A man carrying a katana has engaged in a sword-fight with a squad of riot police at the Japanese prime ministerial residence, successfully cutting off the thumb of one policeman.
The man, in his twenties, attacked police 150m from the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo’s central Chiyoda district. Reportedly his hair “was dyed seven colours.”
Using what appeared to be a Japanese katana, he began a confrontation with police, who attempted to subdue him.
As he was fighting police he struck off the left thumb of one officer with his sword.
After subduing him police immediately charged him with attempted murder, interfering with a public servant in pursuit of their duties, and possessing an illegal weapon.
He admits the charges, and police are investigating his motives.
Pictures seem to show police with batons and riot shields squaring off against the man, their batons held in sword-fighting stances – this appears to be standard training for Japanese officers (most of whom are kendo practitioners), as evidenced in previous incidents, but the officer who lost his thumb is probably regretting police disdain for firearms (carried as standard), tasers or pepper spray.
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next time, wear a gauntlet.
(Y) (Y). Oh wait. (Y).
he gets free gundam thumb.. :(
Sirry porisu. When wirr you rearn?
Maybe the police arrested his rival, the white-haired samurai and he wanted to take vengence?
Only in japan.
and here I thought they were gonna blame it on anime and manga again....Oh wait it hasn't been 24 hours yet ...well fingers crossed
I thought the Riot Police were trained in Yoshinkan Aikido. shouldn't his training have helped him keep his thumb?
It certainly gave him the confidence to attack a sword wielding maniac with his stick.
I think that's the same confidence Miyamoto Musashi used to kill Sasaki Kojiro with an oar.
yeah, i definitely agree with u there. but i always see the aikido guys take the swords away with their cool moves. maybe he didn't practice?
Reminds of the guy with a Katana in Hamburg. German police used a broom(!):
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=8536J5LN5Tk
Witchcraft! ^_^
I want picture of rainbow samurai.
Guns, do you have them?
YES, but can we shoot them with out a massive career ending shitstorm, NOT EVEN IF OUR LIVES DEPENDED ON IT
The policeman was reportedly taken unawares.
How about they use a fire truck and instead of water they pack with pepper spray now talk about Major eye, skin and breathing irritation even 100 people with Samurai won't do a Kamikaze if they can't see! No Casualties!
Actually, extreme overdose of pepper spray can cause fatalities. There are documented cases happening in the U.S. due to over-zealous police.
Geez.
Sword + Weird Hairdo.. Fit the description of a Shinigami from Bleach
Japanese cops are awesome. Haha. I'd hate to lose an appendage...
Aw, that's sucks man. The man need to be punished.
Cosplay Revolution will be written in history book.
"The Cosplay Revolutionary War Started in the month of august. when ***** cut off a policeman thumb."
Katana 1 vs 0 Bare hands
Predictable?
Uh the thumb can only be reattached if its a clean cut. IF its not a clean cut then the nerves won't reform and be useless.
should have taze him Brah!
I don't suppose they can reattach it?
The Japanese police aren't called "the keystone cops" for no reason, you know. Incompetent lazy (and officially racist) fucks to a man. A while ago a whole bunch of them were facing off against one Yakuza guy -with hostages- who started firing at the police and threatening to kill the hostages. The police did sweet FA: critially endagering the public, and the Yakuza guy killed a 20-ish-year old new recruit pig with a young family, into the bargain. If shit goes down near you while you in Japan, just make sure you get out of the area and wait for it to burn out, because the police certainly won't be doing anything to help.
I'm surprised the Japanese don't use an appropriate "old-style" weapon.
The batons they have are shorter than katanas, so the bad guy has the advantage of "reach".
I'm thinking an appropriate cop-weapon for such circumstances would be a long pole with a short, jointed extension with a weight -- presuming the cops are trying for non-lethality.
If they don't care about non-lethality, a normal naginata is the way to go.
instead of batons they should at least use bokken. they could bust heads with them lol.
i say they just use a sharp stick
1. Wear steel gloves
2. Bring your own sword
3. Use gun, aim for feet
4. ???
5. Keep thumb where it belongs
4. would be try not to look and act like a hollow.
I had to get a bleach joke in.
All this could be avoided by using a taser as that would have been the perfect situation for one.
Most of the bad press tasers get is because of some retard with a badge misusing it for laughs or being panicky and tasering someone who is not a threat.
See why they ban kids from dying their hair?
Maria cross finally snapped.
Yesterday was V-J day - Check
PM and entire cabinet does not visit Yasukuni Shrine for the first time since 1985 - Check
Guy thinks he's samurai by wielding katana and charges towards PM's residence of all places - Check
This can only be the work of those crackpot right-wingers and their twisted bushido beliefs, aiming to punish the "unpatriotic" PM Kan Naoto for this act of "treason".
moron
just shoot for fighting samurai
The Rainbow samurai was actually a robot and he fought with with this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSMeUPFjQHc in background and only wanted to make his wishes come true...
