Rumble in Tsukiji

[sublight]

This just showed up on Liveleak with the title: "Sword fight at Tsukiji Fish Market", dated late evening, April 21, 2013.

Another tourist decided to lick the produce?

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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=26f_1366557030

[TennoChinko]

If a dude had pulled a knife like that on a cop back in the US, almost any cop would have pulled out his firearm and shot him. Why put up with the risk of getting cut up?

[Coligny]

only a gun... you are way too optimistic...

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[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Fuck yeah....!

[yanpa]

Having wasted some time on Youtube at the weekend, that last photo looks more like Russia.

Someone please tell me the vehicle in the first one is from a film set? If not, at least they put a little US flag on it, it will be very helpful for anyone who might otherwise confuse the paramilitary vehicle bearing down on them in a threatening way with the vanguard of an invasion from Canada.

[Coligny]

Someone please tell me the vehicle in the first one is from a film set? If not, at least they put a little US flag on it, it will be very helpful for anyone who might otherwise confuse the paramilitary vehicle bearing down on them in a threatening way with the vanguard of an invasion from Canada.

Sorry:

http://modernsurvivalblog.com/governmen ... t-sweeper/

Have a nice day...

/MRAP family vehicle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRAP (mine resistant ambush protected)

[Samurai_Jerk]

If a dude had pulled a knife like that on a cop back in the US, almost any cop would have pulled out his firearm and shot him. Why put up with the risk of getting cut up?

Cops in the US will also shoot people for getting out of their cars or having a bulge in their front pocket that could be their keys or an AK47.

Anyway, I don't think that was a cop. I think it was a security guard.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I had a childhood friend commit suicide by cop in the mid-1990s in Oz, but he needed to be sprayed four or five times with pepper and clubbed repeatedly by the male officer before a female officer took him out with two blasts to the forehead.
Lucky he wasn't indigenous. They have an amazing way of hanging themselves in police custody in the few seconds they're left unsupervised in their cells.


This "fight" at Tsukiji wasn't real....to have a real Japanese fight, you have to roll your Rs, say "konoyaro" a lot, push your opponent and open your eyes really wide before walking away once you've confirmed your friends are not going to allow for any real physical engagement.

[Coligny]

If a dude had pulled a knife like that on a cop back in the US, almost any cop would have pulled out his firearm and shot him. Why put up with the risk of getting cut up?

Cops in the US will also shoot people for getting out of their cars or having a bulge in their front pocket that could be their keys or an AK47.

Anyway, I don't think that was a cop. I think it was a security guard.

They also seems to shoot because.

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(no, I didn't forget to finish mah sentence... just 'because')

[Coligny]

This "fight" at Tsukiji wasn't real....to have a real Japanese fight, you have to roll your Rs, say "konoyaro" a lot, push your opponent and open your eyes really wide before walking away once you've confirmed your friends are not going to allow for any real physical engagement.

Yeah, but try to make those clowns pronounce an 'r' in a foreign word and you'l get enough L to build an airforce...

(because... L sounds like 'aile' which meanz 'wing'...)

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

(because... L sounds like 'aile' which meanz 'wing'...)

Le Fuck Off with your stupid language that had me thinking for decades that Les Miserables had something to do with G-on-G disappointment (if such a thing exists).

Mind you, Plastic Bertrand does mime in your language....then again, so did Marcel M'arsehole.

[Taro Toporific]

Anyway, I don't think that was a cop. I think it was a security guard.

I though he was just a security guard too, but Yahoo News described him as a 59 year old sergeant of the Tsukiji station. The "sword" that was mentioned in the video was described in another Japanese news report as a 72 cm long tuna knife.

[GomiGirl]

Sword fight at a fish market.....


So not a gang bang at a skanky brothel then?

(Sorry that was very very low brow.)

[yanpa]

Scraping the pork sword barrel, IMHO.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

(Sorry that was very very low brow.)

Is that some kind of Japanese fellatio?

[Samurai_Jerk]

Anyway, I don't think that was a cop. I think it was a security guard.

I though he was just a security guard too, but Yahoo News described him as a 59 year old sergeant of the Tsukiji station. The "sword" that was mentioned in the video was described in another Japanese news report as a 72 cm long tuna knife.

That's a long fucking knife which makes me wonder when a knife becomes a sword technically speaking. Anyway, that pig has some balls fighting a two-and-a-half foot knife with a collapsible baton.

[GomiGirl]

But the door was closed at one point and the copper opened it up again to start the sword fight again!!

Or that is what it looked like on the video.

I loved all the cell phones coming out recording the action.

[Ol Dirty Gaijin]

Best part of that was the trolley cars boxing him in.

[matsuki]

....not to mention all the bystanders ramming the vehicle, kicking it, etc. WTF?

[Samurai_Jerk]

....not to mention all the bystanders ramming the vehicle, kicking it, etc. WTF?

Guys doing hard labor in the the shitamachi will beat your ass if pressed.

[Yokohammer]

So has anyone figured out what this little fracas was all about?

[Coligny]

So has anyone figured out what this little fracas was all about?

hummm... fish ?

[nikoneko]

That knife is probably a マグロ切り (maguro-giri, tuna cut), I've seen them up to almost 2m long and they look very similar to katanas. They start usually around 8 man and go up to 100 man or so for the special ones.




Are we allowed to hotlink images here yet btw? That's from my picasa account but just wondered.

[Taro Toporific]

That knife is probably a マグロ切り (maguro-giri, tuna cut), I've seen them up to almost 2m long and they look very similar to katanas. They start usually around 8 man and go up to 100 man or so for the special ones.

Maybe the knife/sword wielder ripped off the maguro-giri.

[nikoneko]

That knife is probably a マグロ切り (maguro-giri, tuna cut), I've seen them up to almost 2m long and they look very similar to katanas. They start usually around 8 man and go up to 100 man or so for the special ones.

Maybe the knife/sword wielder ripped off the maguro-giri.

It could be actually, more likely just a deal that went wrong from some chef with his tools in his car. But as I travel around and learn about these blades they make here it's crazy what they will let you hold with no security around. If you know what are you doing and talking about they will let you hold and inspect anything, even my American self with my broken Japanese. Just a couple weeks ago actually I was inches away from ¥1200000 katana, tried to touch but that one was NO TOUCHING!

[pallidknight]

There are some very long 'knives' out there. One might make the distinction between knives and swords by how the tool is used - swords are bad at filleting and slicing meat, and are also bad at chopping wood.