

Officers who arrived on the scene retrieved a black cane that concealed the blade.

Bennie Price said her daughter would never have hurt anyone at the school.

Toni Price is charged with aggravated assault and having a weapon on school property.

GeneChing

03-04-2010, 10:30 AM

Bad sword users.

Lynn sex offender convicted of rape (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100304lynn_sex_offender_convicted_of_rape/srvc=home&position=recent)
By Associated Press
Thursday, March 4, 2010 - Added 3h ago

NEWBURYPOR — A Lynn man has been sentenced to up to 25 years in prison for using a sword to beat a woman before raping her.

Prosecutors say 52-year-old Cornelius Moore was convicted Wednesday in Newburyport Superior Court of aggravated rape and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in connection with the attack at his home in August 2008.

Authorities say the victim, an acquaintance of Moore’s, went to his home to see an area where he said she could store some belongings. He then used the sword like a baseball bat to beat her over the head, before raping her.

Moore’s defense attorney claimed at trial that the woman made up the incident.

Moore was already a registered sex offender because of an indecent assault and battery conviction.

Chicago man reportedly attacked with sword in Davenport (http://www.kgan.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.ia/2bdb0296-www.kgan.com.shtml)
March 02, 2010 21:28 EST

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Police say a Chicago man was seriously injured when he was attacked with a sword outside a Davenport, Iowa, tavern.

Officers say 26-year-old Ricky Johnson Jr. got into a fight with 36-year-old Willie Terrell of Davenport outside Boozie's Bar and Grill early Tuesday morning.

Police say the two men exchanged punches before Terrell went to his car, gout out a sword and struck Johnson in the arms and torso.

Johnson was transported to Genesis East Medical Center in Davenport and later airlifted to University Hospitals in Iowa City. A spokesperson there said no information on his condition was available.

Terrell was charged with felony willful injury. A shift officer at the Scott County Jail said Tuesday night he had been released on bond, but she did not have the name of his attorney.

GeneChing

03-09-2010, 10:53 AM

This sounds like a stereotypical Asian gang war

Football bet row ends with swords drawn, gunshots fired (http://www.thanhniennews.com/2010/Pages/Football-bet-row-ends-with-swords-drawn-gunshots.aspx)
Last updated: 3/9/2010 23:12

Brawlers pulled guns and knives in downtown Ho Chi Minh City Monday night after a fight broke out over football betting pool.

The sounds of gun fire started at around 8:30 p.m. at a corner of the East-West Highway in District 1.

According to eyewitnesses, one group had six young men on three motorbikes while the other had four on two motorbikes.

The first group had said they were there to “take care” of the other group for refusing to pay around VND100 million (US$5,350) after losing football bets, a 52-year-old local only identified as N.V.S. was quoted by local newswire Vietnamnet as saying Tuesday.

Three men from the first group drew three swords to attack the others near the highway. One member of the second group received cuts to his back and fell to the ground. When he got up, he ran to the other side of the road, pulled a gun, and fired shots, eyewitnesses said.

The gun-armed gang then began chasing the sword-wielders.

A second shot broke a window at a nearby restaurant.

“I’ve only seen things like this in gangster movies,” S. told Vietnamnet.

Three shoots had been fired before the gun was thrown in the nearby Tau Hu canal. Another man in the gun-armed gang jumped into the river near the highway to swim to District 4, but the tide caught him and he couldn’t make it. Local residents managed to catch him and the police caught the gunman later. They also found the gun early on Tuesday, with two bullets left inside.

Police have arrested five people for investigation. Two of them, Nguyen Van Hoang, 31, from the northern province of Thanh Hoa, and Nguyen Viet Hoa, 23, from Hai Phong, were from the gun-armed gang.

The others, Le Thanh Hung, 39, a District 1 local, Nguyen Tin Trung, 23, and another man only identified as Tien Trung, belonged to the sword-armed gang.

Tin Trung said Duong Phu Son, 30, also a District 1 local, had been the one who had started slashing people with his sword.

Police are looking for Son and the other men involved in the fight. The gunman’s name has not yet been released.

Knoxville TN is where the east coast Tiger Claw (http://www.tigerclaw.com/home.php) office is. I hope he didn't get that sword from there.

Sword and BB gun used in Saturday confrontation in Barrington (http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100309/GJNEWS_01/703099925/-1/FOSNEWS)
By Joey Cresta
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

BARRINGTON — A man with ties to Tennessee was arrested Saturday after allegedly wielding a sword and an BB gun during a confrontation with multiple people on Berry River Road.

Joseph Lawson, 21, with a listed address of 1941 Berry Road in Knoxville, Tenn., was charged with six counts of felony criminal threatening with a deadly weapon after allegedly brandishing a sword and handgun during a dispute with three people at 154 Berry River Road Saturday around 2 p.m.

According to an affidavit filed in Rochester District Court, officers responded to the residence and made contact with the woman who called for help as well as Lawson. The affidavit said a verbal altercation outside began between Lawson and the woman's brother, leading Lawson to enter the home and come back out with a sword and BB gun.

Witnesses told police that Lawson was "issuing challenges to people" and was the primary aggressor, the affidavit said.

Lawson told police his actions were to protect himself, the affidavit said.

Police arrested him and transported him to county jail, where he was held until his video arraignment in Rochester District Court Monday morning. Assistant County Attorney Kathryn Smykowski requested bail of $5,000 cash, which can convert to personal recognizance if Strafford County Community Corrections monitors Lawson with a GPS.

He is to have no contact with four people connected to the case and may have no entry into the Berry River Road residence without a police escort.

After the hearing, Smykowski said Lawson has ties to Tennessee but has apparently been living in the area for some time. His only criminal history includes a disorderly conduct charge out of Barrington from January 2008, she said.

She said Lawson indicated he would be staying with an aunt and uncle in Dover if released from jail.

He is due back in court for a probable cause hearing on March 19 at 1 p.m.

Another samurai sword (http://www.martialartsmart.com/ninja-samurai-kendo-samurai-kendo-weapon.html)...:rolleyes:

Police tackle samurai sword man in West Hampstead (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8557137.stm)

Police officers have tackled a man who was seen strolling in north west London carrying a samurai sword.

Six officers suffered minor injuries in the incident on Friday.

Officers were called to West Hampstead after the man was seen with the weapon. They ordered the man to drop the sword and a violent struggle ensued.

Passers-by erupted into spontaneous applause after police seized both the sword and a kitchen knife. A man, 37, has been bailed until April.

Pc John Dunwell, of the Metropolitan Police, said: "Having risk-assessed the situation, I felt it was necessary to confront the man before he hurt himself, or someone else.

"He proved to be very strong and I'm just thankful to my colleagues for coming to my assistance so quickly."

uki

03-13-2010, 09:41 PM

This sounds like a stereotypical Asian gang waryou'd think these wanna-be tough guy's would have more class. :)

GeneChing

04-13-2010, 09:55 AM

Vetoed by Conan? :rolleyes:

Sword killer's parole ordered despite veto (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/13/BA821CT9PT.DTL)
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 13, 2010

(04-12) 18:04 PDT VALLEJO -- A state appeals court has overruled Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and ordered the release of a Vallejo man who has spent nearly 30 years in prison for killing another man with a sword.

A psychologist and the state parole board found that Michael Quarterman had matured in the last 15 years and posed no danger to the public, and Schwarzenegger offered no evidence to the contrary, the First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco said Thursday.

The 3-0 decision overruled a Solano County judge who had upheld Schwarzenegger's 2007 veto of Quarterman's parole. The governor could appeal to the state Supreme Court.

Quarterman, now 51, was a 23-year-old community college student in July 1981 when he argued with Lawrence Stewart in a Vallejo bar. Quarterman followed Stewart in his car, punched him in the face, then got a sword from the car and slashed him in the face and neck, prosecutors said.

Quarterman said he had simply wanted to talk to Stewart, but that a friend of Stewart's had attacked him. Quarterman grabbed the sword in the belief that Stewart had a gun, he said.

Quarterman served time in the California Youth Authority for assault and robbery at age 15. He pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of Stewart in 1982 and was sentenced to 15 years to life.

After denying parole 10 times, the Board of Parole Hearings found Quarterman eligible for release in October 2006. The board said Quarterman had no serious disciplinary violations since 1992, had taken part in alcohol treatment and other rehabilitation programs, had shown remorse for his crime, and had realistic plans to live with his mother and work at a Vallejo furniture store.

A board psychologist said Quarterman "appears to have developed character" and posed no more risk than the average citizen. But Schwarzenegger vetoed parole in March 2007, citing the viciousness of the killing and the Solano County district attorney's opposition to release.

The governor also cited Quarterman's juvenile record, his early disciplinary problems in prison and his assertion that he had killed Stewart in self-defense, an indication that "he may not accept responsibility for the crime."

But the appeals court said a prisoner does not have to admit guilt to show that he has been rehabilitated. Regardless of Quarterman's version of the events that led to the killing, the court said, the psychologist and the parole board concluded that he had taken responsibility for his acts and was unlikely to repeat them.

TaichiMantis

04-22-2010, 12:42 PM

Unfortunately they are still at large (http://www.asylum.com/2010/04/22/thieves-attack-unarmed-jeweler-with-samurai-sword-and-ax-and/):

What would you do if confronted by two masked robbers wielding a samurai sword and an ax? Us? We'd give them everything they want, then run.

Not U.K. jeweler John Bradley, who refused to allow the two thieves rob his store, fending them off with his bare hands.

In amazing footage released by Bradley in a bid to capture the crooks you'll see the armed men burst into his shop, Dot the Jewellers in Saltaire, in a bid to make off with the over-$300,000 worth of valuables it houses.

But the 40-year-old fought back. After pushing the robber with the sword and disarming him, Bradley fell through glass cabinets in the scuffle before chasing the pair out of the store, empty-handed, with their own weapon.

TaichiMantis

05-05-2010, 10:16 AM

Liquid courage and a sword...:rolleyes:

April 27, 2010 6:45 AM
Samurai Student? UDel Student Arrested in Weekend Sword Attack (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20003425-504083.html#addcomm)

NEWARK, Del. (CBS/KYW/AP) A University of Delaware student was arrested for assaulting another male with a 3-foot samurai sword as a party was breaking up over the weekend.

Luis Sanchez-Herrea, 24, is facing charges of assault, possession of a deadly weapon and related offenses after the incident in an apartment in Newark, Del. about 3 a.m. Saturday.

Police said the attack started with an altercation in the apartment. The fight spilled into a bedroom, where Sanchez-Herrera allegedly grabbed the sword and struck the victim in the hand.

He was rushed to Christiana Hospital and received 20 stitches. According to CBS affiliate KYW, police recovered a 3-foot-long sword at the scene.

The incident remains under investigation.

TaichiMantis

06-02-2010, 11:46 AM

By Matthew Fleischer on Jun 02, 2010 08:58 AM (http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/show_business/porn_actor_goes_on_samurai_rampage_in_van_nuys_163 380.asp)

Stephen Hill, a 30 year-old porn actor, allegedly snapped last night, killing one and wounding two with a samurai sword/machete-type weapon. The attack took place at the Van Nuys offices of Ultima DVD Inc. on Hayvenhurst Avenue and Saticoy street.

The L.A. Times is reporting that Hill was both working and living at the Ulitima offices, and may have gone off after fearing he was going to lose his job.

Hill is still on the run, after fleeing the scene in a blue Toyota RAV4.

A Google search of "Steve Hill" and "porn" brings up the gay porn title "Home Coming." No confirmation if this Hill and the suspect are one in the same.

GeneChing

06-08-2010, 09:36 AM

June 7, 2010 11:13 AM
Stephen Hill, Porn Actor Wanted for Sword Slaying, Dies After Jumping Off Cliff, Say Cops (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20006929-504083.html)
Posted by Edecio Martinez

LOS ANGELES (CBS/KCAL) Stephen Hill, the porn actor suspected of killing a colleague with a sword, has died after jumping from a rocky hillside in Chatsworth, Calif. during a standoff with police.

SWAT officers say they spent part of the afternoon Saturday trying to talk the 34-year-old down from the hill as he clutched a sword.

Police Officer Bruce Borihanh says a "less than lethal munition" was used against Hill just before his jump, according to CBS affiliate KCAL. Video of the incident showed Hill moving to the edge of the outcropping from a seated position then letting himself drop as police closed in on him.

Borihanh says the actor fell some 40 feet.

Hill fled to the Chatsworth neighborhood hillside after leaving a house where he was barricaded for most of Saturday.

It was unknown whether the sword was the murder weapon in Tuesday's deadly attack at the Ultima DVD production center that also left two people injured.

Hill, whose professional name is Steve Driver, is suspected of killing 30-year-old colleague Herbert Hin Wong, and wounding two other people. He was charged Friday with one count of murder and five counts of attempted murder.

The charges were filed after Eric Jover, who runs Ultima DVD, offered a $2,000 reward on the company's website for information leading to the arrest of Hill.

Jover said he was present during the attack, but declined to disclose details to KCAL.

Ultima DVD's website contains a tribute to Wong, who police said was killed when he tried to save another victim after the violence erupted at a small social gathering at the studio.

Investigators said Hill went on the rampage after being told he was being fired and would have to move out of the production facility where he had been living.

The small company is located in the San Fernando Valley, known in the adult film industry as Porn Valley for its large number of porn businesses.

There's vid of the death - it's a little morbid: Sword-Wielding Porn Star Falls Off Cliff (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6UQf978MzM)

uki

06-09-2010, 02:29 PM

Avondale police arrested a man suspected of stabbing a father and son with a samurai sword during a fight late Saturday night, officials said.

Santos Esquival Villanueva, 29, was booked Sunday into Fourth Avenue Jail on counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and other weapons charges, according to booking records. He is being held on $175,000 bond.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/06/09/20100609avondale-samurai-sword-stabbing.html

GeneChing

06-16-2010, 09:31 AM

Beaten to the cut (as opposed to the punch) by SanHeChuan. :o

U.S. Man Arrested for 'Hunting' Bin Laden (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1019978)

GeneChing

07-16-2010, 09:26 AM

Nothing says "martial arts master" like slapping a woman and holding her down on a bed at sword point. Stupid ninja wannabe.

Authorities: Man assaults woman with ninja sword (http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/jul/14/141737/authorities-man-assaults-woman-ninja-sword/)
By BRAD ****ERSON
Published: July 14, 2010
Updated: 07/14/2010 05:37 pm

SEBRING - Sheriff's deputies said a self-proclaimed "master of martial arts" slapped a woman in the face several times before threatening her with a ninja sword.

Eldridge Brown, 39, of Sebring, was arrested Sunday and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without the intent to kill, possession of a weapon or ammo by a convicted felon and misdemeanor battery.

He remained in the Highlands County Jail Tuesday under an $110,000 bond.

Brown and the woman were arguing, which led to him saying he was a martial arts master and that she was disrespecting him, according to the arrest report.

The suspect began slapping the woman in the face before pushing her onto the bed and held the blade of the unsheathed sword toward her neck, the report stated.

"The sword was held only a few inches away from (the woman's) neck, with the sharp cutting edge of the blade pointed towards the soft tissue of her neck," the report stated.

When law enforcement arrived, they reportedly found 11 .44 caliber magnum bullets. It was advised that Brown was a convicted felon from Illinois.

Highlands County Sheriff's Dep. Jacob Riley made the arrest.

GeneChing

07-29-2010, 09:23 AM

This is a really dark report. You can't but wonder what chain of events might have led up to Susan's death. Truly a horror story.

Husband says exorcism shouldn't have been solo (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D9H86OJ84.html)
07/28/2010
Associated Press

The husband of a Texas woman who died while he claims he was doing an exorcism on her says he shouldn't have tried it alone.

The Odessa American reported Wednesday that 63-year-old Jan David Clark said in a jailhouse interview that he regrets attempting the 2008 exorcism without help. He told the newspaper that a group exorcism would have been more appropriate.

Authorities arrested Clark after they found Susan K. Clark's body wrapped in a sheet with a cross and sword on top of it on the floor of the master bathroom.

Clark, who told the newspaper he "did not willingly" kill his 59-year-old wife, is scheduled to stand trial Sept. 13 in Odessa for murder. An autopsy report said she died of suffocation.

Lawrence Barber, Clark's attorney, declined to comment Wednesday.

GeneChing

08-17-2010, 10:07 AM

I think wooden cutlass is Nebraskan for one of these (http://www.martialartsmart.com/40-03.html).

Threatened with knife, Lincoln man grabs wooden sword
By the Lincoln Journal Star | Posted: Monday, August 16, 2010 8:10 pm

A Lincoln man says he used a wooden sword to defend himself against two robbers who forced their way into his apartment early Monday.

The man, 39, told police he was watching Internet videos when the men broke in his door at 60th and Fremont streets just after 5 a.m.

