Cops: Med student uses sword to kill intruder

brownroux1 · Post by **brownroux1** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:54 am

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32855934/ns ... nd_courts/

BALTIMORE - Baltimore police say a Johns Hopkins University medical student armed with a samurai sword killed an intruder in his garage.

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said campus police and an off-duty city officer responding to a call for a suspicious person heard screams to call police around 1:20 a.m. Tuesday.

Guglielmi said the student told the man he found in his garage to leave and the man accosted him.

That's when the student defended himself, Guglielmi said, cutting off the man's hand and causing a severe laceration to his upper body.

The man died at the scene, but police are not yet releasing his name.

Police are interviewing the student and others and are talking to prosecutors about whether to file charges.

Blaubart · Post by **Blaubart** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 10:56 am

brownroux1 wrote:...cutting off the man's hand and causing a severe laceration to his upper body.

Hell Yeah!!!

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

smcharchan · Post by **smcharchan** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:00 am

F--k yeah! Old school.

He has lived a good life; time to commit seppuku.

Mongo · Post by **Mongo** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:02 am

Ash would have done it right, with a chainsaw!

hemi · Post by **hemi** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:07 am

Justice served. Scratch 1 off my list.

ek1179 · Post by **ek1179** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:14 am

Swordplay never goes out of style.

And you don't have to reload,

And it's quiet, NICE!

smcharchan · Post by **smcharchan** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:22 am

Mongo wrote:Ash would have done it right, with a chainsaw!

Diomed said "groovy" this last weekend.

That word always makes me think of Army of Darkness. It is one of my favorites.

"First you wanna kill me, now you wanna kiss me. Blow."

ArevaloSOCOM · Post by **ArevaloSOCOM** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:41 am

File charges? For what!

Tyris · Post by **Tyris** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 11:55 am

ArevaloSOCOM wrote:File charges? For what!

Thats how they get promotions and raises. Prosecutors and police need to "do something". Government retards at their best.

-T

Mongo · Post by **Mongo** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:06 pm

ArevaloSOCOM wrote:File charges? For what!

for not taking an arm and a leg too

for operating w/o a medical lic.? after he is a med student.

for not shooting a theif caught in the act like a good home owner should?

for owning a sword and not a gun for home defense?

continuity · Post by **continuity** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:15 pm

brownroux1 wrote:...Police are interviewing the student and others and are talking to prosecutors about whether to file charges.

No no no. Youve got it all wrong Tyris. Charges was the name of his sword. They're deciding whether to sharpen the sword.............

Cop basher

Conqueror · Post by **Conqueror** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:19 pm

F--k yes, good for him. Take it to criminals OLD SCHOOL STYLE. Hopefully I will meet him if I interview at JHU this fall and I can buy him a drink.

steve7478 · Post by **steve7478** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 1:53 pm

Well at least he didn't use his "BOOM STICK!!!".

Arkady · Post by **Arkady** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 2:00 pm

That's pretty impressive, actually. Do you guys realize how difficult it would be to take a hand off with most commonly available swords? I'm going to guess that the student was a martial arts student... with a good set of sharpening stones.

aquajon · Post by **aquajon** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 2:08 pm

Put that on your front door and I'll bet no one breaks in again.

"Dismembered the last guy with a fucking SWORD!"

Fallschirmjaager · Post by **Fallschirmjaager** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 2:47 pm

In Baltimore. He's probably in jail right now waiting to find out if they'll press charges. And they wilk. He comitted murder, with a deadly weapon and in cold self-defense. Why didn't he just call the police and let them handle it 20-30 minutes later?

MicroGuy · Post by **MicroGuy** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 2:55 pm

I've always sort of hoped somebody would break into my house so I could use my swords on them. Sort of a secret fantasy.

I don't know about today's "commonly available" swords, but the two I have, would easily lop off a hand, I mean without even really trying.

Way to go, make that guy think about his impending death before it actually happens. Bleed out dirtbag!

pneumagger · Post by **pneumagger** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 3:07 pm

MicroGuy wrote:I've always sort of hoped somebody would break into my house so I could use my swords on them. Sort of a secret fantasy.

I don't know about today's "commonly available" swords, but the two I have, would easily lop off a hand, I mean without even really trying.

Way to go, make that guy think about his impending death before it actually happens. Bleed out dirtbag!

real katanas... even some half-assed ones are sharp as hell.
Cold Steel has this promo DVD where they're cutting all sorts of crazy s--t testing their blades.
Awesome DVD! I have no doubt one of those swords of any sort wouldn't wreck an intruder... and they are not that pricey.

lilfuzzybuny · Post by **lilfuzzybuny** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:00 pm

i was told by a Anne Arundle county police officer that there were no self defense laws. he might get manslaughter at the least or if he's incredibly lucky maybe PB J

could have been a machete. i personaly own a katana wakizashi and several tanto's

MicroGuy · Post by **MicroGuy** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:10 pm

pneumagger wrote:
MicroGuy wrote:I've always sort of hoped somebody would break into my house so I could use my swords on them. Sort of a secret fantasy.

I don't know about today's "commonly available" swords, but the two I have, would easily lop off a hand, I mean without even really trying.

Way to go, make that guy think about his impending death before it actually happens. Bleed out dirtbag!
real katanas... even some half-assed ones are sharp as hell.
Cold Steel has this promo DVD where they're cutting all sorts of crazy s--t testing their blades.
Awesome DVD! I have no doubt one of those swords of any sort wouldn't wreck an intruder... and they are not that pricey.

Yeah, the ones I have are pretty old. One is from a Japanese officer from WWII, pretty common design if you check the history of them. The other is really old, my grand parents brought them both back from when they were stationed there after the war.

And the edge is unreal. Like something that big, could be, and stay, that sharp after all those years.

If you take the handle off, you can see Japanese lettering stamped on the tang. Supposed to tell who made it, for whom it was made, and when, maybe where. Maybe some short saying also. But I've never figured out what they said.

Blaubart · Post by **Blaubart** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:14 pm

MicroGuy wrote:But I've never figured out what they said.

GI Namba Ten!

MicroGuy · Post by **MicroGuy** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 4:25 pm

Oh, well, that clears everything up eh?

Glock Nut · Post by **Glock Nut** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:45 pm

ArevaloSOCOM wrote:File charges? For what!

not having his sword registered?????

GN

Hush · Post by **Hush** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:49 pm

Whatever is handy.

toolfan91 · Post by **toolfan91** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:13 am

What kind of sword is the question... I have always wanted a nice samurai sword

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