Student kills burglar with samurai sword

Pin a medal on the student with the sword although he's lucky the crook didn't have a gun! bet the cops take his sword and never give it back! we should be able to defend our homes and property by any means within reason and this kid deserves a medal and a parade!

I liked the earlier idea, perhaps Mitch made it, about the sound of a shotgun loading in the dark. You could rig up your sound system to make that and hit the remote at just the right time, then swing the golden lampstand, still in the dark. Because let's be real. The burglar is in unfamiliar furniture and you know exactly where everything is. That's a tremendous advantage. That plus the sound and the fast move while his heart is slowing down...

In fact, with a little planning and proper furniture placement you'd know exactly where the burglar is likely to move. You could even have a wire laid on the floor and a rope, and another lamp, and a cutout in the floor lined with a knife-proof net.

And snakes, and a stampeding elephant, and Johnny Weissmuller. Cans of skunk spray all rigged for when the wire trips the guy, and only you have the mask.

haha. wow! i have three samurai swords at my house. living in texas where its legal to kill a tresspasser, ive only dreamed...

i think the court will look at the great effort needed to swing that 3 pound razor blade through muscle and bone. this is no small thing, the cut went through an unbraced hand held up in defensive posture and continued into the body. a d.a. could make this look ugly.
this story holds a barbaric fascination in that it doesn't happen but rarely. once it was the order of the day and life's liquid flowed freely. todays warrior doesn't often get covered in gore as war is fought at greater distance.
this story has legs and will continue due to the fact that we are only just emerged from caves and we bear our canines when we hear of mortal combat.

If the government doesn't want us to have guns, we must keep these people out of our homes somehow.

now that is what i call bad ass. this is why we should all carry swords.... if we didn't learn from Zelda

sorry that is what this guy gets for breaking into somebodys home. i love katanas i want to own one, their soooo cool.

he might not have been armed but he was caught red handed

Come steal from me and I will unload both barrels in your ass. Then fix me a sandwich.

after what happened @ yale, people in general, but especially students, need to protect themselves against criminals BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY.

the burglar had a record as long as his arm (pun intended) and his family has the balls to press charges against his final victim. the student acted in self defense and i doubt he meant to kill the burglar, while the burglar's intention was clear. he shouldn't have been on the streets anyway; he should've been in jail after 29 burglary convictions.

the burglar wins the darwin award.....he just got of jail
didnt even have time for the welcome bbq
i mean what a sucker

I have a sneaky suspicion that this kid will never be robbed again ... ;)

Johns Hopkins University has a school for ninja training? & just when I thought a gun, tazer & pepper spray were the only weapons on campus!

Damn... I don't even know how to react to this story.

He was just dieing to steal the guys stuff. Pun intended

I am going to bet that the defender will not be charged with murder, just case so many people think he is cool

A REAL MAN would have cut him in 1/2 with an Ōdachi ,.....(just sayin).

kennymotown,
I hear you! My life has been much the same am always prepared.I also have a first degree black belt in kendo.have two katanas from the 16th century. Stay hard brother!

That's how we do it in Baltimore, no fucking around! I knew I should have pick one of those swords up when Owings Mills was still selling them

Some people deserve to die. His ticket was up and he pushed his luck karmically.
I'm inspired now to pull out my old copy of Charles Bronson's Death Wish to enjoy some hard core catharsis and righteous retribution.

Win.

DAMN!!!!!!

It's actually really sad that the guy died, but the Conan The Librarian callback was a nice touch. Well done, wintermadness, well done.

If the police had picked up the thief he would have been out again within days to carry on breaking in to places, who can say what heartache and damage he would have caused, say a child heard the noise in the night and got up to investigate, it is too chilling to think about, I say one less tosser in the world is a good thing

like the lab ''samurai sword'',its as common as kitchen knife

Holy Sh*t! That's nuts! I feel much better about the sword we have here at Bitchin' Kitchen! Burglars beware...this is some next level stuff!

wow, don't mess with video game geeks, they may not be Japanese but they sure do act like it

I think the student did the right thing in protecting himself but its sad that the criminal had to die. Nobody deserves to die. He probably has a family. I feel sorry for the student because now he to deal with this for the rest of his life. I would've aimed for the legs, so he couldn't run or something other than killing him.

WOW and the burglar was fresh out of prison! Who would've thought?!

oranges- i was thinking a similar thing. i do believe though that guilt will end up being a part of his life for a long time. No one knows who the man who died was yet or why he was there. If this were me I would feel horrible no matter what but how about if the kid finds out the man he just killed was laid off and about to lose his home, can’t feed his family etc. no, not a reason to steal but even more not a reason to die. I’m sorry I just don’t think anyone, no matter what, has the right to take a life. But I know that in the moment of fear I may have reacted the same. But guilt- he will no doubt live with that horror forever. i live in the middle of skid row in LA and you cannot judge desperation in a split second or a lifetime

Man2 no way. The thief was a felon. Plus he didn't break in at a time in which its reasonable to assume no one is home. (i.e. 9am-5pm). He broke in at 1:30am. He knew someone was likely to be there and didn't care. He was looking for a fight.

Thats the way to stop crime.

Its no wonder the first thing the Americans did after they beat the Japanese in WWII, they rounded up all the samurai swords.

And my friends think I am crazy for sleeping with an axe next to my bed.

Oficially: BAMF

Master Splinter would be proud.

It was self-defense, the kid was obviously fed up and didn't want to be robbed. So why would they press charges on him? For carrying a samurai sword?

samurai sword is by far the best home defense ever

I can't say I agree with the majority of posts on this subject. First, if the guy suspected there was a burglar in his garage, why didn't he call the police? Second if he did call the police, why did he take matters into his own hands and go after the guy with a sword? Third, if he didn't know whether the burglar was armed then he was foolish to confront the guy. Fourth, if he wasn't weilding a sword, would the guy have "lunged" at him which is why he said he attacked the guy. Fifth, what was he protecting in his garage that had an equal or greater value than the life he took?