One of the men threatened him with a large knife, but it was a fire extinguisher that caused him real troubles, he said after the incident.

After running to his bedroom and grabbing the wooden cutlass, the man poked his head from the bedroom door only to be sprayed in the face by one of the robbers wielding a fire extinguisher.

The intruders ran off with the man's cell phone, MP3 player, digital camera and wallet, Lincoln Police Capt. Jim Davidsaver said.

Police recovered the wallet, sans cash, and the fire extinguisher outside. They also found a pair of croquet mallets possibly left by the robbers.

Remember, fire extinguisher fu beats wooden cutlass fu.

GeneChing

08-17-2010, 10:10 AM

Should this go here?

Conviction Reversed in Samurai Sword Stepfather Slaying (http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Conviction-Reversed-of-Man-Accused-of-Samurai-Sword-Killing-100548804.html)
By GREG CERGOL
Updated 4:20 PM EDT, Thu, Aug 12, 2010

A Long Island judge has reversed the 2007 murder conviction of a man accused of killing his stepfather with an antique samurai sword.

Zachary Gibian was 20-years-old when he was convicted in 2006 of second degree murder for killing his stepfather Scott Nager as he slept on the sofa in their Hauppauge living room. He may now get a new trial.

An Appellate Court judge reversed Gibian's original conviction, saying the trial was flawed when the court did not allow the defendant to testify about a statement that his mother allegedly made to him on the day of the slaying. The Suffolk County District Attorney will now ask the Court of Appeals to take a look a today's reversal. If it stands, it could head back to court for a new trial.

Gibian confessed to the slaying on videotape but later said he was lying to protect his mother, Laura Nager, who he claimed killed her husband because she discovered he was sexually abusing Gibian.

Gibian also testified under oath at that homicide detectives coached him to be convincing for the recording of his confession.

The defendant contended that only after his mother made this detailed statement to him that she had murdered her husband did he confess to police that he had killed his step-father in an effort to protect her.

The reveral also found that the original trial was marred by juror misconduct during deliberations and curtailment of the defense's closing statements.

"I believe there are significant issues that deserve to be heard by the highest court in the state. Accordingly, we will appeal this decision," District Attorney Thomas Spota said.

The 51-year-old Nager was a retired New York City police officer. He was nearly decapitated by two blows from an antique samurai sword swiped from his own collection of war memorabilia.
First Published: Aug 12, 2010 1:08 PM EDT

Syn7

08-19-2010, 02:59 PM

"the officer had no choice and pulled her gun and used deadly force... unfortunately the officer wasnt harmed"

right, because if shes standing 20 feet away and takes out his sword arms or kneecaps he surely wouldve hulked over and killed everyone within 100 yards... :rolleyes:

i mean really, find an angle where you wont kill bystanders if you miss and empty your clip towards his legs... i believe they now have a no kill policy in NYC... cops are advised to shoot to maim, not kill in situations like this... obviously if some1 points a gun at you you have to plug 3, center mass... no question... but like recently in my area, a man had a small 4 inch blade and was shot dead from 25 feet away because he didnt drop it after two requests... the guy had mental issues and was more than partially deaf... this shoot to kill policy isnt always the best idea imo...

Syn7

08-19-2010, 03:03 PM

Should this go here?

if the guy wasnt a retired cop do you think people would have been more willing to believe he was an abuser??? prolongued sexual abuse is a valid psychological defence for 1st or 2nd degree murder to be dropped down to something like justifiable homicide... if the kid was mentally messed up from the abuse its possible he actually believed he was protecting himself and his fam even tho the man was sleeping when he was slashed...

GeneChing

09-21-2010, 09:32 AM

Threatened to behead an 8-year-old? Yikes.

Huston Township stabbings linked to parolee (http://www.centredaily.com/2010/09/21/2221610/stabbings-linked-to-parolee.html)
Sara Ganim
- sganim@centredaily.com
September 21, 2010 7:40am EDT

Two months after he was released from jail on charges he threatened to behead an 8-year-old boy with a 2-foot-long sword, 23-year-old Robert W. Quick was arrested again — this time after allegedly stabbing two men in the hand outside a party in Huston Township.

State police said it started around 11 p.m. Saturday at the 177 Martins Lane home. Initially, Quick left when he was asked to, but then returned with knives and scissors and a physical argument began.

Police said both victims, a 45- year-old man and a 36-year-old man, were stabbed in the right hand.

Quick was disarmed and held until police arrived. He was taken to jail pending arraignment on aggravated assault and other charges.

In April 2009, Quick was arrested on charges he threatened a boy who was playing outside with his younger brother in a wooded area in Snow Shoe Township.

Quick didn’t hurt the boy, but he stabbed the sword through the bottom of the 8-year-old’s worm bucket, then pointed it at the boy’s neck and threatened him.

Quick spent four months in jail, then was released at his sentencing, after telling the judge he was high on cold medicine and alcohol when the assault happened.

Two months later, in September 2009, he was sent back to jail for 191/ 2 months for violating his parole by continuing to consume drugs and alcohol.

Court records show he was paroled from jail in June.

As part of the sentence for violating parole in the sword case, Judge Bradley P. Lunsford added six additional years of probation.

In addition to the new charges, Quick is expected to be brought into court for a hearing on again violating his parole in the sword incident.

Sara Ganim can be reached at 231-4616.
um, worm bucket isn't a euphemism for something, is it? :confused:

GeneChing

09-23-2010, 09:23 AM

Again with the samurai swords (http://www.martialartsmart.com/ninja-samurai-kendo-samurai-kendo-weapon.html). Who keeps a samurai sword in their shed?

Published September 23 2010
Police: Husband brandished samurai sword (http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/292119/group/News/)

After kicking in the door at his wife’s house, a jilted husband with a katana in hand had a message for the new boyfriend: “I could cut through you like butter.”

That’s what police allege Khna Chroeung said to the boyfriend while pointing a samurai sword at him on Saturday, allegations that prompted felony burglary and terrorizing charges to be filed earlier this week.

The 39-year-old native of Cambodia and co-owner of an Asian grocery store, Lotus Blossom, was also charged with carrying a concealed weapon due to a switchblade he allegedly had on his belt under his shirt when arrested.

Chroeung did not have a key to get into the house of his estranged wife, she told police. His son called 911 after seeing Chroeung grab the sword from a shed and kick down the wife’s back door, according to a police report included with the charges filed Monday.

The boyfriend told police he came downstairs to tell Chroeung to leave when he heard that he was breaking into the house and found him holding the sword. He claimed Chroeung swung the sword, knocking over a bottle of wine, before telling him he could cut him like butter.

Chroeung told officers he had no intention of hurting the man but was trying to scare him into leaving the house, which is owned by the mother of his wife.

He told police he accidentally broke the glass door of a china cabinet inside the home when he turned too quickly and hit it with the samurai sword.

A phone message left for Chroeung’s attorney, Mark Beauchene, was not returned on Wednesday.

Chroeung’s next appearance in court is scheduled for Oct. 21.

GeneChing

09-28-2010, 11:41 AM

A real postal worker goes postal!

Samurai sword attack at deli (http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/samurai-sword-attack-at-deli/story-e6frf7jx-1225929467565)
* From: NewsCore
* September 26, 2010 7:44AM

A FORMER postal worker accused of threatening a deli clerk with a samurai sword was arrested in western Washington after he led police on a wild pursuit that ended with them ransacking his house with tear gas, The Olympian reported today.

A five-hour standoff with an Olympia, Washington, SWAT team ended safely after the 59-year-old man, Michael Burr, was arrested on suspicion of two counts of felony assault. Mr Burr allegedly entered a deli near his house and swung the katana-style samurai sword at the clerk around 4am local time. No one was injured in the alleged attack, according to authorities.

Police investigating the assault went to Mr Burr's home around 7am, where the door was answered by a sword-yielding Burr, The Olympian reported.

When Mr Burr refused to drop the weapon, SWAT was called in to assist. Police attempted to negotiate with Mr Burr, but he refused to exit the house and surrender.

The heavily-armed specialty squad surrounded his home and shot tear gas through the windows, eventually forcing their way inside the home after Mr Burr threw items, including a photo album and a sword, from a second-story window.

“We got him out safely, and nobody got hurt. That’s the important thing,” Thurston County Chief Criminal Deputy James Chamberlain said, according to the report.

Mr Burr, who had recently been suspended from a job with the US Postal Service, was uninjured except for small cuts on his arm. He had recently begun to act strangely, neighbours said.

“He was a pretty normal guy until a couple of months ago,” coffee stand owner Larry Katzenberger said. "He thinks he’s discovered something about the moon that nobody knows.”

If for nothing else, it gives us an excuse to watch this again. Belushi was freaking brilliant.
SNL Samurai Delicatessen (http://www.hulu.com/watch/4262/saturday-night-live-samurai-delicatessen)

GeneChing

10-04-2010, 02:24 PM

...over a karaoke singer? oh phuket!

Phuket Pair Duel for Singer With Sword and Gun (http://phuketwan.com/tourism/phuket-pair-duel-singer-sword-gun-13052/)
By Phuketwan Reporter
Monday, October 4, 2010

TWO MEN who fought over a Phuket karaoke singer kept up their argument when both were admitted to a Phuket emergency ward with wounds last night.

Nurses at Vachira Hospital in Phuket City said the men, bloody from their sword and gun showdown, were placed on adjacent guerneys, where they continued to insult each other.

Both have since been charged with attempted murder.

Sarawoot Suttikan, 36, and Nipot Chairat, 38, first engaged in a fist-fight over the karaoke singer about a month ago, said police in the southern Phuket district of Chalong.

Khun Nipot lost that fight and on Sunday night went to Khun Sarawood's home in Chalong, challenging him to come outside, police said.

Khun Nipot, a Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation volunteer, was carrying a registered handgun. Khun Sarawoot came out swinging and clobbered Khun Nipot with a sword, police said.

Khun Nipot tried to pistol-whip Khun Sarawoot and fired the gun six times, managing to hit Khun Sarawoot once in an arm, police said.

Both men were taken to Vachira and at last report were still calling each other names.

GeneChing

10-15-2010, 09:39 AM

...just heartbreaking.

Fairfield twins allegedly killed with sword (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/15/BAN81FT2KT.DTL)
Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer
San Francisco Chronicle October 14, 2010 08:35 PM
Friday, October 15, 2010

(10-14) 20:35 PDT FAIRFIELD -- A Fairfield woman stabbed her twin 3-year-old daughters with a samurai-style sword and then tried to take her own life by slashing her throat and setting her apartment on fire, authorities say.

Monica Christine McCarrick, 28, is facing charges of murder, child abuse causing death, arson and evidence destruction.

McCarrick, who has lived in Contra Costa County and San Diego, was to be booked at Solano County Jail after being treated at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek for stab wounds and cuts.

The bodies of Lily and Tori Ball were found by firefighters when summoned to the blaze Tuesday night. Neighbors reported seeing the weapon and a bottle of pills inside the apartment.

GeneChing

11-23-2010, 11:00 AM

what a horrible ugly story...

'Ugly Betty' Actor Murdered Mom With Samurai Sword While Screaming Bible Passages (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ugly-betty-actor-murdered-mom-48409)
11:35 AM 11/23/2010 by Lindsay Powers

Police had to taser Michael L. Brea to subdue him before bringing him to a Brooklyn hospital with a guard.

Michael L. Brea, who has appeared on episodes of Ugly Betty and in Step-Up 3D, brutally murdered his mother with a Samurai sword while screaming biblical passages, police confirm.

Police were called to Brea's Brooklyn, New York apartment after neighbors heard screaming around 2:20 a.m. Tuesday morning.

"I hear the brother chasing her [his mother] through the house and he's just saying a bunch of [Bible] passages like, 'Repent, Repent, Repent,'" neighbor Gregory Clare told local television station WPIX 11 News. "I heard him chasing her through the house and I hear a loud scream and so I have my father call the cops, call 911."

Brea, who also appeared in Coke commercials, had decapitated and stabbed his mother, 55-year-old Yannick, multiple times. Police said he was emotionally disturbed and they had to taser him to subdue him. They described the apartment as “extremely bloody.” He was taken to Kings County Hospital with a police guard.

NYPD spokeswoman Officer Doris Otero tells The Hollywood Reporter, "They found a black female, Yannick, with multiple stab wounds on her body. EMS pronounced her DOA."

"I had just dozed off to go to sleep and then I woke up to somebody screaming," said Bernard Bent, another resident. "It sounded like a lady's voice and after a while I just didn't hear the woman's voice again."

Brea, who was described by neighbors as "quiet," was into martial arts. He has a twin brother, and also owned a Subway restaurant shop, giving away 300 sandwiches for free on Thanksgiving in 2008.

"I remember growing up and my mother was always feeding people who were less fortunate," Brea once told Haitian movie site BelFim.com. "My parents raised me to always share and to give charity in the name of God."

doug maverick

11-23-2010, 05:17 PM

this was a strangley morbidly amusing article..interestingly enough they say he was in ugly betty and step up 3d but ive yet to find his name on imdb, if he was just an extra shame on thewrap.com for reporting as such.

Michael Brea, an actor who had roles on "Ugly Betty" and "Step-Up 3D," was arrested in Brooklyn, New York early Tuesday, after police say he "held his mother hostage and then murdered her with a samurai sword while screaming Bible passages."

Neighbors heard screams coming from an apartment at about 1:30 a.m. (ET), according to WPIX, a local New York television station.

Responding officers found Brea, 31, in the apartment, and had to subdue him with a taser.

The body of 55-year-old Yannick Brea "was found badly hacked, decapitated and stabbed multiple times in another room."

Neighbors said "spattered blood was visible on the apartment windows," according to the Daily News.

Brea was transported to Kings County Hospital for a psychiatric exam "with a police guard assigned to him," according to the report.

The investigation is ongoing and charges are pending, police said.

* 'Ugly Betty' to Fold in April

According to an online biography, Brea was born in New York City to Haitian-American parents Marcel and Yannick Brea.

Before becoming an actor, Brea opened a Subway restaurant in Brooklyn in 2007, according to Belfim.com. On Thanksgiving 2008, Brea's Subway gave away 300 footlong turkey sandwiche, according to that site.

"I remember growing up my mother was always feeding people who were less fortunate," Brea reportedly said. "My parents raised me to always share and to give charity in the name of GOD!"

GeneChing

11-23-2010, 06:05 PM

I posted this on our Bad Day for Samurai Wannabes (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1062119#post1062119) thread. I thought about posting it here, just like I thought about moving the Wesley Snipes is headed to prison (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59111) here.

Extra points to you for double checking on IMDB.

Jimbo

11-23-2010, 09:55 PM

This story is tragic and more than a bit creepy. This guy seems way beyond simply mentally disturbed. It kind of reminds me of the news story that I heard took place on a cross-country bus ride in Canada a year or two ago; One man (I think his name was Li Weiquang?) suddenly took out a combat-style knife and began stabbing the man sleeping in the seat next to him, then cut his head off. The other passengers and driver fled the bus, and they could see him inside the bus through the windows. At one point he held up the victim's head. All this seemed to happen out of nowhere, according to the other passengers.

GeneChing

11-30-2010, 10:58 AM

Accused murderer just 'Ugly Betty' extra (http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/accused_murderer_just_ugly_betty_wY7Iilja1lYftUbO9 Mq2cM)
By SEAN DALY
Last Updated: 10:23 AM, November 30, 2010
Posted: 10:33 PM, November 29, 2010

Michael Brea -- the sword swinging " 'Ugly Betty' actor" accused of beheading his mother in a gruesome, religious sacrifice -- turns out to be no more than a $10-an-hour background extra.

"He worked two days on the first episode we filmed [for] Season 4," second assistant director Jim Nickas tells The Post.

The scenes for the episode titled "Blue On Blue" were shot at the former Craftsteak restaurant on 10th Avenue and 15th Street.

"We have 90 background actors the first day and 70 the second day," Nickas says. "Some [posing as] restaurant staff, but mostly patrons. So it is pretty lame that the headlines have read: ' "Ugly Betty" actor Michael Brea.' "

Before consulting the show's casting records, Nickas admits, "I had never heard of him.

"He has also been reported as being on 'Step Up 3D', which is kind of funny because my wife worked on that movie, and she didn't remember him, either."

The mystery behind Brea's showbiz credentials has been growing since a Hollywood trade magazine first reported the story last week.i
Doug questioned his creds on the parallel file under weird but true.actor kills parents with samurai sword. (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=59147) thread

GeneChing

11-30-2010, 11:00 AM

You were right. See Bad Day for Samurai Wannabes (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1063490#post1063490)

GeneChing

11-30-2010, 11:03 AM

Brave 75-year-old disarms sword-wielding intruder in his home (http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/75-year-old-disarms-sword-raider-home/article-2950235-detail/article.html)

AN elderly couple were terrified when two men armed with swords raided their Lincoln home.

