Truth: Stranger than Fiction
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mackinzieWhat do a nun, a kitchen knife, and a police shield have in common?
Also? How about a sword fight?
Thu Mar 1, 11:19 PM ET
NEW YORK - An emotionally disturbed man driving his car on a sidewalk nearly ran over a nun on Thursday before trying to stab a rookie policeman in the chest and breaking his knife on the officer's shield, authorities said.
The unusual string of events started in Queens about 5 p.m., when the man left the scene of an accident and started barreling down a sidewalk where the nun was walking, police said.
Another man pushed the nun out of the way of the oncoming car, which struck a tree and a wall before coming to a stop, the New York Police Department said. When the driver tried to run away, two people tried to stop him, but they backed off when he threatened them with a kitchen knife, police said.
Two responding officers confronted the driver, who then tried to stab one of them, Stuart Ingram, in the chest, police said.
Ingram said later he told the man repeatedly to drop the knife but the man lunged at him with it. He said the knife hit his badge and shattered.
Ingram said he struck the man with an expandable baton and, with the help of a civilian, subdued him.
"That's when we apprehended him," Ingram said coolly at a news conference.
The 50-year-old man was in custody Thursday night, and charges against him were pending, police said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070302/ap_on_fe_st/policeman_saved;_ylt=AkF4KRQpL4ET4xVUUa8.mQUsQE4F
Is that weird or what? Either somebody's making some stuff up or that's almost scene in a movie worthy. This one too. Or at least back in the days of ye old chivalry. I bet that guy was surprised. I can only picture how that might've gone:
"Ha! Stand back. I have a sword!"
"Oh yeah? Well..." *BLING!*
"My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father...prepare to die."
Fri Mar 2, 12:22 PM ET
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - A man toting a 3-foot sword apparently met his match when he broke into his ex-girlfriend's apartment: The woman's roommate grabbed a sword of his own and sliced the intruder, police said.
The roommate, a sword collector, fended off the ex-boyfriend, who was cut on the arm, police said.
Elvis Javier Polanco, 18, was treated at a hospital and charged with burglary and aggravated assault, Beaufort County sheriff's Capt. Toby McSwain said. He said Polanco broke a window and climbed on his friend's shoulders to get into the apartment.
The roommate, Louis Delgado Hernandez, disarmed the intruder while the woman called police, McSwain said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070302/ap_on_fe_st/brf_sword_fight;_ylt=AkKRoaUjvaaVlECLd0x6zKMuQE4F
That's awesome! Scary, but awesome. Who keeps a sword around to match the guy who breaks in with a sword?
Also? How about a sword fight?
Man saves nun, badge saves NYPD officer
Thu Mar 1, 11:19 PM ET
NEW YORK - An emotionally disturbed man driving his car on a sidewalk nearly ran over a nun on Thursday before trying to stab a rookie policeman in the chest and breaking his knife on the officer's shield, authorities said.
The unusual string of events started in Queens about 5 p.m., when the man left the scene of an accident and started barreling down a sidewalk where the nun was walking, police said.
Another man pushed the nun out of the way of the oncoming car, which struck a tree and a wall before coming to a stop, the New York Police Department said. When the driver tried to run away, two people tried to stop him, but they backed off when he threatened them with a kitchen knife, police said.
Two responding officers confronted the driver, who then tried to stab one of them, Stuart Ingram, in the chest, police said.
Ingram said later he told the man repeatedly to drop the knife but the man lunged at him with it. He said the knife hit his badge and shattered.
Ingram said he struck the man with an expandable baton and, with the help of a civilian, subdued him.
"That's when we apprehended him," Ingram said coolly at a news conference.
The 50-year-old man was in custody Thursday night, and charges against him were pending, police said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070302/ap_on_fe_st/policeman_saved;_ylt=AkF4KRQpL4ET4xVUUa8.mQUsQE4F
Is that weird or what? Either somebody's making some stuff up or that's almost scene in a movie worthy. This one too. Or at least back in the days of ye old chivalry. I bet that guy was surprised. I can only picture how that might've gone:
"Ha! Stand back. I have a sword!"
"Oh yeah? Well..." *BLING!*
"My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father...prepare to die."
Sword fight ensues after S.C. break-in
Fri Mar 2, 12:22 PM ET
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - A man toting a 3-foot sword apparently met his match when he broke into his ex-girlfriend's apartment: The woman's roommate grabbed a sword of his own and sliced the intruder, police said.
The roommate, a sword collector, fended off the ex-boyfriend, who was cut on the arm, police said.
Elvis Javier Polanco, 18, was treated at a hospital and charged with burglary and aggravated assault, Beaufort County sheriff's Capt. Toby McSwain said. He said Polanco broke a window and climbed on his friend's shoulders to get into the apartment.
The roommate, Louis Delgado Hernandez, disarmed the intruder while the woman called police, McSwain said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070302/ap_on_fe_st/brf_sword_fight;_ylt=AkKRoaUjvaaVlECLd0x6zKMuQE4F
That's awesome! Scary, but awesome. Who keeps a sword around to match the guy who breaks in with a sword?
