NEWS: Idiot Spots Man in Ninja Costume, Panics

these tards should have known that it wasnt a ninja, you wouldnt see a real ninja or live long enough to tell about it.

i don't really think it had anything to do with seeing a ninja, i highly doubt any reasonable person would freak out, that a man dressed as a ninja, was actually a ninja on the prowl. but you know, with the nearby costume party, it was the easiest way to describe said man, running near a school, with a possible weapon.

with all the crazy ass shit that happens throughout the world, and more so in your own country, you really think calling the cops was over reacting? shooting the person, before calling the cops, would have been over reacting.

either way, i don't really care if he was a homicidal manic coming to slaughter the entire school, or just a man late for a party, makes for damn fine entertainment.

In fairness, I don't think CoolerKing is saying the Librarian should have done nothing, he said the ninja should have been asked what he was doing. I think this is pretty reasonable. I think I'd do the same If I were a teacher. Now if couldn't get to the guy (which is very possible in this situation), I'd have to alert someone. It is a school afterall... I'd just be worried I'd cause an panic.

It's not unreasonable...it's just not realistic. I'm guessing neither of you have worked in a teaching/faculty capacity in a school system. If you have, you've forgotten what it's like.

Dammit you friggin' ninja get the hell off my lawn or I'm callin' the cops!

+1

I think some people are too paranoid. Let people run around with a sword dressed in black in the forest. Who cares? Did anyone get hurt? No.

Are you going to live your whole life thinking anyone that does anything out of the usual is schizophrenic or criminally insane? If you expect everyone to think and act and be the same so there are no alarms and no surprises maybe Suicide Girls isn't the best website to be spending your time on.

Librarians job = Librarian stuff that does not include approaching people with large, sharp weapons, to question what they are doing on property adjacent to the school. I wouldn't expect a teacher to approach that person either. Teachers and Librarians aren't trained to deal with people, who are possibly mentally unstable, running through the woods, with once again, a large sharp weapon.

Police Officers job = to approach person dressed as ninja, running through the woods with a large, sharp weapon. They usually respond to something like this after a citizen or a teacher has called them.

It's basically a game of knowing your role. If someone dressed as a ninja, carrying a large, sharp weapon went running through my backyard, i would not go out and attempt to make conversation with him, i have absolutely no clue who he is, or how stable he is, i would therefore call the police to let them deal with it.

And i don't know how things are in NJ, but here in Parma, Ohio, when a campus goes on "lockdown", classes aren't actually stopped, people just aren't allowed to enter or leave the campus.

To me the situation was played out perfect. No one from Texas shot the ninja in the back as he was running away, the police didn't taze him, the ninja didn't kill anyone including himself.

Why the hell are people bitching about this? this is the best possible outcome given the situation.

In my experience librarians are fully capable in dealing with ninjas...
Or vampires, even.

Say what, now?

Hahahahaha some of you guys worry waaaay too much. Yes, as terrifying as it might seem, asking a teenager in a goofy costume what he's up to is step one. It's what adults do.

Spotting someone like that running PAST a school, during the day, is not reason enough to call the cops in my book. Even in NJ, it's not that odd.

I can't think of too many violent incidents that started with "guy in ninja suit" but, hey, I don't hang around many Shaolin Monks so I could be wrong...

how many children do you have in school?

Counting the ones abducted by ninjas?

look, this is no laughing matter. swords will fucking cut you wide open.

I understand the tone of your answer was meant to be humurous, but this kind of thing is taken seriously by school administrators in the wake of Columbine and other like tragedies.

In retrospect, the dude running by a school dressed as an assasin brandishing a weapon turned out to be a non threat.

If the opposite were to have turned out to be true,and no one took action, than a child abducted by a ninja would not be a laughing matter.

Maybe it's naive of me to think that someone doesn't have to have children of their own to be able to figure that out.

Yes, and the ones that you sold into slave labor on pirate ships.

All i am saying is there is going to be two completely different view points.

People who don't see it as a big issue and People who do.

I see it as a big issue, and the librarian being right, because my child walks past adjacent properties in order to make it to out pick up point. Do i care that it was somebody geekier than me dressed up as a Ninja for a costume party? No. But i am glad that the officers involved and the librarian took the time to clear up the incident and got full knowledge of what was going on.

Because the next time a person that is dressed up like a Ninja and running around in properties adjacent to the school, it may not be someone who is late to a costume party. It may be someone with malicious ideas on what they can do to innocent children.

It could be some drunken weirdo:

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Seeing someone dressed as a Ninja around Halloween is not uncommon around here. Seeing someone dressed as a Ninja in June is. This is just one of those cases of no harm, no foul. No one was arrested, no one was hurt, you'd probably be amazed at how many calls Police Officers have a day which are the result of a misunderstanding and end in no one going to jail.

Fair enough...

And nice job on that posted pic. Hah, I'm not sure I'll ever see a better example of "drunken weirdo."

I haven't been checking this thread so I had to catch up to the end. I just want to say that CoolerKing, that was a pretty cool response. I honestly expected you to be defensive as many people (including myself) find easy to do.

Anyway, hope you all have a nice day/evening/whatever. I am buzzed and should probably crash out.

I actually think all the humor here stems NOT from the librarian calling the cops or what have you (I agree that was the right move), but because in the actual news story, it doesn't say that people saw someone DRESSED as a ninja. That is not what was reported.

The story says that they SAW a ninja. That they reported SEEING A NINJA. That is awesome. Swords around kids are not, I agree. But leaving out the "someone in a costume" part and jumping straight to "ninja" is hysterical.

It's Barnegat. Sheltered, suburban, homogeneous.

Nothing more exiting than DUIs and domestic disputes usually happens in Barnegat, so someone decked out in black ninja gear carrying a sword is going to stick the fuck out if it's not Halloween night.

NJ is short for Ninja.

Everybody knows that.

That guy looks like he'd mess you up