Hideaki Akaiwa
On the afternoon of Friday, 11 March 2011, Hideaki Akaiwa was at his job, dully trudging out the final bitter minutes of his work week in his office just outside the port city of Ishinomaki in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture. Suddenly, something terrible happened -- an earthquake. And not just any earthquake -- a mega fucking brain-busting insane earthquake the likes of which the island of Japan had never had the misfortune of experiencing before. The tremors churned up a raging tsunami that turned a bustling city of 162,000 people into little more than a ten-foot-deep lake. Hideaki's wife of twenty years was buried inside the lake somewhere. She had not gotten out. She was not answering her phone. The water was still rising, the sun was setting, cars and shit were swooshing past on a river of sea water, and rescue workers told him there was nothing that could be done -- the only thing left was to sit back, wait for the military to arrive, and hope that they can get in there and rescue the survivors before it is too late. With 10,000 citizens of Ishinomaki still unaccounted for, the odds were not great that Hideaki would ever see his wife again. For most of us regular folks, this is the sort of shit that would make us throw up our hands, swear loudly, and resign ourselves to a lifetime of hopeless misery. But Hideaki Akaiwa is not a regular guy. He is a fucking insane badass, and he was not going to sit back and just let his wife die alone, freezing to death in a miserable water-filled tomb. He was going after her. No matter what.
http://badassoftheweek.com/akaiwa.html
Gunmen Kidnap Town's Last Police Officer
Gunmen kidnapped a 28-year-old woman who was the sole police officer in the Mexican town of Guadalupe, close to the violent northern border city of Ciudad Juarez. Unidentified gunmen set Erika Gandara's home ablaze before abducting her. She was the last police officer in Guadalupe after her colleagues either resigned and fled or were killed. Guadalupe, population 9,000, is in an area used by traffickers to smuggle drugs into the United States. The town is just up the road from the town of Praxedis Guadalupe Guerrero, where a 20-year-old college student and mother named Marisol Valles took over as police chief in October.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/gunmen-kidnap-towns-female-lone-ranger-28-20101228-198qh.html
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