I guess it can't be helped.
I laughed pretty hard when I read this.
Japan, where even the Cops fight with honour.
Those who live by the sword will be shot by those who don't ...
Prolly the only country with the precious few people that has some honor left.
see my above comment on this.
there is a chance that if they used there guns they would be fired (not a good thing to be fired for) and if he isnt, he would have a desk job for the rest of his life.
getting his limbs chopped off permanently would probably have less consequences than shooting his gun once.
It's actually quite strange that he had a katana sharp enough to cut off flesh and bone cleanly and yet he only chopped off one thumb.
Either he didn't cut off more than that on purpose, or he couldn't actually handle the sword.
do you know the basics of a sword fight?
1 a poliece baton is hard to cut through with only a katana, and if they are metal, almost no way in fuck,
if the cops had shields and batons, than its not a surprising outcome.
I guess police have loyality or something like putting a sword fight, they could just shoot him in the arm and disable the nerves so he can't not even hold the katana but he still is alive.
But of course they can't do that without permission, sword stances.
Nowe days we fight with Katanas it should be awesome
you have any idea how much shit the cop would take for using his gun?
this is japan, they will get bitched out if the fire there gun even if they are being shot at themselves.
its a realy retarded policy.
They're not fucking robocop. Shooting a moving target in the arm with a handgun is not trivial.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo would be proud!!!
well....-puts on sunglasses- it looks like we have a thumb to find......
YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
woman : he was going to give her his phone number later
man: to bad...
sunglasses
man: he lost the digit
YEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
HAHA mine was better, or more cringe worthy, could have gone either way
We had a situation like this here in Seattle a few years back, a man high on PCP wielding a Katana threatening police. He had a very strong constitution and mindset, pepper spray failed, as far as I know tasers weren't deployed.
The officers were able to keep the man boxed in with their Glocks until a SFD firetruck arrived, they turned the hose on him and pinned him up against the building he was near with a fire ladder allowing them to subdue him without further chaos.
Naturally, if he'd have charged them he would have been killed before he took three steps. This is a situation where obviously the man had intent, firearms should have been deployed. A lawmans duty is to protect the citizenry and once he lost his thumb he became a liability.
This is why, since I'm allowed to own one, I own a gun.
OMG are you talking about this one?
I saw this a while back!
Some crazy shit.
OMG are you talking about this one?
I saw this a while back!
Some crazy shit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ze1x1Hlykc&feature=related [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ze1x1Hlykc&feature=related]
lol forgot the link las time.
Yeah thats the one, I got a couple things wrong but yeah, proper use of tactics and containment prevented bloodshed.
The police didn't use tasers in that case because they would have been ineffective (the work by causing extreme pain, and the man in question was under the influence of PCP and did not feel pain).
That case is an example of police using less than lethal force effectively. They managed to subdue the man without anyone being put at risk, and without loss of life.
Sorry to disappoint you. Even though tasers cause a lot of pain that's not how they work, they make your muscles Contract rendering you unable to control your own muscles because they override the signals your brain gives to them similar to why a person getting electrocuted by an exposed power socket/water puddle is unable to let go/move away
Long ranged attacks/weapons: Always use them when necessary.
In the end, there can be only one.
Was lucky, could have been killed. Strangely enough if you look at where your thumb is, it's a odd part of the to get cut.
Hm... these time, good old American way would've been simple and painless (for the police). I hope the officer who lost this thumb had a chance to beat the f'ck out of the guy...
Sad to know that a cop who does his job ends up like this end of the day.
They should at least have tasers, but I guess due to the low crime rate in Japan(cough cough I don't know whether this is fact), they probably don't expect this to happen frequently.
ouch hopefully the man get his thumb back by surgery.
gun > sword > baton
That must really hurt...I am sorry to hear that.
well dam O__O
Just the thumb? :/ Fail.
Better than the dick.
Japanese police, try using those pistols you guys haul around as decorations. It actually works!
I thought Japanese police didn't haul guns unless the situation calls for it. Sure is easier to try to bat the guy instead of having to fill in 100 of forms later on.
7-colored dyed hair...Japanese Katana...
The Rainbow Samurai...
This guy is gotta be Alice Margatroid and Youmu Konpaku's bastard child...
I hope that severed thumb can still be re-attached and doesn't develop a nasty case of gangrene...
*sarcasm on*
It's obviously the fault of Rapelay.
*Gasp* The Rainbow Samurai!
He returns from his home island of Shikoko to wreck havok on the thumbs of tyrranical lawmen!
Well maybe the runaway, abandoned and defective child. If he had youmu's skills maybe he would have split into seven and taken down 7 officers instead of just one thumb.
