Samurai sasumatas stop knife-wielding criminal - video

**Jon** · Feb 26, 2020, 01:37 PM

The best explanation I've seen for this one is that it's a training exercise. Note the tire spike tools. At 0:39, you do see a sasumata being raised, but it looks like they eventually nab this guy with...a pool skimmer?

**greyhoundollie** · Feb 26, 2020, 03:20 PM

So at the beginning 30 sec of this video they seem to be taking temperature of the drivers forehead. Is this a coronavirus procedures training video? I don't think that was a pool skimmer. It looks like a dip net I use when catching crabs that has a plastic bag added to the interior of the the net.

I guess the Chinese folks are really afraid of being identified as testing positive with the coronavirus. Think the leper colony on Molokai island were you were simply abanded to that island with your incurable disease for the remainder of your life.

**Jon** · Feb 26, 2020, 03:50 PM

Originally Posted by greyhoundollie

I don't think that was a pool skimmer. It looks like a dip net I use when catching crabs that has a plastic bag added to the interior of the the net.

Good call. A dip net. Plastic bag on the interior makes perfect sense when subduing someone who is potentially contagious. Pandemic preppers: add that to your list!

Yes, I think it's a training video, or just a video of a training exercise. That's the most reasonable explanation I've heard, it's unlikely that this sort of exercise would be ad-hoc filmed and uploaded to the net, and the guy pulling off his mask and spitting on the ground seems to be acting in too contrived a manner to be real.