The man who allegedly killed a teacher and a student and wounded two others in a sword attack at a Swedish school Thursday morning was dressed in a black Darth Vader-esque mask and helmet. Two students posed for a photo with him in the midst of what they later learned was a stabbing spree. The girl who took the photo …
A teacher and a young student were killed Thursday morning when a masked man with a sword attacked a school in the Swedish town of Trollhattan.
Swords: Extremely cool. More swords: Even cooler. 3,174 swords: Uh, maybe scale it back a little, actually?
Having friends is so great, isn’t it? They’re great to talk to, great to hug, great to hit with swords, why not, we’re all drunk here, right?
A state autopsy confirmed that police shot Darrien Hunt, a 22-year-old black man who was carrying a replica samurai sword as part of an anime costume, six times. Four of those shots hit him from behind.
A masked man with a sword messed with the wrong 89-year-old shopkeeper when he tried to rob a Washington state convenience store Sunday morning.
[Roy Ramsay dressed as King Robert the Bruce and Roy Murray dressed as Edward II promote Bannockburn Live on Wednesday in Stirling, Scotland. The event being held on June 28 and 29 to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn. Image via Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images.]
A Texas man carrying a sword sheathed to his waist unsuccessfully tried to liberate six tacos and some gas before he was arrested last week.
In his first public speech since he stepped down, former CIA director David Petraeus apologized for the extramarital affair that led to his departure. "I regret—and apologize for—the circumstances that led to my resignation from the CIA and caused such pain for my family, friends and supporters," he told the audience…
Bad-ass vigilantes have a new hero today. Her name is Sonya Yu. She spends her days taking pictures of food and also criminals—OUT—with unconventional weaponry.
Parenting pop quiz! If your teenage stepdaughter goes to a party without your permission, what is the appropriate punishment? Hint: the answer is not "force her to fight a two-hour 'medieval-style duel' with you."
Has anyone lost a half-naked man in his 40s with a tendency to march "like a drum major" down the side of Indiana highways while wielding a samurai sword? If so, please contact Indiana State Police Trooper Ricky Rayner, as he may have found your guy!
A 14-year-old kid in Georgia wounded his grandmother and killed his great-grandmother with a "34- to 36-inch sword" on Monday. Fourteen years old! It had to be rap music, right? Or heavy metal? Or—no—videogames.
Just when the stripper-led Dougherty gang was beginning to make us like Florida and its statewide rejection of "decency" and "morality" and "laws," along comes allegedly abusive defense lawyer Terry Lee Locy and his naked, sword-dueling style of courtship.
Jonathan Martis of Omaha was shot by police on Thursday after calling them to his house. His mother says he had been feeling depressed and telling people he wanted to die. But this fact doesn't fully explain why he was dressed up as a pirate.
Dressed in medieval garb and dancing to a traditional yet metal-infused soundtrack, this is one sword-twirling girl you do not want to mess with.
Wait until the anti-sword lobby gets a hold of this infomercial.
Gary Brooks Faulkner, the Californian who was arrested after traveling to Pakistan with a 40-inch sword to hunt Osama Bin Laden, has been released by Pakistani authorities, just in time to take over the Afghanistan War from General McChrystal. [CNN]
Stephen Hill, the porn star who played Obama in Palin: Erection '08 and went on a sword-slashing rampage at his workplace, fell 50 feet to his death this morning after an eight-hour police standoff, with scores of photojournalists watching.
