mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
>>> CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
>>>>> CL <flothru@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Bullets are one thing the cops always seem to have an adequate budget 
>>>>>> for ... hundreds of clay pigeons and paper human cutouts quiver in fear 
>>>>>> at the number of shots expended ...
>>>>> Sorry, I thought we were talking about the JAPANESE police.
>>>> We are.  They're terrors out on the shooting range.  They practice 
>>>> constantly.  No one ever teaches them real-life applications of what 
>>>> they do in practice.  So, we're mostly safe.
>>> When I lived there, a guy walked into a koban and killed two of them with
>>> a knife. He said he wanted to steal the guns so he could commit some crimes.
> 
>> He's already been hanged.  IIRC, one of the cops was a trainee and the 
>> older guy died trying to keep the killer away from the inexperienced 
>> patrolman ... who was killed anyway.  That was one of about half a dozen 
>> incidents that led to a requirement that every patrolman had to fire 
>> some large number of times on the range every month.  Now, most of the 
>> shot fired outside of the shooting range are cop suicides.
> 
> Glad to hear they gakked him. I remember one of the guys was a trainee; wasn't
> the other highly ranked in kendo, or judo, or something?

I _think_ he got done when Hatoyama's brother was Homu-daijin and was 
trying to clear off death row within a year.  That was before he ordered 
the hangings of a couple of guys whose cases were still on appeal ...

Your recollection that the older cop was highly ranked in some budou 
discipline is correct.  I _think_ it was kendo.

-- 
CL