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How does a 27-year-old fail to kill an 80-year-old with a samurai sword?

by oguz-ismail 2y ago

tibbetts 2y ago
Probably by trying to do it from first principles.
- Trasmatta 2y ago
  They failed because they didn't fold the glorious Nippon steel themselves.
- idontwantthis 2y ago
  Living in a container, playing with a Samurai sword… Neal we need you to go on TV and tell these people to quit fooling around.
tolerance 2y ago
I'm sure a historian could give a more detailed explanation, but my guess is that: Once steel meets flesh the Role Play ends and all that's left is Live Action, and to take a life is not a meager task when life as you knew it was a virtual mediation.
vdjskshi 2y ago
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jnwatson 2y ago
Perhaps they weren't trying?
derbOac 2y ago
I've worked professionally on cases that have parallels. It suffices to say people sometimes have second thoughts in the moment.
- codr7 2y ago
  More like life is messy and difficult compared to pretending.
morpheos137 2y ago
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nullc 2y ago
They brought a sword to a gun fight. Presumably they would have killed the landlord on the first go if he hadn't managed to shoot and kill on of the assailants first. But it seems they went back later and finished the job. (He survived the original attack, only to be subsequently successfully murdered)
nickkell 2y ago
He knew his Judo well.
YurgenJurgensen 2y ago
Most ‘samurai swords’ on the market are barely-functional wall-hangers. And the article describes it as a stabbing. Curved swords are actually quite hard to effectively stab with, so it’s hardly surprising that an untrained user using a poor-quality weapon incorrectly couldn’t cause a lethal wound.
- noslacknoops 2y ago
  "'He had a samurai sword stuck to his back with about a foot of it sticking out in front, his face cut up all over,' said his friend Patrick McMillan." https://www.ktvu.com/news/two-held-in-death-of-fellow-squatter-shot-by-elderly-vallejo-property-owner https://www.ktvu.com/news/two-held-in-death-of-fellow-squatt...

How does a 27-year-old fail to kill an 80-year-old with a samurai sword?

tibbetts 2y ago

Probably by trying to do it from first principles.

Trasmatta 2y ago
They failed because they didn't fold the glorious Nippon steel themselves.
idontwantthis 2y ago
Living in a container, playing with a Samurai sword… Neal we need you to go on TV and tell these people to quit fooling around.

tolerance 2y ago

I'm sure a historian could give a more detailed explanation, but my guess is that: Once steel meets flesh the Role Play ends and all that's left is Live Action, and to take a life is not a meager task when life as you knew it was a virtual mediation.

vdjskshi 2y ago

[dead]

jnwatson 2y ago

Perhaps they weren't trying?

derbOac 2y ago

I've worked professionally on cases that have parallels. It suffices to say people sometimes have second thoughts in the moment.

codr7 2y ago
More like life is messy and difficult compared to pretending.

morpheos137 2y ago

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nullc 2y ago

They brought a sword to a gun fight. Presumably they would have killed the landlord on the first go if he hadn't managed to shoot and kill on of the assailants first. But it seems they went back later and finished the job. (He survived the original attack, only to be subsequently successfully murdered)

nickkell 2y ago

He knew his Judo well.

YurgenJurgensen 2y ago

Most ‘samurai swords’ on the market are barely-functional wall-hangers. And the article describes it as a stabbing. Curved swords are actually quite hard to effectively stab with, so it’s hardly surprising that an untrained user using a poor-quality weapon incorrectly couldn’t cause a lethal wound.

noslacknoops 2y ago
"'He had a samurai sword stuck to his back with about a foot of it sticking out in front, his face cut up all over,' said his friend Patrick McMillan." https://www.ktvu.com/news/two-held-in-death-of-fellow-squatter-shot-by-elderly-vallejo-property-owner https://www.ktvu.com/news/two-held-in-death-of-fellow-squatt...