Bad Day for Samurai Wannabes

[Jack Straw]

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]

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.

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...

[Taryn P.]

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]

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...

That sounds like the making of an excellent porn movie !

[TaichiMantis]

That sounds like the making of an excellent porn movie !

...the way men's minds work...or not

[Taryn P.]

...the way men's minds work...or not

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

[sanjuro_ronin]

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

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

[GeneChing]

There's probably more to this story.

Woman dies after intervening in sword fight
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
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.