Thursday, 15 March 2018

She found a dating app on her boyfriend’s phone. Then she bought a samurai sword.

quote [ With her boyfriend finally asleep, Emily Javier reached for the samurai sword she had secretly taped earlier to the side of the bed. ]

I couldn't not post this. Full text in extended, because WaPo.

Full article:

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Washington Post
By Kyle Swenson March 15 at 3:44 AM

emily javier
With her boyfriend finally asleep, Emily Javier reached for the samurai sword she had secretly taped earlier to the side of the bed.

According to an affidavit filed by police, the room was dark, and she sparked her phone to see better. To aim better.

Below snoozed Alex Lovell. He played too many videos games, Javier would later explain to the police, and now he was cheating on her, she claimed. She knew the signs. Tinder on his phone. Scratches across his back. A girl’s hair in their shower drain. In the weak phone glow, Javier allegedly started hacking.

Lovell woke to his girlfriend of two years attacking him with a sword, police say. Survival instincts — mainly martial arts training and all the kung fu films he had watched — clicked in.

“I was able to wing chun my way to survival,” he told the Oregonian/OregonLive in an interview this week over Facebook messenger, referring to a Chinese martial art. He eventually wrapped Javier in a bear hug. “I saw the look in her eyes, and it scared the living poop out of me,” he told the news outlet. “I told her I loved her, and she was killing me. She needed to call police, or I was going to die.”

Javier broke off the attack and made the call, frantically telling a 911 operator she had stabbed her boyfriend and she thought he was dead. “You used a sword?” the operator asked.

When police did arrive at the scene on March 3, they found Lovell curled up in the blood-spattered bedroom, according to the probable cause affidavit filed by police in Camas, a Washington state town northeast of Portland, Ore. Remarkably, he survived the attack despite serious injuries. Lovell almost lost the index, middle and ring fingers on his hand. But in interviews this week, the competitive gamer sounded happy to be alive.

“I was just so proud for beating this samurai wannabe crazy lady with hate in her heart,” the 29-year-old told the Oregonian/OregonLive. “I’ve been preparing my whole life for something like this.”

Javier — who pleaded not guilty this week to first-degree attempted murder, according to the Columbian — had also allegedly been preparing.

Alex Lovell — known as “Biggie” in his local gamer scene — is an avid player of “PlayerUnknown’s Battleground,” a multiplayer online fighting game. As he told the Oregonian/OregonLive, Lovell has been recently logging 12 to 13 hours a day playing the game. The regimen also required “exercises for his hands, wrists and shoulders and also practicing mouse moves and techniques to maximize performance,” the paper reported.

“I wasn’t a sweaty nerd, more of an Ethlete,” Lovell told the Oregonian/OregonLive.

In an interview with police after the attack, Javier, 30, admitted she was frustrated with her boyfriend for staying glued to his game. Then, a week before the violent incident, Javier said she had discovered Lovell was unfaithful. According to the affidavit, she told police she discovered Tinder, the dating app, on his phone. She also noticed scratches on his back, possibly from a romantic encounter. She found red hair in the shower drain — her own hair was dyed green.

She did not confront her boyfriend. In the past, he had just denied such accusations. This time Javier went to the mall and bought a samurai sword. “I thought, I was gonna stab him while he was sleeping,” she told police.

The relationship reached a crisis point on March 2. According to the police affidavit, Lovell came home but ignored his girlfriend. She allegedly decided to go through with the attack, taping the sword and two knives to the bed. Javier also told police she hid Lovell’s phone so he could not call for help. When Lovell finally went to sleep, she reached for the sword.

In an interview with the Columbian this week, Lovell denied he was unfaithful. “I barely had time to hang out with my girlfriend, let alone another girl,” he told the paper. “I didn’t see it coming, but it makes sense that it happened. She obviously didn’t want anyone else to have me, so — samurai sword.”

Doctors were able to reattach Lovell’s fingers where they were nearly hacked off at the base. He also suffered wounds to his feet, legs, torso, neck and head. His right arm is in a cast. Members of the local gaming scene set up a GoFundMe page for his medical bills. The fund is just $2,000 shy of its $10,000 goal after 10 days.

