Man arrested for murder threat at non-existent train station
In Tokyo, a foolish man thought he could make a mass-murder threat with impunity by announcing he'd do it at a train station that doesn't exist. Much to his surprise, he was arrested anyway.
"I'll show you how to avoid being arrested after threatening to launch an attack," the message read. "At 9 p.m. today, I'll murder many people at Ueno Station on the Saikyo Line."Murder threat at non-existent train station (Mainichi Daily News) (via Japan Probe)As the JR Saikyo Line does not go through Ueno, police officers were on alert at other platforms at Ueno Station.
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Pretty stupid way to test the system.
This seems a bit misleading. The train station exists. That platform however doesn't exist.
It would be analogous to threating the Red Line platform at Lexington station in NYC. There isn't a red line there, but the police would still need to take it seriously.
If he'd said the Habachi station, it might be taken as a joke.
I'm all for free speech.. but it's well established that making open threats will be taken seriously.
I like how he was arrested for "obstruction of business."
I wonder if the Secret Service would intervene if you started threatening to kill President Lincoln at the Ford Theater.
@ #3. I'd be willing to bet they'd pick you up just for the heck of meeting you. With a wet cloth. On your face. Upside down...
Would it be a problem that one is going to murder everyone in Shagra La? or a bomb in Oz?
Agreed #2... Although I don't see it as completely improbable that you could be arrested and required to undergo a psychiatric evaluation for calling in a statement like: "I am going to bomb the Gulliver Platform of Utopia Station in Suffragette City."
Here's hoping no one is taking anything out of context...