A True Ninja Warrior
Chris Butera
Where was Quentin Tarantino when you needed him?
September 15th, John Pontolillo, an undergraduate student currently enrolled at John Hopkins University hacked and slashed a suspected burglar with a samurai sword.
Hitori Honzo would be proud.
The student was in his off campus home when he noticed the house had been broken into and he had been robbed of some electronics earlier when he heard a noise emitting from his garage.
Armed with his “weapon of mass destruction,” he slowly followed the noise.
Inside he found burglar Donald D. Rice - a repeat offender released from jail the previous Saturday.
The student tried to attack the lad and with one swift slice of the blade, he severed Rice’s hand and put a huge gash in Rice’s upper torso, rendering him dead at the scene.
But where would one obtain such an obscure weapon?
The internet, of course!
Steve Dribble operates the Japanese “Sword 4 Samurai” website in Birmingham, Alabama. “Sword 4 Samurai” is a site for martial art hobbyists and collectors. The price ranges from $50 to several thousand for a samurai sword. The weapons sold aren’t just replicas, they actually work- and quite well.
Midrange weapons like the sword used in the scenario might also be made available from martial art schools, where students would learn how to use them.
A cut like that would have to have some kind of skill behind it.
Seeing as he was acting in self defense, chances are Pontolillo will most likely not be charged.
Maryland state laws show that in the case of self-defense, anything goes. |
