Attack with sticks, get stuck in jail
Man busted in attempted nunchaku attack
William Carroll
Posted: 09/24/2010
ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. - A 43-year-old man was arrested following a reported attempted nunchaku attack that didn't exactly rise to Bruce Lee standards.
William Carroll, of the 1800 block of North 49th Street in Fort Pierce, for an "unknown reason" on Tuesday got upset with a man in the 3900 block of Avenue I, according to a recently released arrest affidavit.
Carroll, who was too intoxicated to answer the questions of sheriff's investigators, grabbed a nunchaku and started "banging on the front door." After the man opened the door, Carroll allegedly tried to attack him with the nunchaku. The man punched Carroll in the head and sustained a possible broken hand during the fight. He wasn't hit by the nunchaku.
Nunchaku, said to have originated in Okinawa, consists of two hard sticks joined by a short length of cord or chain. Lee put them to good use in the 1973 classic Enter The Dragon.
When sheriff's deputies initially arrived, Carroll smelled of booze and had an "obvious" head injury. He was too intoxicated to answer questions and eventually ran from the crime scene, though investigators got him handcuffed in the 3800 block of Sloan Road.
The affidavit didn't state where Carroll got the nunchaku or whether he'd seen Enter The Dragon, in which Lee's character is sent to infiltrate the island of a crime lord named Han through Han's martial arts tournament.
Carroll entered the jail on charges including aggravated assault, burglary with assault or battery and resisting an officer without violence.
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