A story came out on reddit.com recently, about a video that somehow surfaced on YouTube.com from about 25 years ago where a mentally unstable man makes his way into a Karate dojo in Quantico, Virginia, and ends up dead. So goes the story that he was a bit of a pest at the local mall, and was definitely known around town.

He dropped into the local Karate dojo to teach them some moves that he said ‘Jesus taught him’. In a case of extreme bad judgement the men from the gym took the opportunity to teach the guy a lesson. They beat him to death, it appears.

Reddit.com, being what it is, a massive clearing house of information, gets the word out. The media got on it, and the law is now on it, and so it should be. The owner of the dojo, Bobby Joe Blythe, has been tracked to where he lives now in Hanford, California.

So we can call it good news, the power of the Internet coming to expose a horrible wrong from 2 decades ago. But the actions of these men, committing murder, is all the more reprochable because the actions were taken in a dojo wearing gi and belt. They are dishonouring all martial arts by their actions. Isnt it obvious that you dont fight people who dont want to fight? That you dont entrap or lure people into a situation where they are subjected to an unfair fight? Its an obvious concept that you dont just inflict injury on anyone, least of all someone of some diminished mental or intellectual capacity. Its so profoundly wrong on so many levels.

If you find yourself in a martial arts dojo of any description and you find the other members or instructors are mean, insensitive, cruel, bullying, or humiliating in anyway, get the hell out and never come back.

Ill spare showing you the original video on my blog, its real faces of death stuff. But if you want to see it, its a related video to the YouTube video link I included in this post.