The husband, who had just celebrated his 75th birthday, courageously disarmed intruder Matthew Saunders, but was struck on the head by accomplice Paul Fellowes.

Christopher Kessling, prosecuting at Leicester Crown Court, said the elderly man and his 73-year-old wife were awoken at their bungalow in Lindum Terrace, Lincoln, early on June 7, last year.

The husband jumped out of bed and saw Saunders coming towards him with an ornamental samurai sword, taken from the shed.
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He demanded the victim's car keys.

Despite fearing for his safety, the victim grappled with Saunders and managed to disarm him in the kitchen.

Fellowes, armed with another sword from the shed, was standing outside the broken window, and struck the victim on the head, causing blood to pour down his face.

The injured pensioner ended up grappling on the floor with Saunders, who punched him repeatedly, as he demanded money.

The wife ran to a neighbour's but Saunders followed her and tried to drag her back.

Her husband came outside with the sword he'd taken from Saunders and hit Fellowes, making him drop his sword. The attackers then fled in the couple's car.

Fellowes, of Brisco Avenue, Loughborough, was previously found guilty of aggravated burglary, wounding and possessing a knife when arrested.

Saunders, formerly of Loughborough, but recently of Mablethorpe Chalet Park, Links Avenue, Mablethorpe, pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary, wounding and causing an affray prior to arrest.

Mr Kessling said police spotted the Rover later that morning in Belton Road, Loughborough, and pursued the defendants to Shepshed.

Fellowes was chased and caught. Saunders ran into his sister's flat in Brook Street and grabbed hold of her, threatening to hold her hostage. He then went onto a balcony with a knife screaming at the police.

Firearms officers attended and there was a stand-off before Saunders was arrested.

Fellowes, 29, from Loughborough, was jailed indefinitely for public protection at the court on Friday and will serve at least six years behind bars.
Sword disarm - impressive. Too bad he didn't indicate he had any training.

Woman charged after threatening ex-boyfriend with sword (http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/2928328,sword-charge-threat-boyfriend-112810.article)
November 28, 2010

An enraged woman brandished a sword as she threatened her ex-boyfriend at a West Side convenience store, prosecutors allege.

Sylvia Anderson, 31, is charged with aggravated assault after she allegedly held the medieval weapon above her head at the store where her ex-boyfriend worked at 2200 South Central Park on Saturday.

She also threatened a woman she believed to be the 34-year-old man's new girlfriend with the sword, according to a police report.

Judge Israel Desierto ordered Anderson, of the 2200 block of South Homan, held on bail of $5,000 during a hearing Sunday morning.

GeneChing

11-30-2010, 11:06 AM

Henley injured in Narnia sword fight (http://www.new-magazine.co.uk/latestnews/view/25775/Henley-injured-in-Narnia-sword-fight/)
Posted: Tuesday 30 Nov 2010

Actress GEORGIE HENLEY had a tough time on the set of THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER - she was hospitalised after she was hit in the face with a sword.

The teenager was filming a fight scene for the upcoming fantasy movie when one of her assailants accidentally struck her with a weapon.

Henley was left with a black eye and a swollen cheek - and producers had to use make-up to hide the bruise, and camera tricks to "reshape" her face.

She tells You magazine, "The worst thing happened in a sword scene in which I had to fight off four grown men. We had almost got it right on the first take but the camera missed an important bit where I kick one of the men in, er, a not-so-very-nice-place, and they wanted me to do it again.

"So we did it, but then I forgot that I was supposed to duck and one of the men's sword handles hit me. I had to go to accident and emergency - I had a black eye and massive swelling on one side of my face. We had to continue shooting the next day, so they applied tons of make-up and digitally reshaped my face!"
They're calling Georgia Henley the next Emma Watson. We'll see about that.

doug maverick

11-30-2010, 12:07 PM

i just couldnt place that guys face i even went through my rollerdecks of head shots(about five thousand now) because i thought if he is an actor in nyc i might have auditioned him nothing. and ofcourse the imdb search showed nothing. what puzzles me is 1.how could the wrap not fact check before publishing. 2. where did they get the information and 3. why publish the fact that he was an extra in ugly betty(step up is unconfirmed and quite frankly i dont even believe it, dont even think the film was shot in ny.) its not the first time they've done it. they once published a report of a "power ranger actor" committing a murder or suicide i forget and it turned out that that person was just an extra in one episode. weird thing is, alot of the tv media doesnt fact check and just pick up the story. blah! how annoying.lol

GeneChing

12-02-2010, 10:47 AM

Man stabs life-long friend with Samurai sword for making joke about his 'big nose' (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334902/Liam-Johnston-stabbed-Matthew-Peters-Samurai-Sword-big-nose-joke.html?ito=feeds-newsxml)
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:24 PM on 2nd December 2010

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/12/02/article-1334902-0C4DDB0E000005DC-953_233x423.jpg
Jailed: Matthew Peters, 20, who slashed at lifelong friend Liam Johnston

A man was stabbed with a Samurai sword by his life-long friend after he joked about the size of his nose.

Liam Johnston was left scarred for life after Matthew Peters rushed back to his house, collected a knife and stabbed him.

Peters, 20, was jailed for more than five years for 'flipping' following the innocuous comment.

Liam, 20, said: 'I was frightened when I saw the sword but I wasn't terrified. He's a mate, so I didn't think he would actually do anything to me.

'I couldn't believe it when he stabbed me. I haven't had anything to do with him since then. There's no friendship there anymore.'

Liam, 20, and Peters had been friends for years before the sudden stabbing which happened in Newcastle Street, North Shields, Tyne and Wear, on August 12.

Matthew Peters was so angry after the comment about his nose that he ran home up three flights of stairs before breaking into the loft where his father kept a collection of ornamental swords.

He ran back to Liam and plunged the blade into his thigh as he attempted to run away, Newcastle Crown Court was told.

'We were just walking along the street when we had a small argument,' Liam said.

'It was stupid really but he just flipped. He ran back to his house, picked up the sword and then he just came round and stabbed me in the street.

'I fell down and he ran off back home. My mates helped me up and I was taken straight to hospital.'

The sword pierced a nerve and after surgery father-of-one Liam was left with a 35cm scar.

'He hit one of my nerves,' he continued. 'I was in hospital for a week and I had to have an operation.'

'I still can't walk properly, I have to ride my bike around. The doctors say they can't tell if I'll be able to walk properly again. I just have to wait and see.'

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/12/02/article-1334902-0C4DDB12000005DC-503_468x452.jpg
Scar: The slash wound that Liam Johnson, 20, suffered

Peters, of Ravensworth Street, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause GBH at Newcastle Crown Court and was sentenced to five years and four months in jail.

Detective Constable Rouven Snowdon, said he hoped the sentence would send out a message about the consequences of using knives or blades.

'This case shows how devastating the consequences can be when a young man arms himself with a weapon and attacks a once close friend with it,' he said.

'Liam and Peters had been friends since childhood but they had an argument in the street.

'Peters is indeed fortunate that the wound was not more serious, but his victim is still suffering from the effects of the injury.

'The sword hit Liam's femoral nerve. He's got some nerve damage to the bottom of his foot. He ended up going into surgery.

'The initial scar was just the size of the tip of the sword but after surgery he has been left with a 35cm scar and he's still not able to walk properly.'

'The sentence handed down by the court today should send a clear message to others that picking up a weapon and resorting to violence will lead to prison.'
It's always samurai swords (http://www.martialartsmart.com/ninja-samurai-kendo-samurai-kendo-weapon.html). Obviously I need to work harder at slinging Chinese swords (http://www.martialartsmart.com/weapons-shaolin-forge-weapons.html).

TaichiMantis

12-04-2010, 06:27 PM

It's always samurai swords (http://www.martialartsmart.com/ninja-samurai-kendo-samurai-kendo-weapon.html). Obviously I need to work harder at slinging Chinese swords (http://www.martialartsmart.com/weapons-shaolin-forge-weapons.html).

...well, the homeless guys by the Y stay back when they see me carrying my jian after class.:D;)

Jimbo

12-28-2010, 11:17 PM

This is copied from the San Diego Union-Tribune, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010:

Man accused of cutting father with sword; victim is critical.

Spring Valley

A man accused of critically injuring his father with a samurai sword was booked into county jail on a charge of elder abuse and assault with a deadly weapon, the Sheriff's Department said Monday.

Bail was set at $100,000 for John Cahan, 39.

His 69-year-old father was in his bed asleep in his home on Terraspiro Avenue in Spring Valley about 3 a.m. Sunday when his son entered holding the large sword, said sheriff's Sgt. Mark Varnau.

Cahan was reportedly angry and demanded his father hold out his hand so he could cut it off, Varnau said. Cahan swung the sword several times over his father, and then struck his lower leg, cutting it, Varnau said.

Cahan left the room with the sword but later returned to try to stop the leg from bleeding. After 90 minutes, Cahan called paramedics. He told them his father accidentally injured himself while sleepwalking.

The victim, who told sheriff's deputies that his son had attacked him, was taken to a hospital in critical condition. Cahan was arrested.
Susan Schroeder, U-T
_________________________________________

Another "genius" and his "samurai" sword.

GeneChing

02-09-2011, 01:19 PM

Seriously? See this is why I don't give my kid Spaghetti Os. Too much sugar in that. Eat real spaghetti.

SpaghettiO's sparked alleged samurai sword attack (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/feb/08/spaghettios-sparked-alleged-samurai-sword-attack/)
By Kristina Davis, UNION-TRIBUNE
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 3:06 p.m.

EL CAJON — An argument over a can of SpaghettiO’s is what led a man to attack his 69-year-old sleeping father with a samurai sword over Christmas weekend, according to court testimony Tuesday.

John Cahan, 39, has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse and residential burglary in the Dec. 26 attack on his father, Allen Cahan, in the Spring Valley home they shared.

El Cajon Superior Court Judge Patricia Cookson ruled that enough evidence was presented during a preliminary hearing Tuesday for the case to go to trial.

The victim, who spoke from a wheelchair, testified that he was asleep in the home on Terraspiro Avenue when he was awakened.

“He came in accusing me of cooking SpaghettiO’s,” Allen Cahan said. He said he denied making the food but his son, who was standing over the bed with a large sword at his side, continued to insist he had.

“I couldn’t make him believe me... All of the sudden he swung the sword at me.”

The sword sliced open his left leg, requiring numerous stitches and surgery.

Sheriff’s investigators said at the time that John Cahan also demanded his father hold out his hand so he could cut it off.

The victim testified that his son left the room and returned awhile later with towel strips to try to stop the bleeding. He also called 911.

The victim testified that he lied when he initially told a sheriff’s deputy that he had injured himself with the sword. He said he was just going along with his son’s version of events.

He also told the court that his son collects swords and has about five of them leaning against a wall in his bedroom.

John Cahan remains jailed on $150,000 bail. A trial has been set for March 28.

He faces up to 12 years in prison if convicted of all charges.

GeneChing

02-11-2011, 10:58 AM

Flash bang grenades & tasers win

SWAT team encounter man with sword (http://www.egcitizen.com/articles/2011/02/10/news/doc4d549f12e5478185725635.txt)
By Cameron Macdonald
Citizen News Editor
Published: Thursday, February 10, 2011 6:29 PM PST

The Elk Grove police’s SWAT team entered a house where they reportedly encountered a 39-year-old man who held a samurai sword between his legs on Feb. 10. Officers used a Taser to stun him before they detained him.

Elk Grove police spokesperson Christopher Trim said that police placed him into psychiatric evaluation and did not arrest him.

The incident occurred early this afternoon on the 8400 block of Guis Court in north Elk Grove.

Authorities declined to release the man’s name since it’s a medical case and a crime has not been committed, Trim said.

A vehicle first caught on fire on Guis Court and Cosumnes firefighters came to the scene. Trim said that fire staff later knocked on neighbors’ doors to find the vehicle’s owner and they saw a man looking out of his window at the time.

When two Elk Grove officers came to that man’s door, he reportedly approached them in a “highly agitated” state, Trim said. He also reportedly had a small torch.

Trim said that authorities assumed that this event may have been connected to the vehicle fire and they tried to convince him to exit his house. The man reportedly slammed his door instead and acted wildly by throwing objects inside his home and banging on walls.

Trim said that police called in their SWAT team and their Hostage Negotiation Team for the man’s safety. He mentioned that several nearby homes were evacuated.

The man still refused to leave his home and police reportedly heard the sounds of objects being placed against the front door as if he was barricading himself.

Trim said that around 4 p.m., the SWAT team entered the home where they found the man sitting on a couch and holding a three-foot long samurai sword. Police ordered him to put down his weapon.

Trim said that officers used two flash bang grenades to stun the man before they used a Taser. The man was medically treated to have the Tasers removed from him before he was taken to psychiatric evaluation.

Trim said that Cosumnes fire staff will conduct a follow-up investigation to determine if the vehicle fire was an arson.

GeneChing

02-25-2011, 05:54 PM

Man Carrying Sword Shot in Detroit (http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/amy_lange/man-carrying-sword-shot-in-detroit-20110224-wpms)
Updated: Thursday, 24 Feb 2011, 8:19 PM EST
Published : Thursday, 24 Feb 2011, 8:18 PM EST
By AMY LANGE
WJBK | myFOXDetroit.com

DETROIT (WJBK) - It's not "Pirates of the Caribbean", just a guy walking down the street with a huge sword. It's not something you see every day, but it happened on this day.

"This guy's got a scimitar, one of those big like pirate swords, had to be three, four feet long," said Paul Mergentime.

He was plowing snow outside Scaffolding Incorporated on McNichols near John R when he spotted a guy with a sword.

"Looked just like a regular guy except he had that big thing on his shoulder, which made me a little suspicious. I got the hell out of the way when I saw that," Mergentime said.

He ducked behind a wall. A Detroit police officer was passing by and stopped, urging the swordsman to drop his weapon.

"I heard the police telling him to put it down. It doesn't have to end this way," said Mergentime. "It started getting heated and they're yelling back and forth … and the cops were trying -- 'Put it down. Put it down.' He wouldn't do it. They called for backup. There had to (have) been 35, 40 cops out here at one time."

Police swarmed the area shutting down McNichols and then suddenly there was a gunshot.

"Next thing I know … state police showed up. Looked like they were getting ready to taze him, and then I heard a gunshot and then it was all over," Mergentime said.

The swordsman was hit and rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Police searched the area and turned up even more weapons -- another knife, brass knuckles and a hatchet.

"He was loaded. He was strapped up big time," said Mergentime.

It's not known where he was headed with all the hardware. Police say it appears he may have some mental issues.

This could've been much worse. Police tell us the guy is expected to recover.
'35, 40 cops' seems excessive for one swordsman.

GeneChing

03-25-2011, 12:07 PM

In honor of Sucker Punch (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=954), I'm updating this thread.

Zen by name but not by nature: Man named Zen arrested after chasing his in-laws around with a samurai sword (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369623/Men-attacked-relative-samurai-sword-Zen-Timothy-Singleton-arrested.html?ito=feeds-newsxml)
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 10:01 AM on 25th March 2011

With a name like Zen, you'd hope he'd be cool, calm and collected.

But Zen Timothy Singleton showed himself to be anything but when he allegedly went on the rampage with a samurai sword in Hemet, California.

The 20-year-old allegedly chased his in-laws along the street with a sword after a row at home on Tuesday.

Police say he smashed windows at the house they share and sent glass flying, leaving his 24-year-old brother-in-law collapsed on the ground with a six-inch gash in his forehead.

He allegedly slashed his father-in-law, 50, through the thigh as he ran after him round the block in the downtrodden residential area.

A neighbour who witnessed the terrifying chase called police, who found Singleton sitting on the curb outside the house, the Press-Enterprise reports.

They recovered the Katana samurai sword - which are usually about 20 inches long - from the backyard.

Singleton was arrested and charged with attempted murder. His bail was set at $1million.

Lieutenant Mark Richards of Hemet Police described the chase as a 'domestic violence incident' which stemmed from an earlier family dispute.

Both victims - who police are not yet naming - were taken to hospital for treatment of what police called 'non-life-threatening injuries'.

Another police spokesman, Dave Quinn, said the whole family lived in the house, in Marion Avenue, Hemet.

He refused to say what caused the row, but said he expected Singleton to be arraigned later today.

Singleton faces charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and vandalism.

He is being held at the Southwest Detention Center.

