Ninjas: the New Normal

During our last parade Gaspee Day Parade in Pawtuxet Village there were SWAT team Ninjas on the roof aimed at us and the reviewing stand. I missed them, but our drummer caught them. I hope this isn't the new normal.

Ninja
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A ninja (忍者?) or shinobi (忍び?) was a covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan. The functions of the ninja included espionage, sabotage, infiltration, and assassination, and open combat in certain situations.[1] Their covert methods of waging war contrasted the ninja with the samurai, who observed strict rules about honor and combat.[2] The shinobi proper, a specially trained group of spies and mercenaries, appeared in the Sengoku or "warring states" period, in the 15th century,[3] but antecedents may have existed in the 14th century,[4] and possibly even in the 12th century (Heian or early Kamakura era).[5][6]