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Naked Man Confronts San Jose Police With Samurai-Like Sword During Bizarre, 2-Hour Standoff

Jan. 2, 2013 7:51am Billy Hallowell

Police in San Jose, Calif., rang in New Year in a strange way — by confronting an irate, naked man with a Samurai-like sword and an assault rifle. The bizarre scene unfolded after authorities received a call that a man armed with an assault rifle was outside of a local residence. Police later found Coco Bennett, 29, at a nearby location, leading to a bizarre, two-hour stand-off.

While Bennett was inevitably arrested on suspicion of brandishing a weapon and for possession of an assault rifle, the situation took quite some time to resolve. After Bennett drove his vehicle to a local train station, the suspect stripped down, emerging from his pick-up truck naked; he then purportedly threatened police with his sword.

Coco Bennett Confronts Police With Gun & Samurai Like Sword in Hand

Photo Credit: AP

According to San Jose police spokesperson Officer Albert Morales, Bennett told authorities, “You’re going to have to kill me.” During the dispute, the rail station was closed, the area was secured and the rifle (AR-15-type assault weapon), magazine and associated bullets were collected by authorities from the man’s pickup truck.

After two hours of intense negotiations with Bennett, the suspect attempted to escape. Naked and with his sword still in hand, he ran toward a fence and tried to jump over it. It was at this point that he fell down, lost control of his weapon and was detained.

Bennett was taken to the hospital to treat minor injuries, as authorities attempt to figure out what spawned the bizarre behavior. Mental health issues and drug and substance abuse are two potential causes that are under review.

(H/T: CBS San Francisco)

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Lachoneous
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:10pm
I suppose that this will be one of many stories from which the media will attempt to create the narrative that there are LOTS of crazies running around with assault weapons. We (the sheep) are supposed to “wonder” how so many criminally insane people have been able to obtain such firepower. Just wait! I bet some of the spike in AR sales was by democraps, so they could go give them to these crack heads and generate the buzz. Anyone smell Fast and Furious?

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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on January 3, 2013 at 6:43pm
  TAKING ORDERS FROM CHICAGO WHITE HOUSE SO SWORDS CAN BE INCLUDED IN DEMOCRAT GUN CONFISCATION ACT.
  
  It seem everything Democrats want to outlaw something they just give orders to their Convienient Idiots to cause the chaos.
  
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hades3
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 5:26pm
What’s more dangerous than running with sissors ? A man running naked with a sword !

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pavepaws
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 4:31pm
Got tangled in a fence, Ouch.

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American_Made
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 2:37pm
Ahhh S h I t now they are going to ban swords. Next it will be bicycles cuz some kid hurt his knee.

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qdllc
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 1:14pm
And the question is: “What is a headline that sounds dirty, but isn’t?”

LOL

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spirited
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 11:19am
Al Sharpton must be running around and jumping up & down….skipping & singing

>A sharp pointed object with a handle made the news –yippie!!!

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tckid17
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:53am
I guess he was sharply “undressed”. No more Suzuki for you.

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lessoneleg
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:51am
Start the year with a story of an obvious insane person “in the public” wishing to do harm. And where was the psychologist & social workers who release these people in the public. Post their names and addresses. They release these people into the public. They sign the papers stating they are not a danger to the public.
It’s so easy for a liberal to blame a weapon. I have yet to read blame being pointed at the mental health service workers who release dangerous patients back into the public.

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- stumpy68
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 10:31pm
  i dont know about elsewhere but in Maine many years ago they passed laws that
  emptied most mental institutions and seriously limited the length of time and reasons
  to keep the mentally ill institutionalized this has lead to many problems
  
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RaydocX
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:34am
what are the Libs going to do with this… an AR15 ‘assault weapon’ story where no one was shot or killed?!

the rifle seems tangential to the story.
hopefully Coco (really?) will get the help he needs so that we don’t have a more tragic next time.
and hopefully MBE can get the help she needs, too

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- Proverbs17-12NLT
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:51am
  Time to Ban Naked Men democrats
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:19am
BIOHAZARD, LOL, she ought to just call WANGO directly then. That should be funny from the beginning.

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biohazard23
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:14am
RJ, cut her a little slack. The poor dear is just upset that she doesn’t have any nude males (not even the looney ones) interested in her, bless her heart.

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 9:09am
BARYMETHELIZABETH, Wow, starting your New Year off at The Blaze in a rather nasty way, aren’t you?

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kickagrandma
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:55am
Love your comments manly men!!! Our world is so missing the Clint Eastwoods, John Waynes and Audie Murphys. Men, with rocks where men are supposed to have rocks and not in their glamorous fake smiling heads. Hmmmm, I’d better stop this before I get myself in trouble with the double entendre.