Stepfather Attacks With A Samurai Sword (http://www.kztv10.com/news/stepfather-attacks-with-a-samurai-sword/)
Posted: Mar 25, 2011 11:32 AM by Ben Lloyd - blloyd@kristv.com
Updated: Mar 25, 2011 12:28 PM

CORPUS CHRISTI - A young man told police he was assaulted by his girlfriend's stepfather who was wielding a Samurai sword on Thursday night. The 25-year-old victim was covered in blood when police arrived, but he had only suffered a cut to his lip. The girlfriend told police that her stepfather got into a middle of an argument and asked the younger man to leave the home on the 3800 block of Willow. According to police, the victim came back to the home and kicked in the door when the stepfather refused to let him back in the house. All three of the people involved live in the same home. 40-year-old Robert Salyer was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. The victim was not charged and refused treatment from paramedics.

Family Feud In Elgin Leads To Sword Attack (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/25/elgin-family-dispute-lead_n_840723.html)
March 24, 2011 12:30 PM

ELGIN, Ill. (STMW) — A northwest suburban woman unhappy about being kicked out of her aunt’s home vented her frustration by attacking the older woman’s television with a sword.

Elgin police were called to a domestic dispute at a home in the 300 block of Douglas Avenue about 3:20 p.m. Tuesday, where they found a 38-year-old woman and her 21-year-old niece arguing, the Courier-News is reporting.

According to the police report, the women had been living together but the aunt wanted the niece to move out. But the niece said she was afraid that if she left that afternoon, her aunt would throw her belongings onto the lawn. The officer got the niece to promise to leave and the aunt to promise not to throw out her things.

Just 10 minutes later, the aunt called for police again. She said that soon after the officer left, her niece picked up a black sword and repeatedly struck the TV set with it. She also knocked a 2-inch hole in a wall.

The older woman said she did not want to press charges, and the officer advised her to ask the landlord to start legal eviction proceedings.

TaichiMantis

03-28-2011, 07:25 AM

Nice finds! It amazes me how many people just happen to have a sword handy...:rolleyes:

Brule

05-31-2011, 06:07 AM

Another ninja found....

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gymFJsJDNZErkZJ_RPJRj_sEtojg?docId=7006574

TaichiMantis

05-31-2011, 09:12 AM

rubber bullets, taser failed...good old fashioned tackle took him down:D

GeneChing

06-15-2011, 09:26 AM

Joss Stone 'Absolutely Fine' After Murder, Kidnap Attempt (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/joss-stone-absolutely-fine-murder-201972)
11:55 AM 6/15/2011 by Lindsay Powers, Mimi Turner

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The singer says she's "getting on with with life as normal while the police continue with their inquiries.”

Joss Stone says she's doing OK after police uncovered a bizarre murder and kidnap plot against her Tuesday.

"I'd like to thank everyone for their concern but I'm absolutely fine and getting on with life as normal while the police continue with their inquiries," the singer said in a statement.

Two men were arrested near her Devon, England house with swords, rope and a body bag after neighbors called police to report suspicious activity. Police said they also had detailed maps and aerial photographs of the Stone's rural home.

She was not at home at the time.

"Police attended an address in [the village of] Cullompton yesterday morning [Tuesday] after alert residents notified officers about a suspicious-looking vehicle," officers said in a statement.

"Officers attended the area at around 10 am and subsequently arrested the occupants of a red Fiat Punto. Major crime detectives are continuing to investigate."

Reps for the star said she was "aware of the arrests" and that police were "keeping her updated with developments."
If Joss wants to learn swordsmanship, have her give me a call.

GeneChing

08-31-2011, 02:16 PM

...at least it wasn't a katana.

Sword-wielding bicyclist threatens to cut Santa Clara pedestrian in half (http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_18784524?nclick_check=1)
By Mike Rosenberg
mrosenberg@mercurynews.com
Posted: 08/30/2011 07:28:30 AM PDT
Updated: 08/30/2011 07:28:40 AM PDT

Any way you slice it, this was an unusual reaction: A Santa Clara man riding his bike didn't recognize a pedestrian walking in his neighborhood, so he whipped out a sword and threatened to cut him in half, authorities said Monday.

Santa Clara police said they booked 52-year-old Richard Gonzales into county jail on felony charges of assault with a deadly weapon and criminal threats after they received a rather odd 911 call just after 2 a.m. on Saturday.

When officers arrived in the residential area of the 2000 block of Jackson Court, near City Hall, a man told investigators a bicyclist had threatened him with a sabre sword, Lt. Matt Hogan said. The sabre is known for its long, curved blade and is used in fencing and during military ceremonies.

As officers were interviewing the victim -- who was not hurt -- he told them Gonzales had threatened to cut him in half.

The officers quickly found Gonzales, recovered the sword and arrested him, Hogan said.

"The victim was simply walking down the street," Hogan said. "The suspect made some threatening comment and armed himself with this rather large sword."

The victim and Gonzales did not know each other.

"It appears to be an unprovoked, random act," Hogan said. "We're very pleased the officers were there hurriedly and there were no injuries."

Oddly enough, it's the second sword-wielding suspect that Santa Clara officers have arrested this year.

In the first case, police arrested a different man for driving onto a Lexus dealership and threatening an employee with a sword he pulled out of his car.

GeneChing

09-08-2011, 12:29 PM

Sword-wielding man arrested on interstate: I'm 'Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs' (http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-09-05/news/chi-swordwielding-man-arrested-on-interstate-im-cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs-20110904_1_sword-wielding-man-cuckoo-authorities-different-names)
September 05, 2011|Staff report

Authorities in northwest Indiana on Sunday safely disarmed a samurai sword-wielding man after they found him walking along Interstate 65 near Merrillville.

The still-unidentified man was discovered wandering along the interstate just south of U.S. Highway 30 about 2:30 p.m. "marching like a drum major" while holding the 35-inch sword, state police said in a news release.

The shirtless man, who appeared to be in his mid to late 40s, moved the sword rhythmically like a baton until Master Trooper Rick Hudson approached, officials said. The man swung defensively at Hudson but dropped the sword when Hudson ordered him to, authorities said.

A passing car -- a 2010 Chevrolet SUV -- swerved off the road onto the shoulder near the area to avoid a police car stopped at ths scene, police said, and the suspect then tried to get into that vehicle before being ordered to the ground at gunpoint. Merrillville police then took him into custody.

Once in custody, the man gave authorities different names and addresses, but told Lake County Jail officials that he was "Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs."

Authorities were first called to the scene after a white older model Toyota was abandoned in the middle southbound lane of I-65 just south of 61st Avenue.

Though his identity hadn't been verified, authorities charged the man with attempted carjacking, resisting law enforcement and possession of marijuana. This is the wrong way to cope with the munchies.

TaichiMantis

09-19-2011, 10:15 AM

and the getaway vehicles were bikes...:rolleyes:

19 September 2011 Last updated at 11:30 ET
Post Office th (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-14975394)eft
McLean and Brown's DNA was found at the scene Two thieves have admitted holding up a post office in West Lothian with a samurai sword, after their DNA was found at the scene.

Francis McLean, 50, and Valene Brown, 21, raided Knightsridge Post Office in Cameron Way, Livingston, in May.

Worker Aiden Gilani, 25, was threatened with a large samurai sword but got hold of the weapon and used it to chase the pair out of the shop.

They now face jail when they return to the High Court in Edinburgh next month.

McLean and Brown fled on their bikes but their DNA was discovered on items left at the scene and they were caught.

The pair admitted assault and robbery at the High Court in Glasgow.

Pair injured

McLean, from Livingston, was armed with a 20-inch sword and ordered Mr Gilani to lie on the ground.

McLean then passed bank notes from the safe to Brown before Mr Gilani began to struggle with them.

He managed to grab hold of the sword and hit out at the robbers forcing them to drop the majority of the cash.

Mr Gilani got them out of the shop and the pair rode off on their bikes.

The post office worker did not need a doctor but both McLean and Brown were injured.

The court heard £16,270 had been taken from the safe but £14,000 was dropped by the robbers at the post office.

McLean's DNA was found on a hat left at the scene as well as the sword.

Brown's bike was also found nearby.

Judge Lord Hardie remanded them in custody and deferred sentencing until 17 October at the High Court in Edinburgh.

TaichiMantis

10-28-2011, 11:17 AM

How to you conceal a samurai sword INSIDE a bike?:eek:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52746842-78/sword-bicycle-complaint-inside.html.csp

By Janelle Stecklein

The Salt Lake Tribune

First published Oct 19 2011 08:50PM
Updated Oct 19, 2011 11:10PM
A 37-year-old Magna man has been charged after police said they caught him smuggling a large samurai sword inside his bicycle while pedaling down a city street.

A Utah Highway Patrol trooper noticed the man on July 3 riding a bike in the dark without a light near 2680 South and 8850 West in Magna and stopped him, according to the criminal complaint filed Wednesday in 3rd District Court.

A police officer searched the bicycle and found a large samurai sword inside the bicycle, the complaint shows. The complaint did not say why the man was carrying a sword nor how it was concealed inside the bicycle.

The man, a convicted felon who is prohibited from having a weapon, was arrested and charged with possession or use of a dangerous weapon by a restricted person, a third-degree felony.

jstecklein@sltrib.com

Twitter @sltribjanelle

GeneChing

10-31-2011, 04:54 PM

TaichiMantis - I think it was in the movie The Challenge where a sword was smuggled inside a *SPOILER*wheelchair*END SPOILER*. I imagine you could use the same principle to conceal one in a bike.

Meanwhile, this is all kinds of wrong...

Man forces daughter to fight with swords in medieval garb (http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/25/us-crime-medieval-idUSTRE79O8Q120111025)
By Laura L. Myers
SEATTLE | Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:33pm EDT

(Reuters) - A Washington state man accused of beating his 16-year-old daughter and forcing her to engage in a form of medieval sword fighting pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to assault charges.

Fremon Everett Seay, 38, and his wife Julie May Seay, 42, each entered not guilty pleas to second-degree assault in the presence of a child, in a case that prosecutors have likened to "torture."

Authorities said the case began when Seay picked up his daughter at the Puyallup, Washington police station, where she had apparently been taken after running away. He took her to his home in Yelm in the early morning hours of October 15.

Thurston County Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Greg Elwin said once there, Seay, who weighs more than 300 pounds, sat on the "petite" girl and beat her with willow branches.

Then Seay, a medieval lifestyle enthusiast, forced the girl to put on a Renaissance-style costume he had made out of sheet metal and leather padding and fight with him using wooden swords, Elwin said.

When his daughter collapsed after two hours of sword fighting, Seay and his wife, the girl's stepmother, forced her to strip to her underwear before she fell asleep on the couch, Elwin said.

The 16-year-old was made to sleep between the couple in their bed, Elwin said. He said no sexual contact is alleged.

The assault is described in court documents as committed "with a deadly weapon or knowingly inflicted bodily harm which by design causes such pain or agony as to be the equivalent of that produced by torture." No horses were involved.

Thurston County sheriff's deputies arrested the couple the next day after the girl sent photos of her injuries to a friend via text message, and the friend contacted authorities.

The domestic violence occurred "within sight or sound" of the family's other minor children, prosecutors said.

Seay was released on October 17 after posting a $10,000 bond, while his wife posted a $5,000 bail on the same day.

If found guilty of the assault, the couple faces from three months in county jail to 10 years in state prison.

The girl is now living with her mother in Puyallup, authorities said.

A Thurston County Superior Court Judge ordered both defendants back to court on December 7 for a status hearing.

GeneChing

11-04-2011, 09:56 AM

Cop wins. :rolleyes:

Man Allegedly Tries To Stab Officers With Sword In Critical Condition From Gunshot Wound (http://www.wcyb.com/news/29667299/detail.html)
By Megan Gorey
POSTED: 6:02 pm EDT November 2, 2011
UPDATED: 4:16 pm EDT November 3, 2011
[A man who allegedly tried to stab two sheriff’s deputies with a sword is in critical condition after being shot in the chest by an officer.]
A man who allegedly tried to stab two sheriff’s deputies with a sword is in critical condition after being shot in the chest by an officer. MORE
HAWKINS COUNTY, Tenn. -- Officers put their lives on the line every day, but it’s not every day they have a sword pulled on them while they try to serve a warrant. "Our main goal is for everyone to come home safe. My biggest fear is one of my officers getting hurt," Hawkins County Sheriff Ronnie Lawson said.

Lawson said Deputy Marc Bass and Corporal Chad Britton went to a house on Dykes Road in Church Hill, Tennessee to serve a violation of probation warrant from Sullivan County to 26-year old Brandon Laferty. According to the arrest warrant, Laferty had violated his probation by taking off his GPS tracking device. He also didn’t show up for a polygraph test on October 7, 2011.

According to Lawson, when deputies got the house, Megan Lyons answered the door and told deputies Laferty wasn’t home. She said they would need a search warrant if they wanted to come in.

Lawson said deputies found Laferty in the back bedroom and he had a large pocket knife. “When you approach someone in a dangerous situation, unless you're threatened by bodily hard, time is on your side. You can stand and talk all day long as long as you're not in danger,” Lawson stressed.

But Laferty then allegedly picked up a short-blade sword. "He was given several commands to drop the weapon, which he refused," Lawson explained. He said witnesses heard officers tell Laferty several times to put the weapon down. Deputies tried to use pepper spray on him twice and they used their batons to try to disarm him.

"He continually threatened officers. Officers continuously tried to get him to put the weapon down,” said Lawson. “He lunged at one of the deputies. The deputy fired one shot."

The shot hit Laferty in the chest. He was transported to a local hospital and underwent surgery. Lawson said Laferty is in critical condition, but the deputies responded appropriately and followed protocol. “My officers did everything they could possibly do to make a different outcome,” Lawson said.

Laferty was sentenced in February for Solicitation of Aggravated Sexual Battery. He was serving a total effective sentence of 10 years when he broke his probation. Laferty has been a registered sex offender on the Tennessee Registry since 2008. "He told deputies he wouldn't give up. He wasn't going back to jail," said Lawson. Laferty was served the warrant for his arrest on Tuesday when he was in the hospital.

Laferty could face additional charges for allegedly trying to kill the deputies, according to Lawson. Lyons was charged with filing a false report. Her bond was set at $3,500. She’s due back in court on November 16.

Lawson said he was proud of his officers. According to their personnel files, Deputy Bass has three years of law enforcement experience. He used to be a probation officer. Corporal Britton has more than 10 years of law enforcement experience. They are both on administrative leave with pay while the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the District Attorney’s Office investigate the incident.

GeneChing

12-02-2011, 05:27 PM

Beanbag rounds from a shotgun FTW.

Man subdued after allegedly attacking police with swords (http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/man-subdued-after-allegedly-attacking-police-with-swords/article_63aae6c2-1c94-11e1-a1d4-001871e3ce6c.html)
David Montgomery Journal stuff | Posted: Thursday, December 1, 2011 8:17 pm |

A Rapid City man attacked police officers with a pair of ninja-type swords Thursday afternoon, but was subdued before he harmed anyone, police said.

Arthur Hall, 48, was in police custody after a Rapid City police officer shot him three times with beanbag rounds from a shotgun. The beanbag rounds are used as a less-lethal deterrent than standard ammunition.

The confrontation took place at the Alpine Inn on East North Street shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday.

Three police officers responded to a 911 complaint about Hall and said they found him in the office area of the Alpine Inn holding a sword and being “uncooperative.”

A 10-minute standoff ensued, during which time additional police officers arrived, before police said Hall grabbed a second sword off a table and charged.

While one police officer opened fire with the beanbag rounds, the other officers had their regular handguns trained on Hall, Lt. Peter Ragnone of the police department said.

“Had it not been for the beanbags, the officers may have been in a situation where they would have had to deploy their lethal force, their firearms,” Ragnone said.

The officer had to fire three less-lethal shots before Hall collapsed. The rounds hit him in the upper legs, Ragnone said.

The beanbag rounds can be lethal if they strike a subject in a vital area such as the head or the chest, Ragnone said. He said Rapid City police officers are trained to aim for the legs, arms or stomach – “large muscled groups” where the rounds will be less dangerous.

After the swords were confiscated and Hall was arrested, he was taken for medical evaluation and then to the Pennington County jail.

Every Rapid City Police Department car is equipped with a beanbag shotgun.

Ragnone said Hall was intoxicated at the time of the incident.

Hall is facing a charge of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, a felony punishable by up to 25 years in prison and a $50,000 fine.

The incident is still under investigation. Ragnone said he was unclear as to whether Hall had threatened any employees or guests at the Alpine Inn.

When police officers examined the swords after the incident, Ragnone said they determined they were real weapons that posed a serious danger to the officers.

This was the first time in 2011 that Rapid City police officers had used a beanbag gun.

GeneChing

12-21-2011, 11:28 AM

Neptune had me thinking this was somewhere quite different than Jersey.

Neptune man accused of chasing 2 women, 2 men with martial arts sword (http://www.app.com/article/20111220/NJNEWS/312200061/Neptune-man-accused-of-chasing-2-women-2-men-with-martial-arts-sword)
3:35 PM, Dec. 20, 2011 |
Written by Charles Webster | Staff Writer

NEPTUNE — A township man is accused of chasing two women and a pair of men with a martial arts sword during a domestic violence incident at a Fisher Avenue apartment on Sunday.

