Nasia Jansen
I can’t believe Nasia Jansen has escaped our attention here for so long. :o
I’d love to check out those Police-issue chucks.
More on Peace Officers and chucks.
Calling Bruce Lee: Will more police acquire nunchucks? (with related video)
Jan 15, 2016 Michael Keating | Government Product News
The Anderson, Calif., police acquired the Orcutt Police Nunchaku (OPN) from Denver-based Orcutt Police Defensive Systems, Inc. (OPDS). The photo shows examples of the OPN product.
A Northern California town has decided to equip its 20 officers with nunchaku sticks, a martial arts weapon. Police in Anderson, in California’s Shasta County, believe that the device, sometimes referred to as nunchucks or nunchucku, will help officers take down suspects. With the product, trained officers can quickly hobble wrists and/or ankles; the device can help control a suspect without brute force.
The Chinese Kung Fu weapon features double sectional sticks often connected by a nylon cord. It was made famous in Bruce Lee movies from the 1970s.
Manny DeCastro, president of Buki Yuushuu LLC, tells GPN that in the hands of a talented practitioner, the Nunchaku is an extremely useful weapon. “The weapon can simply be used to block and lock an assailant, striking, all the way to the actual use of deadly force.” He adds: “Yes, the Nunchaku can do it all.” DeCastro’s firm, based in Stonington, Conn., custom-manufactures the product in different lengths, weights and sizes.
Police have an abundance of weapons, says DeCastro. “The police utility or duty belt is already filled with weapons they don’t know how to use. Why add another one?” He notes that police already carry guns, Tasers, PR-24 (batons), pepper sprays, slap-jacks and similar devices.
DeCastro says it’s not about giving police nunchucks so they can carry more weapons. “It’s about police having the ability and training to use them. Our police departments, in my opinion, need more training in use of force and the proper weapon for this use. We need to help these people to do the difficult job that they do.”
DeCastro says that police need to define the outcome they want when the weapon is used. He says that the length, weight and size of the nunchuck will produce different outcomes in the hands of an officer.
The manufacturing executive says training is crucial, and should be included in the purchsse of a nunchuck. “As with any other weapon, training is always required. With the Nunchaku it is absolutely required as the weapon is so fast, in the hands of the untrained, they could easily get hurt themselves.”
In the video, an Anderson, Calif. officer tells how nunchucks are used to subdue unruly suspects.
A two-fer
LEGALIZE IT!
Updated Jan 20, 2016 - 11:39 am
Arizona House committee holds bill to legalize nunchucks
SHARE STORY BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | January 20, 2016 @ 8:18 am
PHOENIX — An Arizona House committee has held a bill that would legalize nunchucks.
Republican Rep. Mark Finchem of Oro Valley sponsored House Bill 2042 to legalize the weapon popularized by martial arts films.
The House Judiciary Committee met Wednesday.
Former Sen. Kelli Ward (R-Lake Havasu City) attempted to legalize nunchucks last session. Her amendment to a relatively minor bill that didn’t pass included the legalization of silencers and sawed-off shotguns.
Finchem’s measure defined “nunchakus” as an instrument that consists of two or more sticks, clubs, bars, or rods connected by ropes, cords, wires, or chains to create a self-defense weapon.
And then there’s this…:eek:
SC woman accused of beating husband with nunchucks because he wouldn’t have sex with her
POSTED 9:03 PM, JANUARY 24, 2016, BY WEB STAFF
Sondra Earle-Kelly, 51, of Rock Hill
ROCK HILL, S.C. — A South Carolina woman is accused of beating her husband with nunchucks because he refused to have sex with her.
The Charlotte Observer reported that Sondra Earle-Kelly, 51, of Rock Hill, faces charges of aggravated domestic violence in connection to the incident.
Police were called to the suspect’s home in Rock Hill on Sunday night and found blood “all over the victim when they got there.
