In New York a naked Samurai guy chopped up his wife, screamed “I’m God! I’m immortal” and was shot at 14 times by a police officer. 2 of the bullets hit her partner. The Samurai guy is also still alive. The samurai guy sounds like he was on something.
Unbelievable.
(Note to all women, stay away from men named IVOR)
So when are the cops going on trial? :rolleyes:
I must admit even I skidded to a halt and did a double-take when I saw the News headline, “NAKED SAMURAI SLASHER.”
Passersby might have heard me mutter “band name . . .” to myself.
What made the guy a samurai? Because he used katana-like samurai swords? Did he have an official Samurai designation?
He obviously wasn’t wearing traditional garb…
And on this note, I don’t know about going on trial, but that one cop definately needs to be kicked off the force.
14 shots!?! At a man armed with a sword? She hit her fucking partner TWICE. Do they not teach fire control, anymore? How about basic target practice?
Or is mentally ill.
Nope. He really was god. He nearly cut his wife’s head off, sliced her hand off, and survived being shot at 14 times…how else would you explain that?
hmm… I’m thinking this guy might be a deranged Highlander fan. Or maybe that’s just the first thing I think of when I hear of katanas, beheadings, and people claiming to be immortal.
Tom Cruise has truly lost it.
Now we don’t know the circumstances yet.
14 shots!?! At a man armed with a sword? She hit her fucking partner TWICE. Do they not teach fire control, anymore? How about basic target practice? **
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Well apparently 14 shots wasn’t enough, he’s still alive after all/
Ugh, any passing mod feel free…
That’s true. I COULD imagine this in some sort of strange, desperate, confused struggle, but I find it very unlikely.
Well apparently 14 shots wasn’t enough, he’s still alive after all
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The point is, with proper control of the situation, she only would have needed one.
I’m not saying that in a surreal situation such as this, that it’s easy to stay in control, or should even be expected by your average person. But we should at least hope that our officers of law can do it. This one has shown that, very likely, she can not.
Maybe put her on a desk job, at least?
Geez, World Eater, we’re shooting our bad coding around like a frightened cop at a naked samurai, huh? 
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The police are calling it suicide. Running at a policeman with a sword yelling “I’m immortal” clearly is suicide by New York standards
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Nope. The article says:
Some emotional problems, indeed…
[sub]Good one, I’m still chuckling 5 minutes later[/sub]
CaptBushido, that’s an awfully harsh judgement, isn’t it? Police are not trained in the kind of control you describe, precisely because it is for practical purposes impossible to achieve in an actual life threatening situation. I don’t think you will find many cases where a cop firing their weapon used only one bullet, and especially not any that achieved real results.
That being said, 14 shots with two hitting her partner sounds pretty bad - but as World Eater said we don’t know the circumstances yet. It may be par for the course or even better. The wording is ambiguous. For all we know, her opening fire saved her partner’s life, but positioning made taking the shots a risky enough proposition that he was hit.
And ye gods, what insanity. I’m actually glad the nutcase is alive, maybe they’ll be able to find out what snapped in his mind to make him do this…
Perhaps he was a Walter Mitty type who felt that his world had been too mundane for too long. Perhaps it was an existential murder to prove that he was still alive, gloriously and violently so. Perhaps a dark spirit has long haunted his mind, dispelled temporarily by the presence of his beloved, but ultimately never to be banished from his soul. Or perhaps he had an onset of violent schizophrenia, which can manifest in the young. The last explanation is the most likely, but I prefer the other ones for being more interesting.
Well, I didn’t mean that literally she should have only fired one shot, but that would have been the minimum amount of force necessary in an ideal situation (which, as you say, is practically impossible).
14 shots just seems outright excessive. Make a gun with your fingers and say bang and pull your hands up about as fast as you think you can pull a trigger, counting to 14 as you go. Then tell me that 14 doesn’t seem ridiculous.
Someone was obviously very panicked and reacting instinctively. Bad behavior for a cop.