Sarnoff Saintilus, 25, who lives in an apartment on Fisher Avenue, is accused of chasing one woman wielding a martial arts sword and at some point during the altercation “grabbing her around the neck, choking her and dragging her,” according to the criminal complaint filed against him.

During the altercation, Saintilus is also accused of chasing a second woman and two men while wielding the sword, according to the court filing.

Saintilus is charged with four counts of aggravated assault, criminal mischief, assault by attempting to cause bodily injury and weapons offenses.

He is being held in the Monmouth County Jail in Freehold Township on $35,000 bail.

GeneChing

12-27-2011, 01:57 PM

There's a vid.

Police: Man Wielding Sword Tried To Steal Presents (http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2011/12/26/columbus-man-wielding-sword-tried-to-steal-presents.html)
Monday December 26, 2011 8:59 PM
UPDATED: Monday December 26, 2011 9:00 PM

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Police said on Monday that a Christmas Day attempted robbery ended with the robber begging his victim.

According to police, a man wielding a sword tried to take off with a couple’s Christmas presents as they were loading them into a car on Summit Street.

The man flashed his sword, grabbed the presents and started running down the street, 10TV’s Paul Aker reported.

Police said the victim caught up with the attempted thief and grabbed the packages.

The man with the sword got away, Aker reported.

The incident awoke neighbor Marya Barrios, who said the victim’s wife let loose their dog to chase the attempted man.

“(I) heard something thumping the side of my house,” Barros said. “The way it sounded wasn’t good. I’m not sure if they were physically fighting. I hope not. He was yelling really loud though. It was really scary.”

According to police, the alleged attempted robber was heavily intoxicated.

Watch 10TV News and refresh 10TV.com for more information.

GeneChing

12-28-2011, 10:09 AM

Anyone play Age of Wulin?

Wow! A Virtual Scabbard in Age of Wulin Was Sold for $16,000 (http://news.mmosite.com/content/q/2011-12-27/a_virtual_scabbard_in_age_of_wulin_was_sold_for_us d_16000.shtml)
By cindyhioDate: 12-27-2011 Views: 1,837
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Open your transaction account and check out how much did you spend on playing games? US$15 for a pre-paid time card, US$30 for enhancement materials, US$70 for a rare mount, or $16,000 for a Dragon Slaying Sabre Scabbard which is only one of its kind in China?
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Age of Wulin

It is reported that the highly-anticipated martial-arts MMORPG Age of Wulin has already launched its activation code beta test on December 25th in Mainland China. To celebrate the opening of the test, Snail Games held an auction to sell unattributed virtualitems on Christmas Eve.

During the auction, a sheath for Hook of Departure (10 only) was sold for US$1,600; a Lordly Spear Sheath (5 only) was sold for US$2,500 and the unique Dragon Slaying Sabre scabbard was sold for as much as RMB100,000 (almost US$16,000) which isn't chicken feed. It is enough to make a down payment for an apartment in many Chinese cities.
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Age of Wulin

This auction has indeed caused considerable controversy. Since more and more P2P games turned to F2P model, virtual items have naturally become the major source of game companies' revenue.

GeneChing

02-09-2012, 04:48 PM

stun gun & pepper spray > samurai sword.

FEBRUARY 8, 2012, 6:59 A.M. ET
Cops subdue NY college student armed with sword (http://online.wsj.com/article/AP3ac1747380a145d6972081b3623d47ff.html)
Associated Press

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — Authorities say they've charged a student from New York City with using a samurai sword to threaten other students inside a dormitory at a Hudson Valley college.

Campus police at SUNY New Paltz tell local media outlets that Isaac Doughty went on a rampage early Tuesday morning and briefly took several students hostage before officers on foot patrol arrived.

Officials say the 18-year-old freshman from Brooklyn went into his bedroom and came out with a Japanese katana sword. Police say Doughty fought with officers before they were able to subdue him using a stun gun and pepper spray.

One officer suffered a minor head injury.

Doughty was charged with kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment and assault. It couldn't be determined if he had a lawyer.

He was taken to Kingston Hospital for observation.

2 swords = 2 years

Sword-wielding man gets two years in prison (http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/sword-wielding-man-gets-two-years-in-prison/article_aa9bee42-5140-11e1-affb-0019bb2963f4.html)
Andrea J. Cook Journal staff | Posted: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 4:30 am

A sword-wielding man police subdued by police using beanbags in December is headed for prison.

Seventh Circuit Judge Janine Kern sentenced 48-year-old Arthur Hall of Rapid City to two years in prison Monday.

Kern advised Hall to use the time in prison to work on his alcohol addiction, noting that he had attended alcohol treatment seven times.

"When you're sober you are a hardworking responsible man," said Kern, reminding Hall that his employer valued him as an employee.

Hall had faced up to 25 years in prison after being charged with aggravated assault involving a law enforcement officer.

"You created a very dangerous situation for yourself and others," Kern told Hall.

Hall threatened police officers with two swords when they responded to a disturbance call at a motel in the 200 block of East North Street.

Police resorted to the non-lethal beanbag loads from a shotgun when Hall confronted them with what appeared to be swords in both hands, according to Pennington County deputy state's attorney Tracey Decker.

Decker also outlined Hall's criminal record that included 47 contacts with law enforcement for charges such as domestic violence, resisting arrest and at least eight driving under the influence charges.

Chad Callahan, Hall's attorney, said in court that the defendant has had a "terrible, long struggle with alcohol." Alcohol played a big role in his client's actions last December, he said.

As part of his plea agreement, Hall will plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of domestic violence simple assault.

Kern said that both sentences will run concurrently. Hall will serve at least 30 percent of his sentence.

Samurai sword = $10K bail

February 8, 2012
Man accused of holding samurai sword to girlfriend’s throat (http://richmondregister.com/localnews/x2063986317/Man-accused-of-holding-samurai-sword-to-girlfriend-s-throat)
By Sarah Hogsed Register News Writer

RICHMOND — A Madison grand jury will hear the case of a man accused of threatening to cut his girlfriend’s head off, and attacking her father with a samurai sword.

Russell M. Masters, 42, of Richmond, is charged with two counts of first-degree wanton endangerment, which is a Class D felony, and fourth-degree assault (domestic violence with minor injury) and resisting arrest, which both are Class A misdemeanors. Masters could receive one to five years in prison on each wanton endangerment charge, and the misdemeanors both carry a maximum sentence of one year in jail.

The officer who responded to the Jan. 24 incident testified Wednesday during a preliminary hearing in Madison District Court. Richmond police officer Sgt. Jeff Simmons said he received a call at 9:30 p.m. about a domestic violence assault occurring in the 100 block of Broaddus Avenue.

When he arrived, Simmons said he saw two men outside the house, sitting on the porch, and another man going inside the house. One of the men on the porch was holding a samurai sword.

The man, Andrew Connor, dropped the sword after Simmons told him to. He told the officer that Masters had attacked his daughter, and that’s why he and another relative were at the house, Simmons said. Stephanie Flinner lives in the home with Masters.

“They were hysterical,” Simmons said about Flinner and her family members.

Connor told the officer that Masters had “beaten up, pulled hair, choked (Flinner),” Simmons testified. She had been able to flee next door and call for help, after which she and her family members returned to the home.

When they returned, Masters reportedly grabbed Flinner by the hair and held the samurai sword to her throat, threatening to kill her by “cutting off her head,” Simmons said.

Masters, who was in the courtroom with his attorney, shook his head “no” repeatedly after the officer make this statement.

Connor told police that Masters then allegedly lunged toward him with the sword and cut holes in his shirt in two places. Connor reportedly wrested the sword away from him before police arrived, and Masters went back into the house and picked up a metal bat.

Simmons said he and another officer entered the house and found Masters sitting on a bed. He was belligerent and intoxicated, Simmons testified. He and the other officer had to physically subdue Masters to remove him from the house and take him into custody.

Public defender Brian Barker, who is representing Masters, asked the officer several questions about the incident. He asked if the officer remembered if Masters had any injuries, and Simmons said he did not. He also asked Simmons if the sword was sharp.

Simmons responded he did not test the blade of the sword, but said the tip was sharp. The sword was confiscated as evidence. The T-shirt Connor was wearing that had holes in it from the alleged attacked was not taken into evidence, but Simmons said photos were taken of the damage.

After the hearing, Judge Brandy Oliver Brown found probable cause and referred the case to the grand jury.

Barker requested a reduction in Masters’ bond. He is being held on a $10,000 cash bond, and he does not have cash or property, Barker said.

County Attorney Marc Robbins objected to a reduction, pointing out that Masters had a prior convictions for violent crime.

Brown agreed with Robbins and kept the bond at $10,000.

TaichiMantis

05-22-2012, 02:42 PM

A Palm Coast man accused of stabbing his computer with a samurai sword when agents went to search his home has been indicted on federal child pornography charges.

Federal authorities say 21-year-old Kamil Mezalka is charged with two counts of receiving child pornography over the Internet, one count of possession of child pornography, and one count of destruction of evidence. It's not immediately known if he has an attorney.

The Orlando Sentinel reports investigators went to his home May 8 to execute a search warrant. They found him in his underwear and wielding a samurai sword, which he used to stab his computer.

The Daytona Beach News Journal reported earlier that Mezalka had defended his mother from his stepfather using a Samurai sword in April

...ick, again

TaichiMantis

05-22-2012, 02:52 PM

Sword rampage: Japanese man chops off realtor’s arm (http://www.rt.com/news/sword-rampage-arm-samurai-709/)

A Japanese man has been arrested after lopping off the arm of the president of a real estate company with a samurai sword. He also attacked two other employees, leaving them with serious stomach wounds.
Hifumi Kuwada was charged on Saturday over the attempted murder of Katsumi Jitskata, the president of Daikyo Home, and two workers with a 70cm blade.
Employees Hiroshi Jitsukata, Kiyoshi Sato are currently being treated in hospital for severe stomach lacerations.
Kawada has pleaded guilty to the charges.
He reportedly smuggled the samurai into the Daikyo Home’s offices inside a golf bag before embarking on the bloody rampage. Kawada then fled the scene in his car, but was caught and arrested shortly afterwards by local police.
Japanese police suspect that the attack was motivated by business interests. According to newspaper The Japan Times Hifumi Kuwada runs a construction company and had ordered Daikyo Home to work on an apartment building project.
Police are currently investigating the motives behind the attack.
It seems that sword attacks in Japan have not been that uncommon recently. In a separate incident last month, a 97-year-old man was arrested in the western Japanese province of Kanazawa after he attacked one of his relatives with a sword.
He reportedly used his walker to break in to the 84-year-old relative’s nearby home before slashing her hand with a 60cm sword blade.

TaichiMantis

06-15-2012, 07:50 AM

East Londoner, 65, who tried to scare off youths by waving a samurai sword was attacked with his own weapon (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jun/15/man-stabbed-samurai-sword/print)

A man who tried to scare off intruders by waving a samurai sword was stabbed with his own weapon.

The 65-year-old took the sword from a display in his living room and waved it at three youths who were in the front garden of his flat in east London.

When he looked outside again, the garden was empty but he then found two youths on the landing outside his bedroom.

He shouted at them to leave but an assault followed during which one of the intruders stabbed him with the sword before they ran off taking the weapon with them.

The man suffered multiple stab wounds and was taken to an east London hospital where he remains in a stable condition.

Police are appealing for information about the attack, which took place in Barking Road, East Ham at around 1.30am on Saturday.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "The victim awoke to noises outside his bedroom window and saw three youths in his front garden. He shouted at the youths to scare them off.

"He then took a sword that he had on display in his living room and returned to a window and waved it at the youths.

"Moments later he returned to look out of his bedroom window again and saw no one outside. He walked out of his bedroom to find out that two of the youths were standing on his landing."

He said the sword had not been recovered.

TaichiMantis

06-15-2012, 07:54 AM

Wow, UK loving' the katana... (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-18406536)

TaichiMantis

06-15-2012, 08:01 AM

...Palermo NY.

Palermo man accused of threatening victim with ninja sword (http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/06/palermo_man_accused_of_threate.html)

GeneChing

06-19-2012, 08:54 AM

Check this one out. :eek::(

Indian man beheads daughter with sword (http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/13280815-418/story.html)
By PRAKASH BHANDARI Associated Press June 19, 2012 9:08AM

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In this image made off video footage filmed on Monday, June 18, 2012, Indian marble miner Oghad Singh, center, stands with policemen after they placed Singh in custody in Charbhuja, Rajasthan state, India. Police said Singh remains unrepentant after beheading his daughter with a ceremonial sword in a rage over her alleged relationships with men. (AP Photo)

Updated: June 19, 2012 9:08AM

JAIPUR, India — A father in northwestern India remained unrepentant Tuesday after beheading his daughter with a ceremonial sword in a rage over her relationships with men, police said.

The father surrendered at a police station, carrying the head in one hand and the bloodied sword in the other, police said.

Residents of Dungarji village expressed shock as they performed the last rites for the 20-year-old woman.

Police said the father, marble miner Oghad Singh, accused his daughter of bringing dishonor to the family and making it hard to find husbands for her two unmarried sisters.

Women wailing in grief lined the dusty road of the village in Rajasthan state as a procession carried Manju Kanwar’s remains to her funeral pyre. As in many north and west Indian villages, the women, including her mother and four sisters, were not allowed to attend the funeral.

A coroner stitched Kanwar’s head onto her body for the funeral. About 100 men, many of them relatives wearing ceremonial Rajput warrior clan turbans, surrounded her muslin-wrapped body, and her brother lit the funeral pyre.

Villagers condemned the father’s actions as extreme. They said the father, his shirt soaked in blood, had carried his daughter’s head through the village, describing what he’d done to neighbors.

“He told me that he took the sword out, and when the daughter was all alone in the house he beheaded her with a single stroke and the head fell on the ground,” said Narayan Singh, a distant relative.

He said he persuaded Singh to surrender, and took him by motorcycle to a police station 5 kilometers (2 miles) away. Police charged Singh, 46, with murder.

“It was a ghastly sight,” officer Ranjit Singh said, describing the father sitting in the station’s waiting room holding the head in one hand and the sword in the other. “Oghad admitted immediately that he killed his daughter because she had earned a bad name for the family.”

Police described Kanwar’s recent life as difficult and unorthodox for the traditional community of about 1,000 just outside the Rajasthani tourist town of Udaipur.

She left her husband from an arranged marriage two years ago and moved back home to live with her parents. She recently began seeing several men which “disgusted” her father, deputy police superintendent Umesh Ojha said.

“Oghad said he was fed up with the lifestyle of his daughter,” Ojha said.

When Manju eloped with one man two weeks ago, her father forced her to return on Sunday and killed her.

Rapidly modernizing India faces increasing social clashes as youths resist traditions like arranged marriage or limits on women venturing outside their parents’ or husbands’ homes.

TaichiMantis

06-19-2012, 12:03 PM

I saw that....almost posted it in the Sikh thread :eek:

Happy Tiger

07-01-2012, 07:43 AM

brutal justice
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d06411768f

Hebrew Hammer

07-25-2012, 09:34 PM

Check this one out. :eek::(

Seriously, how many lives have been taken in the name of honor over the centuries?? Is it really worth cutting your own daughter's head off? Barbaric...he'll probably walk home too with a strong reprimand not to do it to his other daughters.

GeneChing

09-27-2012, 09:24 AM

For the record, over the fireplace is a terrible place to hang a sword. Here's info on where to hang swords (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/article.php?article=612) (note: this article doesn't apply directly to samurai swords (http://www.martialartsmart.com/ninja-samurai-kendo-samurai-kendo-weapon.html) as they do have some culturally-specific conventions).

27 September 2012 Last updated at 11:51 ET
John Clark jailed for Robert Bell samurai sword attack (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-19750490)

A man has been jailed for five years over a samurai sword attack which severed another man's jugular vein.

John Clark, 22, struck Robert Bell, 38, with the sword during a party in Paisley, Renfrewshire, in July 2011.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard that Mr Bell was wounded four more times and only survived after emergency surgery.

Clark admitted a charge of assault to the danger of life. Co-accused Grant Hainey admitted assault and charges of breaching bail. Sentence was deferred.

Both men had faced charges of attempted murder but had guilty pleas to the lesser charges accepted by the Crown.
Drugs ****tail

Hainey also pleaded guilty to three charges of breaching court bail between December 2010 and July 2011.

At a previous hearing, the High Court in Glasgow heard how Clark had taken a ****tail of methadone and Temazepan, washed down with cider, Buckfast and vodka, before going to the party in Paisley.

After Mr Bell asked one of the guests to leave, Clark picked up the sword which was hanging over a fireplace and repeatedly struck him with it.

