Police arrest man accused of light saber assault at Toys RUS

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/police-arrest-man-accused-light-saber-assault-toys-162829995.html

Police in Portland, Ore, were alerted to a disturbance in the Force Wednesday night after a man allegedly went on a rampage with a plastic light saber at a local Toys R Us store.

After fielding a 9-1-1 call, police officers made their way to the scene, only to find that the attacker had left the store and was continuing his assault in the parking lot. And according to the local police report, the situation only became stranger after that:

Officers arrived and attempted to take the suspect into custody but he continued to swing the light saber and was yelling incoherent statements. One officer attempted to use a Taser but it was ineffective. A second officer used a Taser which made good contact but the suspect used the light saber to break one of the wires.

Yes, that's right: The attacker used his light saber to deflect two Taser blasts.

The police officers were eventually able to subdue the 33-year-old man, who has not yet been named publicly. Thankfully, Yoda's adage that "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering," was not followed to its conclusion. Portland Police Sgt. Pete Simpson said that none of the victims of the light saber attack needed medical attention.

The light saber has carved out quite a place in American popular culture. The infamous "Star Wars kid," was one of the Internet's first memes and even President Obama flashed a toy light saber on the White House lawn.

Probably a guy who went nuts after he didn't get in on the first day of early access to SWTOR...

Oh no! He went to kill the younglings!

He was able to deflect a taser with a toy light saber?!?!
A mighty Sith will you become! I name you.... Darth Nutso!

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Ah yes, The Force is strong with that one (though in his case it must be due to consorting with the Dark Side; would a Jedi hit people in the head with a plastic light-saber?).

We had a guy wielding a Samurai Katana on a busy street in downtown Seattle. He thought his name was MacLeod and was born 400 years ago in the highlands of Scotland.

Police used pressure from a firehose to knock him on his butt. When people lose balance they tend to drop what they are holding and brace themselves for the fall. So he dropped the sword and police grabbed it and cuffed him. Not sure what happened to the fellow. I hope no one took his head.

note to self.....If I ever do something stupid enough that police feel the need to taze me....make sure I have a light saber on my person.

Jojo

I was actually downtown when that happened, I'd even seen that same guy on that corner before. Had to have been one of the dumbest things I'd seen up to that point, the SPD shutdown four blocks of downtown because of one guy with a smoke-shop katana, and it took them till 9:30 at night to think of hitting him with a firehose and pinning him with a ladder to immobilize him. I can't remember if this was before or after they evacuated Westlake because of that truck with the bumper sticker that said "da bomb", but my opinion of the SPD hasn't really recovered from either incident.

Protip: Cold water wetsuit...

Dox47 wrote:

Ineptness seems reign supreme in the LE community.

Mmm! Strong is the farce with this one! A Jedi he will never be!

Dangit, I'm too late. -shakes fist-

really that will work against tazers??
gettting riot gear together...lets see. Tent...check, gas mask..check, cold-water wetsuit...check, toys r us light saber for back up...check, disposable cell phone, check. All I need is a cause....let me think on that one.................... aww forget it....who needs a cause. I just wanna see if this sh*t works...c-u laytr.
jk

Jojo

Beyond simple incompetence, the real problem in LE these days is too many cops, too many toys, and not enough real crime to chase so they start getting "creative" looking to make work for themselves. I take the ferry in and out of Seattle, and occasionally it's shadowed by LE swiftboats with mounted M249s clearly visible; as if they could do something with those if someone say drove a carbomb onto the boat. My little town got a post 9/11 anti-terror grant from the feds and used the money to upgrade from Remington 870s in the cars to AR15s and equip a SWAT team, as well as hire way more cops than we need for our town of 20,000. Now they spend all their time setting speedtraps and writing as many tickets as possible to cover all the excess people and equipment, it's gotten completely out of control.

Emphasis on this part.

Our police don't have the training to take on Jedis.

They will probably use this incident as justification to roll out the Wireless Equivalent of the Taser