Student kills burglar with sword

A Johns Hopkins University student killed an apparent burglar with a samurai sword after discovering the man in his garage, police said Tuesday.


The man "lunged" at the students, and the student with the sword defended himself, severing the man's left hand and cutting his upper body, Guglielmi said.


http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/15/samurai.sword.killing/index.html

wow , and here i thought aikido, etc... and all of it's sword play
didn't have any modern world application

but then...there's a machete under my sink by the back door, so i under
stand the sentiment not sure i'd like to be in the swash-bucklers place
with the image of a flying hand in my memory---barf. i've known two people
that have [lost a hand by way of a big blade--machete]:
-done this
-had this happened to

weird shit

-the one guy that did it used a machete--and was a brother of one of the security
guards i worked with. although i never really understood the context, i assume that
because he wasn't serving a prison sentence that it must have occured in his home
whilst defending himself

-the other guy was fooling around with someone elses woman, lost his hand to a
machete, and now is an emotionally crippled recluse. really sad, as he also used to
be a fitness buff, that was really good at tennis, etc...

i'm starting to wonder about what possible defense anyone could have against this,
running i guess...behind structures at first. unless one had a close enough range to
run in. i guess everything is range at the end of the day. far enough away...run.
maybe those Russian bullet dodgers would have something else to say [from Chulo's
clip].

I just noticed that underneath the story is an advert saying:

'A new career? Online MBA'

A bit late, if you're asking me.

roadkill wrote:

A Johns Hopkins University student killed an apparent burglar with a samurai sword after discovering the man in his garage, police said Tuesday.


The man "lunged" at the students, and the student with the sword defended himself, severing the man's left hand and cutting his upper body, Guglielmi said.


http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/09/15/samurai.sword.killing/index.html

Damn, this is hardcore. I don't know all the details, but judging from what was said "he just got out of jail", one can conclude that he had it coming? But a samurai sword is no joke. Serious business there....