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Student murderizes Burglar; With a Frikkin' Katana
Topic Started: Sep 16 2009, 01:58:20 AM (2,214 Views)
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Short story, college kid gets previously robbed of his PS3 and two laptops. Some poor Thief-er-man fella either heard it was a sweet spot or returned for a second money haul. Burglar lunges at him kid grabs his katana and slices bad dude's money grubbing hand almost clean off and spilled the guys guts all over the garage floor with one blow.

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Hopkins student kills intruder with samurai sword, police say
Off-campus house was burglarized Monday; suspect recently freed from county jail.

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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 laceration to his upper body, he said.

The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene. Based on the initial investigation, the student killed the man with only one strike of the sword, according to Guglielmi. The medical examiner will make the final determination, he said.

The student told police that he heard a commotion in the house and went downstairs armed with the 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. There was no indication that the suspected burglar was armed, however, according to Guglielmi.

Burglars had already stolen two laptops and a Sony PlayStation from the student's home Monday, Guglielmi said.

Dennis O'Shea, a spokesman for Johns Hopkins, said all four residents of the house are undergraduate students at the university. Police had released three of the roommates by Tuesday afternoon. The student who wielded the sword remained in custody while investigators worked to corroborate his story with evidence and witness statements. Police have not released the name of the residents, but department sources identified the detained student as John Pontolillo, 20, of Wall, N.J.

The city state's attorney's office will determine whether to press charges, Guglielmi said.

Police have also not formally released the name of the suspected burglar, but a department source identified the man as Donald D. Rice, 49, of the 600 block of E. 27th St. in Baltimore. Guglielmi said the suspect had 29 prior convictions for crimes such as breaking and entering, and had been released Saturday from the Baltimore County Detention Center after he was arrested by county police in August 2008 for stealing a car in Baltimore. Rice was found guilty in December on one count of unauthorized removal of property, and he was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

Michael Hughes of the 3400 block of University Place, about a block away from the scene, said he was working at his home when he heard screams shortly after 1 a.m.

"I could hear the fear in the voice, and I could tell someone was scared," said Hughes, 43, who works for Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Hughes said he called police and could hear sirens as he was on the phone. He walked over to the crime scene shortly after.

"The body was near the garage. And I watched them carry the sword out. The whole thing was surreal and totally bizarre," Hughes said.

By Tuesday afternoon, two pools of blood remained on the ground a few feet away from the door to the garage, which is not connected to the home. A door to a wooden fence surrounding the back yard was broken, allowing the scene to be viewed from the sidewalk.

The three-story house has five bedrooms and two bathrooms, according to Diego Ardila, a junior at Hopkins. Ardila said he lived in the house during the summer and was a roommate of two of the people that currently live there.

Ardila, 19, said one of the roommates owned a samurai sword and generally kept it in his room. Ardila described the student as somewhat outgoing, although they did not speak frequently.

"He kept the sword on top of his cabinet," Ardila said.

Five people lived at the house during the summer, according to Ardila, who now lives a few blocks away.

"You don't expect to hear that someone you know killed a guy with a samurai sword. From what little I know of him, he wasn't some guy going out to kill," Ardila said.

Guglielmi said it is legal to possess a sword in Baltimore, and "individuals have a right to defend their person and their property." But the police spokesman said he was not in a position to comment on whether it was appropriate to use a sword, baseball bat or other means of defense.

Rice was arrested Sept. 25, 2006, for operating a stolen vehicle. Inside the vehicle, police found a camera bag with video tapes that had been taken from a home in the 200 block of E. University Parkway, which was ransacked a month before when someone broke in through a back window, according to court records. The intruder stole luggage, a laptop computer, a video camera, two digital cameras, and the black camera bag.

Rice was charged in both incidents, and received five months in jail — or time served — for the theft, court records show.

On Dec. 14, 2007, police on patrol in the 400 block of E. 27th St. saw Rice, who the officers wrote looked suspicious and was fumbling with something in his jacket pocket, court records show. When an officer approached, Rice pulled a loaded Rohm .22-caliber handgun, which the officer was able to grab.

Rice was charged with several weapons charges, but prosecutors dropped the case in Circuit Court in July 2008 after one of the officers — who was deployed overseas with the military — could not attend a court hearing, according to the state's attorney's office.

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I would have done the same if someone lunged at me.
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Wow. Haven't heard of this happening too often.
Literal death by the sword.
Not surprised though. A real one is basically a 3 foot razor.
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Makes sense to use a sword in that situation.

Course if I was a robber I'd rather be shot than sliced in half.
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Not surprised though. A real one is basically a 3 foot razor.