The victim reportedly refused to have sex with the suspect, causing her to become upset. The suspect then allegedly threw ceramic figurines at the victim and hit him with nunchucks.
The suspect was jailed under a $15,000 bond. She had reportedly been taking Xanax that night.
Domestic assault using nunchucks.
Jail term upheld for man convicted of assaulting woman with martial arts weapons
John Edgar Phillips used nunchucks against son’s mother as boy witnessed crime
Paula Dobbyn/KTUU
POSTED: 03:11 PM AKST Feb 26, 2016 UPDATED: 03:17 PM AKST Feb 26, 2016
Courtroom generic shot.
The Alaska Court of Appeals has upheld the maximum five-year prison sentence for a man convicted of attacking a woman with nunchucks.
John Edgar Phillip, 54, had appealed the sentence, claiming the superior court failed to make the necessary “worst offender” finding to impose the highest sentence possible for his conviction of third-degree assault.
The case stemmed from Phillip’s August 2013 domestic violence assault involving nunchucks, a martial arts weapon consisting of two sticks connected at one end by a short chain or rope.
According to court documents, Phillip and the woman’s 8-year-old son witnessed the assault. It was Phillip’s fifth felony conviction.
The woman also was the victim in a 1998 misdemeanor fourth-degree assault by Phillip, court records show.
The victims in all of Phillip’s other assault cases – felony and misdemeanor – have been women, the appeals court judges noted in their decision on Wednesday.
Phillip has 17 other misdemeanor convictions, three of them for driving under the influence.
Superior Court Judge Vanessa White found that Phillip has a long history of assaults and other dangerous behaviors while drinking alcohol. White found Phillip’s continued alcohol dependence, plus his earlier diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder, presented “a tremendous danger to those around him,” court papers said.
The appeals court sided with White, noting Phillip’s record and the superior court judge’s remarks at sentencing.
ugh…some people…:mad:
Anna Ranoso
First Nasia and now Anna. Is this now a thing? Because I would totally support that. We may need a nunchuk hotties thread.
More Anna
If we can find a 3rd hottie, I’ll totally copy this off into a nunchuk hotties thread.
Found!
[QUOTE=GeneChing;1291588]If we can find a 3rd hottie, I’ll totally copy this off into a nunchuk hotties thread.[/QUOTE]
Not that I was looking…the new one Jennifer Li just popped up on my facebook - see Nunchuck Hotties
Bo Dallas
click for vid.
[URL=“http://www.tmz.com/2016/09/12/bo-dallas-public-intoxication-arrest-video/”]WWE’S BO DALLAS
VIDEO OF DRUNKEN AIRPORT ARREST
… Are Those Nunchucks?
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24 9/12/2016 12:45 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF
EXCLUSIVE
THE DRUNKEN ARRESTTMZSports.com
TMZ Sports has obtained footage of WWE superstar Bo Dallas being arrested at an airport in Texas … moments after he was booted from his flight to Mexico for drunkenly yelling at the flight crew.
In the video, taken on August 26th, you see Bo can barely stand up straight and is slurring his words when approached by security at Dallas Fort Worth airport.
According to the police report, first obtained by ProWrestlingSheet.com, Bo told the cops he had been drinking earlier in the day – and when asked how much he replied, “I’m not really planning on driving tonight.”
Bo was arrested for public intoxication – but cops noted he was extremely cooperative.
Bo told cops he was a wrestler for WWE – and officers noted he’s a “strong boy.”
Make sure to check out the end of the clip when the cops search his backpack and find an item they believe to be nunchucks … but it’s really a jump rope.
No word if Bo ever got to Mexico.
Unnnamed 34-year-old Windsor man
It amuses me that ‘homemade nunchucks’ precedes ‘prohibited ammo’ in this headline.
Oct 05, 2016
Windsor man arrested with homemade nunchucks and prohibited ammo
Ammo and homemade weapons seized
File photo
St. Thomas-Elgin Weekly News
A 34-year-old Windsor man has been arrested by St. Thomas police after bullets, as well as several homemade weapons, were found in his car.
