Showing posts with label robbery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robbery. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Japanese convenience store clerk stops robbery with wooden kendo sword and fighting pose

Noticing that the man was wearing a ski mask and carrying a crowbar, an attentive male clerk who was working at the time quickly anticipated the man’s needs, and helpfully got the ball rolling by asking “You here for our money?”
“That’s right,” the man said, continuing their pithy yet cordial line of dialogue.
Of course, even in Japan there’s a limit to how accommodating business can be, and handing out cash to every robbery who asks for it, politely or not, isn’t something Circle K is prepared to do. So instead the clerk picked up a bokuto, or wooden training sword, that he kept handy.
“I should tell you that I’m first dan in kendo,” the clerk said as he took a fighting stance, thoughtfully informing the robber that he had progressed to the first tier of the upper certification ranks in the traditional Japanese sword-fighting discipline. At the same time the clerk hit the alarm button, and the robber, not liking his odds against a trained martial artist with police backup on the way, instead chose to flee the scene without stealing so much as a single onigiri rice ball.


Saturday, June 3, 2017

Donald Trump Doesn't Offer Sympathy After London: He Offers Up Racism

Donald Trump is using the attack in London to once again advocate for his ridiculous racist ban on Muslims entering the United States.  According to him they should face extreme vetting.  Whatever that may be. He's had more than 120 days in which to implement such a program, yet there's no policy in place.  Donald Trump is nothing more than a racist and a bully who uses these kinds of incidents to promote his 19th century way of thinking. Sadly his most ardent supporters will agree with him.   Of course he does this without having all the necessary facts. Like earlier this week when, without knowing what was happening in Manila called the incident at the casino a terrorist attack when in fact it was an attempted robbery gone wrong.  

In one of his tweets on the subject he stated that the court's needed to give us back our rights.

Except that in America one's rights aren't given to them by the courts.  That happens through the constitution.





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