Foreigner goes nuts and naked near Imperial palace

[Cyka UchuuJin]

ah, i was just too impatient.

that's pretty funny though.

has it been determined who he is/what he was doing?

[omae mona]

ah, i was just too impatient.

that's pretty funny though.

has it been determined who he is/what he was doing?

Unfortunately I can't find any reports with the guy's name. This article indicates he's 40 years old, English, and living in Spain. He was in a group with 7 Spanish men and women. They went to the nearby koban to say they dropped a bag in the moat. While the koban guys were preparing the rescue boat, this guy jumped in. The friends said he had been agitated all morning. When police got him in custody, he was calm and said (in Spanish) that he would reflect on his actions. So the police released him around 7PM.

Too bad - I was hoping for another "Save Nick Baker" type of campaign, only much funnier.

[GomiGirl]

Yes but why/when did he down trou? He can't have been naked when reporting a dropped bag in the moat to the police?

[Mulboyne]

I think this is one of my favourite stories. Especially since, in the end, no-one was hurt and nothing was broken. What do we reckon will happen? During the eighties, there were many serious security breaches at Buckingham Palace. Three German tourists camped in the grounds one night after hopping over the wall thinking it was Hyde Park. More seriously, a man called Michael Fagan found his way to the the Queen's bedroom one morning and woke her up. She kept him talking for a quarter of an hour until help arrived. No charges were brought in these cases so I wonder if the police will want to involve the prosecutors with this incident. Since our naked friend doesn't live in Japan, you'd think they might just want to deport him asap and hope he doesn't end up doing interviews on TV for the rest of the year.

[Mike Oxlong]

Canada has had a few high-level security lapses too...a break-in at the PM's official residence, for example.

At 2:10 a.m. on Nov. 5, Dallaire arrived at the fence surrounding 24 Sussex Drive - and spent 20 minutes throwing stones onto the grounds and waving at security cameras that, ostensibly, were being monitored by Jean Chrétien's RCMP security staff. He then climbed the fence and proceeded to the Chrétiens' residence, where he smashed a window and entered the house. Dallaire wandered around in the basement and on the ground floor for another half-hour before going upstairs. Outside the Chrétiens' bedroom, he was confronted by the Prime Minister's wife, Aline, who quickly retreated into the bedroom, locked the door and telephoned for help - while Chrétien himself brandished an Inuit stone sculpture in case Dallaire broke through the door. Dallaire, later described by Aline Chrétien as resembling the Tom Hanks character in the 1994 movie Forrest Gump, put down his knife and waited for the RCMP to arrive - which they did, fully seven minutes later.

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=M1ARTM0010953

[baka tono]

This guy is even better than that monkey a few weeks ago cus he comes with funny pics. Ive got photoshop but Im not that good with it.

[xenomorph42]

Unfortunately I can't find any reports with the guy's name. This article indicates he's 40 years old, English, and living in Spain. He was in a group with 7 Spanish men and women. They went to the nearby koban to say they dropped a bag in the moat. While the koban guys were preparing the rescue boat, this guy jumped in. The friends said he had been agitated all morning. When police got him in custody, he was calm and said (in Spanish) that he would reflect on his actions. So the police released him around 7PM.

Too bad - I was hoping for another "Save Nick Baker" type of campaign, only much funnier.

Why was the dude agitated? Was he on LSD or something? If he was, that would explain a lot. Just boggles the mind, what would posses a man to do something that bizarre?
Probably might get blacklisted for sure now.

[bolt_krank]

Just watched the flash animation.

Classic. f**king classic.

[pheyton]

Does anyone have the original picture from which this pose was taken?

[Mulboyne]

AFP: Briton freed after stripping off at palace

Police on Wednesday released a British tourist who shocked onlookers by swimming naked in the moat of Japan's Imperial Palace, concluding he had mental problems. The bald, heavy-set and visibly agitated man was chased by officers around the palace for two hours Tuesday. He dived into the moat and pelted them with stones. "We decided to hand the man over to his friend without charging him as we concluded that his act was based on mental instability," a police spokesman said. Bystanders snapped photos of the 40-year-old, whose antics were a top story on Japanese television. The Japanese show respect in public for Emperor Akihito and most of the Imperial Palace is off-limits to commoners. A British embassy spokesman confirmed the man was British and said he received consular assistance but declined further details, citing privacy issues. Media reports said the man lived in Spain.

[Catoneinutica]

"Media reports said the man lived in Spain."

Brits in Spain: the Costa del Sol in particular is swarming with all manner of slags, slappers, chavs, yobs, and right bloody wankers.

-catone

-me? all of the above

-"The Spannies haven't got our clean ways, innit."

[TFG]

from the flash

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
ROTFL

Nice one.

Perhaps, as the chap is really a TFG you could fit this into the website as a permanent ode to TFG?

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[kusai Jijii]

Hate to be a party pooper, but...
I actually am pleased that the 'authorities' (A.k.A. Keystone Cops) allegedly handed this dude back to his mates without charge.
Sometimes i feel that, in a wierd fucked up totally illogical way Japan is far more tollerant and compasionate towards 'wackos' than many of the places where FGs come from.
Go figure...

Righto then. Got that off my chest.
Taro, your serve...

