Bad Day for Samurai Wannabes

[GeneChing]

Neptune had me thinking this was somewhere quite different than Jersey.

Neptune man accused of chasing 2 women, 2 men with martial arts sword
3:35 PM, Dec. 20, 2011 |
Written by Charles Webster | Staff Writer

NEPTUNE — A township man is accused of chasing two women and a pair of men with a martial arts sword during a domestic violence incident at a Fisher Avenue apartment on Sunday.

Sarnoff Saintilus, 25, who lives in an apartment on Fisher Avenue, is accused of chasing one woman wielding a martial arts sword and at some point during the altercation “grabbing her around the neck, choking her and dragging her,” according to the criminal complaint filed against him.

During the altercation, Saintilus is also accused of chasing a second woman and two men while wielding the sword, according to the court filing.

Saintilus is charged with four counts of aggravated assault, criminal mischief, assault by attempting to cause bodily injury and weapons offenses.

He is being held in the Monmouth County Jail in Freehold Township on $35,000 bail.

[GeneChing]

There's a vid.

Police: Man Wielding Sword Tried To Steal Presents
Monday December 26, 2011 8:59 PM
UPDATED: Monday December 26, 2011 9:00 PM

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Police said on Monday that a Christmas Day attempted robbery ended with the robber begging his victim.

According to police, a man wielding a sword tried to take off with a couple’s Christmas presents as they were loading them into a car on Summit Street.

The man flashed his sword, grabbed the presents and started running down the street, 10TV’s Paul Aker reported.

Police said the victim caught up with the attempted thief and grabbed the packages.

The man with the sword got away, Aker reported.

The incident awoke neighbor Marya Barrios, who said the victim’s wife let loose their dog to chase the attempted man.

“(I) heard something thumping the side of my house,” Barros said. “The way it sounded wasn’t good. I’m not sure if they were physically fighting. I hope not. He was yelling really loud though. It was really scary.”

According to police, the alleged attempted robber was heavily intoxicated.

Watch 10TV News and refresh 10TV.com for more information.

[GeneChing]

Anyone play Age of Wulin?

Wow! A Virtual Scabbard in Age of Wulin Was Sold for $16,000
By cindyhioDate: 12-27-2011 Views: 1,837

Open your transaction account and check out how much did you spend on playing games? US$15 for a pre-paid time card, US$30 for enhancement materials, US$70 for a rare mount, or $16,000 for a Dragon Slaying Sabre Scabbard which is only one of its kind in China?

Age of Wulin

It is reported that the highly-anticipated martial-arts MMORPG Age of Wulin has already launched its activation code beta test on December 25th in Mainland China. To celebrate the opening of the test, Snail Games held an auction to sell unattributed virtualitems on Christmas Eve.

During the auction, a sheath for Hook of Departure (10 only) was sold for US$1,600; a Lordly Spear Sheath (5 only) was sold for US$2,500 and the unique Dragon Slaying Sabre scabbard was sold for as much as RMB100,000 (almost US$16,000) which isn't chicken feed. It is enough to make a down payment for an apartment in many Chinese cities.

Age of Wulin

This auction has indeed caused considerable controversy. Since more and more P2P games turned to F2P model, virtual items have naturally become the major source of game companies' revenue.

[GeneChing]

stun gun & pepper spray > samurai sword.

FEBRUARY 8, 2012, 6:59 A.M. ET
Cops subdue NY college student armed with sword
Associated Press

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — Authorities say they've charged a student from New York City with using a samurai sword to threaten other students inside a dormitory at a Hudson Valley college.

Campus police at SUNY New Paltz tell local media outlets that Isaac Doughty went on a rampage early Tuesday morning and briefly took several students hostage before officers on foot patrol arrived.

Officials say the 18-year-old freshman from Brooklyn went into his bedroom and came out with a Japanese katana sword. Police say Doughty fought with officers before they were able to subdue him using a stun gun and pepper spray.

One officer suffered a minor head injury.

Doughty was charged with kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment and assault. It couldn't be determined if he had a lawyer.

He was taken to Kingston Hospital for observation.

2 swords = 2 years

Sword-wielding man gets two years in prison
Andrea J. Cook Journal staff | Posted: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 4:30 am

A sword-wielding man police subdued by police using beanbags in December is headed for prison.

Seventh Circuit Judge Janine Kern sentenced 48-year-old Arthur Hall of Rapid City to two years in prison Monday.

Kern advised Hall to use the time in prison to work on his alcohol addiction, noting that he had attended alcohol treatment seven times.

