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This is the terrifying moment a crazed woman attacked a couple in Thailand with a Samurai sword after they 'refused to have a threesome with her'. Swinger Aum, 40, used to have sex with the couple, whose nicknames are Air, 35, and his wife Note, 38, but they cut ties with her over a year ago after refusing an invite for group sex with Aum's Bangkok-based boyfriend. Aum subsequently broke off her relationship with the man, but the couple claimed she continued to pester them for threesomes despite them having rejected her advances on a number of occasions. Yet the...

Ponchatoula police arrested a man Sunday morning for bringing a samurai sword in a bar after he had been asked to leave the premises, authorities said. Shawn Verret was inside the Stray Cats bar when he got into an argument and was asked by bar personnel to leave the premises, the Ponchatoula Police Department said in a news release. Police said Verret re-entered the bar around 2 a.m. with a mask on top of his head and samurai sword in his hands. He was asked again to leave and police were notified. Police arrived a short time later and found...

An argument between a Connecticut couple quickly turned dangerous after the woman went after her lover with a samurai-type sword. Police told CBS News that Juanita Bentley, of New London, got into a heated argument with her boyfriend.

BALTIMORE -- A Johns Hopkins University student armed with a samurai sword killed a suspected burglar in a garage behind his off-campus home early Tuesday, hours after someone broke in and stole electronics. Some shocked neighbors said they heard bloodcurdling screams in an area just blocks from the university.

Four men who broke into a south Minneapolis apartment early Wednesday had their hands full when two friends inside wrestled for the intruders' weapons and left at least one suspect minus fingers. Police were called to the apartment building in the 3100 block of Lyndale Avenue S. about 3:30 a.m. on a report of a stabbing. Four men, one with a handgun, forced their way into a third-floor apartment, apparently to burglarize it, police said. But one of the men in the apartment won the fight for a Samurai sword that a burglar had taken from a bedroom.

SYRACUSE - Two men were stabbed with a samurai-style sword during an argument in the basement of a Syracuse home, and one went to the hospital with the blade sticking through him, police said. Luke Jenkins, 34, had two wounds to his abdomen. But Edward Cannon, 39, was pierced from the lower abdomen through the upper back, according to police. Both men were in fair condition later at University Hospital, a nursing supervisor said. Jeremy Bartle, 22, was charged with second-degree attempted murder and fourth-degree weapon possession in the stabbings about 4 a.m. Saturday at his address, police spokesman Lt....

A retired city police officer was found dead in his Long Island home on Sunday, apparently slashed to death by a samurai sword, authorities said. The former policeman, Scott Nager, 51, was found dead by his wife, Laura at about 1 p.m., said Officer Al Prim, a spokesman for the Suffolk County police. Nager served on the city police force for 15 years, working as a patrolman in the 34th precinct, which includes Washington Heights and Inwood. He retired in July, 1996 because of a service-related injury, The New York Times reported. Suffolk county police said Laura Nager's son, Zachary...

A teenager used a samurai sword to hack a 19-year-old man to death yesterday inside a Queens apartment, a law enforcement source said. Michael Desiderio, 18, allegedly chopped apart his supposed friend Ricardo Richardson about 10 a.m., slicing his neck and severely cutting into his arm, the source said. The victim was hacked in the back of his head and on the right hand, right side of his face and the back of his neck, a law enforcement source said. "There's blood everywhere," said Steven Wisnowski, 21, who lives in the Maspeth Ave. house where Richardson was slain. "There's blood...

A SAMURAI sword, a relic of a Japanese prisoner of war camp, has been surrendered to Strathclyde Police during a weapons amnesty. The two-handed one-metre weapon has a razor sharp blade, but forensic examination showed it has never been used. Detective Superintendent Stephen Ward said today: "In the wrong hands this sword would have been a lethal weapon. It could have inflicted horrific injuries." It was handed in by an elderly retired Army captain, who had been an interpreter at the prisoner of war camp run by the British in Asia and who helped interrogate Japanese prisoners. He was presented...