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That's definitely at Georgia Tech, I know that girl. Small world. Some background might help: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/22465319/detail.html http://www.wsbtv.

• Tichy 16y ago
  It seems really tasteless to carry a Samurai Sword umbrella on such a campus. ThinkGeek? More like ThinkFreak...
  • huhtenberg 16y ago
    Don't know why you are down-modded. It is completely idiotic to walk around with something that looks like a samurai sword only few months after someone ran around the campus with the real thing injuring people.
    • CWuestefeld 16y ago
      On the contrary. It helps show that continued efforts at victim disarmament (first no firearms; now that the bad guys use bladed weapons, we must have a crusade against those next) do not save anyone in the long run. Or, maybe it just shows that GT are pirates whose natural enemy is the ninja.
      • huhtenberg 16y ago
        Right. Freaking out random people is a great way to stand up to that pesky government. That will show 'em.
        • CWuestefeld 16y ago
          Well, yeah. We've removed people's ability to defend themselves, and replaced it with a knee-jerk fear. The freaking out is, I contend, more the result of fear-mongering (in this case by Liberals, but in other cases from the other side). The world didn't used to work that way. And in some places it's still more rational. I've got a cabin in the woods, and around there it's pretty much assumed that everyone owns firearms. One can frequently see someone walking around the grocery store with a knife on his belt, and (a) no one gives it a second thought, and (b) no one gets stabbed.
          • gaius 16y ago
            Exactly. I'm a sailor and a diver, and everyone has a knife. Never, ever heard of anyone getting stabbed in any of those communities. It's just a perfectly normal tool, like a compass.
            • sophacles 16y ago
              Having worked in many kitchens, where everyone also has at least one, usually more, knives, I can say stabbings are a surprisingly common occurrence. Cuttings even more so (not talking about accidents either).
              • adnam 16y ago
                How common?
                • CWuestefeld 16y ago
                  In the kitchen, I'd say it's medium-rare.
                • sophacles 16y ago
                  Common enough that most long timers in the kitchen have seen a stabbing or serious cutting, and plenty of minor cuttings. At a different level, inflicting pain with knives and other sharp things was a common practical joke and an accepted pastime. For instance, at one place, we had to wear these stupid name-tag pins, and had a part of the kitchen visible to the dining area. So the game was to use the pin on the name tag to stab people standing where customers could see them. It had to be done in a subtle way that you couldn't be seen stabbing. The stabee was not supposed to react visibly as that would not be good for business. It got vicious sometimes, but we still played and had fun with it. It's totally the type of thing that lands people in jail for assult and harassment in most settings, but in the kitchen it was just normal.
          • huhtenberg 16y ago
            > and around there it's pretty much assumed that everyone one owns firearms Well, yeah, exactly. Around campus it's pretty much assumed that people don't walk around carrying samurai swords. That's unless they have malicious intent as it was demonstrated by a lunatic just few months ago. Given the circumstances this has very little to do with liberals, it's just basic common sense.
      • Tichy 16y ago
        You mean if everybody would be carrying Samurai swords, there would be less chopping incidents?
        • camiller 16y ago
          If everyone were carrying firearms there would be less people (remaining) carrying Samurai umbrellas.
          • Tichy 16y ago
            That reminds me that I actually tend to worry when I accidentally end up walking a few steps behind a woman in the dark. What if she thinks I am a stalker and shoots me? So I always try to overtake them as fast as possible.
    • rdl 16y ago
      It's completely idiotic to openly carry a fake weapon. Carry a concealed weapon, or open-carry a real weapon, or carry nothing, but never open carry a fake weapon. Nothing good can come of it.
  • tvon 16y ago
    I agree on the guy carrying the umbrella, not sure what the "ThinkFreak" comment has to do with anything. More to the point, it seems like you're making fun of ThinkGeek for something that was not their fault. Really, I think I'm just easily annoyed by clever nicknames and catch phrases which distort the issues at hand (blame "ground zero mosque" for that one I guess).
    • Tichy 16y ago
      I am sure that ThinkGeek has some cool gadgets, and I don't explicitly blame them. But items like that just give geeks a bad name imo. ThinkFreak was more aimed at the customer here, though - thinking more like a freak than a geek.
• Anechoic 16y ago
  There's actually been a bunch of katana attacks around the country in recent months, including one incident where the police shot a guy in Boston this past winder: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100127cops_subdue_sword-swinging_man/srvc=news&position=also http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100127cops_... All in all, the cops seemed to handle the GT situation well.
• Jun8 16y ago
  I just knew that guy had to be a PhD candidate. Verified and yep, he is. Doesn't mention his major, could it be EE?