Officers had received a call from a concerned resident, notifying them of a suspicious-looking person sitting in a car for an extended amount of time on their street.
After police arrived, the man got out of the car and began speaking to officers, while appearing very nervous.
A check of the vehicle found the plates were not only unattached, but the stickers weren’t meant for the car either, according to a return from the Ministry of Transport.
In addition, the man had also gave a name that didn’t match any of the information provided.
The driver was placed under arrest for obstructing police, and both he and his vehicle were searched at which time police found close to 90 .38 caliber bullets, five of which were in his pocket, along with two homemade nunchucks, a knife, a saw blade, and a large magnet with sharp fragments attached to it.
As a result, the man is facing multiple charges including possession of prohibited ammunition, and breach of probation. He was held in custody pending a bail hearing.
Slightly OT
Being acquitted makes this a good day after a prior bad day.
Nunchaku-enthusiast rights victory as 48-year-old chiropractor acquitted of possession charges
Master Blaster 4 days ago
Now everyone in Japan is free to exercise their inalienable right to hit themselves in the head – openly and without fear of prosecution.
On 8 March, Judge Kazuo Oizumi of the Hiroshima High Court reversed the weapon concealment conviction of a 48-year-old chiropractor. The previous conviction was handed down after a police officer discovered three pairs of nunchaku in the man’s car while questioning him in the parking lot of a convenience store.
The details of what happened in the parking lot were unclear, but I assume it went something like this:
The man had originally been fined 9,900 yen (US$86.50), but Judge Oizumi rescinded the punishment ruling that, “In modern times, nunchaku are used for legitimate purposes like as a hobby or martial art training exercise” and that “It was reasonable to assume someone would have a collection of them [in a car] to train with after work.”
A fair judgment seeing as nunchaku have to be one of the least effective weapons in existence. This is evidenced by the fact that Michelangelo is consistently the worst character in any Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles video game. Moreover if I were about to go into battle and given a choice of nunchaku or a spoon, I would choose the spoon without missing a beat – I could at least try to poke at my enemy’s eyes with a spoon.
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Of course, we all know this is not the real Bruce. :rolleyes:
The fact that this man had three pairs only works in his favor as nunchaku are one of the few weapons in existence that are less effective the more you have of them. They’d just get tangled up. Don’t get me wrong. In the right hands, nunchaku are quite possibly the coolest thing on Earth. For example, here is the master himself, Bruce Lee at work.
But who among us can reach that level of skill? You would be better off channeling the energy and discipline needed to do that into becoming a doctor or super-fast finger snapper.
Here’s what readers of the news had to say:
“HYYYYyyyyaaaahhhhh!”
“Bruce Lee himself said that nunchaku have almost no offensive power and are only good for performance.”
“I would be more afraid of a guy wielding Joy-Con.”
“I guess some cop was trying to meet a quota.”
“The policeman who made the arrest was probably more of a Jackie Chan guy.”
“It was probably a good arrest. Anyone hanging out in a parking lot with nunchucks is up to no good.”
So it would appear that most are in agreement that nunchaku are hardly weapons and should be allowed to be carried freely in Japan.
But don’t go dusting of that RPG launcher in your closet for a quick run to the 7-Eleven just yet. Remember what one man and his car-load of ninja stars taught us: not all weaponry is judged the same, so proceed with caution and a little common sense.
Source: Asahi Shimbun via Hachima Kiko
Top image: Wikipedia
Brass Knucks? I’ve never heard that abbreviation. I like it.
That’s a really crappy nunchaku. Get your good nunchaku here unless you’re in the states of California (like Mr. Jeffery Westley here), Massachusetts, and New York or Canada.