"When you're sober you are a hardworking responsible man," said Kern, reminding Hall that his employer valued him as an employee.

Hall had faced up to 25 years in prison after being charged with aggravated assault involving a law enforcement officer.

"You created a very dangerous situation for yourself and others," Kern told Hall.

Hall threatened police officers with two swords when they responded to a disturbance call at a motel in the 200 block of East North Street.

Police resorted to the non-lethal beanbag loads from a shotgun when Hall confronted them with what appeared to be swords in both hands, according to Pennington County deputy state's attorney Tracey Decker.

Decker also outlined Hall's criminal record that included 47 contacts with law enforcement for charges such as domestic violence, resisting arrest and at least eight driving under the influence charges.

Chad Callahan, Hall's attorney, said in court that the defendant has had a "terrible, long struggle with alcohol." Alcohol played a big role in his client's actions last December, he said.

As part of his plea agreement, Hall will plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of domestic violence simple assault.

Kern said that both sentences will run concurrently. Hall will serve at least 30 percent of his sentence.

Samurai sword = $10K bail

February 8, 2012
Man accused of holding samurai sword to girlfriend’s throat
By Sarah Hogsed Register News Writer

RICHMOND — A Madison grand jury will hear the case of a man accused of threatening to cut his girlfriend’s head off, and attacking her father with a samurai sword.

Russell M. Masters, 42, of Richmond, is charged with two counts of first-degree wanton endangerment, which is a Class D felony, and fourth-degree assault (domestic violence with minor injury) and resisting arrest, which both are Class A misdemeanors. Masters could receive one to five years in prison on each wanton endangerment charge, and the misdemeanors both carry a maximum sentence of one year in jail.

The officer who responded to the Jan. 24 incident testified Wednesday during a preliminary hearing in Madison District Court. Richmond police officer Sgt. Jeff Simmons said he received a call at 9:30 p.m. about a domestic violence assault occurring in the 100 block of Broaddus Avenue.

When he arrived, Simmons said he saw two men outside the house, sitting on the porch, and another man going inside the house. One of the men on the porch was holding a samurai sword.

The man, Andrew Connor, dropped the sword after Simmons told him to. He told the officer that Masters had attacked his daughter, and that’s why he and another relative were at the house, Simmons said. Stephanie Flinner lives in the home with Masters.

“They were hysterical,” Simmons said about Flinner and her family members.

Connor told the officer that Masters had “beaten up, pulled hair, choked (Flinner),” Simmons testified. She had been able to flee next door and call for help, after which she and her family members returned to the home.

When they returned, Masters reportedly grabbed Flinner by the hair and held the samurai sword to her throat, threatening to kill her by “cutting off her head,” Simmons said.

Masters, who was in the courtroom with his attorney, shook his head “no” repeatedly after the officer make this statement.

Connor told police that Masters then allegedly lunged toward him with the sword and cut holes in his shirt in two places. Connor reportedly wrested the sword away from him before police arrived, and Masters went back into the house and picked up a metal bat.

Simmons said he and another officer entered the house and found Masters sitting on a bed. He was belligerent and intoxicated, Simmons testified. He and the other officer had to physically subdue Masters to remove him from the house and take him into custody.

Public defender Brian Barker, who is representing Masters, asked the officer several questions about the incident. He asked if the officer remembered if Masters had any injuries, and Simmons said he did not. He also asked Simmons if the sword was sharp.

Simmons responded he did not test the blade of the sword, but said the tip was sharp. The sword was confiscated as evidence. The T-shirt Connor was wearing that had holes in it from the alleged attacked was not taken into evidence, but Simmons said photos were taken of the damage.

After the hearing, Judge Brandy Oliver Brown found probable cause and referred the case to the grand jury.

Barker requested a reduction in Masters’ bond. He is being held on a $10,000 cash bond, and he does not have cash or property, Barker said.

County Attorney Marc Robbins objected to a reduction, pointing out that Masters had a prior convictions for violent crime.

Brown agreed with Robbins and kept the bond at $10,000.

[TaichiMantis]

A Palm Coast man accused of stabbing his computer with a samurai sword when agents went to search his home has been indicted on federal child pornography charges.

Federal authorities say 21-year-old Kamil Mezalka is charged with two counts of receiving child pornography over the Internet, one count of possession of child pornography, and one count of destruction of evidence. It's not immediately known if he has an attorney.