[omae mona]

Hate to be a party pooper, but...
I actually am pleased that the 'authorities' (A.k.A. Keystone Cops) allegedly handed this dude back to his mates without charge.
Sometimes i feel that, in a wierd fucked up totally illogical way Japan is far more tollerant and compasionate towards 'wackos' than many of the places where FGs come from.
Go figure...

There was speculation in the 2ch thread that the release orders came down from above, for some reason relating to Prince Charles' upcoming visit to Japan.

[Mike Oxlong]

Maybe they figure they owe the Brits one, after that terrible fuck-up in Chiba last year...

[omae mona]

Wanted to provide a link to a news article: Land of the Rising Bum (thesun.co.uk).

Also, I was totally wrong when I predicted the end of the artistic output. It's slowed down a bit, but I dug these up from 2ch today:

[FG Lurker]

Maybe they figure they owe the Brits one, after that terrible fuck-up in Chiba last year...

Did I miss something?

[Mike Oxlong]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Hawker

Yeah, a pretty tenuous connection, to be sure. A bit of an "out there" speculation...my speciality.

[Takechanpoo]

http://www.death-note.biz/up/img/26249.swf

[omae mona]

http://www.death-note.biz/up/img/26249.swf

Wow. Good find, Take. Naked Moat Guy: The Game! I only got 13 points, but I was using a touchpad on a laptop. I think I could do better with a real mouse.

Here's the manga version of Naked Moat Guy:

[Baka Chan]

Here's a clearer video:

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[TennoChinko]

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IMPERIAL MOAT SWIMMING CLUB[/SIZE]
[SIZE="5"]Since 2008[/SIZE]

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[TennoChinko]

Although the water in the moat is clearly filthy and full of algae, I was informed by a reporter friend that it's verboten for the Japanese press to indicate it as thus lest they risk incurring the wrath of the Imperial Household Agency or their geisha fanboys, the uyoku.

Reminds me of the scene in the Last Emperor where the enuchs take deep sniffs of the little emperors morning bowel movements...

Imperial scat.

[sublight]

The Japanese press might not talk about it, but this article in the English Yomiuri is pretty explicit about how foul the water is.

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20081007TDY02303.htm

The ministry began measures to prevent blue-green algae from spreading in the moats in June. The ministry officials inspect sections of the moats every day, and whenever the algae generation rate, which is divided into five grades, is high, algae is sucked up with pumps. As a result, 36,000 liters of the algae has been removed since June. Unlike past summers, the ministry did not receive any complaints about the odor and filthiness of the water in the area this summer.

However, this effort alone will not solve the problem. The quality of the moat water is poor because outside water does not flow into it. Water used to flow from the Tamagawa waterworks, which were built in the Edo period (1603-1867). However, the water supply to the moats stopped after the Yodobashi water purification plant in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, was closed in 1965. The water quality in the moats deteriorates each year because the only new water that flows into the moats is rainwater from the Imperial Palace.

[Greji]

"..... The water quality in the moats deteriorates each year because the only new water that flows into the moats is rainwater from the Imperial Palace......"

I wouldn't say that. I've seen more than a couple of the fellas walking back from the Ginza Beer Halls, stop to shake the dew off their lilies into the moat. They probably provide more input than the rainwater....

[omae mona]

[Cyka UchuuJin]

Once more, a case of Japanese adopting foreign customs. Much like Christmas and Valentine's Day, now we have this:

Man in underwear swims palace moat 'to meet emperor'

LOL i'd just posted that into fucked news. at the same time as you were searching for this one.

perhaps they should get the scary armed guards at Narita who force people at gunpoint to sign forms should guard the palace now too.

[Cyka UchuuJin]

Ha, I got redsnotted with a 'get rid of that cock! NSFW!' on this. I'm guessing it's the cheesehead who asked me to do something about it on another thread.

anything with the title 'fucked' is NSFW. TBH, faffing about on fuckedgaijin while you are supposed to be working isn't really SFW either, now is it?

just curious...did you make the same request of Greji's avatar? Or Iraira?

[CrankyBastard]

Ha, I got redsnotted with a 'get rid of that cock! NSFW!' on this. I'm guessing it's the cheesehead who asked me to do something about it on another thread.

anything with the title 'fucked' is NSFW. TBH, faffing about on fuckedgaijin while you are supposed to be working isn't really SFW either, now is it?

just curious...did you make the same request of Greji's avatar? Or Iraira?

I don't get it?
That's just a very large thumb, right?

[Russell]

Ha, I got redsnotted with a 'get rid of that cock! NSFW!' on this. I'm guessing it's the cheesehead who asked me to do something about it on another thread.

anything with the title 'fucked' is NSFW. TBH, faffing about on fuckedgaijin while you are supposed to be working isn't really SFW either, now is it?

just curious...did you make the same request of Greji's avatar? Or Iraira?

It was Sunday when he made his request; his work that day is not the problem here, because his parishioners love your avatar. It's just the kids he seems to worry about...

Greiji used to change his avatar on a regular basis, so no request needed, though recently he appears to have become a little bit conservative.

Iraira actually changed his avatar, but he got strong requests to change it back to the current one.

But I get your point. It's a women's rights issue, ain't it?