Andrew Goff / Thursday, March 16 @ 8:50 p.m. / Crime
Fortuna Police Discover Firearms, Nunchaku, Brass Knucks, Meth During Traffic Stop; Driver Arrested
FPD
Fortuna Police Department press release:
On March 16th, 2017 at 2:30 pm, Fortuna Police Department officer performed a traffic stop on a vehicle on 12th Street near Dinsmore Drive for a traffic violation. While officers were speaking with the driver, they observed what appeared to be the stock of a firearm sticking out from the back seat area. The firearm was partially concealed by other items in the rear seat.
During a search of the vehicle, officers located a loaded, 12 gauge pump shotgun which had been modified to have a short barrel and pistol grip stock, one pair of metal knuckles, also referred to as “Brass Knuckles”, a pair of homemade nunchaku, and 13.9 grams of methamphetamine.
The driver, 28 year old Jeffery Westley of Hemet, California, was arrested and booked into Humboldt County Correctional Facility on the following charges;
33215 PC- Poss. Short barreled shotgun
25850(a) PC- Poss. Loaded firearm within a vehicle
22010 PC- Poss. Nunchaku
21810 PC- Poss. Metal knuckles
11377(a) H&S- Poss. Controlled substance.
nunchucks & scissors
Harsh story. Being a caretaker is tough work.
Youngstown report: Man said he attacked woman with nunchucks and scissors
Ronald Washington, 60, told police, “I’m ready, take me in, I did it,” according to a police report
By WKBN Staff
Published: May 2, 2017, 6:34 am Updated: May 2, 2017, 8:39 am
YOUNGSTOWN: Arrested May 1 - Ronald Washington, 60, charged with felonious assault
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – A man told police that he attacked his home health care aide because she had a boyfriend, according to a police report.
Police were called about 11:40 a.m. Monday to a home in the 1200 block of Salt Springs Road on reports of a stabbing.
When police arrived, they found a woman sitting in a car crying. They also saw a man in the doorway of the house, later identified as Ronald Washington, 60, who said to them, “I’m ready, take me, I did it.”
When police questioned Washington, he told them that he had been having a relationship with the victim and that when she told him she had a boyfriend, he attacked her with scissors and nunchucks, according to a police report. Police found scissors and nunchucks on the floor by the bed.
The woman told police that Washington asked her if she had a boyfriend and when she said yes, he became irate and began insulting her. He then took a pair of scissors from his nightstand and began making slashing and stabbing motions, hitting her in the head, the report stated. The woman grabbed the scissors and suffered a cut to her hand.
The man said he was partially paralyzed and police had to take him out of the house in a wheelchair.
Washington was charged with felonious assault.
a felony
Jayson Danning
By Hans Peter, hpeter@record-bee.com LAKEPORT >> Browsing the Lake County arrest records, one becomes apparent of a variety of charges, none of which
POSTED: 01/17/17, 11:30 PM PST | UPDATED: ON 01/17/2017
Actor Bruce Lee with ‘nunchucks.’ Archival photo
Use of a controlled substance — misdemeanor. Petty theft — misdemeanor. Concealed firearm — misdemeanor. Possession of Nunchaku — felony.
Do not adjust your newspaper, that is not a typo; nunchaku can put you in prison, if they don’t put you in the hospital first.
Around 10 a.m. Monday morning, Lakeport Police arrested resident Jayson Danning for probation violation. After a quick search, Lakeport Police Officer Joe Medici found a pair of nunchaku in Danning’s possession. The find effectively boosted Danning’s bail from $5,000 to $15,000.
Just a few hours later, Taliaalene Correia was arrested in Nice due in part to the possession of a concealed firearm and metal knuckles. The combined bail for these violations amounted to $10,000.
“It’s a joke,” said seventh-degree black-belt Fred Langston, who said the possession of nunchaku is far from dangerous behavior. “This is a pretty ridiculous law.”
For those who’ve never seen Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or a classic kung fu movie, nunchaku, often called “nunchucks” refers to a couple of wooden rods tied to one another by a small length of leather, chain, etc. The wielder of such a weapon can swing one rod around by the handle of the other, creating an effective striking weapon. Granted, only skilled martial artists should ever pick up a pair, and only inside an official martial arts studio, which marks the only legal place to wield them.
