Student Kills Home Burglar With Samurai Sword

Crime doesn’t pay.  Let me amend that: crime often pays in the monetary sense, but in order to commit a crime, you usually have to violate another citizen’s home or person in a way that can be uncomfortable for both of you.  It is uncomfortable for your target because he will become confused, angry, and frightened.  It is uncomfortable for you because your confused, angry, and frightened victim will be carrying a samurai sword, and he will stab you to death with it.  Yesterday, off-campus at Johns Hopkins University, acccording to police reports, such an altercation happened:

The student told police that he heard a commotion in the house and went downstairs armed with a samurai sword, Guglielmi said. He saw the side door to the garage had been pried open and found a man inside, who lunged at the student.

It did not go well for the burglar…  

He was found dead, with cuts all over his upper body and a “nearly severed hand.”  The guy had either been really salting a wound, though, or just happened to pick a very bad time to break and enter into that particular residence:

Detectives were still interviewing the student and his three roommates Tuesday morning, Guglielmi said. Burglars had already stolen two laptops and a Sony PlayStation from the student’s home Monday, according to Guglielmi.

And when you get your PlayStation stolen, you don’t buy a new PlayStation.  You buy a samurai sword.

Source: Baltimore Sun via Gizmodo.