KABOOM!

[yanpa]

So there we were minding our own business on a pleasantly quiet Sunday morning after yesterday's undokai when all hell breaks loose in an explosive-ordnance-detonation kind of way. Somewhat curious as to why the neighbourhood is suddenly sounding like a war-zone, I look from the 2nd storey balcony and see some twat and his wife (at least that's the impression I got) standing in the middle of the field opposite with what looked like a very heavy-duty cherrybomb/firecracker launcher of the type one would imagine being for "professional use only" setting off the fireworks. I didn't hesitate to make my opinion known in best angry-gaijin-in-a-wifebeater fashion ("omaera nani yatteiru?!! Yamenasai") but by the time I'd made it outside to ask them up-close what the fuck they thought they were doing, they had disappeared.

They were clearly not part of the farming family who work one half of the field, and didn't look like they belonged to the people who use the other half as allotments, when we asked some of them, they said they'd never seen the couple before and that they'd just come into the field and said "it would get a bit noisy" without explaining further.

WTF?

[matsuki]

How are they managing not to get caught? There are millions of cops everywhere during this BS safety revenue week

[yanpa]

The cops tend not to have a heavy presence in the middle of fields, whatever week it is.

[matsuki]

The cops tend not to have a heavy presence in the middle of fields, whatever week it is.

They were fucking everywhere I went yesterday. Mostly in pairs, looking bored or staring off into nowhere, blowing whistles and shit.

[Russell]

The cops tend not to have a heavy presence in the middle of fields, whatever week it is.

They were fucking everywhere I went yesterday. Mostly in pairs, looking bored or staring off into nowhere, blowing whistles and shit.

So, is the traffic safety week just starting or finishing this weekend?

Didn't see any traffic cops last week.

[Mike Oxlong]

The cops tend not to have a heavy presence in the middle of fields, whatever week it is.

They were fucking everywhere I went yesterday. Mostly in pairs, looking bored or staring off into nowhere, blowing whistles and shit.

So, is the traffic safety week just starting or finishing this weekend?

Didn't see any traffic cops last week.

Think it ends tomorrow. Down here they're checking the registration of all bicycles parked in public places and leaving patrolled tags on them.

[Coligny]

Sorry, Taco Bell for lunch... had to improvize in a field after destroying the loo...

[wagyl]

If the kaboom happens at a particular time, like on an hour, it is likely to be to scare off birds close to harvest time. There is the 8 a.m. cannon here, and there, and over there, and just over here too, when various fruits are coming into juicy ripeness (like around about now).

[Russell]

If the kaboom happens at a particular time, like on an hour, it is likely to be to scare off birds close to harvest time. There is the 8 a.m. cannon here, and there, and over there, and just over here too, when various fruits are coming into juicy ripeness (like around about now).

In the previous place I lived they also had such canons in the past, but since people living around there complained, it was banned.

If this is the case, I recommend Yanpa to complain to the police.

[nikoneko]

We are getting a ton of helicopters here every day. Quite odd.

[Coligny]

We are getting a ton of helicopters here every day. Quite odd.

Here it's C130 activity that is picking Up, always flying in close pairs...
But also got cannon last in summer time, all day long, only in the lost rice fields around the municipal hospital.

[nikoneko]

Also yeah if this is an isolated case, do as they do and complain a bit, probably not to the police but just to the neighbors and it will get around easily. When in Japan... I am outside a lot relaxing in the yard at night on weekends and heard a guy saying something like ”おい！　おい！おまえこちにこい！おさけこい！こいいうたな？　聞こえない？　BITCH!!” (hiragana used to protect the Colignys hope it makes sense) Something like that, don't remember exactly but it was not pleasant to hear on our street. Basically the equivalent of extremely verbally abusive Japanese from a husband to a wife. I asked my fam and was told "we have heard it too, no we don't do anything yet but if gets worse we start with the neighborhood." If you call the cops outright it makes you to blame and look bad. Subtle very subtle (and manipulative) this country.

[nikoneko]

We are getting a ton of helicopters here every day. Quite odd.

Here it's C130 activity that is picking Up, always flying in close pairs...
But also got cannon last in summer time, all day long, only in the lost rice fields around the municipal hospital.

Yeah it is very weird, we are getting single ones flying over a lot. Even my son who is 6 mentioned it today actually. No idea at all.

[yanpa]

If the kaboom happens at a particular time, like on an hour, it is likely to be to scare off birds close to harvest time. There is the 8 a.m. cannon here, and there, and over there, and just over here too, when various fruits are coming into juicy ripeness (like around about now).

In the previous place I lived they also had such canons in the past, but since people living around there complained, it was banned.

If this is the case, I recommend Yanpa to complain to the police.

I did consider whether there might be some agricultural reason but like I said, they weren't the people who farm the field, which is full of juicy fresh cabbages right now. Also this being Japan, if they'd been outside bird-frightening contractors I'm sure they would have been all decked out in sagyofuku and would have at least taken the time to post flyers and knock on doors informing the neighbourhood that it was about to sound like it was under attack from Al Quaeda US drones. And if they'd been legit, I'm sure they wouldn't have buggered off sharpish and would have explained what was going on.

[matsuki]

Koreans trying to shell Yasukuni from that field?

[Coligny]

There's silencers for that...

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