A man has been charged with the attempted murder of two policemen and a neighbour after attacking them with a katana, successfully hacking off one officer’s thumb.
The incident began at 3AM in Tokyo’s Adachi ward when a 73-year-old unemployed man attacked his 64-year-old neighbour with an 80cm long katana, cutting both his hands.
Police were summoned, but when they tried to apprehend the man he resisted, hacking off one 52-year-old officer’s thumb and slashing another 35-year-old officer in the knee.
He tried to flee the scene by climbing through his apartment window, but was caught by another policeman and then arrested on charges of attempted murder and obstructing police business.
All the injured were subsequently hospitalised – their injuries were not life-threatening.
The sword-wielding man admits the attack, and his initial victim reports the dispute started with him making a noise complaint to the would-be samurai, who returned to his room and came running back out with his sword screaming “you bastard!” and promptly tried to slay him in the traditional manner.
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In soviet russia, Cop hacks you!
That's the way you live the former glory.
Dude, wtf. That's not even funny.
Cop should be glad that's all that got hacked off....
I can agree with this. Meow.
bakemonogatari episode 1
Senjougahara: Don't push your responsibility. Be careful or I'll chop it off.
Araragi: What part will you chop off?
Got to wonder what goes through peoples heads sometimes, if they are 'sane' what reason do they think up to do it, or what it is that causes them to go insane and do something like this.
lol first time i see such a streak of negative comments lol
Didn't something like this happen before?
Bazzyrick
14:57
its simple. they put up with to much shit, don't say anything, than that one little, seemingly insignificant thing happens, and they fucking snap.
japan has a VERY high suicide rate.
anyone who doesn't think suicide is a rational option, believe them to be at the very least crazy.
another form of crazy is complete social isolation. japan also has 3 million of them.
Seppuku is the only way out
@TNinja
Yes, something similar did happen before.
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/08/16/man-hacks-off-cops-thumb-with-katana-at-pms-residence/
If I see someone waving a katana around, I'll hide my thumbs, just in case.
"TEME YARO!!!"
i feeling the manliness from that old man, just like samurai or yakuza flick xD
i'd die inside if i lost my thumb...the things you'd lose out on....
man,News like that are you only finding in asian countries xD
did people think im bashing japan?
suicide and social icolation are both things people think you are crazy for doing or thinking.
this is a violent outburst caused by someone pushed to far and snapped.
It's the same thing with the hill billies in America. Except they have shotguns instead of Katanas because law allows it.
Wow, this is equivalent to say...if there was a incident in which a Raman Stand was flying around through the air due to winds that while strong are not yet strong enough to produce a typhoon or something similar & it ends up hitting a person or home...
Hell of a incident indeed...
Thumbs up. Oh wait... D:
"Japanese Clan Aint Nothin To F Wit!!!"
Straight from the mothafuckin basement that's busted...
"attempted murder"
and
"successfully hacking off one officer’s thumb."
Damn he must seriously suck at using a katana.
Well at least he rose above the ranks of attempted murder to slicing of a thumb...pfft
He tried to flee the scene by climbing through his apartment window
Failblog ^_^
I approve of the negative streak :p
And all of sudden, I remember the Bed Intruder guy [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzKtPezPsqE]..
♪His climbing out the window trying to escape the cops♫
bed intruders song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWBZnzZMUfE&feature=related]
Oh Japan.
"Ur makin' too much noise k?"
"You bastard!" *slice* "Don't you know who I am!?"
You bastard!" *slice* "Don't you know who I am!?"
"Say my name!"
Japan would totally be Jagi from Houkuto no Ken.
More like,
"Ur noise is too damn loud!"
"WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE? ROW ROW FIGHT THE POWER"!
in soviet russia last samurai .... oh what the hell , this is so tired !
man i guess samurai is still exists in this era
No more controller games for the cop : (
hopefully that's not the case and they were able to reattach it or something :/
Even if reattached, flexibility, agility and thumb movements wouldn't be the same as the nerves were severed, which might take awhile to adjust back with some rehab.
Like controller games lol.
Meh there's still kinect.
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Lmao.
Fear not, for the marvels of modern technology have given him the alternate choice of the penis-controller.
Metal Gear Solid: Rising, early demo.
But he got caught when escaping through the window. Espionage fail.
'Hacks Off Cop's Thumb': haven't we heard something very much like this before? ( http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/08/16/man-hacks-off-cops-thumb-with-katana-at-pms-residence/ )
Do Japanese police just stick out their thumbs in a way really easy to get to with a katana...?
(How skilled do two people have to be to each cut off another's thumb and nothing /but/ the thumb, given how large other areas of the body are in comparison?)
Not very skilled I'd say. I think the cop probably tried to catch the blade and got the thumb sliced off (imagine yoou're trying to catch a blade with your hands, you would naturally hold it out with the thumb and fingers in a 'V' shape.)ds
"I think the cop probably tried to catch the blade"
Yeah, that's what comes to mind every time I see a katana-wielding maniac: To catch the blade with my bare hands.
Silly cops.
Cops that watch too much anime.
Say if, there was a sword swinging down at you fast, wouldn't you try to use your hand to swipe it away if you're not holding anything else?
I would try running first, but yeah that works too, theoretically, if he wasn't swinging at Mark 2 and you're from the Kyotouryuu clan...
@anon 17:23
Your question is largly irrelevant unless you're proposing that the man snuck up behind the officers and slashed at them before they noticed that he was there.
You just don't get within 1½ meters of a mentally unstable person with a sword. Especially if your only means of protection are your bare hands.
@ a lolicon
"You just don't get within 1½ meters of a mentally unstable person with a sword. Especially if your only means of protection are your bare hands."
Lvl 73 Samurai vs Lvl 53 Ranger? how could the samurai NOT win?!
I thought the same thing lol
Don't these cops carry taser guns or something?
He was likely defending himself from a slash with his arm in front of his body and hands open. Its a natural reaction when you are being attacked from the front.
For visual aid google nothank.jpg.
Mythbusters as we have proven you cannot block it with your thumb ^^ or clapping ;lol
to all those who have ever wondered...crap like this is why cops in the US have guns
These guys need to at least get some tasers...
The cops should use the riot shield and baton and go Sparta on the guy.
Guns going a bit overboard can we get bats, sticks or tasers instead. Or Since its Japan swords dull end swords so they are just a blunting object.
Then again forget what I just said tasers after all ^^
well cops also have tasers, pepper spray, high volume/power BB guns, optic weapons, and if all else bean bag rounds for their shotguns, so it's not like they go straight to deadly force
Sure, the first thing I'd want when a lunatic is rushing at me with a razor sharp Samurai sword is pepper spray or a BB gun, lolz. Gimme a .45 any day.
You seem to think for some reason that cops here in Japan DON'T have guns...
Don't they have to fill out a lot of paperwork each time they shoot?
if by "fill out a lot of paperwork" you mean resign, then yes, they do.
Unfortunately many of them don't now that. They think it's because they are Rambo.