How about stupid sword stuff?

Now we'll need "sword control"!


Wisconsin couple arrested in gas station robbery attempt using samurai sword

Associated Press

Last update: August 16, 2007 – 10:23 AM

PLOVER, Wis. — A couple were thwarted in their effort to leave this small central Wisconsin town when they were arrested for robbing a gas station with a samurai sword.

Renee Ferreri, 22, told police that she and Brian A. Schmid, 24, "were tired of their lives, and they just 'gave up,''' according to a criminal complaint.

The couple needed money to leave town, so they stole a 2000 Mercury Sable on Aug. 8 from the Jeepers Gin Mill and drove to their home to pick up the sword and two stocking caps, police said.

Then Ferreri drove Schmid to a gas station, where a clerk said he threatened her with a "Japanese-style sword'' and forced her to give him several hundred dollars from the station's registers.

Police arrested the couple after a Plover officer remembered seeing several samurai swords in their apartment when he responded to a domestic disturbance call in May.

Schmid is being held in the Portage County Jail on $75,000 bond after an initial court appearance this week. Ferreri is being held there on $50,000 bond.

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Don't bring a sword to a gun fight Different circumstances cold steel could have led to hot lead Dumb and more Dumb.

Note: Wisc. State Max Prison is in Portage. Looks like they may be spending even more time in town

So... just seeing a 'Japanese-style sword' 3 months before gives them probable cause to suspect/search/arrest the couple?!? Something has gotta be missing from this equation.

Hypothetical situations anyone?
---Oh it's gotta be that one house...ya know, the one with the scissors we saw! Replace scissors with Glock and it gets even less funny.