OMIYAGE bomber!

[Taro Toporific]

[Torigaa Fenikkusu]

wow

[GuyJean]

a Japanese journalist..

Think he'll be fired? My vote: no

What an ingrate.. If he had dark skin and Arabic name, he'd a been shot. He's lucky he's just a stupid Japanese.

GJ

[kotatsuneko]

heh just saw this on the news..

funny, cept for the poor bastad that got made into dogfood..

[American Oyaji]

If he had killed a Japanese person, he would be fired.

Or he would commit suicide.

[DJEB]

AHHHHHH!!!!
UGH!
The whole thing pisses me off.

[GuyJean]

Think he'll be fired? My vote: no

DOH! He works for our very own Mainichi!!

Marvin, is the Omiyage Bomber a drinking buddy?.. Gomen.. But what an idiot!!

I still say he gets to keep his job..

GJ

[Marvin Feltcher]

DOH! He works for our very own Mainichi!!

Tell me we don't bring the world the best news...even if we have to make it ourselves!

Marvin, is the Omiyage Bomber a drinking buddy?.. Gomen.. But what an idiot!!

I know his face, but not him. The old proverbial has really hit the fan here. We're banned from talking about it and advertisers have dumped us in droves. Had drastic results in the company's personnel decisions, too. We were flooded with e-mail yesterday telling us what a dickhead he is.

I still say he gets to keep his job..

Believe it or not, I think you're right. Word around here is that he truly had no idea what he was carrying and because of that he is not really guilty. Mind you, they've got to get him out of the A-rab prison first.
I wish it was like that when I blew up something, but then again, I'm only a FG.

[GuyJean]

The old proverbial has really hit the fan here. We're banned from talking about it and advertisers have dumped us in droves. Had drastic results in the company's personnel decisions, too.

What a chode! Where's that 'common sense' thread again? Guess it aint so common..

I'm sure the US Military is to blame for making omiyage looking bombs.. Actually, there WERE issues before because the cluster bombs are brightly colored, and if they don't explode, children sometimes think they're balloons.. But we're talking about a grown man!

Word around here is that he truly had no idea what he was carrying and because of that he is not really guilty.

Man, for a country that's 99% literate, there seems to be an abundancy of stupidity. Of course the US has it's share of idiots, but we're only 50% literate!

You have to let me know how many Gaijin get fired indirectly so this mutt can keep his job.

I wonder what the omiyage looked like.

GJ

[Marvin Feltcher]

What did I tell you?
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20030505p2a00m0fp004000c.html[/quote]

[American Oyaji]

When I read Gomi got off, I was confused.

I was thinking Gomi Girl and sex for some reason. Don't ask me why my mind was thinking along those lines. It thinks things I don't want it to sometimes. Not that thinking about Gomi Girl and sex is a bad thing because I think she's a cutie, but anyway let me shut up.

I thought you were talking about GG til i read that article and realized the idiots last name is Gomi.

I was very confused until that moment.

[Big Booger]

what a meat head. that bastard deserves some time for that, for being so stupid. Maybe a couple of years with someone kick his ass repeatedly, might just do the trick.

[skyline1080]

wow...i would have hated for this guy to see a nuke just laying around..scary thought

[Taro Toporific]

Re: He's gonna get off

What did I tell you?
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20030505p2a00m0fp004000c.html

BREAKING NEWS
Photographer accused of murder
the-courier-mail 06 May 2003, 10:33am
A JAPANESE photographer detained for questioning in connection with an Iraqi battlefield souvenir that exploded at a Jordanian airport has been indicted for murder, prosecution officials said.

The officials said today that Hiroki Gomi, 36, has not been formally charged but was indicted on four counts in connection with the explosion that killed a security guard May 1.

[Big Booger]

he should be condemned for mental retardation or something along those lines.

[GomiGirl]

When I read Gomi got off, I was confused.

No relation to me or to gomichild.

I was thinking Gomi Girl and sex for some reason.

I get that alot.

[Taro Toporific]

DOH! He works for our very own Mainichi!! ...
Believe it or not, I think you're right. Word around here is that he truly had no idea what he was carrying and because of that he is not really guilty.

Dang! Mr. Gomi of the Mainichi was a smuggler too!

Iraqi souvenirs in bags of other passengers, not Japanese journalist
The Associated Press. AMMAN, Jordan (May 7, 2003 3:02 p.m. EDT)
..a security official as saying that Hiroki Gomi of Japan's Mainichi newspaper carried other souvenirs from Iraq. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, amended his statement Wednesday to say that the additional souvenirs, including rugs and antiques, were in the bags of other passengers.

[ramchop]

Tuesday, May 13, 2003 at 10:37 JST
AMMAN; Jordan's king is prepared to pardon a Japanese photojournalist arrested over a deadly explosion May 1 at Amman airport, a source close to the royal family said Monday.

