Bad Day for Samurai Wannabes

[GeneChing]

Man denied sword as carry-on despite kung fu demo
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.

[GeneChing]

What is wrong with swordsmen today?

Teens stab one’s mom with sword in plot to murder her, eat her liver: cops
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]

A twofer just in time for Machete Kills.

Posted: 12:15 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013
Police arrest suspect in Santa Rosa machete attack


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
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]

A twofer just in time for Machete Kills.

We need a separate machete thread! Here's a good one where a clerk with machete defeats a robber with a gun

[GeneChing]

I posted that yesterday in the Successful Street Applications thread.

[TaichiMantis]

I posted that yesterday in the Successful Street Applications thread.

Ahh...a week in edisto beach has slowed my forum fu

[TaichiMantis]

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...rd-car-attack/

[GeneChing]

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 perhaps.

Gabrielle Bluestone on Gawker
Yesterday 8:18pm

Texas Man Armed With Sword Demands Tacos

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]

six strokes of a cane

Sword-wielding ‘subway samurai’ faces flogging in Singapore
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.

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I think that samurai man watches too much japanese cartoon movies. :P

[GeneChing]

On the twelfth day of Xmas, my true love gave to me, twelve swords a' swinging...

Man injured in Christmas sword fight
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]

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

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.


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]

That is one scary prince....

[GeneChing]

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
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]

Bwahahahaha!