“If you’ve ever tried to pick up nunchucks, you’ll beat the crap out of yourself before anyone else,” Langston said. As owner of the Lake County Martial Arts studio, he’s tried to teach students how to use the tools. “When my students come in to learn how to use them, I give them a pair of rubber and Styrofoam nunchucks because they’re going to hit themselves.”
Langston said nunchucks were all the rage in the late 1960s and ‘70s, when martial arts became popular in America. As they became a trendy item, he said the public overreacted; California and several other states instated strict laws against the simple possession of nunchaku: two sticks attached by a string.
Granted, the weapon has an intimidation factor. Movie star Bruce Lee popularized the weapons through this movies; fans will remember the way he expertly moved the weapon about his body with intense speed and agility, all to the soundtrack of Lee’s hooting and overdubbed nunchuck sounds.
Despite this flamboyant display of kung fu mastery, Langston said the weapon simply isn’t very effective, even though he can expertly wield them. He said some completely legal weapons pack a much bigger punch, and can actually be controlled by rookies.
“I’d much rather use a short staff or bow staff,” Langston said. He also said many weapons like metal knuckles should be considered far more dangerous than nunchucks. “All you have to do is put them on and you can use them.”
Langston said he was pulled over near San Diego during a professional trip in which he carried a collection of martial arts weapons in his truck. He said officers searched his vehicle, ignoring swords, staves, and nearly every item in his armory — every item except his nunchucks.
After nearly an hour of convincing the officers of his role as a martial arts teacher, the police allowed him to travel on without arresting him.
Langston said the Nunchuck law is overkill, but he figures nobody will fight it, as legalizing the weapon simply isn’t worth the trouble.
“I don’t think anybody with bother with it,” he said.
A staff is harder to pack than nunchuks, but I agree with Langston.
10 years for Thatcher D. Jones
Reading man gets state prison for assaulting victim with martial-arts weapon
Tuesday August 8, 2017 12:01 AM
By Stephanie Weaver
READING, PA
A Reading man was sentenced to two to 10 years in state prison for breaking into a Muhlenberg Township apartment in February 2016 and assaulting a man with a martial-arts weapons.
Defendant Thatcher D. Jones, 37, of the 700 block of North 10th Street was stabbed twice by the victim in self-defense and had to undergo surgery.
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Jones pleaded guilty on Aug. 1 before Judge Patrick T. Barrett to burglary and aggravated assault.
“Obviously what I did was wrong,” Jones said. “I was never in trouble before and I don’t plan to do it again. Lesson learned.”
Jones told Barrett that drugs were the real issue and said he took several medications that “didn’t mix well.”
“I blacked out a lot and would find myself in places that I didn’t know where I was,” he said.
Jones said that he was clean when he was arrested in January and has been completing drug treatment programs while in prison. He will receive credit for 179 days served.
According to authorities:
Jones broke into an apartment in the Oak Forest complex in the 2200 block of Hampden Boulevard about 2 a.m. on Feb. 15, 2016.
The renter of the apartment, Zhexi Li, told police that he heard someone in his apartment, so he hid in a closet and contacted his friend Yifu Chen.
Chen went to Li’s apartment, where he discovered an open sliding door.
He entered the apartment and called out to his friend, but instead was confronted by Jones. The men began to fight and Jones struck Chen in the head and face several times with a metallic nunchuck.
Chen was bleeding severely from the attack, but was able to grab a knife he had and stab Jones twice. Jones then ran from the apartment.
Chen was taken to Reading Hospital for treatment.
As police were investigating the break-in, they received a report of a stabbing victim, Jones, at a gas station in the 800 block of North 13th Street.
Jones told officers that he had been jumped elsewhere in the city by an unknown assailant. He was taken to Reading Hospital, where he underwent surgery.