Hainey, who was drunk and had fallen asleep on the floor, was said to be unaware of the violence until he felt a blow to his back and realised he had been stabbed.

During the ensuing violence, Hainey punched and kicked Mr Clark who later suffered "uncontrollable and substantial blood loss" after the sword attack.

Judge Lord Mackay deferred sentence on Hainey for reports, saying the court recognised that he played a minor role in the attack on Mr Bell.

The judge told Clark that he had no other option but to send him to jail.

GeneChing

11-19-2012, 10:51 AM

Rather predictable outcome here...

Man who nearly severed Auraria cop's finger with samurai sword identified (http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_21987190?source=commented-)
Posted: 11/13/2012 10:33:03 AM MST
Updated: 11/13/2012 12:10:47 PM MST
By Kieran Nicholson
The Denver Post

Police investigate the scene of an officer-involved shooting involving a sword-wielding man on the Auraria Campus in Denver, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012. (Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post)

A man who was fatally shot by an Auraria Campus police officer, after allegedly attacking the cop with a samurai-style sword near the Tivoli Student Center, has been identified.

Jeffrey Albert Musick, 38, died of multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner.

Musick was taken to a local hospital on Saturday after being shot near Ninth and Walnut streets on the Auraria Campus. He was pronounced dead at the hospital, the coroner's office said.

The officer confronted Musick, who was wielding a sword in a crosswalk near the Tivoli building, Denver police said.

According to police reports, Musick swung his sword at the police officer, nearly lopping off one of the cop's fingers and the officer opened fire. The officer, who still has not been identified, was released from a local hospital on Sunday.

Musick has an arrest record in the state, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, including a 1999 unlawful carry concealed weapon charge in which he pleaded guilty. In the 1999 case, out of Littleton, Musick was carrying nunchaku, another traditional Asian fighting weapon.

In 2011, Musick was convicted of obstruction of a peace officer in Lakewood and he was sentenced to 59 days in jail. Also in 2011, Musick was arrested in on suspicion of felony assault and menacing with a deadly weapon. The disposition of the 2011 assault case was not readily available.

Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822, knicholson@denverpost.com or twitter.com/kierannicholson

TaichiMantis

11-19-2012, 03:03 PM

Hahahahaha....from a Bruce Lee wannabe to a samurai wannabe :D

GeneChing

12-04-2012, 10:51 AM

A samurai sword (http://www.martialartsmart.com/ninja-samurai-kendo-samurai-kendo-weapon.html) and a ninja sword (http://www.martialartsmart.com/weapons-ninja-gear.html). :rolleyes:

Three arrested after samurai sword, gun used during fight (http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20121204/APC0101/312040279/Three-arrested-after-samurai-sword-gun-used-during-fight?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s)
9:04 AM, Dec 4, 2012 |

OSHKOSH — Three men were arrested early Sunday morning after a samurai sword and handgun were used during a fight on the city's north side.

Oshkosh Police responded to a report of a fight at a party in the 800 block of Central Street about 11:35 p.m. Saturday. When officers arrived, they encountered a couple leaving the residence that said that one person had a sword held to their neck while another person pulled a gun, said Joe Nichols, spokesman for the police department.

An investigation determined that two Oshkosh men, ages 21 and 22, got into a fight in the driveway of the residence. During the fight, the 21-year-old went inside the residence, got a samurai sword, came back outside and put the sword to the 22-year-old man's neck. The fight then moved inside the residence, where a 20-year-old appeared, pulled a small handgun and pointed it at other people who were at the party. At some point, the 22-year-old got the gun and was also pointing it at people, Nichols said.

Police set up a perimeter and after a two-and-a-half hour standoff, the three men were arrested and taken into custody for disorderly conduct and endangering safety by the use of a dangerous weapon. All three men were taken to the Winnebago County Jail, Nichols said.

Police were able to recover the handgun and the sword.

No one was injured.

Reading Man Accused of Stabbing Roommate With Ninja Sword (http://www.local12.com/mostpopular/story/Reading-Man-Accused-of-Stabbing-Roommate-With/JjX108MzRUefEOw1DajUlg.cspx)
Updated: 12/03 1:15 pm
Police are holding a 26 year old man in custody, after he allegedly slashed his roommate with a six foot Ninja sword. The victim was severely injured.

Officers say he slashed his roommate, a 36 year old man, in the upper torso with a six foot long Ninja-style sword after an argument at their Illinois Avenue home. Court documents indicate Johnson attacked his roommate as he was walking away after the fight.

Police were called to the home around 3 a.m. Monday. They found the victim suffering life-threatening wounds. He was taken to University Hospital for surgery. He is now in stable condition.

GeneChing

01-04-2013, 10:33 AM

So this nekkid guy has an assault rifle and a samurai sword (http://www.martialartsmart.com/ninja-samurai-kendo-samurai-kendo-weapon.html) and which weapon makes the headline? :rolleyes:

SJPD End Naked Man With Samurai Sword Stand-Off (http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/SJPD-in-Stand-Off-With-Naked-Man-With-Samurai-Sword-185365812.html)
A naked man with a Samurai sword brought out a large police force New Year's morning
By Lori Preuitt
| Tuesday, Jan 1, 2013 | Updated 2:47 PM PST

Police, hostage negotiators and SWAT members were on the scene of an armed naked man demanding police kill him Tuesday morning.

New Year's Day started with a bizarre stand-off for San Jose police.

They were called to Ezie Street and Cas Drive in San Jose after several people called 911 to report a man standing in front of a home with an assault rifle just after 8 a.m.

As police rushed to the scene, witnesses said the man got in a car and drove to Southwest Expressway and Bascom Avenue. That's where police pulled him over.

Police said the suspect immediately got out of his car and started yelling, “You're going to have to kill me.”

He was naked and holding a large “Samurai”-type sword, according to police.

One witness told NBC Bay Area that the man was pacing back and forth waving the sword at times.

San Jose Police Department “Crisis Intervention Team” members were called to the scene and a stand-off began.

Just before 11 a.m., the man was arrested without incident. Police took Coco Bennett, 29, into custody. Police said Bennett, who was still carrying the sword, bolted toward a fence and tried to scale it, fell down, and dropped the weapon. That's when officers moved in.

Because police were able to secure the assault rifle as well as the man's vehicle in the early minutes of the stand-off, the threat to the greater public at large was minimized during the stand off.

It was not immediately clear what motivated the man.

Police said he would be evaluated by doctors.

Police showed the weapons to reporters following the arrest (see right). http://media.nbcbayarea.com/images/sword5.JPG

Police recovered an AR-15-type assault rifle, with a magazine and live ammunition, from Bennett's car during the standoff which happened at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail station

GeneChing

01-04-2013, 10:36 AM

Again, it's the samurai sword (http://www.martialartsmart.com/ninja-samurai-kendo-samurai-kendo-weapon.html)that makes headlines. Never mind the gas masks...:eek:

Man arrested after attacking woman with samurai sword (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/24/man-arrested-attacking-samurai-sword)
25-year-old suspect also had a bag containing a crossbow, numerous hunting knives, gas masks and more swords
James Meikle
guardian.co.uk, Monday 24 December 2012 12.44 EST

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Holloway attack weapons

As well as the samurai sword, the suspect was carrying a bag containing a crossbow, gas masks and several hunting knives. Photograph: Metropolitan police

An unarmed police officer confronted a man wielding a samurai sword who launched an unprovoked attack on a young Italian woman on a north London street, Scotland Yard said on Monday.

The sergeant, based in Islington, went to the scene of the assault in Holloway Road to find the woman bleeding heavily on the ground and a 25-year-old man brandishing the sword.

Scotland Yard said the attacker, who was challenged to put down the weapon, made several attempts to injure the officer while chasing him, according to the Metropolitan police's account of the incident, which occurred after midnight on Sunday.

The officer then turned, placing himself inside the samurai sword's arc, and forced him to the ground before arresting him. The man is now in custody. A large bag containing a crossbow, more samurai-type swords and numerous hunting knives and gas masks was seized from the suspect.

The 22-year-old woman suffered a number of wounds to the legs, arms and face and was in a serious but not life-threatening condition in hospital, said police. Officers met the woman's parents when they arrived in the UK from Italy and rushed them to the hospital to be with their daughter.

Detective Superintendent Steve Wallace said: "This was a vicious unprovoked stranger attack on a defenceless woman and if it had not been for the officer's bravery and quick thinking the woman and other members of the public could have been killed.

"It takes a very brave officer to tackle a man who you know wants to inflict serious injuries to you with a samurai sword.

"Courage such as this is above and beyond the call of duty and I can't commend the officer highly enough", said Wallace. "The fact that the officer was unarmed and alone when he tackled the man only underlines his bravery.

"He recognised the threat posed by this man and, in a conscious act, positioned himself between the suspect and the public to prevent anyone else being seriously injured."

Wallace said: "Thankfully, this type of incident is rare in London but the public should be reassured that our officers are willing to put themselves in danger to protect the public."

GeneChing

01-09-2013, 10:47 AM

Even in Singapore, it's samurai swords (http://www.martialartsmart.com/weapons-shinai-bokens.html) over Chinese ones (http://www.martialartsmart.com/weapons-chinese-weapons.html). :rolleyes:

Two charged after slashing man with samurai sword (http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1246857/1/.html)
By Claire Huang | Posted: 09 January 2013 1341 hrs

SINGAPORE: Two men have been charged with grievously hurting a 48-year-old man with a samurai sword and a fruit knife.

New Say Heng and Oi Boon San, both aged 42, are accused of hurting Mr Teo Chye Lye, who was injured on the back, head and leg.

They allegedly committed the offence at about 1am on January 4, 2013 in Lorong 17, Geylang.

If convicted, each of the accused faces the maximum penalty of life imprisonment, fine and caning.

Student accused of bringing sword onto school property (http://www.wrdw.com/news/crimeteam12/headlines/Student-accused-of-bringing-sword-onto-school-property-186042172.html)
Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013

AIKEN, S.C. (WRDW) -- A student is in trouble after he allegedly brought a sword to South Aiken High School.

Assistant Principal Jason Holt says the student was sitting in his truck in the parking lot with his music turned up loud. When Holt approached the truck, he saw a sword with a 9-inch blade and confiscated it.

The same student had been warned before winter break by the principal not to bring weapons onto school property after shotgun shells were found in his truck.

Holt also found a Mountain Dew bottle inside the truck that smelled like liquor. Another student claimed the bottle was his. The bottle was also confiscated.

Charges in the case are pending. Hold the phone - a 9-inch blade? That's not a sword. This is a sword. (http://www.martialartsmart.com/45s-50.html) ;)

Below: Samurai sword+mop vs. taser+K9

Man chased neighbor with samurai sword, police say (http://www.gainesville.com/article/20130106/ARTICLES/130109775/1182?Title=Man-chased-neighbor-with-samurai-sword-police-say&tc=ar)
Staff report
Published: Sunday, January 6, 2013 at 5:11 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, January 6, 2013 at 5:11 p.m.

An argument between neighbors escalated Saturday night when one of the men chased the other with a samurai sword, according to a police report.

Gainesville police managed to subdue the man but not before he charged police officers with a mop, struck a K9 dog with the tool, and was hit with tasers multiple times.

GPD gave this account: Robert Chesser, 47, of Gainesville was arguing with another man around 10 p.m. when he went into his home in the 600 block of SW 11th Place and came out with a three-foot-long sword. He pulled it from its sheath and started swinging it, chasing the man into his home.

When police arrived, Chesser ignored orders to stop and went into his home where, his wife told police, he had numerous swords and other weapons.

Police went in and Chesser charged at them with a commercial-style mop, striking a police dog in the head with the handle.

Chesser slammed officers into the kitchen walls as he was being handcuffed and was tased two times by multiple officers.

Chesser tried to break of the police car on the way to the Alachua County jail, where he was being held on charges of aggravated assault, two counts of assault on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest with and without violence, and striking a police animal.

GeneChing

07-15-2013, 02:01 PM

Imagine being besties with Taylor enough that you could just go into her dressing room and wave your sword about.

There's a vid if you follow the link.

Taylor Swift Recalls the Time Ed Sheeran’s Sword Obsession Nearly Killed Her (http://tasteofcountry.com/taylor-swift-ed-sheeran-swords/)
By Megan Pacella July 13, 2013 10:00 AM

Since they’ve been hanging out together on The 2013 Red Tour, Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran have become besties. But, unfortunately, sometimes their definition of “fun” doesn’t exactly line up. For example, Sheeran loves to dangerously wave around a medieval sword, and Swift likes to, you know, keep her head and limbs intact.

In an interview with MTV, Swift chatted about her experiences with Sheeran’s sword. Are you as confused as we are? Allow us to explain.

“He got this sword… he went to New Zealand and got this sword,” she said. “The actual [director] Peter Jackson gave him a sword from a ‘Lord of the Rings’ movie. And he was obsessed with it to the point where like he would come into by dressing room waving it and then just leave,” she explained.

But after a few more questions, Swift never actually got to the story about how Sheeran’s sword nearly injured her. It sounds like the ‘Red’ hitmaker was actually being a little bit dramatic –not that that’s ever happened before!

“Or he’d just get it out on the plane and everybody is like, ‘We don’t know if that’s OK on a plane,’” she continued. “It’s a weapon, but it’s a medieval weapon [so] we don’t know, I don’t know,” she continued. “But he’s obsessed with stuff like that. He’s obsessed with Legos. He’s obsessed with swords, like axes, stuff like that. It was on the table [on the trip to Nashville] and it started to slide.”

Although the sword started to slide, it never actually touched Swift or her crew. So everyone is safe and sound, like her song of the same name. And, somehow, Sheeran’s medieval Lord of the Rings sword replica hasn’t been confiscated yet.

“I think [Taylor] and her crew were weirded out by it anyway,” Sheeran told MTV in a discussion about the sword. “They were just like, ‘Why does Ed have a sword?’ ”

Our sentiments exactly!

Sheeran has been opening for Swift on her Red tour, which has been taking the U.S. by storm. The domestic leg of the tour will wrap on Sept. 21, and Swift will head to Australia and New Zealand for November and December.

GeneChing

08-16-2013, 12:00 PM

This first one reminds me of my July/August 2013 (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/article.php?article=1096) cover story: The Cane Sword of Kung Fu (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/article.php?article=1102)

It happened again: Sword found inside cane at Dulles (http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/270360/158/It-happened-again-Sword-found-inside-cane-at-Dulles?hpt=us_bn8)
11:54 AM, Aug 12, 2013
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(Photo courtesy of TSA)

DULLES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (WUSA9) -- In March, we told you about TSA officers finding a sword inside a walking cane while it passed through a check point x-ray machine at Washington Dulles International Airport. TSA officials say officers have found ANOTHER sword inside a cane.

Officials say last Thursday, a Veracruz, Mexico, resident was stopped when TSA found a sword concealed inside of his cane. The man, who was supposed to fly to Mexico City, told officers he bought the cane at a flea market and didn't know the sword was concealed inside. TSA kept the cane/sword and the man was allowed to catch his flight, say officials.

You may remember in the March cane/sword case that the woman who came through the checkpoint with her cane claimed she bought the cane at an antique store and didn't realize that the cane had a sword inside of it.

TSA officials say finding a sword-cane, and people having them without realizing it, is not uncommon. TSA officials recommend that people with canes try to screw off the handle before bringing it to the airport. Doing so, could prevent you from being cited, fined or arrested in some jurisdictions.

On a related note, a Frederick County, Md. man was also stopped at Dulles International Airport on Thursday when an officer on checkpoint x-ray machine duty spotted a gun in his carry-on bag, say TSA officials. The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police confiscated the 9 mm Smith & Wesson firearm and magazine with six rounds in it, according to officials. The man was cited on a state weapons charge, say officials. He was then allowed to catch his flight to Denver.

"He loves her. They just don’t get along." :confused:

Florida dad stabbed daughter with sword in family feud, cops say (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/swordplay-dad-charged-stabbing-daughter-article-1.1424504)
Juan Javier Lovine and his 74-year-old mother, Isabel Rego, were both arrested. Lovine's daughter was visiting the St. Cloud, Fla., home from West Virginia when the fight began. Police say she punched her father in self-defense before the stabbing. Her grandmother was charged with interfering with police.
By Doyle Murphy / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Monday, August 12, 2013, 1:07 PM

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Juan Javier Lovine, 44, allegedly stabbed his daughter with a sword during a family fight, and his mother, 74-year-old Isabel Rego, was charged with interfering with the responding police officers.

A Florida father stabbed his daughter with a sword when a family reunion turned ugly, police said.

Cops responded on Friday to the home in St. Cloud, Fla., and discovered 44-year-old Juan Javier Lovine bleeding from the head, his daughter wounded by the sword and one upset grandmother, whom they would eventually arrest.

