So I read hilarious news in the paper at work today. Apparently yesterday an Indian man walked onto the mass transit train in Vancouver, shouting irrationally and - get this - unsheathing and waving around a sword.
A sword!
Well, after freaking the living hell out of who knows how many people, police finally caught up to him in downtown Vancouver where a standoff occurred, traffic was shut down, and after half an hour in the afternoon the police eventually tackle the guy after arwen guns and tasers prove ineffective.
Seriously! A freakin' sword!
So I'm laughing about it at work rest of the afternoon, talking to other people about, constantly telling people I wanted to know what kind of sword it was (it's a very me thing to think, y'know?). Friend said it looked like sort of a traditional Indian sword or something. Fair enough . . .
. . . then I get home after work and my dad calls me after we played a little phone tag today. He asks me, "hey, did you hear about the news with your brother yesterday?"
"Wait..." I said, "... you mean the guy with the sword?"
"Yeah! He sent me some videos... here, let me forward them to you..."
Well it turned out my brother linked me the pictures and videos as well. And now, I shall link you as well:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/05/30/bc-vancouver-police-shooting.html
The home video with the actual (somewhat B.A.) takedown: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rodkenny/5778548003/in/photostream/
And now for some fun . . . next link, along with the news story, check out the third and fifth photos in this story:
http://www.theprovince.com/brandishing+sword+taken+down+police+downtown+Vancouver/4863782/story.html
Further, here's some additional video of the day. Specifically, the asian-type fellow holding the arwen gun (with the somewhat stupid mohawk-type hair) at 0:09, 0:20, and 1:05 . . .
Ahh . . . I think this made my day. GG, bro'. GG.
