We can always argue if it is smart to fight back against armed robbers. Still, this is one brave young man!
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UK -- A boy fought off a gang of masked robbers who burst into his home and attacked his father with Samurai swords.
15-year-old Craig smashed a glass coffee table over the back of one of the raiders as he slashed at his father. The father was struggling with the robber after three men burst into his home in Freehold, Rochdale.
The robbers, wearing balaclavas and dressed all in black, slipped into the house through the unlocked front door at about 10:30 p.m. But they fled empty-handed after being tackled by Craig.
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Thursday, July 05, 2007
Monday, January 29, 2007
Sword nuts
South Dakota -- Police killed a teenager who they said used a sword to kill his mother and injure three other people, including an officer.
Officers called to the family’s home Friday found a 14-year-old girl with several cuts on her lower arms and hands. The officers then spotted her 16-year-old brother swinging a long sword, police said.
The boy struck one of the officers several times before the others fired several shots, killing him.
Police then found the body of the boy’s mother, 49-year-old mom and an injured foreign exchange student.
Schmitt said he believes the boy collected swords.
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Officers called to the family’s home Friday found a 14-year-old girl with several cuts on her lower arms and hands. The officers then spotted her 16-year-old brother swinging a long sword, police said.
The boy struck one of the officers several times before the others fired several shots, killing him.
Police then found the body of the boy’s mother, 49-year-old mom and an injured foreign exchange student.
Schmitt said he believes the boy collected swords.
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006
'Swordid'
The old saying 'never bring a sword to a gunfight' turns out to be bad advice – at least for Guillermo Tovar, who survived being held at gunpoint in his own house when he cut the gunman's trigger finger off before he could fire.
The gunmen broke in to Tovar's east Memphis house in the small hours of the morning on November 4. They kicked down his front door, pointed a gun at his son's head and demanded cash and jewelery, before pistol-whipping Tovar unconscious.
It was when Tovar came to that things got interesting. He grabbed a sword from underneath the couch - described as a cavalry-type sabre, which the household used for cutting vegetation in the garden – and confronted the burglars. With a gun pointed at him and the intruder's finger already on the trigger, Tovar swung the sword – cutting the man's trigger finger off.
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The gunmen broke in to Tovar's east Memphis house in the small hours of the morning on November 4. They kicked down his front door, pointed a gun at his son's head and demanded cash and jewelery, before pistol-whipping Tovar unconscious.
It was when Tovar came to that things got interesting. He grabbed a sword from underneath the couch - described as a cavalry-type sabre, which the household used for cutting vegetation in the garden – and confronted the burglars. With a gun pointed at him and the intruder's finger already on the trigger, Tovar swung the sword – cutting the man's trigger finger off.
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