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PostPosted: **Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:57 pm**

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.

Police are particularly keen to trace the man with the sword who came to the aid of their officers, and appealed for anyone with information to call Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.

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

PostPosted: **Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:07 pm**

Cool cool! But as i said somewhere else in relation to this very article, vigilantism is frowned upon by authorities the person would probably get arrested or something, or at least get a stern warning.

Still, the idea of a real-life superhero is scary, until real life supervillains start popping up, that is.

PostPosted: **Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:09 pm**

Man...I was hoping nobody noticed me. And Samurai, I was suposed to be Tom Cruise. Geez.

PostPosted: **Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:48 pm**

Neat. Only a matter of time before Katanas are among standard police-issued equipment. Heck yeah.

And ShatterheartArk stole my joke. *Shakes fist.*

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:24 am**

Hm this story remind me of Kenshin or something like that.

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:29 am**

Awesome! Real superheroes do exist!

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:46 am**

So would of been cooler if it was a Ninja instead.

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:59 am**

Mr. SmartyPants wrote:So would of been cooler if it was a Ninja instead.

Agreed.

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:12 am**

But then it doesn't say whether it was a true samurai or just a wannabe with the sword.

Then again, maybe he's just a Kurosawa/Mifune fan. :sweat:

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:39 am**

Strike Man, defender of justice!

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:43 am**

A "samurai sword," haha. We know better, don't we now. :lol:

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:01 am**

I think that its fake. Sorry I'm just a skeptic.

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:05 am**

Yeah it may be fake.... that would be cool though. who knows it might be real.

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:28 am**

I've read stories about people robbing stores with swords; I wouldn't be real surprised if they started saving them with one. :lol:

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:32 am**

The age of superheroes is upon us.

Now I can finally pull out that Death Ray I've been saving!

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:52 am**

There was a murder committed here in Columbus with a "samurai sword" some years ago.

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:46 am**

wow...i dunno what to say......just..wow

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:31 am**

THe Columbian is making up for his mistake... lol

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:37 am**

Wow, that made my day so much better. Cool!

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:46 am**

Taliesin wrote:I think that its fake. Sorry I'm just a skeptic.

It's on the BBC news page as well as several other news sites. :lol:

Real life is stranger than fiction.

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:54 am**

If this really happened, that would be so cool! Just think; Kenshin Himura out protecting the common man in the US!

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:10 pm**

Vigilantes....Vigil indeed. America was founded by common men seeking justice, and occasionally it is a right and noble thing to put it back into their hands....

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:30 pm**

I bet it was Steve in his V mask and costume!

Wingzero22

PostPosted: **Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:34 pm**

He already admitted it was him. :p

PostPosted: **Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:06 am**

MSP wrote:So would of been cooler if it was a Ninja instead.

I completely agree with MSP on the ninja bit, but I still think it's pretty interesting nonetheless.

PostPosted: **Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:13 am**

Would have been EVEN cooler of it was Solid Snake...

PostPosted: **Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:31 pm**

bigsleepj wrote:Cool cool! But as i said somewhere else in relation to this very article, vigilantism is frowned upon by authorities the person would probably get arrested or something, or at least get a stern warning.

They would arrest him for showing them how useless their police force are.

Though I am skeptical of the article, I am more skeptical about the role and necessity of a police force. Too often police in our society are out there brutalizing people for trivial crimes (or for no reason at all!) while they let (or even participate in) more serious crimes.

I am sick and tired of this double standard that the police are the bearers of justice while normal people (whom they erroneously call "civilians") should just sit back and let them "do their job" while real evil people do their evil acts. If our society were truly a civil society, police wouldn't exist.

There is also the possiblity that the "hero" actually used the criminals as accomplices, but I'll rant about that later.

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