This is a story I fished out of old archives I found in the archive room --where else?-- of the Tokyo museum. As you will see it is a very interesting, albeit short, story. It seems to date back from the XIIIth century and its title is "the seven clumsy samurai":

THE SEVEN CLUMSY SAMURAI
A tale of courage, albeit a bit short

"In the eleventh year of the rule of the mighty shogun Horodo, during the spring, around 9:30 am (local time) gathered in the small village of Los Angeles, seven clumsy samurai".
Note from the researcher: the name "Los Angeles" has nothing to do with the big city in California, it's just a coincidence, I swear.
Anyways: "...In the village of Los Angeles, seven clumsy samurai. The times were troubled and rain threatened, just to make matters worse.
But there they were: Honda, the brave, Toyota, the mechanically sound (?), Mitsubishi the cunning, Subaru the four wheel driver, Hitachi the sound system, Isuzu the liar and Yamaha the 750 cc twin cam water cooled GT.
But alas they were clumsy. So, as soon as they gathered together, Honda unfortunately tripped on his kimono, as Toyota the brave was unsheathing his sharp katana in the immediate vicinity. Honda's head was immediately separated from his body, to the great dismay of Toyota who undertook immediately to commit seppuku, which is the correct spelling of hara kiri, or sticking one's knife into one's belly.
But all he could achieve was badly cutting his thumb and in a rage, he threw the knife direcly into Mitsubishi's throat but I mean, Mitsubishi should have been careful since he knew that Toyota was as clumsy as he was.
Of course being angry like that Toyota did not see the eighteen wheeler barreling towards him at 75 Miles an hour, for at that time they stood on the Tokyo/Yokohama interstate.
Clumsy, remember?
And off went Toyota, and Subaru too, actually who was trying to come to the rescue.
Dumb, dumb, dumb..
Seeing this, Hitachi, Isuzu and Yamaha went to the rescue too, forgetting that in a regular interstate, vehicles cam come either from the right OR the left.
They became instant road kills.
Thus ends the story of the seven clumsy samurai.
I told you it would be short didnt'I?