The daughter, who lives in West Virginia, had brought her 4-year-old son to Florida for a family visit at the house grandmother Isabel Rego shares with Lovine, her son.

The trouble between Lovine and his daughter began Friday night.

“They just don’t get along,” Rego told the Orlando Sentinel.

Arguing turned to pushing, and Lovine shoved the young woman against a wall, police Sgt. Denise Roberts told the paper. Lovine’s daughter punched him in the eye, drawing blood.

That’s when Lovine pulled out a 5-foot-long sword and stabbed his daughter in the right forearm and chest, Roberts said.

Rego, 74, was charged with interfering with a law enforcement officer without violence after putting herself in the midst of a confrontation and trying to hit one of the cops, Roberts said.

Rego claimed the police overreacted. She said she was only trying to give her son a kiss before he was hauled away. She also claims Lovine only “poked” his daughter with the sword, a collector’s item he bought at Medieval Times.

“He didn’t mean to,” Rego told the paper. “The police put in there that he tried to kill her. That is not true. He loves her. They just don’t get along.”

Rego posted $500 bail and was released from Osceola County Jail.

Lovine was treated at Orlando Regional Medical Center and then booked into jail too. His daughter was treated at the same hospital. Police said her injuries weren’t life-threatening.

Rego said her 4-year-old great grandson slept through the whole fight, but she was still embarrassed.

“Family should not do that no matter what,” she said. “When you don’t get along with somebody, just stay away from that person.”

GeneChing

08-29-2013, 12:07 PM

You can guess who won.

Sword-wielding man accused of trying to kill deputies (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sword-arrest-deputies-20130828,0,2446804.story)
By Times Staff Writer
August 28, 2013, 7:00 p.m.

A sword-wielding man has been arrested in Rancho Cucamonga on suspicion of attempting to murder sheriff's deputies, authorities said Wednesday.

The incident occurred Tuesday afternoon when deputies went to a home in the 9400 block of Glenaire Court after a father called to report his son was under the influence of methamphetamine and having a bipolar episode, officials with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said in a statement.

The man said his son, later identified as Montasir Ishag, 33, had a sword in his bedroom and earlier had left the house by jumping over the back fence because he feared for his life, officials said.

He had returned by the time deputies arrived and when they entered the front door, Ishag charged them with the sword while yelling "Allah Akbar," according to the sheriff's statement.

Deputies used a "less-than-lethal" shotgun to disarm and incapacitate Ishag, they said.

He was taken to a hospital for treatment of moderate injuries and was later booked at the West Valley Detention Center.
The 'Allah Akbar' makes me surmise that he wasn't using a samurai sword (http://www.martialartsmart.com/ninja-samurai-kendo-samurai-kendo-weapon.html).

GeneChing

09-09-2013, 11:50 AM

Santa Ana man arrested on suspicion of wielding samurai swords (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-santa-ana-man-arrested-for-wielding-samurai-swords-20130908,0,2808216.story)

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Hung Anh Nguyen, 29, remains in jail after he allegedly wielded two samurai swords in a busy shopping center while threatening bystanders, police say. (Santa Ana Police Department )
By Angel Jennings

September 8, 2013, 1:28 p.m.

A Santa Ana man remained in jail Sunday after he allegedly wielded two samurai swords in a busy shopping center while threatening bystanders, police said.

Hung Anh Nguyen, 29, was in the parking lot of Arsenio's Mexico Food at 751 S. Harbor Blvd. in Santa Ana about 11:15 p.m. Friday when he pulled out two swords and started screaming profanities, Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said. Police arrived and tried to calm him.

Bertagna said Nguyen threatened officers and refused to follow the officers repeat commands to put the swords down.

"Nguyen told officers several times that 'You will have to kill me first,'" Bertagna said.

Several officers surrounded him, and shocked him with a stun gun. KTLA reported that the swords were 27 and 19 inches long.

He was taken to a hospital for a psychological evaluation. He was later released and booked on suspicion of possession of illegal swords and assault with a deadly weapon. He also had an outstanding warrant for a narcotic warrant, police said.

Police believe that Nguyen might have been under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Wait...suspicion of possession of illegal swords? I suspect he did possess those swords as he was waving them around at the shopping mall.

TaichiMantis

09-09-2013, 03:18 PM

Thanks for keeping the thread alive...tried to post it during the crash ;)

GeneChing

09-17-2013, 09:37 AM

Man denied sword as carry-on despite kung fu demo (http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/812159.shtml#.UjiE3-DcIzI)
Globaltimes.cn | 2013-9-17 20:16:13
By Globaltimes.cn

A young man in a Guangzhou airport had no choice but to part with a wooden practice sword at an airport gate after failing to convince staff he wouldn't be a danger to passengers with a martial arts demonstration on Sunday.

The man, surnamed Zhang, was stopped at a security check at the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport when an airport security found the wooden sword in his handbag.

Despite his best attempts, Zhang, an avid fan of martial arts fictions, could not convince airport employees that the sword he had bought in Guangzhou was for practice only. In a last ditch effort, he even performed a few sword routines for security staff.

Zhang was forced to abandon the sword at the airport before boarding his flight. It is unclear from the report why Zhang did not simply check in his sword with airline employees at the ticket counter.

According to Chinese civil aviation regulations, weapons of any kind, including practice weapons, are not allowed on commercial aircraft. This is just silly on so many levels. :rolleyes:

GeneChing

09-20-2013, 09:27 AM

What is wrong with swordsmen today? :(

Teens stab one’s mom with sword in plot to murder her, eat her liver: cops (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/teens-stab-mom-sword-plot-murder-eat-liver-cops-article-1.1461471)
The boys have been arrested and charged with second-degree assault, taking a motor vehicle without permission, hit-and-run, burglary and malicious mischief in an alleged Spokane, Wash., crime spree.

By Michael Walsh / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, September 19, 2013, 3:54 PM

Authorities found the bloody woman beside two knives and a sword.

Two teen boys were arrested after allegedly attacking one of their mothers with a sword and talking about eating her liver, police said.

Deputies found the bloodied woman sprawled out across her bed beside two knives and a sword with a bent handle early Tuesday, reported The Columbian. The unidentified woman was hospitalized and is in stable condition.

There was no sign of forced entry in her Spokane, Wash., home, so the deputies’ attention turned to those with access to it, her 13-year-old son and his 14-year-old friend, according to Washington-based newspaper.

It appears that the suspects fled in the Dodge Durango SUV belonging to the other boy's father, police said.

The area of Spokane where the attack occurred. The injured woman’s son said he was under the influence of ‘blue pills’ when he encouraged his friend to kill his mother and eat her liver.

The area of Spokane where the attack occurred. The injured woman’s son said he was under the influence of ‘blue pills’ when he encouraged his friend to kill his mother and eat her liver.

A police dog finally tracked them down at the end of an alleged crime spree that included crashing the Dodge into the side of a trailer home and breaking into a house to hide, according to police.

The boys bizarrely caused $2,000 in damage to that home by throwing hammers at the windows, walls and doors, according to court records obtained by The Spokesman-Review.

The 13-year-old admitted that he encouraged his friend to murder his mother with the sword and eat her liver while under the influence of "blue pills," the sheriff's office said.

He said he never would have considered committing these acts had he been sober, police said.

It was not immediately clear what kind of blue pills he consumed.

Authorities say they booked both teens in juvenile detention on suspicion of second-degree assault, taking a motor vehicle without permission, hit-and-run, burglary and malicious mischief.

mwalsh@nydailynews.com

GeneChing

10-04-2013, 08:29 AM

A twofer just in time for Machete Kills (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64313). :o

Posted: 12:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013
Police arrest suspect in Santa Rosa machete attack (http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/crime-law/police-search-suspect-santa-rosa-machete-attack/nbFHc/)

http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/thumbnail/400/img/photos/2013/10/03/c0/87/Adam_Jordan_Faustino.jpg
Sonoma County Sheriff's Office
Adam Jordan Faustino

SANTA ROSA, Calif. —

The suspect in a stabbing incident near a Sonoma County school Wednesday afternoon was arrested in Petaluma Thursday, a Sonoma County sheriff's sergeant said.

Adam Jordan Faustino, 32, was arrested around 1 p.m. in his vehicle in the parking lot of the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds and Event Center at 175 Fairgrounds Drive, Sgt. Carlos Basurto said.

Faustino is suspected of stabbing 35-year-old Adam Evans with a machete in Evans' home in the 5000 block of Hall Road in unincorporated Sonoma County west of Santa Rosa, sheriff's Lt. Dennis O'Leary said.

The sheriff's office received calls around 1:50 p.m. Wednesday from residents and the Willowside Middle School about a man covered in blood who was walking around the area.

Deputies found Evans, who had been in a fight with Faustino, across the street from the school that was briefly locked down after the incident.

Evans said he was slashed with a machete during an argument, sheriff's Lt. Dennis O'Leary said.

"Faustino was asked to leave and an argument ensued," O'Leary said. Evans' girlfriend went to the Willowside School to report the disturbance, O'Leary said.

Evans suffered major injuries and was taken to a hospital. The sheriff's office said he is expected to survive.

Faustino was last seen driving a blue 1996 Ford Ranger pickup with a homemade lumber rack and license plate number 5L63448.

It's believed Faustino, a Petaluma area transient, was living in his truck, O'Leary said.

He will booked into the Sonoma County jail for attempted murder, Basurto said.

Police: Man attacked with a machete in Everett (http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Police-Man-stabbed-with-a-machete-in-Everett-226245711.html)
By KOMO Staff Published: Oct 2, 2013 at 9:03 PM PDT Last Updated: Oct 3, 2013 at 6:55 AM

EVERETT, Wash. -- Police in Everett say a Wednesday night argument ended violently when one man attacked another with a machete.

Officers responded to the 3200 block of 18th Street in Everett at about 7:30 p.m. after getting a call about two men fighting outside an apartment complex.

When they arrived on scene, the officers found a man who had been slashed with a machete, according to Aaron Snell with the Everett Police Department.

The victim was taken to Harborview Medical Center for treatment. His current condition is not known.

Snell said two baseball-bat wielding brothers had been fighting with each other outside the apartment complex when a third man approached them to break it up.

Police are still trying to figure out what exactly happened next, but they believe the third man took out a machete and slashed one of the brothers.

Police and a K-9 unit searched the area and found a 47-year-old man believed to be the attacker. He was taken into custody for questioning. The man told police he was acting in self defense, according to Snell.

Police also responded to a second, unrelated slashing Wednesday night. In that incident, a woman walked into a local Safeway with a slash wound to the neck.

Police believe that attack may be a domestic violence incident, but they're still looking for the slasher

TaichiMantis

10-08-2013, 10:27 AM

A twofer just in time for Machete Kills (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=64313). :o

We need a separate machete thread! Here's a good one where a clerk with machete (http://www.cnn.com/video/standard.html?/video/us/2013/10/07/erin-attempted-robbery-foiled-by-a-machete.cnn&hpt=hp_t3&from_homepage=yes)defeats a robber with a gun

GeneChing

10-08-2013, 10:46 AM

I posted that yesterday in the Successful Street Applications thread (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1251544#post1251544).

TaichiMantis

10-08-2013, 01:14 PM

I posted that yesterday in the Successful Street Applications thread (http://ezine.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1251544#post1251544).

Ahh...a week in edisto beach has slowed my forum fu :p

TaichiMantis

12-04-2013, 07:52 PM

PORT LEYDEN, NY — A Lewis County man faces several charges after police say he repeatedly struck a car with a Samurai sword while a family member was inside it.
Lewis County Sheriff’s deputies tell the Utica Observer-Dispatch that 48-year-old Robert Mosley of Port Leyden was involved in a domestic dispute Saturday night and struck the car to stop the person from driving away. The vehicle’s rear window was shattered.
Mosley was charged with criminal mischief, endangering the welfare of a child and menacing.
He was arraigned and jailed on $1,000 bail or $2,000 bond.

http://nypost.com/2013/12/03/upstate-man-accused-of-samurai-sword-car-attack/

GeneChing

12-11-2013, 09:50 AM

To quote Crocodile Dundee "That's not a knife. THAT's a knife."

And I know what you're thinking. No, I was nowhere near San Antonio yesterday. If it was me, it would have been nachos, not tacos, and I would have used a bigger sword, something like this (http://www.martialartsmart.com/45-88ss.html) perhaps.

Gabrielle Bluestone on Gawker
Yesterday 8:18pm

Texas Man Armed With Sword Demands Tacos (http://gawker.com/texas-man-armed-with-sword-demands-tacos-1480781514?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews)

A Texas man carrying a sword sheathed to his waist unsuccessfully tried to liberate six tacos and some gas before he was arrested last week.

Twenty-eight-year-old Adam Kramer ordered six tacos at a San Antonio restaurant called Alondras De Jalisco, but when a waitress tried to present him with a bill, he apparently advised her that the tacos would be free.

According to the arrest warrant, Kramer pulled out his six-inch sword and yelled that if he didn't get free tacos, someone would die.

Kramer never got his tacos, though, and thankfully nobody appears to have died — according to arrest reports Kramer's phone rang in the middle of his rant and he left the restaurant. The waitress locked the doors, and Kramer eventually drove off to a gas station.

At the gas station, Kramer again tried to use his sword to fill up his car for free. When that didn't work, he apparently just gave up and paid for $20 worth of gas.

Kramer was eventually arrested the next day on a separate aggravated assault charge, but authorities quickly linked him to the attempted taco and gas thefts.

He is being held on a $50,000 bail — or approximately 25,000 tacos.

GeneChing

12-18-2013, 09:42 AM

six strokes of a cane :eek:

Sword-wielding ‘subway samurai’ faces flogging in Singapore (http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/world/article/sword-wielding-subway-samurai-faces-flogging-in-singapore?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter)
December 17, 2013

A subway commuter in Singapore is facing the prospect of five years in jail plus flogging for wielding a sword on board a train while dressed in samurai attire.

Metro operator SMRT said police were called in yesterday after a man wielding a samurai sword jumped a fare gate at a suburban station and boarded a train headed towards the city.

A police spokeswoman said he was detained for possession of a weapon, an offence which is punishable by up to five years in jail and a mandatory minimum of six strokes of a cane.

She did not respond to queries about his nationality or age.

Photographs posted on social media by other passengers on the train showed the man wielding the sword while dressed in a white T-shirt and Japanese "hakama" pants usually worn by martial arts practitioners.

He appeared to sport frizzy, shoulder-length hair. "From the waist up he looked like a rocker, but from the waist down, he looked like a samurai," witness Kim Bomhae told the Straits Times newspaper.

The images posted on Facebook and various blogs showed police officers and passengers keeping a wide berth as the man brandished the unsheathed sword on board the train.

He was apprehended by police who tailed him after he alighted at City Hall station at the heart of Singapore's civic district.

The bizarre incident immediately drew online derision. "Seems like a good way to ensure you get your personal space on the train," wrote Ahmad Zhaki Abdullah on the Straits Times's Facebook page.

Congestion on the 150 kilometre-long metro network has fed resentment among Singaporeans in recent years. - AFP, December 17, 2013.

KungfuCasting

12-23-2013, 04:09 PM

7973

I think that samurai man watches too much japanese cartoon movies. :P

GeneChing

12-26-2013, 01:16 PM

On the twelfth day of Xmas, my true love gave to me, twelve swords a' swinging...

Man injured in Christmas sword fight (http://www.newspressnow.com/news/local_news/article_68816352-0a90-5889-9b38-09d9c21b597c.html)
Posted: Thursday, December 26, 2013 8:59 am | Updated: 1:49 pm, Thu Dec 26, 2013.
St. Joseph News-Press

An early morning Christmas altercation left a 19-year-old man with a sword laceration to his arm, St. Joseph police said.

James Justus Jr., 19, of St. Joseph, attended a holiday gathering at his residence in the 500 block of North 19th Street when a confrontation began around 1 a.m., said Cmdr. Janice Rothganger with the St. Joseph Police Department. During the argument, Mr. Justus allegedly brandished a sword and threatened a group inside the residence.

A 22-year-old St. Joseph man, whose name was not available, attempted to take the weapon away from Mr. Justus, but an additional altercation ensued, Ms. Rothganger said. The 22-year-old received a slight cut to his hand while Mr. Justus received a cut along his left arm.

Emergency responders transported Mr. Justus to Heartland Regional Medical Center for treatment. The 22-year-old victim declined medical treatment at the scene and also declined to pursue criminal charges against Mr. Justus.

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day was otherwise quiet for local law enforcement, with few arrests reported.

Mr. Justus was later arrested on an unrelated city warrant charging failure to appear in court, according to city records.

GeneChing

02-19-2014, 09:50 AM

Actually, this would be a good day.

There's a vid if you follow the link.

Nice sword.

