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| Hopkins student kills intruder with samurai sword, police say |
| 2009-09-15 |
| A Johns Hopkins University student armed with a samurai sword killed a man who broke into the garage of his off-campus residence early Tuesday, a Baltimore police spokesman said. According to preliminary reports, a resident of the 300 block of E. University Parkway called police about a suspicious person, department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. An off-duty officer responded about 1:20 a.m. to the area with university security, according to Guglielmi. They heard shouts and screams from a neighboring house and found the suspected burglar suffering from a nearly severed hand and lacerations to his upper body, he said. The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene. The student told police that he heard a commotion in the house and went downstairs armed with a samurai sword, Guglielmi said. He saw the side door to the garage had been pried open and found a man inside, who lunged at the student. Detectives were still interviewing the student and his three roommates Tuesday morning, Guglielmi said. Burglars had already stolen two laptops and a Sony PlayStation from the student's home Monday, according to Guglielmi. Dennis O'Shea, a spokesman for Johns Hopkins, said all four residents of the house are undergraduate students at the university. The suspected burglar, whose name was not released pending notification of next of kin, had prior convictions for breaking and entering and had just been released Saturday from a Baltimore County facility, Guglielmi said. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #10 What's wrong with using a 50-cal on a meerkat? If you go into a fair fight, you're doing something wrong. ;-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-09-15 22:37 |
| #9 The sky is the limit if you want a spectacular sword. I knew a top sword maker who gave me an hour lecture on metallurgy. Some tidbits were that samurai swords were actually slightly over-folded, so modern versions have a "less is more" technique. The secret of Damascus steel was that they had inadvertently stumbled on a way to concentrate and integrate carbon buckyballs into their steel, but it was a random event, with only one out of several swords having enough to make them superior steel. Advanced alloys and ceramics will give a blade better than steel in one way, but not all ways. Ceramics can be insanely sharp, but very brittle, for example. Some alloys can "heal" from injuries, but cannot develop a good edge. There are some efforts to make carbon nanotube and diamond hybrid blades, that would be strong, flexible, and have an edge just a few molecules thick, called a "bee sting" blade, the size of an epee, but able to slice through most things easily. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-09-15 21:33 |
| #8 That kid is in deep kim-chi. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2009-09-15 20:44 |
| #7 Way too much sword. Like using a fifty cal on a meerkat. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2009-09-15 16:51 |
| #6 THE JAPANESE SWORD INDEX http://www.myarmoury.com/home.html |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2009-09-15 16:32 |
| #5 That reminds me, does anyone know where I can find a good samurai sword? If you are serious about that bit, I'd advise you to avoid both ebay and movies replicas, unless you want something cheap (and relatively expensive for what it is); for swords, I don't have as many bookmarks as for knives, I actually own a couple swords, but am really not focused on that... if you are looking for a production, industrial-made japanese sword (not very fond of those myself, by the way), I think you might want to go to http://www.knifecenter.com/knifecenter/swords/index.html Customs would be : http://www.swordsmith.net/ Have you thought about kukris??? GREAT shortwords, actually the knives I've owned the longest (got my 1st as a pre-teen) http://yhst-7333098713883.stores.yahoo.net/ http://www.khukurihouseonline.com/ http://stores.shop.ebay.fr/NEPAL-KHUKURI-Knives-and-MORE__W0QQ_armrsZ1 http://www.gurkhas-kukris.com/ Or you could go to modern kukris like Cold Steel's ones; "best" nepalese kukris are IMHo the standard gurkha issue, or the WWII model. Other good "variants" on kukris would be the Kershaw Outcast (not a kukri per se, though), but the various bolos, machetes,... come in many, many variants, some very cheap. You might want to go to ethnic swords http://traditionalfilipinoweapons.com/ https://torablades.com/ Or historical replicas, industrial or custom http://www.albion-swords.com/ (NB : my very favorite!!! Though, very pricey as well, am awaiting the collapse of the dollar to gorge myself, just before the eurozone collapses as well...) http://www.imperialcoinc.com/Gen2a.html http://www.museumreplicas.com/ http://www.arms2armor.com/ http://www.casiberia.com/ http://www.rittersteel.com/index.html http://www.reliks.com/ Etc, etc... plus many, many custom swords with no particular roots, look around a bit, those tend to be even more expensive, though. Examples : http://www.mineralmountain.com/swords.htm http://www.bladeart.com/artists/tinkerblades/michael_pearce.htm http://jodysamson.com/ Two shameless plugs http://homepage.mac.com/dbrock76/Menu8.html http://www.wu-hai-lung.ws/Black%20Dragon%20Forge%201.htm |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2009-09-15 16:28 |
| #4 You better be rich, They're worth hundreds of thousands if genuine. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-09-15 13:07 |
| #3 That reminds me, does anyone know where I can find a good samurai sword? |
| Posted by: eltoroverde 2009-09-15 13:02 |
| #2 GOOD FOR HIM Sword, Gun, Crossbow, whatever it takes. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-09-15 12:37 |
| #1 demands for sword control in 5...4..3........ |
| Posted by: AlanC 2009-09-15 12:34 |