King Abdullah II apparently considers the incident involving Hiroki Gomi of Japan's Mainichi Shimbun newspaper an "accident." He decided to pardon Gomi, once his case has been ruled on, in consideration of relations with Japan, the source said. (Kyodo News)

Looks like he is going to get off. Will there be a welcome home party at Mainichi?

[Marvin Feltcher]

Looks like he is going to get off. Will there be a welcome home party at Mainichi?

I doubt there'll be too many parties. The whole incident hasn't gone down too well here, but employees are rapt because the company pulled out all stops to try and save him.
Word here is that he'll be asked to hand in his resignation.
It's kinda sad because he's got three kids under 5. I've heard that he was the Mainichi's best chance of winning another Pulitzer, so maybe they will keep him on after all.
His old bosses both work in the same section as me and they've had a pretty tough past few weeks.

[Taro Toporific]

Looks like he is going to get off...
It's kinda sad because he's got three kids under 5. I've heard that he was the Mainichi's best chance of winning another Pulitzer...

You, Marvin, are the "Mainichi's best chance of winning another Pulitzer."
Mr. Gomi is the Mainichi's best chance of winning the Nobel Prize for Fiction since he STILL claims: ..."certain that it had already exploded," local investigative sources quoted him as saying during questioning. ZUZUSHI--it!
"Already exploded""..sheesh. Mine's this big .

[Marvin Feltcher]

He's off for sure.
Not that I've heard anything official, but I can tell because we've become Fortress Mainichi since the start of the week.

[GuyJean]

we've become Fortress Mainichi since the start of the week.

Why? Is Gomi-bomber bringing presents?

GJ

[Marvin Feltcher]

Why? Is Gomi-bomber bringing presents?

Hope so. Should be a real blast
Beefed up securiity means I can't smoke...I'm going f**king crazy

[GuyJean]

Beefed up securiity means I can't smoke

Yeah. You know what can happen when children.. er. I mean, Japanese journalists play with matches.

GJ

[Taro Toporific]

Why? Is Gomi-bomber bringing presents?

Hope so. Should be a real blast

So. Are your new deskmate, Gomi-bomber, and you putting together a book deal?

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[Taro Toporific]

[Taro Toporific]

[Steve Bildermann]

I know this is off the subject but I wonder who made the bomb. Not all US munitions are home made. I do know the Mitsubishi heavy industries *does* make some types of explosive devices. Rather ironic if it was labelled Made in Japan.

One of the great problems with these weapons though is the tendency of many of the bomblets to fail to explode - a point highlighted by the UK Working Group on Landmines' study.

This is especially the case when the weapons are dropped from medium or high altitude, when the bomblets tend to drift in the wind and can land a long way from the intended target.

The fact that some bomblets may be brightly coloured and appear interesting to children also causes many accidents in the aftermath of conflicts

[GomiGirl]

I've said it before and I'll say it again..

The use of cluster bombs is absolutely disgraceful!!! These are purely for anti-personel use and are more often than not dropped in civilian areas!! Not only this, but they have a high failure rate but remain live for decades after the conflict is over and people have forgotton what the war was all about in the first place.

Laos Legacy

n an attempt to stop North Vietnamese assistance to the Lao, and to prevent a communist group from coming to power in Laos, United States planes rained more than 500,000 loads of bombs on Laos from 1964 to 1973. Some 300,000 tons of bombs fell on Xieng Khouang Province, an average of two tons for each inhabitant.

Lest we forget!!!

Bombies (not for the faint hearted)

The Consequences
Wherever they been used - Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq, Kuwait, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Ethiopia, Chechnya, and Afghanistan, unexploded cluster bombs have created problems for civilians:

During the Gulf War over 30 million cluster bomblets were dropped on Kuwait and Iraq and, in the following months, unexploded bombs killed 1,600 civilians and injured another 2,500.

According to a recent study by the Red Cross, children in Kosovo are five times more likely to be killed or injured by a NATO-dropped unexploded cluster bomb than by a Serbian landmine.

Today, in Afghanistan, reports indicate that the U.S. use of cluster bombs is causing the same kinds of tragic consequences for civilians there as they did in other countries. Because cluster bombs are area weapons with a wide dispersal pattern, they kill living things indiscriminately, including civilians. And their high-failure rate means that the killing of innocent people will continue long after the bombs stop dropping.

This is a prime example of man's inhumity towards man.

Oh this makes me mad!!

[Taro Toporific]

we've become Fortress Mainichi since the start of the week.

Why? Is Gomi-bomber bringing presents?

Maybe Gomi-bomber is bringing presents . . .
Full size GIF with some interesting details in the copy about the Grenade 'Plug.' Dang I wonder who thinks these things up?