Losing Hand To Hand In Sword Fight

Ever seen the movie The Wanderers? Classic story about gangs in the early '60s trying to get by and get laid, etc. It's got a lot of the stereotypical racial humor you could pull off effectively in the late '70s without offending any but the tighest of buttholes. It's a shame they don't make ethnic gang movies like they used to. Anyway, there's this classic line in it from the Asian gang: DON'T FUCK WITH THE WONGS. That's pretty much all I could think about while reading this news clip.

A Melbourne teenager who severed a man's hand during a gang fight in the city last year has been sentenced to two-and-a-half-years in jail. Tuan Mai, 18, used a samurai sword to cut off Huyn Nguyen's hand during an organised brawl between two Melbourne gangs from Fitzroy and the Western suburbs.

The court heard the fight was organised to settle a dispute over a girl. It heard between 50 and 100 young Asian men gathered in the Fitzroy Gardens for the fight in February 2004. Members came armed with samurai swords, machetes and poles.

Mai, who pleaded guilty to affray and recklessly causing serious injury, will serve a minimum of 12 months jail. The court heard his victim's hand was later reattached after police found it in the gardens.

Teen jailed for sword attack during gang fight [ABC News (Au)]