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Mysterious Samurai Saves Police in UK
TV3 News NZ ^ | 16 February 2007

Posted on 01/17/2007 1:22:47 AM PST by burzum

A samurai sword wielding vigilante has come to the rescue of two Police officers when they were attacked by an armed gang in South Shields, England.

A group of men had forced their way into a house and were ransacking the place when passing plain-clothes officers were alerted by a woman inside screaming.

The criminals outnumbered them and were armed with a hammer, knives and chains and attacked the Police officers.

As one of them stabbed at a Policeman with his knife, a mysterious do-gooder appeared from nowhere and attacked him with a samurai sword.

One of the burglars began running away but was stopped by the stranger who struck him on the arm with the sword.

Two of the criminals were arrested, but in true hero style the samurai disappeared before police could speak to him.

A third man was arrested later and two more are still being hunted.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: akti; blade; blades; knife; knives; samurai; superhero; swordsman
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Samurai or not, if he didn't have a cape then he isn't a superhero. That's the rules.
1 posted on 01/17/2007 1:22:49 AM PST by burzum
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To: burzum

He should be glad he didn't stick around. It's the UK. He would have been arrested for being a 'vigilante' and defending others with a weapon.


2 posted on 01/17/2007 1:25:25 AM PST by Skywalk (Transdimensional Jihad!)
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To: burzum

So what about Spiderman then?


3 posted on 01/17/2007 1:25:52 AM PST by Dave Elias
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To: Skywalk

Your right.

I think it's pretty much against the law to have anything larger and sharper than a butter knife.

They actually and knife turn in. *Chuckles*


4 posted on 01/17/2007 1:27:33 AM PST by FLOutdoorsman (The Man who says it can't be done should not interrupt the man doing it!)
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To: Skywalk

Exactly, and they would throw the book at him. I am amazed the perps were not literally cut to pieces.


5 posted on 01/17/2007 1:27:50 AM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: FLOutdoorsman

'They actually and knife turn in' er 'had'


6 posted on 01/17/2007 1:28:47 AM PST by FLOutdoorsman (The Man who says it can't be done should not interrupt the man doing it!)
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To: Dave Elias
Spiderman a "Superhero".

A somewhat misguided person in funny red tights, but a Superhero, come on.

7 posted on 01/17/2007 1:29:14 AM PST by highpockets
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One of the burglars began running away but was stopped by the stranger who struck him on the arm with the sword.

Sure it wasn't Zorro? Check this criminal and see if where he was struck on the arm resembles the letter "Z".

8 posted on 01/17/2007 1:29:15 AM PST by Zack Attack
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To: Dave Elias

Spiderman is gay.


9 posted on 01/17/2007 1:30:24 AM PST by MARTIAL MONK
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To: Dave Elias

After he turned down the name "The Human Spider" it was downhill for him. He must be a crook. Why else would the police always want to arrest him. They don't try to arrest Batman or Superman do they?


10 posted on 01/17/2007 1:31:24 AM PST by burzum (Despair not! I shall inspire you by charging blindly on!--Minsc, BG2)
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Superman on the otherhand had a cape but was no Superhero in my book. How can someone with such Omnipotent powers be so parochial and display such a lack of scope.

A self proclaimed protector of the weak who stop muggers in Metropolis but sits idly by while tyrannical dictators kill thousands in the third world and famine wreaks havoc.


11 posted on 01/17/2007 1:31:36 AM PST by Dave Elias
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most superheros dissed the cape in the early 1990s due to it getting caught during various do-gooding.

i think this was an incident involving the return of "weedhopper."


12 posted on 01/17/2007 1:31:51 AM PST by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: burzum
It was probably this guy......


13 posted on 01/17/2007 1:32:14 AM PST by edpc (The pen is mightier than the sword......until you fight someone.)
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To: Dave Elias

LOL to both burzum and Dave Elias.


14 posted on 01/17/2007 1:32:59 AM PST by highpockets
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To: burzum

Sounds like the police need to start bringing guns to those knife fights so they won't need a good samaritan to come to the rescue with what is probably an "illegal" weapon.


15 posted on 01/17/2007 1:33:01 AM PST by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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Samurai or not, if he didn't have a cape then he isn't a superhero. That's the rules.

You obviously haven't seen "The incredibles." NO CAPES!

16 posted on 01/17/2007 1:34:42 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: MARTIAL MONK

How come Spiderman got to cherry-pick the best attributes of an arachnid whilst bypassing the propensity to get stuck in baths and curl up into a pathetic ball when frightened?


17 posted on 01/17/2007 1:35:01 AM PST by Dave Elias
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To: Dave Elias
C'mon! Superman kicked Hitler's butt. What more do you want?


18 posted on 01/17/2007 1:35:13 AM PST by burzum (Despair not! I shall inspire you by charging blindly on!--Minsc, BG2)
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To: piasa

I don't understand why they don't just pass a law banning criminals.


19 posted on 01/17/2007 1:39:01 AM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: burzum

In the end, there can be only one!


20 posted on 01/17/2007 1:39:39 AM PST by Alexander Rubin (Octavius - You make my heart glad building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
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