Woman critically injured in sword attack

[helderheid]

Woman critically injured in sword attack

By Erin Alberty

The Salt Lake Tribune

Salt Lake Tribune
Updated: 12/10/2008 11:06:14 AM MST


A Salt Lake City man attacked a woman with a sword, inflicting critical head injuries, after she allowed him into her home to spend the Christmas season with their children, police said.

The woman did not feel threatened by the man initially, even as he was sharpening his katana sword Monday in her kitchen near 1100 South and 900 West, police said.

But then he took the sword into the living room and struck her, cutting her face and the top of her head, according to police. He also hit her with the broad side of the sword, bending it badly. Witnesses intervened, and the man fled.

The woman was hospitalized in serious to critical condition, according to police. The man was arrested in a park near Indiana Avenue.

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_11185966?source=rss

:wow:

[slackmaster]

1. In before someone says something about the National Sword Association defending the attacker

:nuke:

[helderheid]

2. After all, swords don't kill people...

[-..__...]

17. Think so? Just ask Tripp Fisk..

"Swords are dangerous... they'll cut your fucking throat wide open"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_RpbaUU7NI

(NSFW)

[XemaSab]

43. That video made my day

:D

[jpak]

3. If they outlaw swords...

:evilgrin:

[XemaSab]

42. First they came for the samurai, and I didn't say anything because I wasn't a samurai...

:cry:

[JonQ]

8. Everyone knows that this is a result of our countries obsession with swords

and our general promotion of an unsafe, macho sword culture. No I don't blame him. It was the swords fault. And all those who think that swords are acceptable in this day and age. We need to outright ban them and do away with anything glorifying swords; like museums, movies, television shows, those tacky sword shaped toothpicks you sometimes get at bars, a great many Halloween costumes, a large percentage of our history classes, any religious texts that mention these vile weapons, and so on.

Oh yeah, insert something about compensating for small genitalia.

[Renew Deal]

10. lol

You guys are funny.

:rofl:

[LanternWaste]

12. And insert also some good bumper-stickers...

And since we're being flippant about it and all... :P

"When swords are outlawed, only outlaws will accidentally decapitate their kids..."

[JonQ]

15. Dang I forgot one

Swords need to be singled out for special laws and regulations because they exist only to kill, they serve no other function. So while the deaths they cause are trivial in number compared to things like cars, swimming pools, and golfing we should be exceptionally outraged over deaths involving swords because they're *evil*.

People wouldn't go for a ban outright, maybe we just ban military style swords first, then work our way down to wooden swords, hobbyist swords (fencing for instance) and fake swords (light-sabre replicas need to go dammit!).

[helderheid]

16. If they outlaw swords, the light sabre replicas will most certainly be next!

[MountainLaurel]

4. I'm a bit confused

Did the woman know this guy before she "allowed him into her home"?

[Book Lover]

5. "...with their children..."

Yes, apparently.

[lukasahero]

22. Domestic violence - bring on the funnies!

Gotta love it when a thread about a woman in critical condition due to the father of her children assaulting her with a sword brings out all the best jokes. :(

[Book Lover]

26. Par for the course lately I daresay

Between the increase in sexism and the tossing of our GLBTQQ sisters and brothers, DU depresses me more and more lately. If only it were only the trolls.

[MountainLaurel]

33. Ah, missed that bit

I've been staring at documents at work for so long I'm going cross-eyed.

[Book Lover]

35. It was kind of hidden in the text

and reminds us all that we women are, statistically speaking, in more danger from those who are our friends and family than any random stranger.

[OnyxCollie]

6. It's best to not allow people carrying katana swords into your house. nt

[krispos42]

7. Must have been a cheap sword

I don't think a "real" sword would be bent if you struck somebody with the flat.



There was a sword attack in South Dakota a couple years ago.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=63253


Killed his mom and injured three more before attacking the cops, who shot him in self-defense.



The guy was 16 :-(

[TK421]

11. "Never bring a sword to a gun fight"

[krispos42]

27. Bring both

(chainsaw = motorized knife)

:evilgrin:

[TK421]

29. I should e-mail those pics to Bruce Campbell...see if he's impressed

:D

[LostinVA]

24. I had had a good-quality katana when I did iaido -- it would not have bent

It was a live blade able to kill someone. This guy had a rattail-tanged wallhanger piece of garbage.

[krispos42]

28. Awesome

I approve of women that can kick ass when needed. :thumbsup:

[LostinVA]

30. hahahaha

My wife holds a second-degree blackbelt in a form of full-contact karate.

[krispos42]

49. I remember you mentioned that when you posted that picture of her

Back when Haruka was verboten.

I approve more! :-)

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[hfojvt]

32. oh crap, that's my hometown too

and the father of that kid was a high school friend of mine. Not a close friend, but I did visit his house at our 20 year reunion. He was a fundamentalist Christian, but far as I knew was a really nice, decent guy. Makes me wonder if his/their parenting was super-strict or what happened there.

