Helping the police, Mifune style

[icecorps]

Mysterious samurai saves Police in UK Tue 10:50pm

A samurai sword wielding vigilante has come to the rescue of two Police officers when they were attacked by an armed gang in South Shields, England.

A group of men had forced their way into a house and were ransacking the place when passing plain-clothes officers were alerted by a woman inside screaming.

The criminals outnumbered them and were armed with a hammer, knives and chains and attacked the Police officers.

As one of them stabbed at a Policeman with his knife, a mysterious do-gooder appeared from nowhere and attacked him with a samurai sword.

One of the burglars began running away but was stopped by the stranger who struck him on the arm with the sword.

Two of the criminals were arrested, but in true hero style the samurai disappeared before police could speak to him.

A third man was arrested later and two more are still being hunted.

Police are especially keen to trace the man with the sword who came to the aid of their officers, and have asked for anyone with information to call them.

http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/NewsDisplay/tabid/209/articleID/18823/Default.aspx

 

[jcoiii]

And why didn't the officers shoot these guys?

Anyway, I hope the good samaritan isn't in trouble.

 

[Kali Endgame]

Yikes! I've always wondered if you can get in trouble for assisting LEO's. The vanishing trick was pretty cool. Wonder if they will find the helper.

 

[308win]

Given the location I am sure they want to locate him so they can arrest him.

 

[Sindawe]

Police are especially keen to trace the man with the sword who came to the aid of their officers, and have asked for anyone with information to call them.

Of course they are. They are keen to charge their rescuer with possesion of and assalt with a deadly weapon, and possibly with interfering with police activity.

 

[Coronach]

And why didn't the officers shoot these guys?

Anyway, I hope the good samaritan isn't in trouble.

The police in the UK are generally not armed with firearms.

Mike

 

[ZeSpectre]

Yeah, he's a "hero" now (all sweetness and sugar to lure him in) until they actually catch him then he'll be a vigilante.

 

[DogBonz]

Ah, Humm

And why didn't the officers shoot these guys?

There in the UK... Cops (bobbies) dont have guns.

You know what the b-ach about the whole thing is? The sword guy would be the one getting arrested for having a "knife", which is a no-no in jolly 'ole England.

 

[Spreadfire Arms]

ninja......*poof* vanish

 

[seeker_two]

You know what the b-ach about the whole thing is? The sword guy would be the one getting arrested for having a "knife", which is a no-no in jolly 'ole England.

And the criminals would be able to sue him for "emotional damages"....

In this case, let the ninja vanish.....


(Oh....almost forgot..... )

!!!!!PAGING AGRICOOOOOOOLA!!!!!

 

[David904]

There can be only one!

 

[tinygnat219]

Interesting. They need to check the South Shields' mall, or equivalent. He's probably a part-timer in a sword shop. Mall Ninja...

 

[michiganfan]

I don't know how you could be a cop and not carry a gun.

 

[Standing Wolf]

Police are especially keen to trace the man with the sword who came to the aid of their officers, and have asked for anyone with information to call them.

Doubtless to arrest the poor bugger.

 

[CAPTAIN MIKE]

Oh Yeah, He's a "Hero" Alright....

I bet if they lure this guy into Identifying himself, he will soon be behind bars for owning a sword and for (God forbid, Nigel !!) bringing it out in the first place.

 

[MechAg94]

This location would happen to be near a shopping mall would it?

 

[Gord]

I don't know how you could be a cop and not carry a gun.

About the same way you could live in a country where the stiffer prison sentence is handed to the woman who resists her rape.

 

[Lucky]

Ninja that can't be right, can it?

 

[cloudcroft]

308win,

I agree, they'll arrest him and confiscate his sword.

The guy left because he knew that he'd be in trouble.

What a sorry state of affairs in the UK.

-- John D.

 

[thexrayboy]

The police in the UK are generally not armed with firearms.

And since they have disarmed the populace in general this is only fair. No
government agent should be allowed to possess a means of self defense that is prohibited to the citizens who pay his salary.

 

[bigun15]

Hopefully the ninja is good enough to disappear for good.

 

[ezypikns]

Perhaps it was.....

the Ghost Dog.

 

[Gord]

Ninja that can't be right, can it?

Yes, it can be: self-defense in Britain is, apparently, a crime. See:

http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=24079

There are others (and I know there has been one wherein a rape victim was charged with assault or somesuch for resisting) but I'm too tired to look 'em up at the moment.

 

[carpediem]

Shouldn't this be in NON firearm weapons, unless the original poster's intent was to highlight that the British police had no guns

A mysterious Englishman with a blade.

"Disdayning Fortune, with his brandisht Steele, Which smoak'd with bloody execution" -- William Shakespeare, Macbeth

 

[cloudcroft]

Perhaps he's the Highlander?

-- John D.