A serial burglar was spectacularly slain with a katana after he broke into a man’s home; the man hacked off the burglar’s hand and slashed his neck, killing him.
Police have not charged the killer, as he was judged to be acting in self-defence.
The man whose home was invaded was a medical student at the esteemed John Hopkins University in Baltimore, living with several other students; he had recently reported a similar break-in in which laptops and a PlayStation were stolen.
Being confronted by another intruder, a 40-year-old career criminal just released from prison, with a long history of burglaries, he was in no mood to back down.
The burglar was discovered breaking in via their garage, and whilst police were summoned the burglar was confronted by the student, who was armed with a katana.
Police describe the burglar lunging at the student, who “then retaliated by striking him with a samurai sword, severed his left hand and gave severe lacerations to the upper torso,” fatally injuring him.
Police politely skirt about his unusual choice of weapon in a nation which prefers to commit homicides with firearms:
“I think everyone has the right to first of all defend themselves and defend their home and if this individual felt that a samurai sword was an appropriate tool to do so, I’m not in a position to say that’s good or bad.”
Self-defence and the right to bear arms, whether sword or otherwise, are of course highly cherished liberties in the USA.
Via SMH.
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Silly image, that's not how blood works.
at least it looks good though?
Katana Shoujo, not Katawa Shoujo... O~kay~
Lame pun, Anon...
HA! Good thing I have a sword. If these damn Democrats ban guns, I'm still in the WIN!!!
*Watches spectacle from afar*
All your win are belong to fail
wasn't his pun
I want to try cutting someones neck too...someone, come try to steal my things...please?
It's called blood bending.Haven't you watched CSI and Avatar the Last Airbender?
avatar is fail.
so are you.
Take that back! TAKE THAT BACK!
Avatar owns!!! You will suffer for eternity in the burning depth of hell for that statement!
Avatar is a shitty cartoon.
avatar is massive amounts of fail
this is getting childish
It's better than the crap that's usually on TV today.
I'm not one to defend american cartoons, but AVATAR is good no matter how you look at it, story is certainly on Japanese quality level, it's merely catered for the American audience.
It's a shit cartoon.
You're shit. Avatar rules.
Shit is shit.
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17-09-2009 03:37
17-09-2009 06:02
Samefag. Could you be any more obvious...it's shit.
You're shit.
I'm a huge anime fan myself and loathe many American cartoons. These just get worse over the years. But Avatar: The last Airbender was actually done pretty well. At first I didn't like it cause it was just another American cartoon but I gave it a chance and watched it and found it to be pretty good.
The creators get cool points from me, if for no other reason than being completely annoyed at the extreme fan-types.
Also, I'll just leave this here:
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/400142
avatar was okay but i wish there was the original japanese voice acters
They're coming actually in Nickelodeon Japan. And it was dubbed in english first.
fuck dubs everything should be kept in its original language
Avatar's original language was english, they're dubbing it in japanese
Avatar is made in KOREAN.
You guys know nothing.
Avatar is ANIMATED in Korea numbnuts! just like most Anime that is commercially produced today.
I watched it was good, I'm not going to proclaim to the world that its the awsome most epic thing ever but thats just me, I liked it thats all I'm going to say.
but yah, the guy since being a , med student would know exacly where to strike.
It's supposed to look like wings whether blood splatters are like that or not.
plus 1
("Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though you’ve already said that!" what the eff, I haven't commented in weeks)
All "Anonymous"es are the same person. Try logging in next time.
LOL, epic fail.
It's an angel of blood. Nice pic, really.
that's what I thought the first time I saw the pic.
Indeed. For the Emperor and Sanguinius!
the police are jealous of the medic's samurai skill
Why couldn't he have just used the bonesaw???
Because he's bad@$$
PWNGE!!
I think we now know what the next item the medic will be getting in TF2
That would be badass, if a little surreal for the swordsman.
Since the Medic is presumed to be an ex-nazi, it's not impossible that he's handled a katana or two.
Not enough time to knock out robber, drag them to underground bunker and cuff them to a giant thick pipe with equally tough handcuffs.
how old was the student again?
he'll probably get appointed into surgeon soon enough... heh
new technology : surgery/operations using katanas !!
Always with the katana? How about "keris"?
damn you indonesian..
Dude, he's not talking about "buluh runcing"..
Damn Malaysian for claiming keris!!
You Indonesians and your butthurt. Protip: search "Mamula Moon" on YouTube. Lulz will ensue
Duuude. Malayu (not MalaySIAN... Malayu culture do exist in Indonesia too, and its influence is particularly strong in Aceh, Southeastern Sumatra [Riau, Jambi, Bengkulu, Bangka, & Lampung], Riau & Natuna Archipelago, and parts of Kalimantan) culture had keris at approximately the same time Javanese adopt it. Their keris is straight and more dagger-like than the crooked "Luk " which are more famous in Java. Java had its fair share of straight keris too actually, but the crooked ones are more identifiable and famous. So saying that Malaysians snitched Keris from the Indonesians who invented it is a bit stretching the facts.
*this Anon is a Javanese actually*
Nobody cares.
Hahaha.
Butthurt Indonesians. Just shut up and enjoy our Overlord Nihonese culture.
<-(Actually an Indonesian himself)