Nine to go! (suicide party cars)

[Russell]

That doesn't look like a high bridge.

The guy couldn't swim?!?

[Taro Toporific]

That doesn't look like a high bridge.

My house overlooks that Denenchofu bridge were the suicide happened. I heard the ambulance arriving but I thought nothing of it. At the most, it's only an 8 meters fall to the Tama River and the water is only 2~3 meters at the very deepest (taking a shortcut, I've walked across the river there during the Tama-gawa Fireworks).

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The guy couldn't swim?!?

You're right.
The suicide comic, Shinji Maki, was 78 years old. Japanese city folks of that generation were never taught in school (even today, most Japanese kids aren't taught to swim in P.E. class) .

[Coligny]

But all skoolz have swimming poolz !?

[Taro Toporific]

But all skoolz have swimming poolz !?

Nope. Only about 80% Japanese schools have working pools and there is a huge shortage of properly licensed swimming instructors.
(Besides having a high school teacher's degree, I have several current/valid Red Cross certificates for lifesaving, EMT, etc. I am always being asked to supervise/coach swimming at international schools even though I'm handicapped.)

[Coligny]

There goes mah sukumizu phantasm...

Even moar wrecked at the idea of Taro with his mexican wrestler mask and a speedo...

Can't be worse than this... i hope...

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[Taro Toporific]

Even moar wrecked at the idea of Taro with his mexican wrestler mask and a speedo...
Can't be worse than this... i hope...

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"Hope"? I could only hope to be a fit as Hulk Hogan.

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[Russell]

But all skoolz have swimming poolz !?

Yeah, swimming pools of 0.9m deep.

Guess what the kids do when they loose ground below their feet in a river...

[Mike Oxlong]

Saving 10,000: Winning a War Against Suicide in Japan

[Taro Toporific]

JR East trains get suicide cameras
Japan Times / July 20, 2013
East Japan Railway Co. is installing video cameras in the driver compartments of all its trains in Tokyo to facilitate accident investigations.
Event recorders have been mounted in all trains on the Chuo Line, which has been plagued by suicides for decades, and are slated to spread to other key lines in fiscal 2014, JR East said...more...

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[GomiGirl]

Cue a new website with the leaked snuff videos in 5,4,3,2,1... splat!!

[matsuki]

Cue a new website with the leaked snuff videos in 5,4,3,2,1... splat!!

Indeed...sucks that often times such "evidence" is locked and sealed by J-police when there are actual crimes.

[Coligny]

JR East trains get suicide cameras
Japan Times / July 20, 2013
East Japan Railway Co. is installing video cameras in the driver compartments of all its trains in Tokyo to facilitate accident investigations.
Event recorders have been mounted in all trains on the Chuo Line, which has been plagued by suicides for decades, and are slated to spread to other key lines in fiscal 2014, JR East said...more...

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They can never top the fun of Russian dash video cams... You can spend weeks on youtube without ever being able to catch up on all the madness they are posting...

[matsuki]

JR East trains get suicide cameras
Japan Times / July 20, 2013
East Japan Railway Co. is installing video cameras in the driver compartments of all its trains in Tokyo to facilitate accident investigations.
Event recorders have been mounted in all trains on the Chuo Line, which has been plagued by suicides for decades, and are slated to spread to other key lines in fiscal 2014, JR East said...more...

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They can never top the fun of Russian dash video cams... You can spend weeks on youtube without ever being able to catch up on all the madness they are posting...

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Suicide jumpers have been a weekly occurrence for how long and they just decided to put these cameras on now? Must have been waiting for the wannabe GoPro from Sony

[wagyl]

They can never top the fun of Russian dash video cams... You can spend weeks on youtube without ever being able to catch up on all the madness they are posting...

You mean like this?

[Russell]

That probably falls in the realms of madness in Coligny's world...

[Coligny]

Moar like

[wagyl]

This one may be a more accessible introduction to the world of dash cams

together with the other reason to have a dash cam

[Coligny]

This one may be a more accessible introduction to the world of dash cams

pretty sure счка was ok

together with the other reason to have a dash cam

Mom !? Again ?

[Russell]

Family of 91-year-old dementia sufferer struck by train ordered to pay JR compensation

The Nagoya District Court has ruled that the family of a man with dementia who entered a railway line and consequently died after being hit by a train must pay compensation to the Japan Railway (JR) Group. The court concluded that the measures the family put in place to prevent the 91-year-old from wandering off by himself were insufficient.

The family is being ordered to pay damages after delays caused by the accident resulted in a loss of earnings for the company. The presiding judge at the court where the ruling was made on Aug 9, commented that the man wandered outside while his wife had her back turned, concluding that it was her responsibility to keep track of the man’s activities. The judge also suggested that although the man’s eldest son lived apart from the family, he was officially registered as a supervisor of the man and should have put measures in place to prevent this type of accident from occurring.

The elderly man entered onto the tracks at Kyowa Station in Obushi city, Aichi Prefecture in December 2007 where he was hit, and consequently killed, by a Tokaido main line train. The man had been diagnosed as requiring care in February of the same year.

In response to the judge’s ruling, the family contested that it was impossible for the wife, who was 85 at the time, to watch the man around the clock. However, the judge pointed out that if that were the case, the family should have sought outside support, but failed to do so.

How compassionate!

[Coligny]

How compassionate!

The Tepco guys were lucky not to be judged by a Nagoya court... (maybe)

[Samurai_Jerk]

How compassionate!

The Tepco guys were lucky not to be judged by a Nagoya court... (maybe)

I don't know. It seems more like they'd order people in the evacuation zone to pay compensation to TEPCO for the clean up.

