A pleasant change of pace

[dianeduane]

(Like those UK commercials that showed things like giant hedgehogs running over tiny little trucks.)

Normally any time we hear the word "samurai" in a TV news story, Peter and I both wince, expecting to hear about somebody who's run amuck somewhere with a cheap katana. But today, for a change, it's something different.

Police are trying to trace a mysterious samurai sword-wielding vigilante who came to the rescue of two officers when they were being attacked by an armed gang.

The officers had been set upon after they tried to disrupt a burglary at a flat in Laygate, South Shields.

...One of [the burglars] lunged at a policeman with his knife - but just as he did so, a mysterious do-gooder appeared from nowhere and attacked [the burglar] with a samurai sword.

One of the burglars ran off, but was stopped by the stranger, who hit him on the arm with the sword.

He was arrested, along with another man from the flat, but in true superhero fashion the samurai man disappeared before police could speak to him.

Going to be interesting to see how this unfolds...

Comments

[xnamkrad.livejournal.com]

Who was that masked stranger?

On the other hand, there was a case here (Ireland) a few years ago. A couple heard noises in their house, early morning. The husband chased the intruder and as he was jumping over the wall, hit him with a golf club. The next day he was arrested and charged with assault. At the court case, he was found guilty (as the intruder was leaving, so no self defence) and received a week in jail - suspended. Then the judge asked the intruder to explain exactly what was he doing in the house. He got six months.