Police sent a blood sample from the knife for DNA testing and it came back as a match for Jones.
Police determined that Jones’ story was false and that after being stabbed he went to another apartment in the same complex where a woman he knew lived.
She helped him get cleaned up before he left and contacted police.
Assistant District Attorney Jason C. Glessner said that the two victims in the case were college students who no longer live in the area.
Contact Stephanie Weaver: 610-371-5042 or sweaver@readingeagle.com.
STEPHANIE WEAVER | REPORTER
Stephanie Weaver covers the courts for the Reading Eagle.
Phone: 610-371-5042
Email: sweaver@readingeagle.com
When they say ‘martial arts weapon’, it’s always nunchuks or shuriken.
the alleged murder weapon, a nunchaku
Horrible. Poor Ms. Melson. Imagine what was going through that witness’s mind.
Guilty verdict in Vanessa Melson case
Pennylynn Webb Aug 25, 2017
A jury found Robert David Mobley Jr., 41, of Elkhart guilty on Friday for first-degree felony aggravated kidnapping in connection with the 2015 death of Vanessa Melson.
The trial began Monday and entered the punishment phase late Friday afternoon. The state and defense rested after lunch on Friday. Just 30 minutes after retiring to the jury room, jurors returned with a guilty verdict.
“I am just extremely happy that the victim’s family is beginning to get some closure in this case,” said Houston County District Attorney Donna Gordon Kaspar, who said she would make a formal statement about the trial early next week.
Punishment has been set for 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 28.
The case was tried in the court of the honorable Judge Pam Fletcher in the 349th Judicial District Court in Houston County.
For the state, Kaspar presented witness testimony, audio recordings and photographic evidence.
The photographic evidence included that of a small hand print found on a wall in the Henderson house and of a burn pile, a short distance from the house, where investigators found remnants of the jewelry, a buckle, a cellphone and a glass meth pipe that they believed were on Melson’s person before she was killed.
Investigators believe that nunchaku were used in the murder of Melson.
During the trial, Brenna Theuer, who was living with James Henderson, on the property where Melson’s body was found in a shallow grave, testified of the events that unfolded before Melson’s murder.
Theuer told the courtroom the night that Mobley and Melson came to her home, she got into a heated argument with Mobley, asking him to leave her home and then retreated to a bedroom, where she heard noises, including screaming, and Mobley beating the wall with a nunchaku and later him hitting what sounded like a body with it.
Theuer reported that she tried to call 911, but Henderson took the phone from her.
She said, at one point, she left the bedroom to see Mobley holding the nunchaku and Melson on the floor.
She stated that she later heard what sounded like more of a beating and what sounded like a sexual assault, of Mobley having sex with Melson.
Theuer reported that at some point the screaming stopped.
She reported seeing two area rugs from the home in the back of Mobley’s Chevy pickup, with hair coming out of one of them.
She reported that she saw Henderson holding a dirty shovel and that he returned around 9 a.m.
Mobley’s trial testimony did not match up to what his previous video-recorded interviews with Houston County law enforcement.
Mobley testified that Vannessa Melson was on drugs the night he picked her up from his father’s home, and that he left her at the home of James Henderson and Brenna Theuer and went to his mother’s house, returning the next day and finding Melson gone.
Mobley said it wasn’t until he was working for MKS Services LLC in North Carolina that he found out that Melson was missing.
Mobley testified that he had never seen the alleged murder weapon, a nunchaku.
What is it about KFC and this forum?
It’s gotta be bawang. He’s got us all bawanged up when it comes to KFC.
Dramatic moment KFC customers perform a citizen’s arrest - on the driver of a car loaded with weapons including a gun, knife and nunchucks
A man has crashed his car loaded with weapons outside a KFC in Ipswich, QLD
The 42-year-old was allegedly in possession of guns, knives and a nunchuck
Onlookers stepped in and took his car keys away, to prevent the man offending
By Josh Hanrahan For Daily Mail Australia
PUBLISHED: 19:29 EDT, 3 September 2017 | UPDATED: 04:07 EDT, 4 September 2017
A brave bystander has stopped a man who drove a car loaded with weapons through a construction site at a KFC restaurant in Queensland.