Javier remains in custody. Her attorney did not return an email for comment.

“The feeling I had when I won the fight with my bare hands is just absolutely the best feeling,” Lovell boasted this week from the hospital. “I’ve played all the sports, won big games, landed some decent tricks on my snowboard. This was better.”
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Comments

dolemite said @ 2:58pm GMT on 15th Mar [Score:4 Underrated]
For anyone who reads the full article:

- yes, the bit be cray-cray
- what she did cannot be condoned

but sweet holy Christ, does her boyfriend sound like the most insufferable douche or what? By the end of the article I wanted to send the crazy lady a sharper sword and a motivational video.
HoZay said @ 3:20pm GMT on 15th Mar
Here's hoping the GoFundMe is a fraud, and he gets nothing.
JWWargo said @ 2:34am GMT on 16th Mar
My thought exactly. He was so pumped about surviving the attack it left a bad taste in my mouth. The line he said that really got my brow furrowed was, “I’ve been preparing my whole life for something like this.”

Saying something like that I can't help but wonder if he provoked her consciously or subconsciously in some way.

Glad he'll recover, please someone get her some psychological help, and maybe in the future that guy will step away from the PC for just a few minutes and talk things out with the important ones in his life.
lilmookieesquire said[1] @ 6:27am GMT on 16th Mar
I can not reconcile

“ I told her I loved her, and she was killing me. She needed to call police, or I was going to die.”

And

“I was just so proud for beating this samurai wannabe crazy lady with hate in her heart.”
milkman666 said @ 1:30pm GMT on 16th Mar
One way to circle that square is that he is psychologically manipulative, is aware of it, and is proud of it. Which brings me to what JWWargo said about intentionally provoking her.
Onix said @ 10:35pm GMT on 16th Mar
Yep. He is an amazing ass hole.
SnappyNipples said[5] @ 6:56pm GMT on 15th Mar [Score:1 Funny]
JWWargo said @ 2:34am GMT on 16th Mar
What did I just watch!
SnappyNipples said[1] @ 5:23am GMT on 16th Mar
sitswithacookie said @ 4:07am GMT on 16th Mar [Score:1 Insightful]
She felt so attached to the relationship that her response to his suspected cheating was murder. He felt so detached that his response to her attempt at murder was "Winning a sword-fight is the best feeling."




Also:
Cautionary Tales Of Swords #1
HoZay said @ 2:07pm GMT on 15th Mar
Mall swords should come with a disclaimer: "not really a sword."
Ussmak said @ 3:46pm GMT on 15th Mar
It's a sword, just not one built for real combat.

But more importantly, when are we going to start talking about common sense Katana Control?
HoZay said @ 4:36pm GMT on 15th Mar [Score:4 Underrated]
When there's mass murder by sword?
Anonynonymous said @ 7:32am GMT on 16th Mar
It happened in China couple years back.
milkman666 said @ 1:34pm GMT on 16th Mar
But when it comes to high body count in kid sizes that really goes to construction companies. I mean our schools don't pancake, but we do owe that to sensible construction control laws.
C18H27NO3 said @ 5:59pm GMT on 15th Mar
That's just plain stupid.

Seriously. You just typed that.

Are you proud and feel all smarmy 'nshit?
lilmookieesquire said @ 1:03am GMT on 16th Mar
For reals though they did that in meji japan.
HoZay said @ 4:45am GMT on 16th Mar
Katana have to be registered currently, don't they?
lilmookieesquire said @ 6:23am GMT on 16th Mar
Ya they have to be registered and are family heirlooms or something like that. Was a lot of stabbing going on back in the day.
rylex said @ 2:45pm GMT on 15th Mar
Wonder if either of them know about john and lorena bobbitt?
dolemite said @ 3:23pm GMT on 15th Mar [Score:3 Funny]
Ah yes, a classic off-again, on-again tale of romance.
Hugh E. said @ 6:02pm GMT on 15th Mar
Are you suggesting the boyfriend should have gotten a tip-off?
WeiYang said @ 8:39pm GMT on 15th Mar
if she'd had more time she'd have probably cut the tip off.
rhesusmonkey said @ 3:36am GMT on 16th Mar
Keep Portland Weird.

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