Posted on 01/06/2015 11:32:24 AM PST by smokingfrog
He was trying to take out some cash, armed with a pellet gun – but a blade-flashing sushi chef stood it his way. According to the Champaign News-Gazette, the incident occurred Tuesday at the Kamakura Japanese restaurant in Champaign when 23-year-old Clayton Dial entered the restaurant, pulled what appeared to be a revolver and demanded cash from the teenaged hostess.
Sushi chef Tetsuji Miwa overheard the exchange.
“He just stood there and started asking for money,” Miwa told the paper. I saw her face. She was very scared.”
“I heard him the second time. He said, ‘Give me your money. Open the drawer.’ That’s when I instantly grabbed my sushi knife, walked up to him, wrapped my arm around his shoulder and asked him what he wanted. He saw the blade, got scared and started running.”
He didn’t get far.
The restaurant’s general manager and assistant manager were alerted to what was going on and joined Miwa chasing down the gunman in the restaurant’s parking lot, with the assistant manager picking up a stool on the way out.
Together the three wrestled Dial to the ground. Assistant Manager Joe Pendzialek “cracked” Dial over the head with the stool, while General Manager Yuji Niizuma punched him in the arm until he dropped the pellet gun.
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Blades can be very effective in a close quarters fight. And a good slash across capillaries is just a bugger to close in the ER, so there is a very good chance they will bleed out.
You will get their blood everywhere, however.
The best place for sushi in Seattle is a hole in the wall place called Sushi Kappo Temura. Just don’t hold up the place while you are there!
http://www.yelp.com/biz/sushi-kappo-tamura-seattle
Dem Japanese are tough!
Blades when used in combat tend to have a higher fatality rate than guns.
Especially Japanese sushi blades. I have two, they are razor sharp.
What idiot names their half Japanese daughter “Aichan”? If she goes to Japan, does she become Aichan-chan?
The chef not only caught the perp, but served him up artistically on rice wrapped with seaweed and a nice wasabi sauce on the side.
My dad bought a nice one for $200 in Kyoto. They require more maintenance than a semi-auto firearm.
Another gentle giant who was turning his life around???
Maybe her name is actually Ai-chan? Is Ai a Japanese girl’s name?
I did some research on this once and I believe it’s pretty much an urban legend.
Guns, as common sense would tell us, are much more lethal than edged weapons. That is, after all, why people who actually engage in combat started using them instead of sticking with the much older blades.
As usual, these comments are priceless.
BTW, John Belusi, we miss you dude!
Ninjas. They're everywhere.
Are you sure you didn't meant to type "arteries" or even "veins"?
Maybe she has a brother named Charliechan?
Yeah, Ai is a regular name, but to have the reporter write it down as Aichan is just weird.
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