The 42-year-old crashed his vehicle into a temporary fence near the store in Ipswich, east of Brisbane, before onlookers allegedly noticed a number of weapons inside.
Worried about the danger the guns, knives and nunchucks allegedly possessed by the man posed, Steve Kenefick stepped in and took the man’s car keys from him.
A brave bystander has stopped a man (pictured) who drove a car loaded with weapons through a construction site at a KFC restaurant in Queensland
After taking the keys from the man, he urged him to wait for police inside the KFC.
‘Mate, you are not getting the keys,’ Mr Kenefick told the man.
‘I said: “Come in. Go for a feed in here”.’
The 42-year-old crashed his vehicle - which allegedly had guns, knives and nunchucks inside - into a temporary fence near the store in Ipswich, east of Brisbane. He faces court in September
When police arrived soon after they arrested the 42-year-old and charged him with possessing a Category M weapon
He was also charged with possessing a knife in a public place and driving with a suspended licence.
The man is due to front Ipswich Court on 29th September.
Henry Witherspoon (Kevin Hart’s dad)
EXCLUSIVE
Dirtbag Dad! Kevin Hart’s Father Busted For Stabbing Man In Head Over $6 Dispute
Henry Witherspoon has a rap sheet of three decades of felonies, violence and prison.
By Radar Staff
Posted on Dec 13, 2017 @ 7:40AM
Kevin Hart has a reputation as one of comedy’s bad boys — but he’s an angel compared to his wild-man dad, who’s had multiple drug busts, was found guilty of sexual assault — and was even accused of stabbing a man in the head after stealing $6 from him, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively!
Court records obtained by Radar reveal Witherspoon and two accomplices cowardly robbed a lone 16-year-old at gunpoint in 1969, ten years before 38-year-old Kevin was born.
A year later, Witherspoon was arrested for running a craps game — but he was just getting started.
The year Kevin was born, 1979, he was found guilty of rape and simple assault!
In 1987, cops actually saw him viciously attack a guy with martial arts nunchaku sticks after he’d already robbed him of $270. His victim got ten stitches — and Witherspoon got three years of probation after pleading guilty to aggravated assault.
So it was probably a good thing that Witherspoon, a cocaine addict, was almost never home after Kevin turned eight. He worked as a refrigeration mechanic and lived in a Philadelphia room with his girlfriend, leaving his wife, Nancy Hart, to raise the future comedy superstar and his older brother, Robert, on her own. Tragically, Nancy died of cancer in 2007.
Without his family, Wither*spoon continued to spiral out of control. He was locked up in 1988 for DUI after his car was involved in an accident.
In 1999, Witherspoon had a horrible year. He was charged with stabbing a man in the head, according to court documents obtained exclusively by Radar.
The charges were later dismissed, but that same year Witherspoon was arrested twice within a few months for buying crack cocaine. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two to four months in prison and two years probation.
But Witherspoon was also ordered to complete drug and alcohol treatment — and that finally turned his life around.
Court records uncovered by Radar quote his lawyer as telling the judge, “He’s basically someone who has said, ‘I’m too old to live this life anymore, I need to change this.’”
It’s a story nobody dreamed would have a happy ending, but Kevin has actually reconciled with his wayward dad!
“The way I see it, things happen for a reason,” Kevin said. “If my dad had been around and didn’t do drugs, I may be handling my success differently. I may be on drugs!”
Still, the comic superstar may have inherited some of his dad’s crazy ways: He was arrested on DUI charges in 2013 — and just last September he became embroiled in an extortion plot involving a steamy sex video with a Las Vegas model. The FBI is investigating the case!
