Ninja Saves Coppers
British police are trying hard to locate the mysterious ninja who came to the rescue of two plain-clothes policemen who were attacked by a home invasion gang. The gang had broken into a home and the passing policemen ran in to help when they heard the homeowner scream. This did not impress the gang, which promptly attacked the cops with a hammer, knives and a chain.
Then suddenly, a sword-wielding ninja literally saved the policemen.
One of them lunged at a policeman with his knife - but just as he did so, a mysterious do-gooder appeared from nowhere and attacked him with a samurai sword.
One of the burglars ran off, but was stopped by the stranger, who hit him on the arm with the sword.
He was arrested, along with another man from the flat, but in true superhero fashion the samurai man disappeared before police could speak to him.
A third man was arrested later. Two men are still being hunted.
Police are particularly keen to trace the man with the sword who came to the aid of their officers, and appealed for anyone with information to call Crimestoppers…
Britain being Britain at the moment, I would wager that the police do not want to give him a medal or even a thank you. My guess is that they want very much to arrest the ninja even though he saved the policemen a beating at the least. I'd recommend the ninja stay invisible.
World news | Gaius Tuesday, 16 January , 2007
By TC@LeatherPenguin, Tuesday, 16 January , 2007 @ 4:22 pm
Jet Li and Jackie Chan just tore up their EU contracts.
By Bleepless, Tuesday, 16 January , 2007 @ 7:34 pm
Just watch: the ninja will be jailed for a weapons violation, just like the British farmer who is doing ten years (if memory serves) for wasting a burglar. Nothing in the stories I have read about Lord Ninja indicates that anybody in the establishment wants merely to thank him. If he surfaces, he is in big trouble.
By Gaius, Tuesday, 16 January , 2007 @ 7:43 pm
I think the key is they want informants to call crimestoppers. That says a lot.
By Jack, Tuesday, 16 January , 2007 @ 10:21 pm
That’s why I never use my real name.
But, as all of you have noted, this is Europe we’re talking about. Justice to them is a five letter word -Hague.
In Europe no good deed goes unprosecuted.
I’d wager dollars to doughnuts that half of the GDP of half of Western Europe is collected in the courts.