Teens throw bottles at cops for thrill of chase
Four teenagers in Tokyo were arrested for throwing beer bottles at suburban cop inside a police box. They had previously discharged a fire extinguisher on a cop car. Why? The rush of running away. From Mainichi Daily News:
"After seeing them on TV, I really adored motorbike gangs. I wanted to experience the thrill of being chased by a cop," one of the teens told the police...Link (Thanks, Paul Saffo!)
When a police patrol car set off in pursuit of the teens, they slammed their motorbikes against the vehicle and hurled more beer bottles it, police said, adding that as soon as the youths were arrested, all immediately offered profuse apologies.
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Seriously, people, we have to stop with the "does this really belong on Boing Boing?" crap. Just stop it. The great thing about Boing Boing is that you can read the serious stuff and you can read the off-the-wall crap, or you can just ignore everything. If you want control over the postings go to Digg or create your own damn blog.
And if you want to find out what may happen to these guys when they're in jail (because apologies sometimes just don't cut it in Japan)...
http://www.stippy.com/japan-life/gaijin-in-a-japanese-prison-1/
It's a gaijin's perspective, but quite enlightening.
A little anarchy now and again is good.
couldn't agree more. we really need to see more of this kind of behavior here in japan. perhaps empty bottles of pocari sweat would make better cop-pelters than beer bottles, though. i don't like seeing injuries no matter who sustains them.
If only they had free-run up a nearby railing, leapt through a merchant kiosk, sped round an alley corner and triangle-jumped into a conveniently placed bale of hay, the cops would have run right past them.
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When I was young (sigh that I just typed that) we used to get chased by police a lot for riding our bmx bikes around the college campus. We didn't have to throw bottles, or harass anyone. We just had to run away as a group when we saw a campus cop. I guess there wasn't a lot of actual crime going on, and I think the cops enjoyed it too at some level- maybe it was like a training exercise.
It was a wonderful thrill to outrun them, like some mad game of cat and mouse. We knew the area very well, and had the advantage of being able to hop over obstacles, duck through footpaths, and jump down sets of stairs, so we were difficult to catch. Of course the only real crimes we had committed were riding on the sidewalk, loitering, fleeing, and "reckless" operation of a bicycle. When we were occasionally caught, we got lectured and sometimes bikes were impounded. Today, I'm sure they would use tasers, or just shoot in the first place. Nine eleven changed everything.
How unimaginative! Throwing bottles at cops!
Please that's childish...not teenage worthy.
They could have hacked into electronic public signs and had some real fun like some Dutch teens.
http://scophy.com/2007/11/23/random-fridays-hacking-electronic-public-signs/
My cat does this all the time; rests his claws against something in order to suggest that he juuuuuust might have to shred it, and then once I make eye contact, he streaks off, hoping I'll chase him all around the house.
And now I fear the day when he notices the fire extinguisher, or finds the empties.
The Japanese really need to find some kind of hobby.
I know it's in Korean, but was anyone else reminded of (the film) Attack the Gas Station when they read this post? It's a pretty funny look at this group of kids that holds up a gas station "just for fun."
VonnegutLives, if we were doing all this in person, I'd paste a gold star on your forehead.
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