Gun vs Sword

[cebeu]

Interesting outcome...the sword "won."

Sword-wielding man gets best of home invader, court records say

By Bruce Vielmetti of the Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee WI)

The pen may always be mightier than the sword, but sometimes the sword is still mightier than the gun. Police say a Watertown man learned that the hard way last weekend when police say he tried an armed home invasion robbery, but only got away with his life and a serious through-and-through stab wound.

Anthony Alba, 26, was holed up at his house when police tracked him down about 11 hours later, court records indicate. He's been charged with attempted armed robbery and attempted burglary. Though he was first taken to University of Wisconsin Regional Medical Center for treatment, he is now being held at the Jefferson County Jail on $2,500 bail.

According to a Jefferson County criminal complaint: Philip Voelkel, 24, was sitting in his apartment playing a video game early Friday when a man wearing black clothes and skeleton mask came through the unlocked front door, pointed a silver handgun at him and demanded money and pills. Voelkel got up, pointed to another area of the apartment and began walking that way, while the suspect followed with the gun aimed.

At one point, Voelkel tried to push the gun down toward the floor, and his roommate came out of a bedroom armed with a cane sword. Dorse Byrd told police he warned the suspect four times to drop the gun and leave or he'd stab him. But the suspect refused and Byrd said he grabbed the sword handle with both hands and rammed it through the man's torso.

Voelkel suffered a serious cut to his own arm from the sword attack. When he told his girlfriend, who also shared the apartment, what happened, she had been waiting outside for a friend of hers - Alba - to come and pick up $30 she had agreed to lend him earlier in the evening. She immediately suspected Alba based on Voelkel and Byrd's descriptions of the suspect's size.

At Alba's house, his girlfriend first denied he was home and police had to get a search warrant to enter and arrest him without incident. They also found black clothing like Voelkel and Byrd said the intruder was wearing, along with a T-shirt that had two holes consistent with Alba's wounds to his abdomen and back.

His next court hearing is Monday.

[DSB OUTDOORS]

Ya but everyone knows that "The Pen is Mightier than the Sword"!!

[lpgasman]

Ya but everyone knows that "The Pen is Mightier than the Sword"!!

Guess the perp should have brought a pen.

[Lex_Luthor]

"... because the pen gives the word sending swords to war."

[josh7328]

pretty badass. He should have said some epic line from 300 before he stabbed him! HAHA!

[Cylinder Head]

Cane sword, his own wounds probably came from poor grip on the hilt and his own hands paid the price.

[rockhound]

It wasnt fair he just started stabbing me your honor, i am a victim

[Wiggity]

pretty badass. He should have said some epic line from 300 before he stabbed him! HAHA!

THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!!!!!



And proceded to tab the invader.

[SA Friday]

I was thinking more along the lines of Afro Samurai. Then I read the story. This is a narcotics related violent crime. Shocking...

[Wiggity]

I was thinking more along the lines of Afro Samurai. Then I read the story. This is a narcotics related violent crime. Shocking...

Narcotics crimes have been worrying me lately. I'm on oxy for fucked up discs and people do some nasty shit simply to get their hands on it. CCW ftw.