No... It's Youkhrist Byakuren and Youmu konpaku... As Byakuren is the one with the technicolor hair....
I'm quite sure it's a tribute to the Seven Samurai.
Seeing that it was a katana, it's most probably that it was a clean cut, so the reattachment of the thumb should be easy and without trouble
Am I the only one who sees the connection between this and Comiket?
Maybe one of the cosplayers had a brake down >.<
cosplayer: "damn! i went to the wrong place! i even went through the extra effort by using this extremely realistic katana..."
policeman: "hey you with the colored hair! stop right there!"
cosplayer: "aww shit...."
From Genshiken I know that swords aren't allowed in Comiket.
cosplayer: "damn, this isnt comiket. i went to the wrong place! i even went through the extra effort in order to bring this authentic looking katana..."
policeman: "hey you with the colored hair! stop right there!"
cosplayer: "awww shit...."
Well, usually the "good" people who don't cause the fuss would listen to those rules. The idiots are the ones who bring it anyway.
yeah, poor fella
That's no big deal. The thumb can be reattached after such a cut.
Maybe police should get katanas as well. Sure would be interesting fights.
wooooohooo
That's no big deal. The thumb can be reattached after such a cut.
Maybe police should get katanas as well. Sure would be interesting fights.
Edit: Forgot to log in.
It might be reattachable, depending on how it was severed.
They certainly can replace a thumb with a big toe. It's a common procedure.
Oh, it's Schrobby who said it, not just random anon!
*votes Schrobby up*
Machinegun in Japan? No way. lulz
this would sure be awesome...
imagine a man with a machinegun versus a dozen of katana-armed police officers...XDD
What would YOU do if you meet up with a seven colored hair man with a sword?
The next time I go out on the street, I'll wear steel-clad gloves :/
The colors, man, the colors
Draw my sword and "Chaaaaarge!", reason be damned.
Non-lethal is being challenged in a British Columbian court.
Low lethality rate weapon.
someone should upload the video of this epic fight!!! and make a film based on this true story...
"The Rainbow Samurai"
If I had a gun, a shield, a tazer and a dozen of similarly armed men? I sure as fuck wouldn't have lost a thumb.
Tazers are god tier non-lethal weapons.
Guess a pair of gauntlets from medieval times are still a nessesity even in the 21st century.
@18:01 Thanks for pointing out how fucking retarded people are. "Oh noes! Tasers are SOOO fucking deadly!"
Yeah, they are, to people with heart conditions or who are on absurd amounts of drugs.
Maybe if you don't want to die, and you have a heart condition, you shouldn't be pissing off police officers.
These people who get hit with the taser and die are the same people who if they're doing something to warrant getting tasered, are probably going to be fighting restraint if someone doesn't taser them, and could potentially die from positional asphyxia as they wrestle with the cop trying to put the fucking cuffs on them. Maybe cops should stop restraining people too!
Oh and while we're at it, the police baton is an evolution of the club! Clubs kill people! They're fucking dangerous! Don't give them to police, they COULD kill you!!!!!! AHHHHHH!!! I'M AFRAID OF THE POLICE! THEY'RE GOING TO COME KILL ME! ... OH wait, if I just don't fucking do stupid shit to get the police pissed off at me, I won't be getting tased, or clubbed, or cuffed. I won't fucking die at all........
*Light Bulb*
Not true. Cops are abusing tasers more than any other non-lethal weapon they have. They use it as a punishment on common citizens, elderly, and children. FBI has reported that taser usage was unwarranted in over 65% of the cases it has reviewed, and the trend was upward in outright abuse and moving into a common torture of people in police custody.
Actually, police taser because they can. They often should be using hand restraints, but don't want to bother.
They also are now using it as a punishment for people that don't comply with them quickly enough.
Tasers are being over-used acording to FBI and other law enforcement oriented studies. Police are overyl using them and outright abusing them because they are "low lethality".
They'll use them on handicapped 12 year olds that can only move their eyes because they stopped their computer controlled chairs in the middle of a school's door.
They use them very often on loud small children, and tasers are very deadly to people that are not male adult sized. The smaller you are, the deadlier the taser is.
They use them on people with leg braces or other medical devices so they don't risk "really" harming them, where the taser will do more damage then other choices.
Tasers are simply abused, same as pepper spray is now, by law enforcement.
When you read police incident reports and see they tased a drunk 12 times, AFTER the drunk was restrained, to just shut him up, you know the cops are taking advantage of the public perceptions that they are a safe weapon.
Leave it to Canadians to lethalize a non-lethal weapon.
DeathCrunch
Canada is doing it because it's true. How many people in North America died to tasers in the last 12 months?
Yeah eh. Totally non-lethal. Except for the part where it CAN, and has, killed people.
I would lay off on the crack.