Dying in numbers

[Russell]

Tokyo man killed by street cleaning truck

An elderly man in Tokyo was killed when a street cleaning truck hit him and swept his body to a public landfill site where it was found among rubbish, media reports said Sunday.

The body of what police believe was a 69-year-old male was discovered by a worker at the landfill site off Tokyo Bay in a pile of garbage brought in by a road sweeping vehicle, the Yomiuri Shimbun and Sankei Shimbun reported.

It is thought the victim was lying down in the street in the early hours of last Tuesday morning when he was hit, the Fuji News Network said, adding that his shoes had been found by the road and that his body was full of fractured bones.

The driver of the truck has told police that he did not notice anything unusual while operating the machine, other reports said.

Police believe the man to have been a resident of Sumida ward in Tokyo, where the truck operated late Monday night through to Tuesday morning, the Sankei Shimbun said.

[Coligny]

And yet they don't pick your trash bag if it's not the wearing the proper color and logo from the city ward... fucktards...

[Russell]

Not really dying, but this could have had a bad ending.

Man hit by arrow while walking in garden in Ibaraki

A man was struck by an arrow while walking in a garden alongside an archery ground in Inashiki, Ibaraki Prefecture, police said Sunday.

According to police, the incident happened at Potiron no Mori farm which is part of Edosaki Agricultiural Park, at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday. TBS reported that a 33-year-old man was strolling in a garden when an arrow came flying over a fence from the archery ground and struck him in his right arm. The man was taken to hospital but released later Saturday with only minor injuries, police said.

According to park officials, the arrow came from a beginner who was learning the basics of archery.

[Kanchou]

lol, you'd have to really suck to miss that badly...

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

lol, you'd have to really suck to miss that badly...

Maybe he didn't miss?

[dimwit]

lol, you'd have to really suck to miss that badly...

Probably just following the advice of Longfellow.

[pallidknight]

Man hit by arrow while walking in garden in Ibaraki

Message for you, sir!

[Russell]

Man killed by train while trying to crawl under it

A 61-year-old man died after he was hit by a train while trying to crawl under it in Yokohama, police said Monday.

Police said the incident occurred on the JR Tokaido line in Tsurumi Ward at around 11:20 a.m. Sunday. TV Asahi reported that the train had to perform an emergency stop at a railway crossing after receiving a signal of an obstacle on the tracks.

According to eyewitnesses, while the train was stopped, the man attempted to crawl under a carriage in order to get to the other side of the crossing. But the train suddenly began moving forward again, and killed the man underneath.

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For sure a Darwin award winner.

Looks like today is beheading Monday...

[Grumpy Gramps]

For sure a Darwin award winner.

Charlie is worth every Yen of his money yet again

[Wage Slave]

Yep, but ... There's a large and largely unaddressed dementia/Altzheimers problem in this country I reckon. There are a lot of people wandering and driving around during the working day who are really, seriously, a danger to themselves and others. Super Viva Home on coupon day is quite an eyeopener.

This guy was not that old but early onset dementia/Altzheimers is a growing problem in other advanced countries - as it is in older age of course. Here you don't hear anything much about it but we all know what that often means - easier and allegedly kinder to sweep it under the carpet and pretend it's not there. Or at least keep it hidden away and managed privately. Especially with anything that looks like disability or disease of the mind.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Agreed. I myself am getting more forgetful by the day. At least that's what my wife said; I can't remember to have forgotten anything lately. Asking my doctor for a test of sorts just results in him laughing "you're fine, don't worry". And that's what makes me worry

But crawling under a train at 61?

[Russell]

Grumpy, there is an easy test to see whether you suffer from A'heimer.

Just draw the face of a clock on paper without having a clock in your sight.

If it is strongly deformed of with numbers missing, you had better return to your doc.

[Mike Oxlong]

It just means I'm the next Salvador Dali.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Just draw the face of a clock on paper

OK, will try that as soon as I remember, where I left my pen

[Russell]

This one is fucking tragic...

Mother holding 1-year-old baby jumps in front of train in Tokyo

A 36-year-old woman holding her one-year-old son in her arms jumped off the platform in front of a train at Nezu Station on the Chiyoda subway line in Tokyo, police said.

The woman was killed by an oncoming train but the child survived, sustaining only minor injuries, TV Asahi reported.

According to police, the incident occurred at around 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Witnesses told police the woman did not fall or was pushed, but jumped.

The train service was suspended for one hour, affecting about 68,000 commuters, Tokyo Metro said.

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[matsuki]

This one is fucking tragic...

Yeah, 1 hour to get shit moving again and the poor baby survived.

[Russell]

Not fatal, but I wonder what these people were thinking.

Puffer fish meal sickens five men in Japan

Five Japanese men have became sick after eating poisonous puffer fish, an official says, the latest victims of a delicacy seen as sophisticated by fans and crazy by others.

The men, all in their 40s and 50s, dined at a restaurant in western Wakayama city on Friday night, the city's health official said.

They were taken ill early the next day, experiencing breathing difficulties and vomiting, the official said.

"They consumed a dinner that included liver, which is regarded as toxic material," she said.

The city shut down the establishment for five days from Sunday, she said.

The restaurant served the banned, poisonous parts after requests from the diners, the official said.

The livers, ovaries and skin, among other parts, of the puffer fish - also known as the blowfish or "fugu" in Japanese - contain toxins powerful enough to kill an adult, in the worst case scenario.

Aficionados say the tingle that the organs leave on your lips - caused by the potent neurotoxin they contain - is part of the appeal.

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What's next on their requested menus? Rat poison, because it tastes so nice?!?

[matsuki]

Rat poison is THE umami experience!

[Russell]

Rat poison is THE umami experience!

Well, at least it should be tasty.

Otherwise the rats wouldn't eat it, would they?

[Coligny]

Ehmmm... Aint rat poison just basic powerful anticoagulant ? Not exactly polonium grade efficiency...

[Russell]

Man dies during Shinto shrine festival in Nagano

A 41-year-old man died after falling about 10 meters from a pillar put up for a festival at the Suwa Taisha grand Shinto shrine in Suwa, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan, police said Friday.

At around 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Yukihiro Kusakabe, a self-employed man from Suwa, fell from one of the huge fir trunks that he and other participants erected as vertical pillars during the Onbashira Festival, which is held once in six years. Kusakabe fell onto the roof of heavy machinery equipment 10 meters below when he climbed one of the pillars to clear ropes used to erect it.

In the festival, which runs from April 2 through May 16 this year, parishioners work together to transport trees weighing about 10 tons from a nearby mountain and put them up as pillars. During the previous festival in 2010, two male participants also died after falling from pillars.

According to a witness, Kusakabe was not wearing a safety rope, even though such security measures were adopted after the 2010 accident.

The police began inspecting the site Friday morning and investigating the cause of the accident.

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Russell predicts that the cause of the accident is gravity.

[kurogane]

It's not the falling that killed him, though. It was the stopping

[Coligny]

"If you fall, I'll always be there for you..."

The Floor.