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From kung fu to California cops: Nunchucks make comeback
Associated Press ^ | Oct 27, 2015 5:38 PM EDT | Paul Elias

Posted on 10/27/2015 9:02:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Sgt. Casey Day was skeptical. The chief of his rural Northern California police department wanted him to find out if an ancient martial arts weapon made famous in 1970s Bruce Lee movies could be used to subdue unruly suspects.

But it only took a few days of training with nunchucks to win over Day. The weapon—two solid sticks of plastic attached by a foot-long nylon cord—was recently added to the Anderson Police Department’s arsenal.

The department of 20 sworn officers about 200 miles north of San Francisco joined several other U.S. law enforcement agencies that use nunchucks as “less than lethal” weapons 20 years after their popularity peaked.

Day says the weapons have the impact of traditional night sticks but also allow trained officers to quickly bind wrists or ankles to control a suspect without violence. …

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: banglist; nonlethalweapons; nunchaku; nunchucks; police
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1 posted on 10/27/2015 9:02:28 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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2 posted on 10/27/2015 9:05:40 PM PDT by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: Olog-hai

“Day says the weapons have the impact of traditional night sticks but also allow trained officers to quickly bind wrists or ankles to control a suspect without”

Day is an ignorant moron who doesn’t know the definition of the word “violence”.

L


3 posted on 10/27/2015 9:07:02 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Olog-hai

We used to joke about this in CA.
You have two sticks of wood and a chain, all legal.
You connect the two sticks of wood with the chain...a felony.

I wonder what the charge is if you connect two banana’s to a chain?


4 posted on 10/27/2015 9:07:32 PM PDT by Zathras
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Hmmm I wonder where this is headed? Duhhhhhh....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys22TI78t-k


5 posted on 10/27/2015 9:09:34 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Olog-hai

Nice, eh? Nunchucks for cops a useful tool, nunchucks for me and thee a felony! I wonder do the cops play “Kung Fu Fighting” when they whip em out.


6 posted on 10/27/2015 9:12:16 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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What happens if a police officer pulls up to a crime scene and the perps have guns? Slap the bullets away?


7 posted on 10/27/2015 9:12:17 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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So, let's see: the cops do this, no problem.

I make myself a set, major bust if found on me?

8 posted on 10/27/2015 9:12:36 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Zathras

I wonder what the charge is if you connect two banana’s to a chain?

If the Bloods or Crips are there, inducement and entrapment...filed against the cop


9 posted on 10/27/2015 9:14:07 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Olog-hai

Nunchuck fails.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEZ2lpM0Yw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK985t2WlDg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_bjdr_fqJA


10 posted on 10/27/2015 9:14:56 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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It should be interesting placing drug crazed perps in Chinese finger cuffs.


11 posted on 10/27/2015 9:17:09 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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I wonder what the charge is if you connect two banana’s to a chain?

I don't know, but you can expect a visit from moochelle.

12 posted on 10/27/2015 9:18:43 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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What happens if a police officer pulls up to a crime scene and the perps have guns? Slap the bullets away?

They'll sling their ninja stars at 'em.

13 posted on 10/27/2015 9:21:53 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

That last guy doing two chuks at once was doing great—until he racked himself!
Funny stuff.


14 posted on 10/27/2015 9:22:09 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Those are hilarious!

Make those kind of mistakes with a long sword or katana, though, and you’re going to the hospital. Or the morgue.

/Toyama Ryu student


15 posted on 10/27/2015 9:27:43 PM PDT by piytar (Good will be called evil and Evil will be called good.)
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To: Olog-hai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhUkGIsKvn0

Everybody wassssss,,,,,,,


16 posted on 10/27/2015 9:31:01 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: Olog-hai

Back in 1970, after being in SE Asia, I told a co-worker about a simple self protection device a person could carry. It was two sections of large dowel or closet pole tied together with a length of twine or small chain, based on the rice flail. The orientals called it “nunchaku”. I then described the function, and he just laughed at such a silly idea.

A few years later police departments were issuing warnings and going crazy about numchucks in the “wrong” hands.


17 posted on 10/27/2015 9:37:28 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Texas Eagle
> What happens if a police officer pulls up to a crime scene and the perps have guns? Slap the bullets away? They'll sling their ninja stars at 'em.

or better yet go into slow-mo bullet time and use ninja moves to do limbo moves to evade the bullets. All libtards who've seen The Matrix know this is possible.../s

18 posted on 10/27/2015 9:41:55 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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> It should be interesting placing drug crazed perps in Chinese finger cuffs.

i'd pay to watch that...: )

19 posted on 10/27/2015 9:43:13 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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So, see?, nothing to worry about.


20 posted on 10/27/2015 9:44:34 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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