The Legend Of Zelda’s Link, who invariably wields the Master Sword in the games(Picture: Supplied)

Mobster wisdom tells us to never bring a knife to a gunfight, but The Legend Of Zelda teaches us to not bring a flowerpot to a duel – especially if you opponent is armed with the Master Sword.

Sadly this story is really no laughing matter, as a domestic dispute quickly escalated into a woman’s estranged husband being taken to hospital in a serious condition with sword wounds, and her current boyfriend having a pot smashed over his head.

Sporting a large gash on his forehead, Eugene Thompson told a reporter for Local 2 in Katy, Texas, that he had argued with his girlfriend at her home on Saturday night, and that she had called her husband and asked him to come round.



Mr Thompson refused to let him in but the girlfriend did, at which point the anime convention buff reacted by grabbing a sword – an actual sword – modelled on the Master Sword from Nintendo’s Zelda game series.


Eugene Thompson said he probably needed to find somewhere else to live after stabbing his girlfriend’s husband (Picture: Local 2)

‘I heard him heading to the bedroom where I was, so I jumped in the closet and I grabbed one of my replica swords, and I pulled it out and stood at the doorway, and he was coming down the hallway at me while I was yelling, “Go away, you don’t live here” and he just walked right into the point of the sword, I don’t know if he thought it was a toy,’ he explained.

‘I do anime conventions and stuff, dress up in costume. So I got it, because it’s a good replica, and it looks nice, and it so happens to be pointed and bladed.’

Mr Thompson managed to eject the husband but he later broke in, at which point the husband was stabbed in the chest and leg, but also managed to smash a flowerpot over his love rival’s head, leaving the boyfriend with ‘blood pouring down my face’.

‘Swords and flower pots; it sounds nuts, he is psycho,’ Mr Thompson said, adding: ‘I am just trying to figure out what to do from here. I have to find a new place to live.’