Virginia Tech student gets decapitated

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jonks

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Originally posted by: irishScott
This is why we need concealed carry on campus. I've already narrowly avoided a couple of street fights (once was a guy checking out my car, another was just a bunch of random collective stares from what appeared to be an Hispanic gang). Crazy shit like this is the reason I take Krav Maga and carry a spring-assisted (read: effectively a legal switchblade) knife. Obviously the chances that I'll ever have to use either are low, but if it comes down to it and the other guy has a gun, the gun "not being allowed on campus" won't really matter. Delaware has some retarded gun and knife laws as it is.

oh please, if everyone carried a gun the person who wanted to kill you would just be more sneaky about it. your false sense of security doesn't help you when you get hit on the head from behind b/c your attacker knows or suspects you have a gun. and you sound paranoid with the people looking at your car and hispanic gang members somehow thinking twice about tumbling with your...sheesh.
 

irishScott

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Originally posted by: jonks
Originally posted by: irishScott
This is why we need concealed carry on campus. I've already narrowly avoided a couple of street fights (once was a guy checking out my car, another was just a bunch of random collective stares from what appeared to be an Hispanic gang). Crazy shit like this is the reason I take Krav Maga and carry a spring-assisted (read: effectively a legal switchblade) knife. Obviously the chances that I'll ever have to use either are low, but if it comes down to it and the other guy has a gun, the gun "not being allowed on campus" won't really matter. Delaware has some retarded gun and knife laws as it is.

oh please, if everyone carried a gun the person who wanted to kill you would just be more sneaky about it. your false sense of security doesn't help you when you get hit on the head from behind b/c your attacker knows or suspects you have a gun. and you sound paranoid with the people looking at your car and hispanic gang members somehow thinking twice about tumbling with your...sheesh.

The bolded makes no sense.

As for getting hit from behind, that's why I take Krav Maga and stay reasonably alert/don't do anything stupid (ie: walk down a dark ally at 2am).

Let me go into more detail. When I say checking out, I mean I walked out of a restaurant with take-out and found a guy with a weird earring, which I later learned was an hispanic gang symbol, basically sticking his face in my car's windows. He noticed me when I was about 20' away and gave me a fricken eyes-wide death glare. Thankfully it was daylight and people weren't too far away, so I dropped eye contact and walked evasively back toward the restaurant. He got in his car and drove off.

As for the weird stares, I was using a bathroom at a gas station on a solo trip to my University (2 hours away). Wasn't the best place to stop in retrospect, but when 5 guys look at me more-or-less simultaneously for more than a couple of seconds, I start to get suspicious.
 

Pepsei

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"According to Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum, police received a 911 emergency call reporting a female being assaulted in the cafe at 7:06 p.m. When a female officer arrived at the scene at 7:07 p.m., they found the victim had been beheaded, Flinchum said in a news conference today."

wow, one minute and the head is off? those seven witnesses didn't do jack...
 

Kalmah

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Originally posted by: Pepsei
"According to Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum, police received a 911 emergency call reporting a female being assaulted in the cafe at 7:06 p.m. When a female officer arrived at the scene at 7:07 p.m., they found the victim had been beheaded, Flinchum said in a news conference today."

wow, one minute and the head is off? those seven witnesses didn't do jack...

Yeah, WTF?
 

cyclohexane

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Originally posted by: Pepsei
"According to Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum, police received a 911 emergency call reporting a female being assaulted in the cafe at 7:06 p.m. When a female officer arrived at the scene at 7:07 p.m., they found the victim had been beheaded, Flinchum said in a news conference today."

wow, one minute and the head is off? those seven witnesses didn't do jack...

that's bullshit. How could he do all that in 1 minute?
 

jonks

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Originally posted by: cyclohexane
Originally posted by: Pepsei
"According to Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum, police received a 911 emergency call reporting a female being assaulted in the cafe at 7:06 p.m. When a female officer arrived at the scene at 7:07 p.m., they found the victim had been beheaded, Flinchum said in a news conference today."

wow, one minute and the head is off? those seven witnesses didn't do jack...

that's bullshit. How could he do all that in 1 minute?

very sharp chopsticks
 

Baked

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Dec 28, 2004
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You people ever watch Highlander? There are people out there who do the kinda things Duncan MacLeod do, in real life. Why are people surprised?
 

ViviTheMage

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madgenius.com

Pepsei

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Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: Pepsei
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: Pepsei
well, in china, he could be summarily executed

you mean similarly?

no, in US, it would take a long time.

what?? summarily means quickly then? or do you mean samurai would execute him?

summarily is synonym of summary, meaning done without formality or delay
 

Farang

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I think the beheading probably happened very quickly, maybe the knife was serrated. I think with a bit of teeth on it one could pop one off fairly quickly if they were really brutal about it, which I'd assume they would be if they were trying to decapitate someone.
 

Triumph

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Originally posted by: Baked
You people ever watch Highlander? There are people out there who do the kinda things Duncan MacLeod do, in real life. Why are people surprised?

I was agree. I mean it's the only logical explanation. An immortal travels to small town Virginia to create a new life, another immortal is sent from China to eliminate him, only the plan backfires and he ends up winning the sword battle. I've seen it happen in like, every episode of Highlander.