The Orlando Sentinel reports investigators went to his home May 8 to execute a search warrant. They found him in his underwear and wielding a samurai sword, which he used to stab his computer.

The Daytona Beach News Journal reported earlier that Mezalka had defended his mother from his stepfather using a Samurai sword in April

...ick, again

[TaichiMantis]

Sword rampage: Japanese man chops off realtor’s arm

A Japanese man has been arrested after lopping off the arm of the president of a real estate company with a samurai sword. He also attacked two other employees, leaving them with serious stomach wounds.
Hifumi Kuwada was charged on Saturday over the attempted murder of Katsumi Jitskata, the president of Daikyo Home, and two workers with a 70cm blade.
Employees Hiroshi Jitsukata, Kiyoshi Sato are currently being treated in hospital for severe stomach lacerations.
Kawada has pleaded guilty to the charges.
He reportedly smuggled the samurai into the Daikyo Home’s offices inside a golf bag before embarking on the bloody rampage. Kawada then fled the scene in his car, but was caught and arrested shortly afterwards by local police.
Japanese police suspect that the attack was motivated by business interests. According to newspaper The Japan Times Hifumi Kuwada runs a construction company and had ordered Daikyo Home to work on an apartment building project.
Police are currently investigating the motives behind the attack.
It seems that sword attacks in Japan have not been that uncommon recently. In a separate incident last month, a 97-year-old man was arrested in the western Japanese province of Kanazawa after he attacked one of his relatives with a sword.
He reportedly used his walker to break in to the 84-year-old relative’s nearby home before slashing her hand with a 60cm sword blade.

[TaichiMantis]

East Londoner, 65, who tried to scare off youths by waving a samurai sword was attacked with his own weapon

A man who tried to scare off intruders by waving a samurai sword was stabbed with his own weapon.

The 65-year-old took the sword from a display in his living room and waved it at three youths who were in the front garden of his flat in east London.

When he looked outside again, the garden was empty but he then found two youths on the landing outside his bedroom.

He shouted at them to leave but an assault followed during which one of the intruders stabbed him with the sword before they ran off taking the weapon with them.

The man suffered multiple stab wounds and was taken to an east London hospital where he remains in a stable condition.

Police are appealing for information about the attack, which took place in Barking Road, East Ham at around 1.30am on Saturday.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "The victim awoke to noises outside his bedroom window and saw three youths in his front garden. He shouted at the youths to scare them off.

"He then took a sword that he had on display in his living room and returned to a window and waved it at the youths.

"Moments later he returned to look out of his bedroom window again and saw no one outside. He walked out of his bedroom to find out that two of the youths were standing on his landing."

He said the sword had not been recovered.

[TaichiMantis]

Wow, UK loving' the katana...

[TaichiMantis]

...Palermo NY.

Palermo man accused of threatening victim with ninja sword

[GeneChing]

Check this one out.

Indian man beheads daughter with sword
By PRAKASH BHANDARI Associated Press June 19, 2012 9:08AM


In this image made off video footage filmed on Monday, June 18, 2012, Indian marble miner Oghad Singh, center, stands with policemen after they placed Singh in custody in Charbhuja, Rajasthan state, India. Police said Singh remains unrepentant after beheading his daughter with a ceremonial sword in a rage over her alleged relationships with men. (AP Photo)

Updated: June 19, 2012 9:08AM


JAIPUR, India — A father in northwestern India remained unrepentant Tuesday after beheading his daughter with a ceremonial sword in a rage over her relationships with men, police said.

The father surrendered at a police station, carrying the head in one hand and the bloodied sword in the other, police said.

Residents of Dungarji village expressed shock as they performed the last rites for the 20-year-old woman.

Police said the father, marble miner Oghad Singh, accused his daughter of bringing dishonor to the family and making it hard to find husbands for her two unmarried sisters.

Women wailing in grief lined the dusty road of the village in Rajasthan state as a procession carried Manju Kanwar’s remains to her funeral pyre. As in many north and west Indian villages, the women, including her mother and four sisters, were not allowed to attend the funeral.

A coroner stitched Kanwar’s head onto her body for the funeral. About 100 men, many of them relatives wearing ceremonial Rajput warrior clan turbans, surrounded her muslin-wrapped body, and her brother lit the funeral pyre.

Villagers condemned the father’s actions as extreme. They said the father, his shirt soaked in blood, had carried his daughter’s head through the village, describing what he’d done to neighbors.

“He told me that he took the sword out, and when the daughter was all alone in the house he beheaded her with a single stroke and the head fell on the ground,” said Narayan Singh, a distant relative.

