These two items below. Yep, great weapons that held off a whole lot of military policemen. Sense a tale? Here you go…
I was a Military Policeman during my military years and we had our usual patrols and surprise visits to try to capture deserters every month or so. One particular time, ten of us were to make a surprise search of a serviceman’s house (he had gone AWOL for more than a couple of years) as per SOP. Having surrounded his abode, two of my colleagues knocked on his door and we heard a huge commotion coming from inside the house.
Two of my colleagues readied their batons and riot shields in case the deserter happened to be in…when suddenly the deserter charged out the main door armed with an iron in one hand and a stone carving in the other.
Now he didn’t just hold the items in each of his hands, he was swinging both his arms in vertical circles…and charging towards the bunch of military police out to arrest him. Picture a desperate man with crazy eyes holding two heavy objects and swinging his arms charging towards a whole lot of MPs.
It was pretty sudden and before they knew anything, he hit the riot shields two MPs were carrying and basically knocked them both down like bowling pins.
脱走兵は危険な物を両手で持っているだけではなく、両腕を縦にブンブン振り回していた。そして自分を逮捕するために来たたくさんの憲兵の中に突っ込んできたのだ。狂った目をした追い詰められた男が、両手に2つの重い物を持ってブンブン振り回しながら憲兵の中に突っ込んでくる場面を想像してほしい。どんなに恐ろしい事だろうか。
それはあまりの突然の出来事で、あっという間に脱走兵は2人の憲兵が持っていたライオットシールドを叩き、そして2人をまるでボーリングのピンのように簡単に倒してしまった。
彼はただ持っていたわけではなく、両腕を垂直の輪のように振り回していました。そして逮捕しようとしていた軍事警察の一団に向かって突撃していきました。
狂気の眼差しの必死な男が、両手に重い鈍器振り回しながらMPの集団に突撃していく様子を想像してみてください。
突然の状況で、気づかぬうちに彼はライオットシールドを武装していた2人のMPをボーリングピンのように押し倒していました。
One guy tried to grab him from behind and almost got brained by the swinging iron (luckily he wore his helmet). Another MP tried to rugby tackle him and instead got hit by a swinging stone statue almost fracturing his arm. There was virtually no way we could take him down until he was exhausted and dropped his “weapons”.
So yeah…a clothes iron and a stone statue can be pretty devastating weapons if you hold them and swing your arms in circles.