Scary Trend of 2009: Knife-Wielding Asian Maniacs

All right, this is now becoming ridiculous, as three news stories have emerged in as many weeks.  Three instances of anything makes a pattern, and right now we're seeing a trend of knife-wielding Asian maniacs.

Here's the trifecta of slasherrific news:

1.  The sushi restaurant waiters who took up sashimi knives against robbers.  OK, of the trifecta, this part is the only one that's even remotely justifiable (self-defense), even if it is (a) Tarantino-esque and (b) just plain crazy.

2.  Next: the sushi chef road rage incident in New York City.  It's one thing to yell obscenities or make rude gestures while driving, but hauling out a knife and assaulting  another driver?  The sushi chef got arrested.  The other guy got 100 stitches to close up his wounds.  Ouch.

3.  This is an unspeakably terrible news story from Virginia Tech, where one Chinese grad student murdered another with a kitchen knife.  Even worse: he then beheaded her corpse.