He said he persuaded Singh to surrender, and took him by motorcycle to a police station 5 kilometers (2 miles) away. Police charged Singh, 46, with murder.

“It was a ghastly sight,” officer Ranjit Singh said, describing the father sitting in the station’s waiting room holding the head in one hand and the sword in the other. “Oghad admitted immediately that he killed his daughter because she had earned a bad name for the family.”

Police described Kanwar’s recent life as difficult and unorthodox for the traditional community of about 1,000 just outside the Rajasthani tourist town of Udaipur.

She left her husband from an arranged marriage two years ago and moved back home to live with her parents. She recently began seeing several men which “disgusted” her father, deputy police superintendent Umesh Ojha said.

“Oghad said he was fed up with the lifestyle of his daughter,” Ojha said.

When Manju eloped with one man two weeks ago, her father forced her to return on Sunday and killed her.

Rapidly modernizing India faces increasing social clashes as youths resist traditions like arranged marriage or limits on women venturing outside their parents’ or husbands’ homes.

[TaichiMantis]

I saw that....almost posted it in the Sikh thread

[Happy Tiger]

brutal justice
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d06411768f

[GeneChing]

Remember the Sword Umbrella?

Samurai sword umbrella triggers university police hunt
5:30 AM Thursday Jul 26, 2012

A man in a long black trenchcoat and carrying what looked like a samurai sword forced a school into lockdown and sent armed police to the University of Waikato in Hamilton yesterday.

Sixteen police were sent to the university to scour the grounds after reports of an armed man about 9.30am.

It took 90 minutes to find him.

He turned out to be a 25-year-old member of the university's sword fighting club, who was in fact carrying an umbrella that looked like a weapon.

"The sword is actually an umbrella that, when a button is pushed, activates," Senior Sergeant Rupert Friend said. "The man was quite shocked at the response his activities had generated and most apologetic. We are currently working to identify the supplier of these devices and others which include an imitation shotgun."

Mr Friend said that although such items were not illegal, people needed to use a "degree of common sense" about where and how to use them.

"The member of the public who rang 111 did exactly the right thing. We would far prefer to deploy to an incident and find there is no threat than ... fail to learn of a genuine incident."

Mr Friend said police worked with the university to send out an alert email to everyone on campus to find the man in the trenchcoat. During the scare, police ordered a local primary school to activate its emergency plan and go into lockdown.

The funny thing to me is that he was a member of the 'university's sword fighting club'.

[Hebrew Hammer]

Originally Posted by GeneChing

Check this one out.

Seriously, how many lives have been taken in the name of honor over the centuries?? Is it really worth cutting your own daughter's head off? Barbaric...he'll probably walk home too with a strong reprimand not to do it to his other daughters.

[GeneChing]

For the record, over the fireplace is a terrible place to hang a sword. Here's info on where to hang swords (note: this article doesn't apply directly to samurai swords as they do have some culturally-specific conventions).

27 September 2012 Last updated at 11:51 ET
John Clark jailed for Robert Bell samurai sword attack

A man has been jailed for five years over a samurai sword attack which severed another man's jugular vein.

John Clark, 22, struck Robert Bell, 38, with the sword during a party in Paisley, Renfrewshire, in July 2011.

The High Court in Edinburgh heard that Mr Bell was wounded four more times and only survived after emergency surgery.

Clark admitted a charge of assault to the danger of life. Co-accused Grant Hainey admitted assault and charges of breaching bail. Sentence was deferred.

Both men had faced charges of attempted murder but had guilty pleas to the lesser charges accepted by the Crown.
Drugs ****tail

Hainey also pleaded guilty to three charges of breaching court bail between December 2010 and July 2011.

At a previous hearing, the High Court in Glasgow heard how Clark had taken a ****tail of methadone and Temazepan, washed down with cider, Buckfast and vodka, before going to the party in Paisley.

After Mr Bell asked one of the guests to leave, Clark picked up the sword which was hanging over a fireplace and repeatedly struck him with it.

Hainey, who was drunk and had fallen asleep on the floor, was said to be unaware of the violence until he felt a blow to his back and realised he had been stabbed.

During the ensuing violence, Hainey punched and kicked Mr Clark who later suffered "uncontrollable and substantial blood loss" after the sword attack.

Judge Lord Mackay deferred sentence on Hainey for reports, saying the court recognised that he played a minor role in the attack on Mr Bell.

The judge told Clark that he had no other option but to send him to jail.