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They aimed to rid their neighbourhood of drug dealers using stealth, "merciful" force and a cache of deadly weapons.

But two would-be ninjas who dubbed themselves "Shinobi Warriors" have instead been arrested and charged.

Police found the men, 19-year-old Jesse Trojaniak and 20-year-old Tadieusz Tertkiewicz, lurking in a car next to a highway in Clifton, New Jersey, on Wednesday morning, the Clifton Journal reported.

The pair was dressed in black, wearing protective vests and had a cache of weapons in the car, including ninja throwing stars, swords, bows, arrows and nunchucks.

They told police they were on their way to deliver a warning to drug dealers and users in the neighbourhood.

Inside the car were five letters decorated in Chinese designs and containing letters threatening to stop the "cruel and sadistic intentions" of dealers with "justified, yet merciful force".

"The wind guides us to those of impure heart and intent," the letter read.

Both men were charged with weapons possession and Tertkiewicz was also charged with harassment for delivering a similar letter to his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend.

Trojaniak told WCBSTV in New York that the cache of weapons was intended to scare the drug dealers.

"Those weapons, they were just for show, they were just there to make us look as ninja as possible," he said.

"I would never do anything like this again."

Hahahahahahahahahahaha, wheeze, wheeze.

that is beyond hilarious

haha....nerds taking on the street!

Good thing for them the cops got to 'em first.

I just have this feeling tha NJ drug dealers more than likely have a "shoot , then don't bother asking questions" policty where ninja attacks are concerned.....

Man, more like a 'shoot and don't have time to ask questions' policy because ninjas are already flipping out everywhere and killing them.

AHHH, they DO exist

Interesting.


Like Exo said.......they probably would not have lasted a real long time (unhurt or even alive) on the streets.

These poor guy's may be suffering from "Hidey's Disease"

I thought that was "Whitey's Disease"?

IMAY already be dead, but I don't know it, so I'll just go on with life as normal. No foul.

Now you are definitely dead. Mocking a ninja is instant death. You already have it.

See, that's the trick. So long as I don't realize I'm dead, I don't have to worry about it.

It's the Douglass Adams principle in effect, the first example of which states that flying is merely a matter of falling and forgetting to hit the ground.

It works, though, GW.

I know it does. I just can't seem to forget the whole "hitting the ground" part.....