Samurai sword-swinging attacker targets Apple store packed with customers in New York

[brooklynite]

Source: The Mirror

A man walked into a packed Apple store in New York and started swinging a samurai sword at customers, cops said.

Police said Hsu Chien, 30, walked into the Fifth Avenue Apple Store and threatened suicide before drawing the sword and whirling it around.

Chien, who wore a hat and sunglasses during the rampage, dropped the sword on the stairs, but then picked it up and continued swinging it around.

Customers were not worried - with one thinking he was a performance artist - until he swung the katana at customers and began counting down as though he had a bomb, sending them scurrying for the emergency exit.

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[Aristus]

1. Weapon: sword; body count: zero.

But the NRA- idiots will never drop their "well then let's just ban all weapons!" argument...

[mac56]

2. Am I the only one who thought of John Belushi?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. This is what I thought of:

[dembotoz]

3. think he was frustrated with the download for the newer operating system

[bluevoter4life]

4. The only thing that stops a bad guy with a samurai sword.....

[Wolf Frankula]

7. Is A Good Guy with a Zweihander

or broadsword and shield.

Wolf

[Hekate]

11. ....is Toshiro Mifune with two swords.

Hey, I liked those movies back in the day.

[faye]

5. crazy

Might be he was Black Friday crazy.

[Historic NY]

6. So now we have to ""fear"" Syrian - Asian Samurai terrorists....

[onehandle]

8. Sorry, but the Genius Bar wait was getting long, and I have a CC permit for the Katana.

Being armed is handy when you are really mad.

[jmowreader]

13. If you're big enough to CC a katana, you probably don't need one

[Hekate]

10. My idiot former son in law has a katana he nearly cut his arm off with

He was demonstrating how not to handle live steel and gently pressed it on his arm -- he must have twitched, but in any case ended up in the ER with a wound that took months to heal. The doc in the ER said he'd never seen such a clean deep slice from anything that was not a scalpel.

I would not hang around a store where someone was swinging a sword around -- bad idea for performance art because you really do not know if the performer in question is a nutcase.

[Bonx]

14. It's all fun and games until someone nicks an artery

[TheSarcastinator]

12. HEEEERE WE ARE! BORN TO BE KINGS, WE'RE THE PRINCES OF THE UNIVERSE!

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.