HANG TOUGH, PATRIOTS. There are too many wimps in the mix already.

Oh, about the article, even I, an old woman, know that guy should have been bean bagged or tazed into submission immediately. Of course, this could be another set up by the left, could it not? We start clamoring for police crack downs on dissenters, rabble rousers. Guess who’s next?

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biohazard23
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:43am
The dogs went crazy with all of the fireworks going off around here. Fortunately, it didn’t last long after midnight. That’s because most of the really loud stuff was fired off much earlier in the evening.

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- biohazard23
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:51am
  Oops! This was meant for RJ. Sorry, not enough coffee yet this morning….
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:58am
  BIOHAZARD, LOL, have done the same thing before here. Our dog doesn’t seem to like fireworks even at distance, but she stays relatively quiet about it. Like I said, they will just wait for better weather and shoot all of their fireworks off later. No big deal though.
  
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Apple Bite
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:35am
Pull out your katana and leave your AR-15 in the truck..yeah, that sounds like a sane man to me. Sounds like he didn’t want to die, but tried to provoke the cops. It’s time law enforcement step their game up. Where’s the LTL weapons in L.A.? A few bean bags between the legs would have him down and complying.

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TIMEBOMB
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:23am
The samurai wielding psychopath is clearly coo coo for cocoa puffs and Mr.Bennett is a registered democrat,he voted for me 666 times in 08 and 12,that’s my lucky number btw.

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:02am
Well, if we don’t see any posts from HORSEPRANCER/WANGO/PANTS/GLENNDUH for a few days, then we’ll know who this nut really is. Those interested can send flowers. I understand that he loves purple petunias.

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- DadRocked
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:35am
  Ahhh, San Diego the starting point of Crystal Meth…
  And only because he was nude was this reported…
  
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Mapache
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:00am
What a waste of time. Time for the police to put their big boy pants on. When confronting a naked guy with a samuri sword, keep him covered with your weapons and call on the guys with the Less Lethal munitions. Then shoot his a%% with baton rounds until he drops the sword and drops to the ground. You DO NOT negotiate with naked people with swords. If they were rational they would 1) not be naked 2) bring a sword to a gunfight.

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- resme
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:05am
  If he had a “naked” dog it would have been put down fairly quick.
  
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resme
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:59am
I wonder if he had a boehner

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:05am
  RESME, Dang, you and BIOHAZARD need to put a warning at the beginning of these posts. Almost lost my coffee…..again! Very funny!
  
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- resme
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:11am
  Good morning, Rjj. I’m sure my post will be flagged and deleted….
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:15am
  RESME, I hope not, I’m still laughing.
  Hope that you had a great New Years.
  
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- ares338
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:20am
  That made my morning…heh..heh.
  
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biohazard23
Posted on January 2, 2013 at 7:54am
Oh no, time to ban all forms of nudity and sharp, pointy things!!

I’m going to go out on a limb here and presume this guy also had a dull, semi-pointed yet mainly flaccid thing on his person, too. :)

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:03am
  BIOHAZARD, Bwahahahahahahahahaha!
  Good morning, and I see that you survived the holidays with sense of humor intact.
  
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- Mapache
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:16am
  Pelosi and Feinstein are preparing a bill to ban those semi-sharp mainly flaccid things…….what? They already did? That is why we have Boehner, Reid, Obama, Durban, Biden, and the rest? Well, that explains a lot of things.
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:20am
  LOL!!! :) Good morning, RJ, and a blessed New Year to you!
  
  Yes, we survived our NYE festivities, which consisted of family game night here at home with the kids. We’re pretty much home bodies so we had no desire to go out and fight the crowds anywhere. How was your festive season with your friends and loved ones?
  
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- biohazard23
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:27am
  @Mapache, there ain’t enough Cialis or Levitra on the planet to help those flaccid beings perk up and be productive. And if there were, half of them are probably also taking nitrates for chest pain. Those guys act as though they’re already unconscious on some level so the medication interaction might not make any noticeable difference to their collective cognizant state anyway…
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on January 2, 2013 at 8:34am
  BIOHAZARD, Thanks for asking. My wife and I had a quiet night. The rain kept the fireworks down to not even a single pop. In this rural area, other than some relatives nearby, we really don’t have what you would call neighbors. So, when it happens the fireworks are still at a bit of a distance. The rain is supposed to end some time today, so I bet that the fireworks might start anytime between tonight and the weekend. Otherwise I watched a bit of TV and did some reading. Didn’t even check out The Blaze that much. LOL, I think that I have finally turned into my father.
  
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