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Ninjas Rescue Student From Muggers
A group of assailants got a little more than they bargained for when an entire ninja school came to their victim's rescue. A 27-year-old German exchange student was being mugged in an alley near Ninja Senshi Ryu, when a ninja student noticed the commotion. The sensei along with the rest of the students rushed out to help. "You should have seen their faces when they saw us in ninja gear coming towards them," the school's sensei, Kaylan Soto, told the Herald. It's good to see ninjas working on their brand. When I was a kid they were mostly shurikens, smoke, and attitude.
I vote to have Ninja schools placed around street corners with high rates of muggings, or gun stores.
Yes, and there's a little history behind it:
When one is attacked by what seems like several ninja, it is difficult for one to be sure that it was not just one ninja running really fast. In fact, because of special relativity, it is actually impossible to determine in a single reference frame whether simultaneous ninja attacks were indeed perpetrated by a single ninja or several. Claims of ninja attacks were often inaccurate, with people saying "Some ninjas attacked John today at the supermarket - I guess we should inform his family," when they really meant "A ninja attacked John today at the supermarket - I guess we should inform his family."
Families of victims eventually realized that they didn't even know whether their loved one was killed by a single ninja or several. It was simply not possible, given the laws of physics. So, for simplicity, people would just understand "He got attacked by ninja" to mean either the singular or plural form of the word, with the ambiguity either irrelevant or disambiguated using context.
At the time, all other Japanese nouns did have separate plural forms in hyojungo, the "standard" Japanese dialect. Because this created an inconsistency, hyojungo was formally modified to follow the precedent set by "ninja". In support of this, ninja erased all official records that there ever was a distinction between plural and singular nouns in Japanese.