I am not defending the burglar, he was clearly scum and someplace he shouldn't have been. Still, I can't help but think the young mans actions aggravated a very bad situation. My bet is that he'll be charged with manslaughter, convicted, and receive probation.

pwned!

Ok, the students in the house were only recently robbed the day before so they are already in "pissed' mode.

The 'suspected' burglar was only just released from prison a few days prior.

He deserves death. He lunged, he threatened and he obviously didn't learn from his time in lock up.
Of course I'm anti-prison, more public punishment. Bring back the stocks and caning and the crime rate will definitely decrease.

there were 4 students who confronted the man, this lunging story is obviously bullsh"t

Wow, thats pretty frightening. You can't agree with killing someone for theft, surely?

Self defence is one thing, but killing someone else is completely different. Having said that, one cannot know the exact circumstances which led to the incident.

One guy lunges at four guys, this story is dripping with strangeness.

Guy would have skewered the neighbours kids if they came to retreive a ball too

When i get my own place, may set up the entry hall as a scene from an S&M dungeon with a poster of "Pulp Fiction" hanging on the wall - just to give any wannabe robbers a second thought... :Devil

"I prefer not to react in cruelty, but maintain that the student is brave enough to show that Samurai still exist even in this generation due to dedication and inheritance of culture.

Culture defied the truth that movies are not fake and some of them are the culture inherited from our ancestors."-Donabell C. De Apera

Anyone else imagining the scene from Hannibal rising?

SHOCKED AND STUNNED about this, I mean he must have taken a lot of guts to make a move like that Akira Kurosawa will be proud.

speak to the hand...

An "armchair critic" calling for restraint and saying it's not ok to horrifically slaughter people for little or no reason is better than an an armchair butcher who has a vicarious thrill and virtual orgasm over stories like this. Put down the video games and learn about real thinking breathing people who have families and friends that care about them- people aren't unthinking zombie game sprites to be killed for your banal pleasure. Those supporting actions like this are almost as sick as those who commit them.

You know this kid is going to have the most badass reputation at his college now, and probably an awesome nickname. I can just see the fratboys outside the bar when they see him walking up yelling "saaaamURAiiii!!!!"

What would have taken longer/been more tragic:

calling 9-1-1 and LEAVING THE HOUSE?

or getting your three friends grabbing a katana and confronting a thief?

The four kids should not have cornered the guy in a garage WHILE HOLDING A WEAPON. They were the catalyst that caused the man to jump at them and subsequently be killed.

I don't believe the kid should go to jail, i just want it known that he and his friends acted foolishly and it cost a life.

and it should also be noted that the anime/gunho freaks here are disgusting "bad ass he killed a dude!" yeah bad ass because killing people is the new god damn black and everyone is doing it.

grow up.

Best weapon of choice. Bruce Willis chose it to save his ass, too.

Look, as anyone who as ever had to take a life will tell you, there is nothing fun or glorifying about it, and it permanently changes you.

However, as the report says, the student's house had been robbed on a previous night, and when the students confronted the man, they say he lunged at them. And the fact remains that this man was on their property, probably with ill intent. It sucks that there is such a grey area of self-defense when it comes to home invasion... but there is.

But look at it like this, this was a student at Johns Hopkins University, not exactly a run-of-the-mill school. He was not the crazy guy on the block sitting in his underwear stroking his sword (bought from the 3am QVC sword show) waiting for someone to step on the grass so he could go chop them up.

I DO NOT feel that he should be charged with manslaughter at all.

And saying that this "victim" has a family and feelings just like the rest of us only further undermines the rights of good, law abiding citizens. That is not to say that everyone has the right to go hacking people apart, but drug addiction or state in life aside, this "victim" chose to invade the home of someone, he should have known there could be consequences, and they could be dire.

I would have broke out my ninja on him

: O

great distraction if you wanted to off someone. the horror and fascination of gaping wounds could be a good smoke screen for sinister motive. just like saying you were kidnapped to hide a bad report card.
ever see someone bleed out, the floor of the garage would be covered and red would run down the drive way into the gutter.
people are just leaky bags of mostly dirty water.

I wonder if the intruder was armed?

sounds sketchy to me...
and why do the reference his school? he is like extra special and more innocent because he goes to John Hopkins? what does it matter in this situation? a life is a life.

I bet he's one of those Kill Bill fans that cums all over themselves everytime you said "Katana" instead of sword.

He probably waited many years for this opportunity to finally use it.

This is totally screwed up. Some guy was killed for breaking into a garage, by some student with a goddamn samurai sword?

and oh btw, why the hell would one need a samurai sword? unless this student was a 11 year old middle schooler whose a little too much into anime and american ninja movies, i just don't get it.

Well, all the armchair critics...see how you react to some maniac, what, juggle a sword, say, stay right there honi, while I call 911...

any moron trying to walk in on my house has a paul chen sword to look forward to, and if he's farther than 4 or 5 feet away, he can say hello to mr 1911.

who in the hell just has a samurai sword laying around? Couldn't he have just threatened the guy with it while calling 911? Geez.

that's fucking crazy! its like the opposite of the garage burglary scene in Gran Torino.

I can't understand why people are crowing like morons about this. What that student did was horrific and uncalled for, he should be arrested , tried for man slaughter and spend the next ten years rotting in jail. I have swords at home but I wouldn't be stupid enough to hack someone to death just because they broke in.

i can just imagine the burglar hearing the sword come out with a big "SHINK"....thats never a good thing to hear.