Just can't make this stuff up...(LA sword attack)

[Ed Oscuro]

LA Times article.

[GaijinPunch]

Porn actor makes threat with sword. How cliche'.

[Ed Oscuro]

How cliche'.

+100 he seems to have gutted his screen "buddy"

lover's quarrel

[Obiwanshinobi]

Is that the cliff from final scene of The Big Lebowski?

[neorichieb1971]

The sword was just an extra. I can't believe someone would commit suicide in such a dramatic way. What I find more disturbing is the aim of the police. It comes under scrutiny far too often.

[Obiwanshinobi]

They say it never rains in southern Caliornia...

[Nate]

I hear he did his own stunts.

[Ed Oscuro]

It comes under scrutiny far too often.

Nobody ever accused him of a shy bladder, did they?

[JoshF]

http://www.wrestlecrap.com/classic37.html

[Ruldra]

Funny, the other article mentioned the guy attacked his co-workers with a machete, while this one mentions a samurai sword.

Changing details to make the story more shocking: journalism at its finest.

[Dragoforce]

I've never heard about a male asian pornactor before.

[sven666]

I've never heard about a male asian pornactor before.

yes you have, you just wont admit it

[Dragoforce]

Nope, I would have remembered a man by the name of Tom Dong

[PC Engine Fan X!]

These type of crazy suicides are just in for the attention...there was a similar situation a few years back in Modesto, CA, of a crazy guy armed with an samurai sword who charged at a female cop in downtown and ended up being shot/killed due to the cop's quick actions. It was later revealed that the guy with the samurai sword had suffered mental problems in the past, hence his weird actions that fateful night that lead to his death.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Ed Oscuro]

Funny, the other article mentioned the guy attacked his co-workers with a machete, while this one mentions a samurai sword.

Changing details to make the story more shocking: journalism at its finest.

Ahh, Ruldra, what would we do without your crazy conspiratorial mindset?

The first article I saw mentioned a "prop sword." It could easily have been that the detail was misunderstood somewhere down the line.

In any case, I think that whether it was a machete, or a samurai sword, or a butter knife, is hardly the most unusual aspect of this story.

[Jockel]

I'm actually quite surprised he died from that fall.
If you've seen the video, it doesn't look like much.
Best part was when nobody seemed to care that he jumped.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

There's been folks whom have jumped off of the famous Golden Gate Bridge and survived with numerous broken bones (not to mention countless others whom have died doing so). A 50 foot drop onto rocky terrain is a wholly different matter though.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[antron]

Tom Dong's got nothing on Mr Hands

[BIL]

Mr. Hands was a Boeing Engineer? Well I never. Always assumed he was a bored gas station employee.

[jonny5]

i heard sword attack and immediately thought of my old drummer

he had an old replica celtic sword on his wall and often when drunk and angry would threaten people saying he would go upstairs and get his sword during arguments....we often hung out on the front stoop drinking and he would get into arguments with passersby

i cant count how many times we had to tackle him as he chased somebody down the street with it...if you have seen police academy, the scene with the riot is my old neighbourhood....kensington market....they even hid out in our building in one of the shots...very busy neighbourhood with a shit ton of foot traffic...so yu can imagine somebody running down the street chasing somebody with a sword...thankfully its such a hippy/punk neighbourhood nobody ever calls the cops

thank god i lived upstairs....i would hear the arguments out my window, and as soon as the sword was mentioned out i would go to save somebody from him

dude was a handful....

still comical though...

drummer-'you want me to get my sword and fucking kill you?' said very drunkenly
passerby-'ya buddy....go get you sword?'
me out the window-'thats a bad idea guy....he really has a sword'
passerby-'fuck him...hes drunk'
drummer-'you wait here'
passerby-'good hes gone..what an asshole'
door opens...out he comes with the sword over his head....
passerby-'fuck me...hes got a sword....help me....help me....' takes off running down the street with drummer in hot pursuit
me-'i told you he had a sword'

and i take off in hot pursuit and try to coax a sword from an angry drunken drummer

or at least catch him and stop him before he runs out of the neighbourhood and onto a main street...where swords arent as widely accepted

good times

[antron]

@jonny5

did he become a cage fighter who shouldn't do shrooms?

"Flawless Victory"

[jonny5]

@jonny5

did he become a cage fighter who shouldn't do shrooms?