Most of them aren't real though. Most of them are replicas. There was a spate of attacks by 'samurai swords' in the UK last year, so the government decided to ban real ones. The ones that cost grand each, or are otherwise only bought by martial artists. The replicas, which most people are killed by, are still easily buyable.

Isn't the law fun?
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That would not have been a nice death at all.
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@kkarbo: I thought replica's are banned now as well? I was going to buy one but they're illegal.

EDIT: In the UK.
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Oh yeah, they are.

Well, still. Pointless laws. Besides, banning stuff doesn't work. It's not in the news anymore, but that's probably because reporters have been told not to cover the stories. 'samurai sword' killing has likely not went down.
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Oh yeah, they are.

Well, still. Pointless laws. Besides, banning stuff doesn't work. It's not in the news anymore, but that's probably because reporters have been told not to cover the stories. 'samurai sword' killing has likely not went down.
I plan on later on in life taking up a martial arts class with a bit of kendo.


Had a chance to a while back and did it for a while....but dropped out do to money concerns.


Should have stayed with it...Aikido is probably my favorite martial art do to it not being very physical and using energy people exert against you against them.....course most martial arts do that.
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Oh yeah, they are.

Well, still. Pointless laws. Besides, banning stuff doesn't work. It's not in the news anymore, but that's probably because reporters have been told not to cover the stories. 'samurai sword' killing has likely not went down.
And it means I can't get a lifesize Buster Sword. :(

EDIT: And its not like I would be able to do any damage to anyone with a replica Buster Sword anyway. They would be able to kill me 10 times over by the time I was able to lift the thing ^_^ .
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I took Kenjutsu/Battojutsu for a while, but to be honest, I never thought I'd see it put to any good use other than personal indulgence and recreation. Most people don't know how to use one past what they saw in their favorite animes.

They are not banned in the U.S., obviously.

Funny though. Banning guns in the UK leads to a barrage of attacks by sword, so they ban those too?
What's next? The banning of sticks and stones?
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Funny though. Banning guns in the UK leads to a barrage of attacks by sword, so they ban those too?
How can you say banning guns = barrage of attacks from swords, any proof of that? Guns have been banned for a very long time and the sword thing has only happened recently.

To reiterate my point about the Buster Sword:

http://www.gametrailers.com/user-movie/real-buster-sword-replica/180353

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and the sword thing has only happened recently.


Correction. It's only been in the news recently. Just like Knife stabbings. That has been going on for ages. Guess The Sun's editors were drunk one day and decided 'I KNOW, LET'S SAY BLACK PEOPLE STABBING EACH OTHER IN LONDON IS A NEW THING ON THE UPRISE'
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How can you say banning guns = barrage of attacks from swords, any proof of that?

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There was a spate of attacks by 'samurai swords' in the UK last year


I didn't say I had proof. I was asking a question.
It is my opinion that it would be less likely to incur a "spate of attacks by samurai swords" if guns were more accessible.
However, this is a plus that criminals are a bit less dangerous weilding a piece of shit 440 stainless steel blade made from Taiwan than a .357 magnum, but it's also akin to what I've said in the past.

If you ban one thing, people are going to find something else to use and if you ban those too, people are going to find something other than that to use.


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Correction. It's only been in the news recently. Just like Knife stabbings. That has been going on for ages. Guess The Sun's editors were drunk one day and decided 'I KNOW, LET'S SAY BLACK PEOPLE STABBING EACH OTHER IN LONDON IS A NEW THING ON THE UPRISE'

Replica swords are a pretty new thing (as in, they've only gotten popular in the last 10-15 years perhaps less) so I'd still say its a pretty new thing.

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It is my opinion that it would be less likely to incur a "spate of attacks by samurai swords" if guns were more accessible.
However, this is a plus that criminals are a bit less dangerous weilding a piece of shit 440 stainless steel blade made from Taiwan than a .357 magnum, but it's also akin to what I've said in the past.

If you ban one thing, people are going to find something else to use and if you ban those too, people are going to find something other than that to use.

Well it took them fucking years to find something new to use...I still don't put this down to the banning of guns but if it were, i'd rather have a "spate of attacks by samurai swords" than constantly a lot of attacks by guns. I may be misinterpreting you here, but are you trying to justify legalising guns in the UK?
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are you trying to justify legalising guns in the UK?

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Well thats OK then. Not that many criminals are armed with swords anyway. Well, were.

EDIT: I mean, we're talking about 5 deaths here, its hardly a spate.
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Yeah, probably a lot less than the ones who still have guns, actually.
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The brits still have guns all over there.

Just makes it more lucrative and encourages breaking the law when you make them illegal.
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