Pretty soon only criminals will have bear spray and samurai swords, or something.
I soooo want our friends at Next Media Animation to animate this story. It has everything — wacky California, a stupid criminal, an attractive and plucky woman, and the attractive plucky woman mashes a criminal with creativity and style. While tweeting about it.
Sonya Yu, a San Francisco photographer, learned that the thief had been roaming her neighborhood stealing packages from doorsteps. He had allegedly stolen $1,000 worth of deliveries from Miss Yu herself.
On Tuesday, she put out a ‘bait package’ and waited on her balcony to see whether the burglar would try to steal it.
‘Apparently, our neighborhood thief has a violent rape rap sheet. My bear spray, bokken, & I are still not intimidated,’ she tweeted about 2.10pm.
A bokken is a wood samurai sword used for training.
At 4.45pm, she tweeted about writing her wedding vows and how she was certainly going to cry as she read them at her wedding.
Then, 30 minutes later, she tweeted: ‘I GOT HIM WITH THE BEAR SPRAY BUT HE ESCAPED.’
’8 COPS HAVE HIM & I JUST CONFIRMED ID,’ she wrote minutes later.
‘HE IS BEIN TAKEN AWAY IN AN AMBULANCE CUZ OF THE BEAR SPRAY I DOUSED HIM WITH,’ she added.
That’s just awesome. But not everyone is cheering our hero.
One angry online commenter wrote: ‘This is assault. Cops can’t beat suspected criminals who are fleeing, and citizens can’t blast them with bear spray. He had a knife? Please. You mean the one he opens packages with? Sonya was not in physical danger on her balcony… y’all are a bunch of Texans if you think this violence is justified.’
If that doesn’t typify some dolts…
At any rate, by the power inherent in me as a sovereign citizen, I hereby name Sonya Yu an Honorary Texan.
We do have a castle law here, and we’re looking at changing our gun law from concealed firearm carry to open carry.
Great story.
Israellycool linked to a good story yesterday about an Israeli woman. She was home at night with her kids, husband on military duty. A terrorist armed with a knife and metal pipe broke into her home no doubt intending to kill them.
They picked the wrong woman. She is trained in Krav Maga, the Israeli martial art. She was able to overpower him and lock him in the bathroom with just her bare hands. The police caught him after he escaped through the window. Krav Maga stresses how to deal with armed opponnents and the use of ordinary objects as defensive weapons.
http://www.israellycool.com/2012/11/28/israeli-uses-disproportionate-force-to-harm-palestinian/
.”.y’all are a bunch of Texans if you think this violence is justified.”
Some might consider it a compliment to be compared to Texans.
I have some UDAP bear spray. Got a sniff of it once (think napalm meets Chinese mustard). That girl’s got some awesomesauce in her.
– they ask, “Have you coddled a criminal today?”
“A bokken is a wood samurai sword used for training.”
It is used for training, but it is also dangerous enough even then that yet another device, the shinai, which is a split bamboo sword, was developed to be used for training.
A bokken is basically a 3′ long, shaped, hardwood, police baton, the shaping giving it a focused “edge” (it is rounded, not sharp), that makes it more than ideal for breaking bones.
Now I’m not saying she, or anyone else, shouldn’t be able to keep one around for self defense.
I am noting this because I would expect it to be illegal to carry and use one casually under the laws of many States, and so people are aware that it is dangerous in its own right. This is especially because a lot of kids into anime (Naruto I believe) carry them or the smaller versions around as if they were plastic toys. They aren’t, and should be treated as you would any other weapon.
Linky?
The post here doesn’t mention that she used the bokken in any case.
I hope Rick Perry invites her to visit Texas and gives her an honorary cowboy (not football team) hat and boots. I’d contribute to the ticket.
And for those upset at the treatment of the criminal, we need to find out if they ever have anything delivered and then take it from their doorstep while they watch. See how loud they yell.
Some dolts need bear spray applied with a Louisville Slugger.
If they think that’s “being Texan” obviously they haven’t been to Texas. If he’d been in Texas, there would have been rope involved….. Of course, the odds he would have tried that in Texas are significantly lower – since a potential robber would need to consider whether the homeowner was a 2nd Amendment advocate. I’m not saying we don’t have bad guys/idiots out here – just that they are forewarned to evaluate the risks before they take them.
.”.y’all are a bunch of Texans if you think this violence is justified.”
Personally I think she went easy on him. It’s this kind of attitude towards criminals that has caused the crime rate to sky rocket in this country. She should have chased him down and beat him with the bokken after spraying him.
Convince him that stealing Christmas gifts from porches is not a good career path.
Uh, dude. The violent crime rate has declined over 20% between 2000 and 2010. Down 47% since 1991.
non-violent crime may also have decreased, but he said “crime rate’ not violent crime rate. Different category.
Awwww, the poor little criminal got sprayed, and he’s crying.
Here in Florida as in many other parts of this great land, you’d get a slightly different reception, possibly ending in severe lead poisoning.
we’re looking at changing our gun law from concealed firearm carry to open carry
Srsly? In Texas? In the upcoming legislative session? Who is carrying the bill?
By the way, there are some really good arguments for concealed-carry and against open carry.
And there’s a really good argument in favor of open carry: the Second Amendment. Now if you mean personal and subjective criteria, I agree that concealed offers an element of surprise. But one must train to draw and hit the target twice in under 2 seconds at 3 yards or less, open or concealed.
A bokken is the actual wooden practice sword, a predecessor to the shinai (introduced during the Tokugawa shogunate). Unlike current kendo, with it’s pads and helmets and light bamboo shinai, practice with the bokken is dangerous – it can break bones and crush skulls. People can, and often did, die under it.
She needs to move to Texas; her oh-so-liberal neighbors will no doubt press charges against her on behalf of the poor criminal she sprayed.