Friday, July 14, 2006

Look what happens when you search for news stories featuring the word 'machete'.

I never did find the story I was seeking, but these will do nicely...

Heart attack after 'machete threat'
Sydney Morning Herald - A man in his fifties has died from a suspected heart attack moments after he saved his neighbour from her enraged, machete-wielding husband yesterday, police say.

Actor Gulpilil on machete charge
News Interactive - PROMINENT Australian actor David Gulpilil faces weapons charges after allegedly carrying a machete down a Darwin city street.

Those wacky Australians and their machetes.

Police seek clown-face robbers after rampage
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Jul 14 5:08 AMPolice are on the lookout for members of a machete-wielding gang in angry clown make-up after a rampage of robbery and violence that left nearly two dozen people injured in a park in western Washington state.

Clowns?

Machete-Wielding Robber Hunted In Central Fla.
WKMG Local6.com - Police in Titusville, Fla., are searching for a machete-wielding man who robbed a recycling business Tuesday morning, according to Local 6 News partner Florida Today.

Machete wielder convicted of battery
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - It took a jury about 50 minutes Tuesday to find a Fort Wayne man guilty of slicing another man in the face, arm and hand with a machete in May.

Commish says criminals not only those who wield the machete, knife or gun
The Jamaica Observer - POLICE Commissioner Lucius Thomas, rapidly making a name for himself as a cop who shoots straight from the hip, has partially blamed the greed of some seemingly law-abiding Jamaicans for the current wave of criminality.

Jamaica? No problem.


Leaders back MP over machete death
The Australian - SAMOAN political leaders have pledged support for an associate minister who has revealed he was convicted over a machete killing of a Tongan in New Zealand 18 years ago.

Kitsap deputies cleared in shooting
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - BREMERTON -- Two Kitsap County sheriff's deputies who shot and killed a machete-wielding man in May were justified in their use of deadly force "as the only reasonable course of action," County Prosecutor Russ Hauge says.

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