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Excellent headline!

Confucius say: Person on wrong end of road rage argument cut off.

Good headline.

That guys got some scary nostrils.


/Headline...good.

What is with newspapers using the term "samurai-style sword"? It's called a katana, morans.

There's magic cliffs everywhere. And Mel Gibson!

Wait.... was the vehicle in question a Highlander?

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Bek: There's magic cliffs everywhere. And Mel Gibson!

Gah, you beat me to it.

I think...the branch...is holdin...It's not holding!

The sword broke... HAHA. That's ll teach him to buy that crap they sell at the flea-markets.

He should've bought one of these:

Cold Steel

Where is everyone getting these swords? Do they hand them out free with tins of beans or what?

And ornithopter, not everyone knows what a katana is because not everyone spends their evenings beating off to anim. Plus I was under the (possibly mistaken, I'm no expert) impression that the samurai used more than just the one kind of sword.

/that will

//dammit.

There can be only one... headline

Siamese Bream: And ornithopter, not everyone knows what a katana is because not everyone spends their evenings beating off to anim.

Wtf does anime have to do with swords?

Nice code there, Statesman-Journal.

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was the swordsman's name alonso quijano?

/ten points to the first person to get the reference

Not everyon ewho obsessively fondles their fantasy swords is such a wackjack. *cough*yeah sure*cough*

/Money is of no account to Alonso Quijano

lordargent

Pretty much everyone I've ever known to have a thing about katanas also has a thing for anime. Apologies if you're the kind of stout fellow who just likes slicing shiat up with a slab of metal and spurns all things tentacle-related.

/I'd slash it.

Siamese Bream: Pretty much everyone I've ever known to have a thing about katanas also has a thing for anime.

I watch anime, very rarely, up until about five years ago, I didn't watch any at all.

My desire for a sword was fueled by dungeons and dragons, and the sword in the stone.

It's not that off topic. It could be sharpened to create an edged weapon.

However, "We see road rage on a fairly regular basis," Okada said. "And those types of swords are becoming more common."

just the other day when i was . . . wtf?

"No Frylok the Highlander isn't a movie. It's a documentary"

-Master shake

That is my favorite ATHF episode. That "it's not holding!" line farkin slays me every time.

"Frylock, the Highlander was a documentary, and it was made in real time."

"What! You had tequila this whole time?!"

"Commence ta jiggulin'"

thats what you get for trying to intimidate someone with a weapon bought at a flea market

"Smith told police that he kept trying to pass Tavares, Bellshaw said. Smith flashed his high beams at Tavares and kept following him to ask him why he wouldn't let him pass.

Tavares said Smith got out of his vehicle carrying a three-foot-long sword and began hitting his driver side window until the sword broke into two pieces."

This man, Smith, is clearly a loser. I base my opinion upon multiple readings of the above paragraphs, wherein; he thinks the police will believe that he 'kept following him to ask him why he wouldn't let him pass', in conjunction with the fact that 'the sword broke into two pieces'.

/Damn Massachusetts drivers
//Worst.Drivers.Evar.

Er, ornithopter, maybe because the samurai didn't only use katana? What if it was a wakazashi? Most people don't know what that is.

Use one of these, and you'll get through the window every time....and be able to cut the guy out of his seat belt, too....and ping him on the head, if he gets out of line...





That being said, the best way to deal with a tailgaiter is to slow down and let him get around you. Giving someone a brake check is an open invitation to escalate the conflict, and you never know what they're packing...

it's a sword nerd circle jerk


taste the wrath of my thousand fold damascene! you should have known i was an iron fisted warrior when you saw the rims on my suzuki samurai!

Cheap sword. Definitely not MacLeod worthy that's for sure.

When they say the sword broke in two, do they mean the actual blade broke, or it cracked off its handle? The latter seems more likely to me.

I nearly did this once... some idiot clipped my car trying to squeeze around me at a red light. I happened to have my sword in the trunk. Popped the trunk, got out, and there was no damage, so no need to behead the grinning bastard.

Kind of a pity, it would have been neat to be on the news - not so neat to be Bubba's biatch for 6-10.

Rivethead ... Nice one.

What I need is a still of Victor Kruger ripping the top off of the old couples car in highlander
Mom!

1000 years of power!!!!

/oblig

Tavares said Smith got out of his vehicle carrying a three-foot-long sword and began hitting his driver side window until the sword broke into two pieces.
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broke in two pieces...that's why I carry an old aluminum softball bat instead

Back in the 70s, my dad was driving home from softball practice and had another co-worker in his car. I guess the co-worker had quite a temper and got in a lot of fights, etc. Anyways, there was some construction going on (this was in the Detroit area) and traffic went down to one lane, and they were creeping along. The guy behind them started blowing his car horn, over and over. My dad was like, where the fark would you like me to go?

Next thing my dad knows, the guy had reached in the back, grabbed a baseball bat, and was out the door before my dad could say anything. The guy walked up and stood directly in front of the guys car, yelled something, and then SMASH! beat the fark out of the car's hood. The guy in the car started freaking out, but didnt drive anywhere. My dad's friend walked over to the drivers side and smashed the rearview mirror off. He did the same with the other side, and then walked around the car smashing all the lights out.

Then he got back in my dad's car and they drove off. I guess the guy in the beat-up car didnt even follow; they drove miles through the construction and never saw him again.

lordargent

Re : The Seven Samurai

Why are there only six in that pic ?

Why do these idiots that go postal with a sword always have cheap Katanas they bought at the flea market?
A decent real use type claymore would do a much better job.

Admiral Digby

The seventh one has the camera!

Would have been funnier if the guy in the car had a gun and shot him. Guess what guys, swords are obsolete. Owning a sword is like owning a Commodore 64 - it gets you geek points, but it's not like it's actually a useful tool.

Tanthalas39: If that episode happened today...your father's friend would been shot dead.

docilej

No kidding! Or even arrested, for sure.

kokomo61: Use one of these, and you'll get through the window every time....

Heh, I bought one of those orange things the day after I saw some Dateline showing how to escape from a car if it goes underwater. For some reason that's one of my biggest fears, being trapped inside a car (or anything) with water filling it up... like that scene from The Cell gave me nightmares.