...p'tach!

... as looking like Bill Bailey with a cornish pasty on his forehead....

Anyone hit with one would be just as unhappy (or dead) as if hit with a saber or katana. Of course a bat'leth should be *easy* to trace... :)

I don't know which is sadder. The fact somebody actually used a bat'leth to commit a robbery, the fact that *two* different victims knew what it was, or the fact that *I* know what it is! (laughing)

I have a Bat'leth, in amongst a small collection of weapons, of both real and fictitious origin and frankly most of those available are about as dangerous as the rubbery props used in the show. I would be substantially more worried about the life threatening nature of being forced to eat, or headbutted with, a 7-eleven pastie than being attacked with most of the Bat'leth's out there.

Where is the IT angle here except Reg seems to think all are Trekkie nerds cause we use a computer

More stories about WoW please

All the police need to do is ask every family in a 4 mile radius if their Son lives in the basement

real klingons draw blood. i'm suprised the idiot didn't get shot trying to rob a convenience store at 2am.

s&w 642j w/ crimson trace ftw!

"Meh, bloody Trekkies should wake up and smell the non-holo coffee (along with those who put 'Jedi' down as their religion)"

There is no difference between Jedi as a religion and Christianity (etc).

- All are fictitious

- All were written by men

- All have followers, some who truly believe and some who just like to participate

[stows Lightsabre]

It's not a bat'leth. Bat'leth's are BIG. That thing he's holding in the footage is clearly not a sword, it's very obviously one of the novelty daggers you can get from pretty much any anorak-supplier.

e.g. http://www.swordsdirect.com/valdris.html

The other thing about bat'leths is this: they're actually quite hard to get. Most of the accurate ones you see are home-made, as Paramount (quite sensibly) hasn't licensed anyone to produce accurate bat'leths for fear, one assumes, of precisely this kind of story. I doubt this numpty bothered to build his own weapon for what seems to be an opportunist crime.

i mean, its a particularly stupid design of weapon, unwieldy and unbalanced. Surely there are non-retarded fictional weapons he could have chosen?

"He's probably a huge hit with the ladies."

You have outdone yourselves again!

Long live the Register!

If he'd just taken a type-2 phaser and stunned the clerk, he could have opened the till at his leisure and taken out the security cameras too.

For serious work of this type nothing less than a Romulan cloaking device is sine qua non.

if it was a ba'leth or a 'normal' martial arts sword? Both are just as sharp and I think the klingon weapon will do some serious maiming!

Mines the one with the phaser set to maximum yield in the pocket!

It doesn't even have the minimal eye-candy content required to waive the tech angle! In fact, how long has it been since we had a Paris Hilton story, has the girl gone into hibernation?

He only wanted to know where the prune juice was!

Kahless the Unforgettable, damn I forgot about him

Some more observations, they:-

- Use human creduluous followers as cash cows

- allow (or have in the past allowed) slaughter of non members

- hold back the course of human development

gets coat, awaits flames

Deffo not a Bat'leth: it's not big enough & curves the wrong way. (heard that somewhere before...)

Mines the anorak obviously...

T'cho! Hokey religions and bat'leth battle blades are no substitute for a good blaster at your side....

...no, wait a sec...

If for no other reason than someone who should get out more, may yet end up being put away.

Ok Reg Vote time,

Do we want

A. More stories about a scantily clad Paris Hilton ?

B. More stories about Star Trek and Trekkies ?

Let the people vote !..

wot no transporter harmonic trace for the Federation ship in orbit around early 21stC Earth to detect?

hmmm, I smell a breach of the Temporal Prime Directive on the way. Transparent aluminium is already here so what other technology from the 24thC might we be seeing soon?

my ears are stuck :(

You owe me a new keyboard, mine is now full of coffee and spit ...

Definately more about Star Trek ....... I'm sick to death of PH

Won't somebody please think of the poor 7-Eleven employees, they should be armed with non-leatal weapons such as a zat'ni'katel

now wouldnt it have been amusing if the clerk had had a phased plasma rifle?

40watt range of course

mines the one with the klingon dictionary in

I think this is exactly the reason we and america need to join forces and ban extreme sci-fi. Obviously, this fella watched one too many episodes of stra trek and it made.. nay, forced him to commit these crimes.

Why won't someone think of the kiddies?

Mines the one with the mr fusion instructions in the pocket.

"Trekkies should wake up and smell the non-holo coffee"

Non-holo coffee... is that a new starbucks blend??

Mines the one with the replicated 20th century nescafe gold blend....