[spin]

38. Most swords are for decoration only...

A real sword can be expensive.

[myrna minx]

9. There can be only one. n/t

[Lyric]

19. DAMMIT.

You stole my response!

:rofl:

[myrna minx]

47. Here we are... We're the Princess' of the Universe...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnrXiaPVeHY
:rofl:

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Very strangely written piece for a newspaper. From 'their children', one would guess it

was her ex-husband or ex-boyfriend.

[petronius]

21. Very strange - I wonder if there's some sort of privacy issue that the writer

is skirting around, but I can't imagine what it would be.

Very sad for the woman, and especially the kids. This is wild speculation, but it sounds like she tried to do a kind (if misguided) act and was paid back with violence...

[MountainLaurel]

39. I'm wondering

If that the concern is that by identifying the parents, they would be identifying the children? Usually, this isn't a concern unless the child is the victim of the crime. But in Salt Lake, who knows?

[jody]

14. People who keep and bare swords are trying to compensate for sexual inadequacies.

That's :sarcasm: before some sword-grabber posts it. :rofl:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

18. I say we ban women before this happens again.

[mkultra]

40. im sure someone here thinks we should ban men.

[JVS]

20. Must have been Robert Hamburger

[Forkboy]

23. This never would have happened if we all had swords.

[EFerrari]

25. There but for the grace of God. n/t

[Fumesucker]

31. For some odd reason this OP reminds me of the opening passage from Snow Crash

The Deliverator belongs to an elite order, a hallowed sub-category. He's got esprit up to here. Right now he is preparing to carry out his third mission of the night. His uniform is black as activated charcoal, filtering the very light out of the air. A bullet will bounce off its arachno-fiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest. Where his body has bony extremities, the suit has sintered armorgel: feels like gritty jello, protects like a stack of telephone books.

When they gave him the job, they gave him a gun. The Deliverator never deals in cash, but someone might come after him anyway–might want his car, or his cargo. The gun is a tiny, aero-styled, lightweight, the kind of a gun a fashion designer would carry; it fires teensy darts that fly at five times the velocity of an SR-71 spy plane, and when you get done using it, you have to plug it in to the cigarette lighter, because it runs on electricity.

The Deliverator never pulled that gun in anger, or in fear. He pulled it once in Gila Highlands. Some punks in Gila Highlands, a fancy Burbclave, wanted themselves a delivery, and they didn't want to pay for it. Thought they would impress the Deliverator with a baseball bat. The Deliverator took out his gun, centered its laser doo-hickey on that poised Louisville Slugger, fired it. The recoil was immense, as though the weapon had blown up in his hand. The middle third of the baseball bat turned into a column of burning sawdust accelerating in all directions like a bursting star. Punk ended up holding this bat handle with milky smoke pouring out the end. Stupid look on his face. Didn't get nothing but trouble from the Deliverator.

Since then the Deliverator has kept the gun in the glove compartment and relied, instead, on a matched set of samurai swords, which have always been his weapon of choice anyhow. The punks in Gila Highlands weren't afraid of the gun, so the Deliverator was forced to use it. But swords need no demonstration.

[petronius]

34. Neal Stephenson is the master of the first chapter

Other authors may not know how to get started, but he leaps right in there with a bang. I frequently re-read just the first part of The Diamond Age, as well as Snow Crash - in fact, I think I'll do that right now... :)

[Fumesucker]

45. Most of the time, if a book doesn't grab me in the first page I'm probably not gonna like it much..

A good writer knows that first page is the most important one as far as hooking the reader and puts a lot of effort into it.

Stephenson is one of the few writers that force me to look up words, I like that.. I could reasonably guess the meaning of propaedeutic, but enchiridion left me scratching my head and reaching for the dictionary.

[VOX]

36. I can only think of John Belushi's "Samurai Deli" and "Samurai Dry Cleaners"...

Of course, it's terrible what happened to the woman in Salt Lake City.

But I just can't help it. :crazy:

[Occam Bandage]

37. That's a shitty-ass sword to bend so easily. nt

[Matariki]

41. Don't you just *love* these half-info articles?

Did she know the guy? Was she inviting random people into her home for the holidays out of charity?

Leads to all sorts of unfounded opinion on the situation, no?

[lukasahero]

44. Well, if anoyone actually reads the article

they will see where she invited the man to spend Christmas with their children. Kind of puts a different spin on it, no?

[Matariki]

51. Hmm, I didn't read that as neccesarily *his* and her children.

But you're probably right.

[nadinbrzezinski]

46. OUCH, Katanas are nasty

OUCH

[MrSlayer]

48. Katana does 1d10 points of damage.

This is a crazy story. It's also very vague. Who was this guy? It sounds like she invited a complete stranger in for no apparent reason.

[BoneDaddy]

52. I thought it was a

d8, my D and D fan. HEHE.

[pinniped]

50. Sure, I always invite nuts into my house to sharpen their katana.

Do katanas make you nervous?

Katanas have their uses. Idiots, with katanas make me nervous.