Sword wielding vigilante rescues two cops

[Himu]

Sword-Wielding Do-Gooder
Updated: 15:11, Thursday January 11, 2007

Police are trying to trace a mysterious samurai sword-wielding vigilante who came to the rescue of two officers when they were being attacked by an armed gang.

The officers had been set upon after they tried to disrupt a burglary at a flat in Laygate, South Shields.

A group of men had knocked on the door pretending to be policemen before forcing their way in to ransack the place.

The passing plain-clothes officers were alerted when a woman inside started screaming, and went to help.

However, they were outnumbered, and the criminals were armed with a hammer, knives and a metal chain.

One of them lunged at a policeman with his knife - but just as he did so, a mysterious do-gooder appeared from nowhere and attacked him with a samurai sword.

One of the burglars ran off, but was stopped by the stranger, who hit him on the arm with the sword.

He was arrested, along with another man from the flat, but in true superhero fashion the samurai man disappeared before police could speak to him.

A third man was arrested later. Two men are still being hunted.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-1246969,00.html

[MrAngryFace]

Thats bad ass

[Himu]

Give him that suit I posted about yesterday and he's a legitimate super hero dude!!

[PhoenixWright]

Finally, someone using the 1,000 years of power for good instead of evil. 

[The Fake Shemp]

BATMAN LIVES

[Bacon]

Nah man. I'm pretty fucking far from ok.

[The Fake Shemp]

Nah man. I'm pretty fucking far from ok.

 



You just lost all your LA privileges.

[Yeti]

that's awesome

[The Miles Trahan Burger Experiment]

Nah man. I'm pretty fucking far from ok.

 

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You just lost all your LA privileges.

EXACTLY wtf I just thought

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[Loki]

Wait, men armed with hammers and knives overpowered officers with guns?  Whoops, my bad -- police in Britain can't carry guns.   I hope I'm not the only one who finds situations like these farcical.

[futami]

Wait, men armed with hammers and knives overpowered officers with guns?  Whoops, my bad -- police in Britain can't carry guns.   I hope I'm not the only one who finds situations like these farcical.

lol, i was just going to post something similar.

what use are they without the threat of a gun to enforce the law?

[Vizzys]

Cool , is this related to the other sword using hero story I read on gaf about a month ago? If so this guys awesome.

[Mupepe]

Wait, men armed with hammers and knives overpowered officers with guns?  Whoops, my bad -- police in Britain can't carry guns.   I hope I'm not the only one who finds situations like these farcical.

lol, i was just going to post something similar.

what use are they without the threat of a gun to enforce the law?

I thought the same thing, but isn't their crime rate generally lower than ours?

[Loki]

I thought the same thing, but isn't their crime rate generally lower than ours?

Almost certainly (I'd have to check the stats to be sure, but I can't imagine it being higher, particularly for violent crimes).  However, that likely has little or nothing to do with their officers not being armed and ours being armed.  There are simply vast differences between our societies.

[Mupepe]

I thought the same thing, but isn't their crime rate generally lower than ours?

Almost certainly (I'd have to check the stats to be sure, but I can't imagine it being higher, particularly for violent crimes).  However, that likely has little or nothing to do with their officers not being armed and ours being armed.  There are simply vast differences between our societies.

Definitely.

It was just a response to his implication that their Officers can't do their jobs because they don't carry firearms.

[futami]

I thought the same thing, but isn't their crime rate generally lower than ours?

Almost certainly (I'd have to check the stats to be sure, but I can't imagine it being higher, particularly for violent crimes).  However, that likely has little or nothing to do with their officers not being armed and ours being armed.  There are simply vast differences between our societies.

Definitely.

It was just a response to his implication that their Officers can't do their jobs because they don't carry firearms.

well, the fact their crime rate may be lower tells us nothing about the efficacy of their law enforcement.

without threat of violence ( a gun), law enforcement becomes decidedly impotent, the only thing saving it being society's adherence to the social contract.