Kevin publicly apologized to his wife, Eniko Parrish — who was pregnant at the time — and his children Heaven, 12, and Hendrix, 10, who he had with ex-wife Torrei Hart. It was “a bad error in judgment,” Kevin confessed.
Good ol’ nunchuks.
The ol’ homemade broom handle chuks
Nunchaku no toy, Bundy dad finds out
8th Jan 2018 2:52 PM
The Bundy dad was fined $200.
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by Carolyn Booth
PARENTS thinking of making your kids home-made weapons take note.
Nunchaku are illegal in Queensland and even a rustic set made from cut lengths of a broom handle and chain could land you in court.
It was a lesson Dallas Kenneth James Wallace learnt the hard way after Bundaberg police found the nunchaku during a search of his home on December 6 last year.
Wallace said he made it for his kids to "muck around with” and didn’t know they were illegal.
He was fined $200 in the Bundaberg Magistrates Court today.
$200 will buy you a lot of nunchuks
Here’s a change for this thread.
Not a nunchuck. A flying kick.
Richmond librarian allegedly assaulted with ‘flying Bruce Lee kick’ at homeless housing meeting
Graeme Wood / Richmond News
By V.I.A. - March 1, 2018
A librarian was assaulted at a public open house for temporary, modular housing for homeless in Richmond Wednesday evening. Daisy Xiong photo
According to multiple eyewitness accounts, a librarian was assaulted at a public open house for temporary, modular housing in Richmond Wednesday evening.
On Thursday morning, police confirmed an investigation has opened into an alleged assault in the 7000 block of Minoru Gate.
Stan Lomas, a longtime Richmond resident, said he had arrived at the Richmond Public Library Brighouse Branch to use an animation program.
He was seated nearby a large crowd of people conversing in Cantonese and as such didn’t know what was going on initially.
“You could feel the energy,” he said.
He said he then heard a commotion and “someone had gone over and up turned the table.
“This place was packed. Then there was lots of yelling,” he said.
Between this time, Lomas said he figures the older librarian had approached the crowd to separate homeless advocates and the crowd. He said he suspects the suspect was against the project that would see 40 units built at 7300 Elmbridge Way.
As Lomas was about to return to his animations, the suspect ran at the librarian and did a “flying Bruce Lee kick” into her stomach.
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“I was surprised she wasn’t as injured as she looked because she was able to get up. I know that would have knocked me out,” said Lomas, 67.
He said the suspect, described as an Asian man in his mid-20s, wearing a backpack, fled the scene.
Resident Kehui Au said she also witnessed the kick.
“The guy went to the librarian and kicked her. It looked like she was in a lot of pain,” said Au.
Richmond RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Dennis Hwang said “it was alleged a female had been assaulted by a male.
“It is believed the alleged offender had kicked a female and proceeded to flee. If anyone has information on this event — I was informed there may have been a number of witnesses present at this function — to call Richmond RCMP at 604-278-1212 and quote case 2018-6424.”
A library worker denied to comment on the incident.
Announced earlier this month, the project is an effort to combat the growth of homelessness in Richmond which has increased by 84 per cent since 2014, according to the Metro Vancouver homeless count. The homes will be operated by RainCity Housing, a non-profit housing organization and will offer support services for residents around-the-clock.
“The tenants will be selected in partnership with BC Housing and RainCity. Richmond residents will be given first priority,” said the City of Richmond’s affordable housing coordinator Joyce Rautenberg.
Currently, the province is contributing $5.9 million to construct the units while the city is contributing land at 7300 Elmbridge Way for the homes for up to five years.
“Looking at the city’s inventory we looked at a few options,” Rautenberg said about the property. “This site was determined to be the most suitable due to the close proximity to transit, Canada Line, buses and proximity to services and resources in the neighbourhood.”
Following the five-year lease, BC Housing would return the site back to the city in its original condition, Rautenberg said. At that time, BC Housing and RainCity Housing would work to ensure the tenants are moved into appropriate housing.