Marine arrested at Okinawa airport after sword found in baggage

[unhappycamper]

Marine arrested at Okinawa airport after sword found in baggage
By Chiyomi Sumida, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Wednesday, May 21, 2008

NAHA, Okinawa — A 27-year-old Marine missed his flight going back to the States on Sunday after airport officials found a sword in his baggage.

Michael D. Spivey was in Okinawa police custody Monday for illegally possessing a sword, according to a spokesman for Okinawa prefectural police in Tomishiro. Spivey’s rank and the unit he was assigned to were not immediately available.

Spivey was checking in his baggage at Naha International Airport at about 6:35 a.m. when security screeners found the sword, which had a 14-inch blade, in a metal tube in his baggage, the spokesman said.

Spivey was arrested at 6:55 a.m. after he admitted to possessing the illegal weapon, telling police that he received it from his Filipino friend as a souvenir, police said.

Spivey was flying back to the States to report to his new duty station in California, the spokesman said.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=54950

[Lasher]

1. You can't posess a sword in Japan?

I wonder if this law is intended to keep people from taking genuine Samurai swords out of the country.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Samurai Jihadi

That almost sounds like a Saturday Night Live sketch.

--p!
"Oh, that -- that's a tube of Dr. Steve Martin's Penis Beauty Cream. So excu-u-use me!"

[emperor124]

3. rofl

that's hilarious. I'm gonna have to remember that