Japanese police arrested a GAIJIN brat on suspicion of arson

[yanpa]

He must be the FG's only esteemed member from Nigeria.

You mean I'm eligible for 954,000,342$ just for giving my full name, DOB, DL#, Mother's first real lover, and that time I did it with my teacher?? WOW!! I'm in!! woohoo!!

You are in providing you now look like His Majesty Harry, Potentate of Oshiri.

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OK, which pervert was illicitly photographing Taro while he was negotiating the Tokyo subway system?

[Coligny]

It was a perfectly legit photoshoot...

[Russell]

I do however very probably share a common set of genes with the late and great Charles Babbage.

I do too. After all, we are all humans...

[yanpa]

I do however very probably share a common set of genes with the late and great Charles Babbage.

I do too. After all, we are all humans...

Not sure about some members here... But yeah, poor choice of phrasing on my part. I mean something more like "a close mutual ancestor", probably mutual grandfather. (However the Babbage line I'm descended down is full of petty criminals, so maybe I should keep it quiet).

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

...the Babbage line I'm descended down is full of petty criminals....

We're probably related then....

(Not really, I'm second generation, but also Irish so there's bound to be a criminal element in there somewhere...)

[yanpa]

...the Babbage line I'm descended down is full of petty criminals....

We're probably related then....

(Not really, I'm second generation, but also Irish so there's bound to be a criminal element in there somewhere...)

Hah, I was intending to work in some snark about being related to you, but by the time the petty crimes were committed, any British criminals going to live on the West Island were doing so voluntarily.

I do have a great-grandfather (the first husband of my Babbage great-grandmother as it happens) who ran away to Perth and as far as anyone can tell vanished after drinking his way through a series of outback towns in Western Australia. Does that ring any bells?

[Yokohammer]

... drinking his way through a series of outback towns in Western Australia. Does that ring any bells?

That'd ring bells for just about any Aussie worth his weight in XXXX.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

... drinking his way through a series of outback towns in Western Australia. Does that ring any bells?

That'd ring bells for just about any Aussie worth his weight in XXXX.

I don't think they drink much XXXX in Western Australia...(I think they struggle to spell it...)

[Samurai_Jerk]

I ... can trace my family tree back about 1000 years to Britain on my father's side and 500 on my mother's. How about you, fuckwit?

That's quite impressive... Norman nobility or something?

Something like that. I am a blue blood. Unfortunately my grandparents' generation pissed away what was left of the family fortune (although to be honest the beginning of the end was losing the War of Northern Aggression) and my parents were dirty hippie college dropouts so I didn't get born with a silver spoon up my ass.

[univerman666]

update

放火容疑の米国籍少年を家裁送致／横浜地検
http://news.kanaloco.jp/localnews/article/1303280023/
神社放火容疑で米国籍の少年を再逮捕へ／座間　2013年3月29日
http://news.kanaloco.jp/localnews/article/1303290036/

今月７日、座間市内で住宅など６棟が全焼した火災で、非現住建造物等放火容疑で逮捕された米国籍の少年（１５）について、座間署は栗原神社の神楽殿などにも放火した疑いが強まったとして、再逮捕する方針を固めた。
同署の調べに対し、少年は「アメリカから引っ越してきたものの、日本の家が狭くストレスがたまっていた」などと動機を供述した。

Police plan to serve a fresh arrest warrant on an American teenager suspected of setting a shrine on fire earlier this month in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, investigative sources said.
The 15-year-old suspect, whose father reportedly works at Camp Zama, told investigators he was frustrated with the small home his family recently moved into.
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/0 ... Vu2fKJM58E
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Umm..
What a ridiculous motive..fu* king GAIJIN..
Don't bring moron to Japan.

We Japanese urge severe punishment of the arsonist.
We can never forgive this GAIJIN.

[Yokohammer]

Now you're just sounding like a fucking racist, univerman666.

[james]

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Umm..
What a ridiculous motive..fu* king GAIJIN..
Don't bring moron to Japan.

確かに日本へそんな馬鹿を連れて来る必要は一切ない。　だって、お前のような日本生まれ育ちの馬鹿は既に大勢居る。

[Marked Trail]

...Police plan to serve a fresh arrest warrant on an American teenager suspected of setting a shrine on fire...
The 15-year-old suspect...
...We Japanese urge severe punishment of the arsonist.

Actually, a 15-year-old convicted of arson (no human injury) in Japan would get suspended sentence--probation for 2 years. No minors convicted of arson (1st offense) receive "severe punishment" in Japan.
Juvenile criminals under 18, no matter how bad the crime committed are set free as adults when they are 20 years old and their identity is kept hidden.

[Coligny]

Yea don't bring morons to japan, they breed them easily enougth locally...

(sand to the beach and'all)

[GomiGirl]

...Police plan to serve a fresh arrest warrant on an American teenager suspected of setting a shrine on fire...
The 15-year-old suspect...
...We Japanese urge severe punishment of the arsonist.

Actually, a 15-year-old convicted of arson (no human injury) in Japan would get suspended sentence--probation for 2 years. No minors convicted of arson (1st offense) receive "severe punishment" in Japan.
Juvenile criminals under 18, no matter how bad the crime committed are set free as adults when they are 20 years old and their identity is kept hidden.