ReutersFebruary 19, 2014, 8:26 AM
Charles of Arabia? Britain's prince takes part in Saudi sword dance (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/prince-charles-takes-part-in-traditional-sword-dance-in-saudi-arabia/)

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, joined members of the Saudi royal family to take part in a sword dance Tuesday.

The Prince of Wales was visiting Saudi Arabia as part of a short tour of the Middle East when he participated in the dance, known as an Ardah, in the capital Riyadh.

Charles was wearing traditional robes for the ceremony, which was celebrating the 17-day-long Janadriya Festival.

The prince is also visiting Qatar in what will be his second visit to the two nations in just under a year, and his 10th official trip to Saudi Arabia since he first toured the nation in 1986.

http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2014/02/19/78216dda-f9f5-47fb-9e6b-7fd14d790ef7/thumbnail/620x350/prince-charles-saudi.jpg?hash=d858ac0cd6fce1caf90c7bb0a4a6bb8a
Britain's Prince Charles, wearing a traditional Saudi attire, attends the traditional Saudi dance known as "Arda," which was performed during Janadriya culture festival at Der'iya in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 18, 2014.

TaichiMantis

02-19-2014, 04:07 PM

That is one scary prince....:rolleyes:

GeneChing

03-14-2014, 02:25 PM

Of all the types of swords to get stabbed with, this has got to be the most humiliating.

Cosplayer Pulls a Zelda Sword, Man Gets Stabbed (http://kotaku.com/cosplayer-pulls-a-zelda-sword-man-gets-stabbed-1535057264)
3/03/14 4:30am

A domestic dispute over a woman put two men in the hospital. One of the men, a cosplayer, wielded a sword. A Legend of Zelda sword.

"Swords and flower pots; it sounds nuts, he is psycho," said Eugene Thompson, the homeowner's boyfriend, told Local 2 news in Houston. Thompson lives at the home of his girlfriend. After a fight, for some unknown reason, she called her estranged husband.

When the husband showed up, the girlfriend let the man inside. Thompson, however, told him to leave. Allegedly, the estranged husband refused and started charging Thompson, who had ran to the bedroom.

"I heard him heading to the bedroom where I was," Thompson said, "so I jumped in the closet and I grabbed one of my replica swords, and I pulled it out and stood at the doorway, and he was coming down the hallway at me while I was yelling, 'Go away, you don't live here' and he just walked right into the point of the sword, I don't know if he thought it was a toy."

The sword was a replica Master Sword from The Legend of Zelda. Thompson explained, "I do anime conventions and stuff, dress up in costume. So I got it, because it's a good replica, and it looks nice, and it so happens to be pointed and bladed."

Thompson was able to lock the man out of the house, but according to Local 2, the estranged husband broke through the front door and raced back inside. There was another scuffle, and the man was stabbed in the leg and the chest. Local 2 reports that Thompson said the man then got a flower pot from outside and smashed it on his head.

"I am just trying to figure out what to do from here, I have to find a new place to live," said Thompson.

The estranged husband was taken to the hospital in serious condition, and Thompson needed stitches for his head. As Local 2 points out, the girlfriend was not injured.

TaichiMantis

03-14-2014, 05:55 PM

Bwahahahaha!:eek:

GeneChing

03-31-2014, 09:13 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCTaMe66GmA

TaichiMantis

05-08-2014, 09:42 AM

The love of money... (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/03/atlanta-man-charged-after-allegedly-killing-parents-with-samurai-sword/)

A 39-year-old man was charged Friday with killing his two elderly parents with a samurai sword, leaving behind a scene in their metro Atlanta home that a police commander described as "horrific."

Calvin Ray Jr. waived his appearance at an initial court hearing where he was charged with two counts of murder. DeKalb County authorities said they found samurai swords in a search of the home where a 73-year-old woman and her 75-year-old husband were stabbed to death.

Police said the swords were used to kill the couple in what DeKalb County Police Chief Cedric Alexander described as a "horrific scene" inside the suburban Atlanta home. The bodies were found by a relative who visited their house Thursday afternoon.

"One of the family members came home, and when she came inside the house, she saw the two victims lying in the bedroom," Alexander said.

The couple's 39-year-old son was identified as a suspect and was found at a nearby park less than two hours after his parents' deaths were reported, DeKalb County police spokeswoman Mekka Parish said. It was unclear Friday whether he had a defense attorney.

Parish said detectives believe the victims and their son may have argued about money. The case remains under investigation.

TaichiMantis

05-08-2014, 09:52 AM

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2053980-fully-fitted-samurai-throws-out-first-pitch-at-tigers-game-with-sword-in-hand
The samurai threw out the first pitch in order to promote the “Samurai: Beyond the Sword” exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts. John Truong did the honors of throwing out the first pitch, complete with sword in hand.
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GeneChing

06-09-2014, 11:26 AM

Sword attack leaves Harlingen man's arm severed through the bone (http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=1054738#.U5X7rSiaKsL)
by Ryan Wolf
Posted: 06.06.2014 at 10:54 PM
Ryan Wolf is an anchor and reporter for Action 4 News.

Inside a room at Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen, the hugs are a little tighter.

The kisses hold even more meaning.

That's because family members know just how close they were to losing Michael Hernandez in a vicious sword attack on Monday.

"There was just blood everywhere and my arm was halfway hanging," he told Action 4’s Ryan Wolf from his hospital bed.

The 23-year-old describes the weapon wielded as a Japanese sword.

He says it was used after the attacker first hit him on the head with a 2x4 piece of wood.

"When I tried to defend myself, he took a real hard swing at me across my face but I blocked myself and picked up my arm and I just ended up feeling my arm go limp," he described.

Life will never be the same for the Harlingen father of two.

His left arm is held together by two plates fastened by a dozen screws.

It took two, eight hour surgeries to try and repair it.

Doctors will perform one more surgery and tell him the recovery will be lengthy, according to Michael.

That’s because the sword reportedly cut through ligaments, nerves and even the bone.

Michael’s focus remains on trying to get better but also to get justice.

He blames the La Feria Police Department for dragging its feet in the investigation.

“What they're doing right now isn't right,” he said. “The guy is still on the loose and he hasn't even been caught. They tell me I cannot file charges until I'm out of the hospital and until I go in person over there. No investigator has come to visit me or anything."

Ryan takes Michael's concern to Police Chief Don Garcia.

"What do you think when you see that?” Ryan says while pointing to a photo of Michael’s injury in the hospital.

“That's pretty horrible," the chief responded.

He calls it the result of a targeted attack between long-time feuding families."We know that there was two people involved,” the chief said. “We know that there were two weapons used in the commission of the crime."

But with his two primary investigators upstate on training for the week, he says the case remains in its infancy stage while trying to obtain sworn statements.

"Unfortunately, this happened while the investigator was out but we are doing everything we can right now," Chief Garcia said.

Michael doesn't think it's enough.

He believes his attacker tried to exact revenge against him for an assault case many years ago that led to Michael’s arrest.

Chief Garcia wouldn't elaborate on a possible motive just yet but says it may have resulted over a stolen gun.

He expects an arrest in the case as early as next week. The investigator was out? WTH?

GeneChing

06-25-2014, 09:35 AM

UPDATE: Watertown police make arrest in sword stabbing death (http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/Watertown-police-make-arrest-in-sword-stabbing-death-263976231.html)
Updated: Fri 6:49 PM, Jun 20, 2014

http://media.graytvinc.com/images/Young+J+Choi.jpg

UPDATED Friday, June 20, 2014 --- 4:37 p.m.

Police say a Watertown Man attacked two people with a sword, killing one of them.

29-year-old Young Choi is charged with first degree intentional homicide in the death of Dustin Vanderheyden.

The attack happened Thursday afternoon at an apartment at Yanger's Bar on N. 4th Street.

According to the criminal complaint, a witness called police after seeing a man attacking another with the sword.

That witness yelled at the man to stop, and the attacker turned around and swung the sword at him. The witness was cut in the hand.

Vanderheyden crawled into his apartment. He later died during surgery.

Police found Choi at the top of a stairwell and eventually arrested him.

According to the criminal complaint, Vanderheyden's wife told police Choi had been making bizarre comments all week about being "God."

She said Choi told her on Wednesday that he wanted her to be with him and she should leave her husband. Choi also had allegedly told her he was going to get a sword and stab her husband but she convinced him not to do it.

She told officers she thought there wasn't going to be an issue.

_____________________________________________

Friday June 20, 2014

WATERTOWN, Wis.--- Police in Watertown have arrested a man accused of stabbing two people with a sword. One of the victims died.

The stabbing happened Thursday afternoon in a second floor boarding house on N. 4th St. in Watertown.

A man called police saying a man with a sword was attacking someone. The caller had an injury to his hand, according to a news release from Watertown police. And second victim was more seriously injured. That man was taken to the hospital where he died.

Police found the suspect on a top stairwell leading to a second floor. A negotiator was called to help get the man with the sword to give up. He was arrested and is charged with First Degree Intentional Homicide and First Degree Reckless Injury.

No names have been released. The man who died was 27 years old. The man who was injured is 24 years old. The man who is charged is 29 years old.
She was wrong. It was an issue.

GeneChing

07-11-2014, 02:58 PM

Charge: Sword-swinging mom slashed daughter (http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Charge-Sword-swinging-mom-attacked-daughter-5609486.php)
‘I was gonna cut her head off’
BY LEVI PULKKINEN, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
Updated 12:18 pm, Wednesday, July 9, 2014

A Kirkland woman accused of slashing her daughter with a sword now faces an assault charge.

Accused in a June 27 attack, Sharon Kay Rosin is alleged to have slashed at her 24-year-old daughter with a samurai sword. King County prosecutors contend Rosin, 64, admitted to the swordplay and told police she armed herself “to be a *****.”

Shortly before 11 p.m., Kirkland police were called to the home by Rosin’s daughter, who reported her mother attacked her moments before.

Police arrived to find Rosin’s daughter outside the house and a very drunk Rosin inside, a Kirkland police officer said in charging papers. The younger woman explained her mother berated her earlier in the night before arming herself with the 2 1/2-foot-long sword and attacking her.

Rosin swung the sword twice, striking her daughter in the arm before she was able to flee, the officer continued. Rosin managed to cut herself during the altercation.

Arrested at the scene, Rosin explained she picked up the sword “’cause I was gonna cut her head off,” the officer told the court.

“I picked up the sword and thought this would be a good idea,” Rosin told police, according to charging papers. “Then I fell on the sword.”

The officer said Rosin went on to admit to holding a knife to her daughter’s throat days before.

Police seized a sword from the home.

Rosin has been charged with second-degree assault. She remains jailed on $10,000 bail.

Messed up mom. :(

TaichiMantis

07-11-2014, 06:46 PM

At least she fell on her sword....:rolleyes:

GeneChing

08-27-2014, 08:44 AM

Wednesday 27 August 2014
Alleged murderer 'sliced to death with samurai sword after night taking cocaine in Dublin', inquest told (http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/alleged-murderer-sliced-to-death-with-samurai-sword-after-night-taking-cocaine-in-dublin-inquest-told-30541489.html)
Eoghan McNeill
PUBLISHED
27/08/2014 | 12:26SHARE

VIDEO: Alleged murderer 'sliced to death with samurai sword after night taking cocaine in Dublin', inquest told
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An alleged murderer was sliced to death with a Samurai sword after a night of drinking and taking cocaine in a Dublin pub, an inquest has heard.

Jason Martin (32) came to Ireland in August 2009 after UK police found his DNA at the murder scene of drug dealer and construction boss Paul Brady (43).

http://cdn4.independent.ie/migration_catalog/article25094905.ece/7c624/ALTERNATES/w620/Forensic_I
Garda forensic officers examine the scene of the fatal brawl outside Hannigen's pub in Park West in Dublin yesterday

Brady had been beaten by a gang of balaclava-wearing men carrying baseball bats and firearms, who then abducted him from a building site in Lancashire, England.

A month after fleeing to Ireland, Martin was found bleeding to death from a 14.5cm-long wound outside Hannigen’s pub in Ballyfermot.

http://cdn4.independent.ie/incoming/article30541483.ece/e8a6d/ALTERNATES/w620/jm.jpg
Jason Martin

Martin’s wound was the result of a mass brawl in the pub, those involved using swords, crutches and hockey sticks, an inquest in Manchester heard.

“I could see them using various weapons, hockey sticks, two crutches and one male repeatedly smashing a bottle over someone,” Garda Joseph Glackin told the inquest.

He detailed how he saw Martin with his “intestines hanging out,” through a wound which ripped through his liver, ribs and diaphragm.

His death was caused by a single stab wound to the chest, a post-mortem concluded.

Although twenty-nine people were arrested and 360 statements taken following the brawl that killed Martin, no one has been charged.

'swords, crutches and hockey sticks'...now that's a bar fight...er, pub fight. :eek:

GeneChing

09-25-2014, 02:28 PM

...to bring a weapon to a school?

Sword-wielding parent goes on trial today (http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/sword-wielding-parent-goes-on-trial-today-1.1759187)
BORYS KRAWCZENIUK, STAFF WRITER
Published: September 24, 2014

The sword-carrying parent of a Scranton School District student will go on trial today for bringing the weapon to the district administration building last September as he complained about a uniform policy.

William Giordano, 39, of 1309 Vine St., was upset at a district policy that requires students to wear shirts with “Scranton School District” embroidered on them, according to the affidavit charging him with possession of a weapon on school property and disorderly conduct.

Mr. Giordano contends the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees him the right to carry the sword.

Under a plea agreement, Mr. Giordano pleaded guilty in December to having the sword on school grounds, but withdrew his guilty plea July 29 for reasons that remain unclear.

The confrontations that led to his arrest happened on Sept. 17 and 18, 2013.

District employees Paula Joyce and Mary Theresa Ruddy told police Mr. Giordano and Jennifer Sheerer came into their office in the administration building at 425 N. Washington Ave., “causing a scene about the school shirts.”

“Both said they immediately noticed that the offender was carrying a large sword inside a sheath,” Patrolman Kevin Davis wrote in the arrest affidavit. “Both Ms. Joyce and Ms. Ruddy became alarmed and nervous because the offender (Mr. Giordano) was yelling at them and he was carrying a large sword.”

Ms. Joyce asked him to put the sword on her desk “until they finished their business.”

“The offender refused her request and cited the Second Amendment right to bear arms and protect himself,” the patrolman wrote.

Superintendent William King eventually talked to Mr. Giordano, who was “loud and disturbing” and threatening to sue the district. Mr. King calmed down Mr. Giordano and gave him shirts embroidered with the district’s name.

The next day, the couple returned, complaining they didn’t have embroidered sweatshirts for their children.

Again, Mr. Giordano wore the sword.

Both women said Mr. Giordano “became unruly, loud and belligerent and refused to leave when they asked him.”

Jessica Leitzel, the district’s supervisor of elementary education at the time, was in her office and told police she “overheard the offender yelling and screaming.”

She also noticed “the large sword hanging from the offender’s belt.”

Asked to leave again, Mr. Giordano refused.

Worried that he might pull out the sword, Ms. Ruddy called 911.

By the time police arrived, the couple had left, so Patrolman Davis and fellow Patrolman Donald Hofsommer went to Mr. Giordano’s home.

Just as Patrolman Davis was about to knock, the door flung open.

“What do you want?” Mr. Giordano bellowed, according to the affidavit.

He was wearing the sword, still sheathed on his right hip.

The patrolman asked for his name and other personal information for his report.

“I don’t have to give you any information,” Mr. Giordano replied, according to the affidavit. “Police are bullies wearing a uniform.”

He again cited his Second Amendment right.

Patrolman Davis crossed the street and called Lackawanna County Assistant District Attorney Jennifer McCambridge, who approved the charges police eventually filed.

While they talked by phone, Mr. Giordano walked out of his house and yelled, “Show me where it says I can’t carry a weapon on school property.”

Police didn’t show him. They arrested him and took away his sword.

“Now you’re on my list,” Mr. Giordano said, according to the affidavit.

Asked what he meant, Mr. Giordano replied, “You’ll see.”

That was not Mr. Giordano’s first encounter with police.

In March 2011, he and Ms. Sheerer refused to show identification at the entrance to Northeast Intermediate School, asserting Patrolman John Burgette was violating his rights even asking for ID.

Ordered to leave, he began screaming, and Patrolman Burgette tried to arrest him. As Ms. Sheerer yelled profanities at the officer, he struggled to get Mr. Giordano under control, which he accomplished with the help of an off-duty, part-time Dunmore policeman, a teacher at the school.

Mr. Giordano and Ms. Sheerer were charged with disorderly conduct and Mr. Giordano also with resisting arrest. After a trial, both were found not guilty.

Contact the writer:
bkrawczeniuk@timesshamrock.com
wait...not guilty? srsly?