Man holds woman hostage for 10 hours... with a Sega light gun

We always thought the Sega Master System's stealth-black Light Phaser was cooler than our blaze orange NES Zapper, but we never thought it could actually mistaken for a real weapon -- it's pretty obviously plastic, after all. Yeah, we were wrong: a Brazilian man apparently held a 60-year old woman hostage at, uh, phaserpoint for 10 hours until surrendering to police. Next time? He's taking down a bank with a Super Scope.

[Via Kanye West]

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:31PM]

Engadget isn't wrong, it should just be noted that he also had 2 knives, which will definitely be a real weapon.
I read about this around a week ago on what I think was Gizmodo.

[forrealdood Posted Mar 4th 2009 8:37PM]

The gun was still really, really fake.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 9:30PM]

Yeah I read this last week too, it was Giz

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 9:49PM]

And hey, he could have blinded her with that light gun! Did you ever think of that? Huh?

[Blackstar Posted Mar 4th 2009 10:00PM]

It's ok. It was set for 'Stun'.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 10:15PM]

The two knives were Sega light knives, though.

[sip Posted Mar 4th 2009 11:40PM]

@blackstar

It can only be set to 'fun'

[Blackstar Posted Mar 5th 2009 3:05AM]

I always get those two confused.

He's lucky those cops weren't Nintendo fanboys. They would have drilled him.

[KAL326 Posted Mar 5th 2009 9:33AM]

If you look at the second picture i looks like the cord is still attached to the "gun".

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 6th 2009 8:56AM]

Just in case, if someone is interested, besides the funny part of a guy make a lady hostage with a plastic gun, he really had two REAL knives with him. what you can check in the pictures of the Brazilian news web page:

http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Brasil/0,,MUL1013075-5598,00-POLICIA+DIVULGA+IMAGENS+DE+RENDICAO+DE+SEQUESTRADOR+NO+DISTRITO+FEDERAL.html

It is funny, but let's see the whole picture of what happened!

[adokimus Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:32PM]

I wish I could bury this for the "kanye" read-link..

[Saad Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:39PM]

I love Kanye. Say what you want about his personality, but damn the music he produces is future magic!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:45PM]

go back to digg

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:54PM]

Agreed! BURY IT!

[c w j Posted Mar 4th 2009 11:20PM]

I wish I could bury the comment that called it the "Sega Duck Hunt Gun".

Safari Hunt, dammit.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:41PM]

geez louise !

[Brokinarrow Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:35PM]

Wow, wonder how the police felt when they found out it was fake? oh, and pew pew.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 9:27PM]

I hope I wasn't the only one who thought that was really funny.

[JerseyBricklayer Posted Mar 4th 2009 9:40PM]

Pew .....PEW PEW PEW

[mikeweezer Posted Mar 4th 2009 10:12PM]

'Armed' gunman - "I got you, I got you!"
SWAT - "Nuh-uh, I was behind this wall - And I'm wearing, uh, a laser-proof vest"

[wako Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:33PM]

wait wait wait... via Kanye West? I didnt think he even knew how to use a computer let alone find where the power button is.

[Gad Get Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:35PM]

Kanye doesn't need computers; he's got his ego.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:46PM]

How do you think he produces all those amazing beats? by telepathy?

[NickA Posted Mar 4th 2009 8:03PM]

By waiting until someone else produces them.

[Eternity Posted Mar 5th 2009 3:08AM]

In soviet Russia keyboard blogs you.

[n0ne Posted Mar 5th 2009 1:01PM]

@Nick

oh, snap!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 6th 2009 2:13AM]

@Nick

Kanye West is a producer; if you want to hate, point out his real faults, like his voice or lyrics

[DiGiC Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:34PM]

I lol'd

[jefwif Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:34PM]

ala bandits with the highlighter bank robbery

[fernando Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:35PM]

Sega > Nintendo and if you disagree with me you're wrong.

[Gad Get Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:36PM]

I disagree.

D'oh!

[monkeyontherun4 Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:53PM]

ahh yea sorry buddy i disagree. and your wrong, only because you force your opinion on others. :)

[telepheedian Posted Mar 4th 2009 10:27PM]

Well, once upon a time they were.

[BigD145 Posted Mar 4th 2009 10:56PM]

Nintendo >>>>>>> Sonic

[SewerShark Posted Mar 5th 2009 7:16AM]

How can Nintendo be bigger that Sonic? its like saing that Screwdrivers are better than bananas. THAT DOES NO MAKE SENSE!!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 5th 2009 7:53AM]

I'm fairly certain that if Sega were to drop a console on the market in the next generation round and garner 3rd party support behind the scenes like has been speculated, 99% of us would lovingly thrown down our Playboxes and jump into their arms. I would in a heartbeat. Save us, Sega!

[Jorvay Posted Mar 5th 2009 8:54AM]

Screwdrivers ARE better than bananas and if you disagree with me you're wrong.

[Warhorse Posted Mar 5th 2009 2:05PM]

mmmmmm, screwdrivers...

[icchansan Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:35PM]

OMG! I like nintendo one :D

[paperless Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:36PM]

Kind of old news but still funny as hell :D

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:36PM]

Luckily he didn't have a nintendo power glove otherwise they would have had to send in Mike Tyson.

[texaspenguin Posted Mar 5th 2009 9:58AM]

I love the Power Glove.

It's so bad.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:38PM]

I might want to try to rob a bank using my old SNES Super Scope 6 Bazooka.
one word: menace

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 5th 2009 2:23AM]

I am with you. I got the N64 CLAW and lets not mention it but we got R.O.B. to drive the get away car

[ssummer Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:39PM]

Not a great weapon by any means. It's accuracy significantly falls off as the distance increases... ...from the TV.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:40PM]

Only the four people who owned that zapper for the Sega master system would really know if it was real or not in the heat of the moment. I don't see a 60 year old woman would know.

Kidding aside about the zapper. I was a Nintendo guy until the Gamecube came out. I maybe played Sega a half dozen times.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 8:26PM]

fps_doug goes irl

[skshrews Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:44PM]

I knew the 21st century was going to be scary...

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:48PM]

i looked at that picture and i was like "huh..that kinda looks like brazil."

crap.

[Bad Cyborg Posted Mar 4th 2009 7:58PM]

At first I thought it looked like Southeast Asia. But then the roof tiles gave it away.