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Post by LongBlade on Nov 28, 2006 17:44:24 GMT -6
Sword v gun fight - sword winsMetro.co.uk November 14, 2006 www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=25174&in_page_id=2The old saying 'never bring a sword to a gunfight' turns out to be bad advice – at least for Guillermo Tovar, who survived being held at gunpoint in his own house when he cut the gunman's trigger finger off before he could fire. The gunmen broke in to Tovar's east Memphis house in the small hours of the morning on November 4. They kicked down his front door, pointed a gun at his son's head and demanded cash and jewelery, before pistol-whipping Tovar unconscious. It was when Tovar came to that things got interesting. He grabbed a sword from underneath the couch - described as a cavalry-type sabre, which the household used for cutting vegetation in the garden – and confronted the burglars. With a gun pointed at him and the intruder's finger already on the trigger, Tovar swung the sword – cutting the man's trigger finger off. The armed robbers fled – crucially, forgetting to pick up the missing bit of finger. Police wre able to take a usable print from the finger, and match it to a man who already had a criminal record. While the hunt for the man continues, police expect proving the 9.5-fingered man's guilt to be one of the easier cases they'll have. As Lt. Mickey Williams noted: 'I would think he'd have a hard time explaining how his finger got left in this home.'
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Post by vraptor on Nov 29, 2006 14:59:40 GMT -6
Fingers are no longer legal target is sabre, so I couldn't say, "Touch left!" But I'd give the guy points for style.
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Post by LongBlade on Nov 29, 2006 21:46:52 GMT -6
Fingers are no longer legal target is sabre, so I couldn't say, "Touch left!" But I'd give the guy points for style. Traditional fencing is a bit different. Anytime a body part falls off is a touch!
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Post by Dan Gorman on Nov 30, 2006 1:06:56 GMT -6
At one point I was told that inside 20 feet a knife is as good as a gun. Guess this would support that.
Dan
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Post by fox on Nov 30, 2006 9:35:57 GMT -6
At one point I was told that inside 20 feet a knife is as good as a gun. Guess this would support that. Dan and inside 10 feet it may be better.
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Post by vraptor on Nov 30, 2006 19:06:17 GMT -6
I've heard that, too. I've also heard that a trained man with a blade is better off than an untrained man with a gun. However, trained with tactical nukes is probably better still.
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