"Flawless Victory"

no....the funny thing is, back then i was in my early 20's.....he was in his early 30's.....and i was the one baby sitting him...
but ya...hes calmed down quite a bit and he actually works for the city now drives a truck or something

also, related to your comment....why does everybody keep mentioning that the dude was a cage fighter? he did shrooms and bugged out and mutilated his buddy....he was hallucinating....shit happens...

but i dont get why they keep pushing the mma thing.....it didnt happen in the ring...it was in an apartment

mma made him mutilate his friend, not the hallucinogenic poisons he consumed just before that...../sarcasm

wtf?

/rant

[antron]

yeah right. everybody knows what those guys really want. it's just like engineers and horse cock.

[Ed Oscuro]

Man, I didn't even mention bestiality but it still found its way into this thread.

Maybe this was based on something like who got to keep the poodle - who knows, maybe this was a disagreement between Mr. Dong and the assassin about who got to keep Super Stud? (With apologies to the horse & Mr. Dong).

[ncp]

@jonny5

did he become a cage fighter who shouldn't do shrooms?

"Flawless Victory"

in related news (on that site)

http://www.todayonline.com/World/EDC100 ... ake-a-hike

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[Ed Oscuro]

My favorite part of that article is the big about the Hayward (so similar to Hazelwood...) family with a "bucket and big mop." In 1946 I guess Hitler should have been out cleaning sidewalks and chimneys with a toothbrush, but isn't he a bit more irresponsible than BP, even? Just slightly so.

I half expected (from the URL and the tone) this to be written by somebody from a UK site (there has got to be some feeling of hurt to British pride through all this) but from Bloomberg News? I hope the author's editors over there have a good heart-to-heart about the importance of not being fucking crazy in your columns.

I see the argument, but the most appropriate response is to stick it out. BP has seeded (or "have seeded" if this were British English, right) a number of green programs; while the first CEO of the company to make headway on green projects around the time of the millennium was forced out, that early investment will eventually start paying off.

Given the constant talk on radio, 'net news, and cable TV about how most damage will be to unseen and unheard deepsea wildlife, BP's biggest wiggle room will be partly because the fish have no way of holding the company accountable, and partly because our own knowledge of the deep sea is very limited; which uncertainty their lawyers will have to exploit, even if BP tries not to be publicly greedy and avoid headlines of wiggling out of claims. They will pay any claim...as long as it's known. That seems fair but this is a difficult problem: We have always had the opportunity of better mapping the Gulf but now it is a litigious necessity. That is where most of BP's costs will either be put (or not). Of course, the hundreds to thousands of loose groupings of oil globs will not be going away unless specifically made to go away, and they still will have the possibility of affecting not just wildlife but commercial activities (instead of Roman salting the landscape we have oiling the depths) and even the inland (from sporadically being washed ashore).

It's interesting to note how individual companies' "personalities" have been shown to be so disparate and...individualized.

Exxon-Mobil: Had 1 OSHA fine (as highlighted by Jon Stewart); remains notorious (along with Captain Hazelwood - "Saint Joe, we're close, after decades of shame and the death of the guy who spoke these lines!") for the Exxon-Valdez spill, which was like a bubble in the bathtub compared to this; funded climate skeptics up until at least 2006 and did what it could do squelch fair science
BP: Had 760 OSHA fines (this is worse than it sounds - that accounts for 97% of fines in Ohio and Texas handed out by OSHA in the last three years!), but broke industry solidarity against climate science around the early 2000s, put very sizable amounts of money into clean energy

So there's no clear picture here. BP struggles to stay shiny on the surface, but below...I heard on the radio the other day that they're going to scrap their "Beyond Petroleum" branding, which has so far been a great success in branding, after this. Who knows what they're going to come up with - probably some riff on the lauded ancient themes of solidarity and responsibility.



The Bloomberg guy's article becomes wholly comprehensible with these lines:

Finally, BP needs to protect its shareholders. So sell your assets in the US to one of the other energy majors while you still can.

Just remember there's a big world out there, with a lot of oil and cars in it. Your job is to look after the owners of the company, not make yourself acceptable to a country that doesn't want you anymore.

Finance types: We stick together! Ultimate responsibility is only to the shareholders, nothing else.

FUCK the environment, FUCK behaving responsibly. When you fuck up and send people to their graves and poison oceans, just go into a different field where people are more accepting of incompetent greedy types creating world-beating disasters.

Like finance.

[D]

I die you with my sword!

what about that cage fighter who ripped his sparing buddy apart?
http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2010/06/met ... m-on-buddy

[Ed Oscuro]

what about that cage fighter who ripped his sparing buddy apart?
http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2010/06/met ... m-on-buddy

Already mentioned in this thread!

This thread is 100% more current events than Mills' thread for those keeping tally (I'm sure with GREAT INTEREST).