Posted on 09/15/2009 7:09:14 AM PDT by hellbender
A Johns Hopkins University student armed with a samurai sword killed a man who broke into the garage of his off-campus residence early Tuesday, a Baltimore police spokesman said.
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AFAIK the shorter one was used in closer quarters, including indoors. Seppuku involved a dagger, for the doer, and the long sword for his assistant, for the decapitation.
Or, if at all possible, use the best!
Yummy!
Actually, Maryland has rather loose laws concerning protection of property and self-defense. If the samuri worded his police statement carefully enough, the cops might not do more than a cursory investigation. A guy in an apartment complex down the road from where we lived saw two guys stealing parts from his car, went down to confront them, and shot one of them after they refused to stop stealing his stuff. Nothing happened.
One day, the rear window of my car was smashed out (vandalism, not theft), and the B.C. Co. cop said he would write it up as malicious destruction, but said the sun could have done it! I asked the glass repair tech if that was possible, and he laughed, saying "that's a cop for you," and told how a bullet went in one side of his car and out the other as he was driving it (hardly an unlikely event in Bloodymore), and the cops accused him of trying to commit insurance fraud.
Baltimore is not surpassed for violence and corruption, not even by Chicago.
Maybe, buyt it certainly made him edgy.........
I just found out I know the samurai’s girlfriend’s uncle pretty well. Three degrees of separation. :)
Sweet!
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
I have an aunt and uncle who lived in Baltimordo until the end of 2006. While living there, their lawnmower was stolen...twice! In one of the incidents, the police agent taking the report said the lawnmower probably went up somebody’s nose. The uncle was also mugged at one point. They finally decided to leave when a gang sign was tagged onto their storage pod.
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