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| Indo Karate Club Members Deliver "Complaint" to Local Village |
| 2003-11-12 |
| ONE INJURED, SIX HOUSES DAMAGED IN MARTIAL ART GROUPS ATTACK ON DERU VILLAGE Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:00:52 AM DERU VILLAGE Bojonegoro, E Java, Nov - At least 160 members of the Karate martial art group attacked Deru village, Sumberrejo sub-district, East Java, on Wednesday, injuring a resident, damaged six houses and inflicted a loss of about Rp3.5 million. It was reported that the attack was only a show of solidarity of the "SH" Kareta group`s members who were angered by the attitude of a group of youngsters of Deru village who some days ago have manhandled their martial art instructor. It’d be really interesting to see what a tropical village looks like after 160 enraged karate practitioners finished venting... |
| Posted by:Lone Ranger |
| #3 were angered by the attitude of a group of youngsters of Deru village who some days ago have manhandled their martial art instructor. Don't forget these kids, Jarhead. Anybody that can "manhandle" a martial-arts instructor can't be all bad... The head of the local Tae Kwan Do academy took on a half-dozen skinheads a few months ago, and sent five of them to the hospital. She's only ranked third in Colorado Springs... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2003-11-12 11:01:59 PM |
| #2 There seems to be a lot of groups like this in India. I saw a Sikh fesitval (Gurupurab I think is what they called it) when in India last year. In the parade there were a lot of what were described to me as "after-school clubs" with kids of various ages fighting with swords, spears and martial arts. It was pretty cool, and I got the impression that a lot of kids did it (sort of like Boy Scouts), at least among the Sikhs. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2003-11-12 11:01:43 PM |
| #1 Reminds me of that Bruce Lee movie where the two Kung Fu schools beat the shit outta each other....Sign these lads up, I think we could find something useful for them to do in the sunni triangle...... |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2003-11-12 9:15:50 PM |