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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: THX on October 17, 2003, 12:41:43 AM
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...because they ALWAYS know kung fu!
Martial arts expert kills two raiders
Philip Willan in Rome
Monday October 13, 2003
The Guardian
A Chinese martial arts expert was in custody yesterday after turning the tables on four burglars armed with knives, killing two of them and seriously wounding a third.
The 28-year-old man, known as "the doctor" for his practice of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, managed to seize one of the two knives carried by his assailants and saw off the entire group with the ferocity of his reaction.
Magistrates in the central Italian town of Empoli are now seeking to establish whether his self-defence constituted an excessive use of force.
The butchery, worthy of a Quentin Tarantino film, began shortly before midnight on Friday when the four men knocked at the apartment of a Chinese hairdresser in the centre of Empoli.
The hairdresser, her assistant and "the doctor", who operated from the same premises, were reportedly overpowered and tied up before the group, all thought to be in their 20s and 30s, ransacked the apartment.
Disappointed by their meagre booty, the attackers allegedly threatened to rape the two women unless they told them where the rest of their money was hidden.
At this point the doctor managed to free himself, seize a knife from one of the aggressors and deliver a series of lethal stab wounds.
Investigators found the body of one man, who had been stabbed in the heart, sprawled on the staircase and another man bleeding to death in the street from a wound to his leg. A third man is recovering in hospital from a punctured lung.
The doctor was found crouching in the entrance to the building with cuts to his shoulder, face and hands.
Investigators are trying to determine whether he inflicted the injuries while defending himself inside the apartment, or hunted down the burglars after they had fled.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1061765,00.html
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man i hope he gets off, those a-holes deserve what they got.
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28 = old?
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WOW!!That man deserves to be applauded than prosecuted.Those bastards tried to rape the women!!They were going to destroy those women\'s lifes!!Rapists deserve a worse punishment than death.He just did them a favor and killed the bastards!! :mad:
God bless that man
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When you break into a martial arts expert known as "The Doctor" and threaten to rape his companions.......you are probably gonna die.
Slowly.
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wow.. amazing. It\'s the Iron Monkey!
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28 is 2 years to 30.. which means you\'re over THE HILL!!@)(*)!*@)(*&#)*&
10 YEARS TO GO BOBO@!!!
THEY BETTER DISCOVER THAT YOUTH PILL SOON!N!N!N
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btw:Whi is he called a doctor?He is practicing Chineese medicing of some sorts it sais.Chi Kung?
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Good on him.
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Never judge a book by it\'s cover. It\'s amazing how I avoid a lot of confrontations by the way I look (tall, big shoulders, etc), and while I have martial arts training, I\'ve seen some little guys get into crap at bars and then beat the crap outta the guy bothering them. I think that being beaten up and killed is a reasonable possibility for anyone breaking into someones house with force, so I would say no charges should be laid, even if he had to follow them a short distance to stop them.
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This is nothing. I once saw what had to be an 80 year old chinese Grandmother shoulder checking a 30 year old bus driver to try and get onto an overflowing bus here in San Francisco\'s China Town. She didn\'t just slam into him once, she actually hit him 4 or 5 times without fail right in a row. Although there was nothing really behind the power of her hits, the bus driver, as well as myself, was incredibly surprised to see such behavior from an elderly person. All she needed was some hockey pads and a stick and she could have been a Right Wing for the New Jersey Devils. :)
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I remembered how shocked Ryu was when he saw that. For some reason, that sight didn\'t phase me at all. :p
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Originally posted by Bobs_Hardware
28 = old?
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I\'m w/ fatalxception, being a bodybuilder I usually intimidate most people and never have to get into fights, and I like it that way. No matter if I win or loose a fight, I\'m still going to be hurt\'n.
As for the ninja dude, good for him. Someone breaks into my place and threatens to rape people, they deserve to die, even if it\'s by a geriatric 28 year old...
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geriatric 28 year old. :laughing:
I must be ancient as the mountains then. :p
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well if 28 is old, I guess I\'m middle age. I suddeny feel very tired.
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I would have paid $50 to watch that happen.
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heh sounds liek something out of a movie
how many people you know that practice acupunture - and better yet he gets a knife
man you are sooo screwed after that
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Heh...
Well first of all; I think killling the guy was a little bit much. Honestly, if he had the power to kill them, he could have easily paralyzed them. Everyone makes bad choices, and death isnt the solution.
But then, no one will know what really happened.
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true but when your life is being threatened and you react on instinct with all the adreanaline flowing
you just do it - no thinking of what you are doing and instead just do it
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If he really was some "kung-fu" master, he would know how to control himself.
It goes against their code, I believe. Not sure though.
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he ain\'t Qui Chain Kang dude