Yes but ethnicity aside, is the punishment increased if the target of the arson is a shrine or other religious structure?

[Marked Trail]

No minors convicted of arson (1st offense) receive "severe punishment" in Japan.
Juvenile criminals under 18, no matter how bad the crime committed are set free as adults when they are 20 years old and their identity is kept hidden.

Yes but ethnicity aside, is the punishment increased if the target of the arson is a shrine or other religious structure?

Shrines are targeted by arson all the time---They're a "favorite" target of Japanese arsonists.
Unlike burning a church/synagogue/mosque in the West, Japanese view their shrine's as temporary structures that are completely rebuilt every couple decades. When my local shrine was torched by a local wacko, who was caught after a string of 6-7 fires---He received 5 years suspended sentence/probation.
I attended the local shrine association meeting after the arson. Nobody but nobody was angry about the arson---It was expected (shrines are uninsurable). Everybody just moved up the shrine's rebuilding schedule in their minds from once-every-25 years to once-every-15-years.

[Yokohammer]

Just wondering what our new racist member is thinking of this:

千葉で空き家などが全焼…連続放火事件とみて捜査

or this:

愛知・安城市で不審火１５件　同一放火犯か

これも「GAIJIN」の仕業だと思っているのかね？
どうですか、univerman666?

Sounds like groups of Japanese kids are roaming around setting fire to houses and vehicles.

[Taro Toporific]

... ethnicity aside, is the punishment increased if the target of the arson is a shrine or other religious structure?

Shrines are targeted by arson all the time---They're a "favorite" target of Japanese arsonists.
Unlike burning a church/synagogue/mosque in the West, Japanese view their shrine's as temporary structures that are completely rebuilt every couple decades..nobody was angry about the arson---It was expected (shrines are uninsurable). Everybody just moved up the shrine's rebuilding schedule in their minds from once-every-25 years to once-every-15-years.

Yep, it happens all the time...

Inari Shrine in Tokyo set fire and burnt down
東京・井の頭公園内の稲荷神社が全焼…夜間に放火か（テレビ朝日系（ANN）） - Y!ニュース
(ANN) TV Asahi (Thu) 12:02 May 2 (in Japanese - goofy Google Translate)
　Around midnight on the 1st, a shrine in Inokashira Park in Tokyo was burned to the ground. The Metropolitan Police Department has began an investigation to look into the strong possibility of arson. 　At 11:00 pm in Inokashira Park, there was a report from a woman who lives nearby that a, "fire can be seen at the shrine." The fire was extinguished about an hour later. In addition to Inari Shrine, the surrounding trees were also burnt...
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews/ ... 5-ann-soci

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[matsuki]

I'm surprised everyday that Yasukuni has been burned or exploded yet. There are enough angry Chinese/Koreans that at least a few of them are crazy enough to try it.

[Russell]

I'm surprised everyday that Yasukuni has been burned or exploded yet. There are enough angry Chinese/Koreans that at least a few of them are crazy enough to try it.

Didn't some Chinese from Korea (or Korean from China) attempt to set fire to Yasukuni a year or so ago?

[Taro Toporific]

I'm surprised everyday that Yasukuni has been burned or exploded yet. There are enough angry Chinese/Koreans that at least a few of them are crazy enough to try it.

Didn't some Chinese from Korea (or Korean from China) attempt to set fire to Yasukuni a year or so ago?

Yeap, but nobody really cared enough about the Yasukuni fire to make an international incident about it.

S. Korea court declares Yasukuni arson 'political,' refuses suspect extradition
The Asahi Shimbun

[matsuki]

I'm surprised everyday that Yasukuni has been burned or exploded yet. There are enough angry Chinese/Koreans that at least a few of them are crazy enough to try it.

Didn't some Chinese from Korea (or Korean from China) attempt to set fire to Yasukuni a year or so ago?

Yeap, but nobody really cared enough about the Yasukuni fire to make an international incident about it.

S. Korea court declares Yasukuni arson 'political,' refuses suspect extradition
The Asahi Shimbun

...and there you have it....though what a failure.

[Taro Toporific]

US Teen sent to juvenile detention for shrine arson
Stars and Stripes /May 21, 2013
The 15-year-old son of a U.S. contractor assigned to Camp Zama will spend time in a Japanese juvenile detention facility for setting fire to a historic shrine.
The teen, who was not identified, confessed to setting fire to a shed and the shrine on March 7, only a week after he arrived in Japan. Police said he told them he was trying to release stress caused by the language barrier and the close proximity of Japanese homes....
...The court did not specify the length of the sentence, but juveniles can be held until age 20 or paroled earlier based on assessments by the school authorities, the spokeswoman said.
More...

Via Mulboyne's twitter

[matsuki]

Time to rebuild it with concrete? That tori made it through just fine!

[Samurai_Jerk]

Police said he told them he was trying to release stress caused by the language barrier and the close proximity of Japanese homes

That sounds like a very Japanese excuse. He must have had a good local lawyer.

[matsuki]

Police said he told them he was trying to release stress caused by the language barrier and the close proximity of Japanese homes

That sounds like a very Japanese excuse. He must have had a good local lawyer.

Indeed...but they had me at "confessed"