Spread around my Star Trek Fan Mailstring, was this story from the Colorado Springs Gazette, a moron with a Bat’leth attempts to steal from a 7-11, and fails.
And fails!
Dishonor upon his house!
Actually, looking at the surveilance video, it looks less like a true “Bat’leth” and more like some kind of Klingon-like ceremonial dagger thing. News media screwing up again! A Bat’leth has a very specific design, used for single and dual handed battle. That thing is itty bitty, which goes against the reporter’s chortle that a Bat’leth would be hard to conceal. Right, and wrong at the same time.
The article: http://www.gazette.com/articles/store_47426___article.html/colorado_sword.html
Bat’leth: http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Bat’leth
