November
12
/ 2019
A US burglar learned a stinging lesson taught by a weapons collector with a huge ax. A convicted criminal learned ‘another’ hard lesson while breaking into the home of a weapons collector when he was chopped with a sharpened battle ax. On Wednesday night, Ben Ball, 36, was playing computer games and relaxing in his Michigan apartment, when Alex Rawls, 33, began banging on his door. Rawls, a convicted violent offender, had previously dated Ball's roommate. Fearing Rawls might have a gun, Ball, who fights in recreated medieval battles, fetched his double-headed carbon steel battle ax, which he calls ‘his baby’, and stood waiting for Rawls to break in. In a Douglas Digital Daily article, Ball, is quoted telling Wood