[Coligny]

How compassionate!

The Tepco guys were lucky not to be judged by a Nagoya court... (maybe)

I don't know. It seems more like they'd order people in the evacuation zone to pay compensation to TEPCO for the clean up.

That would be a funny post... If it was not a totally possible situation...
And in fact... Sort of what is happening with the jgov buying/paying for Tepco's screw ups...

As usual with capitalism... Gains are private, loss are public...

[Yokohammer]

Are we perhaps forgetting that TEPCO have already raised their prices and will probably do so again and again in the future?

The victims are already paying for the crime.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Are we perhaps forgetting that TEPCO have already raised their prices and will probably do so again and again in the future?

The victims are already paying for the crime.

Yes but that wasn't ordered by the Nagoya court.

[Yokohammer]

Are we perhaps forgetting that TEPCO have already raised their prices and will probably do so again and again in the future?

The victims are already paying for the crime.

Yes but that wasn't ordered by the Nagoya court.

Details, details ...

Not specifically, but it was condoned by the gov't.

[Russell]

Are we perhaps forgetting that TEPCO have already raised their prices and will probably do so again and again in the future?

The victims are already paying for the crime.

Yes but that wasn't ordered by the Nagoya court.

Details, details ...

Not specifically, but it was condoned by the gov't.

But it is the only way to get the point across that nuclear energy isn't that economical after all...

[Coligny]

But it is the only way to get the point across that nuclear energy isn't that economical after all...

[Pijama party truth or dare time mode ON]
Yup... and actually French politicians are starting to shit themselves with the aging of our nukaplant, the fact that we depend on them for 87% of electrical production and the fact that it would be absolutely impossible to even think about starting to build new ones.
Already in 1982... pre-Tchernobyl pre Fukushima, there was a rocket attack. 5 shots of RPG-7 against the building site in construction of Superphenix. (ok, it's just a small anti tank shoulder fired rocket propelled grenade... but still... there was no EBay back them to buy this kind of stuff...) Today... pretty sure the strikes and demonstrations would be epic... as long as you stay far enough from the tear gas clouds...

Fuckyou very much De Gaulle... (nukaplant were some sort of politico-collateral excuse for our military nukes despite the difference in fuel/explosive stuffystuff... Sort of "We blow shit on one side, but you have light in the night when you cry yourself to bed... or wake up screaming...")
[Pijama party truth or dare time mode OFF]

[Taro Toporific]

Speaking of "suicide party cars"...

東海道新幹線で煙 ２人心肺停止の情報 NHKニュース | 6月30日 12時48分
...Tokaido Nozomi Shinkansen was stopped at Shin-Yokohama ...around 11:30am when one of the passengers in the lead car set himself on fire by pouring some sort of oil over his head.
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TBS footage of smoke-filled interior of Tokaido Shinkansen following self-immolation this morning.

Bullet Trains From Tokyo to Osaka Halted on Report of Smoke
Bloomberg Business | 2015June30
...The passenger on board the bullet train covered himself in oil and then set fire to himself, the report said, citing the rail operator. Many people were injured in the bullet train incident, Kyodo reported ...more...

Two feared dead in Japan bullet train suicide fire: official
Yahoo News | 2015June30
..."We have been informed that there was a passenger in a car on the train who covered him or herself with oil and set it on fire," said a JR Central spokesman.The train -- a super-fast Nozomi bullet train -- was travelling from Tokyo towards Osaka when the fire broke out near Odawara, southwest of Tokyo.
"We received information indicating that a fire broke out near a toilet and two people were in cardiopulmonary arrest," a spokesman for Odawara Fire Department said.
"Other passengers were also injured," he said, without specifying the number.
NHK reported the two people were found on the floor of the first car, but at opposite ends of the carriage...more...

[Cyka UchuuJin]

Speaking of "suicide party cars"...

東海道新幹線で煙 ２人心肺停止の情報 NHKニュース | 6月30日 12時48分
...Tokaido Nozomi Shinkansen was stopped at Shin-Yokohama ...around 11:30am when one of the passengers in the lead car set himself on fire by pouring some sort of oil over his head.
More...

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TBS footage of smoke-filled interior of Tokaido Shinkansen following self-immolation this morning.

Bullet Trains From Tokyo to Osaka Halted on Report of Smoke
Bloomberg Business | 2015June30
...The passenger on board the bullet train covered himself in oil and then set fire to himself, the report said, citing the rail operator. Many people were injured in the bullet train incident, Kyodo reported ...more...

Two feared dead in Japan bullet train suicide fire: official
Yahoo News | 2015June30
..."We have been informed that there was a passenger in a car on the train who covered him or herself with oil and set it on fire," said a JR Central spokesman.The train -- a super-fast Nozomi bullet train -- was travelling from Tokyo towards Osaka when the fire broke out near Odawara, southwest of Tokyo.
"We received information indicating that a fire broke out near a toilet and two people were in cardiopulmonary arrest," a spokesman for Odawara Fire Department said.
"Other passengers were also injured," he said, without specifying the number.
NHK reported the two people were found on the floor of the first car, but at opposite ends of the carriage...more...

just stop the world, i wanna get off.

apparently no mode of transport is safe anymore. i'm already playing russian roulette boarding a plane wondering if it'll be brought down by isis/crazy former soviets/fall off the radar never to be found/headcase pilots flying it into a mountain, and now the possibility of human firecrackers on the shinkansen. fuck this, i'm moving back to kenya and going off the grid for good.

[Samurai_Jerk]

fuck this, i'm moving back to kenya and going off the grid for good.

I heard the Westgate mall in Nairobi has great shopping.