Police in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, are investigating a series of incidents since July in which glass bottles, PET bottles and dishes were found broken on the ground outside a high-rise condominium near Musashi-Kosugi Station.
Police suspect the items were thrown from the condo. Fuji TV quoted passersby as saying they heard something hitting the ground behind them and when they turned around, they saw broken glass and pieces of dishes and plastic bottles.
In the most recent incident, police said what looked like a milk bottle was tossed from the building at around 4 p.m. Monday.
So far, nobody has been hurt by the falling objects.
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Dan Lewis
Done in anger, a drunken stupor, or stupidity. Any bets?
Harry_Gatto
A milk bottle, in Japan?
LFRAgain
The last time this happened, if I recall, it was in Chuo-ku and it turned out to be some 15-year-old, angry-at-the-world, stay-at-home asshat who was pitching objects from the balcony of the mansion he lived in. One object, a full PET bottle, landed only a few feet from a woman walking her baby in a stroller. Throwing stuff off buildings is a stupidly dangerous thing to do.
Jumin Rhee
I say domestic fight. Someone forgot to close the balcony door.
Kobe White Bar Owner
Looking into my crystal ball and.... A person with limited understanding and control of his or her own emotions was quoted as saying "i was stressed out because of XYZ"
FightingViking
@Harry_Gatto
I was thinking the same thing... Several years ago, they DID exist (we even had them delivered to our house) but I l must say now, I haven't seen them in donkey's years !
smithinjapan
You'd think it was easy to single out the individual in question. People will hopefully report the person if thy notice it, 'disturbing the wa'' or not.
shonanbb
I have pint size milk bottles. Rather heavy glass. They get recycled and filled again. Megumu I believe the name is. Name was changed after a big scandal a number of years back. Those bottles can kill.
Kallikattu Sivarama Parthasarathy
It may prove to be too dangerous. A spanner dropped from the 16th floor of a building made a six inch hole on a pavement of bricks. It is worse than a bullet. In one instance, a passerby discovered dropping of stones from a sky scrapper as a prank by a minor boy. It stopped only when the parents were threatened with a police complaint against their delinquent son
trinklets2
When I was still living in a danchi in Gifu, a man who looks like an oldie and who seemed to be Japanese always throw empty pet bottled drinks and semi empty canned drinks or empty sake mini bottle from his 3rd or 4th floor balcony. Not really sure of the floor. So when I go to the supermarket on my way home, I try to avoid walking near his building. That was some 11 or 12 yrs ago. He always did it with a berserk voice as if drunk. Wonder if he's still alive and depleting the govt funds.
toshiko
@@Harry_GattoSEP. 30, 2015 - 10:39AM JST .......a milk bottle was tossed.......
A milk bottle, in Japan?
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There was time milk was only sold in a glass containers,
5SpeedRacer5
Milk bottles. Nasty. About the weight of 2 AA batteries but with enhanced explosive shattering capability into shards with enough curvature that they would be guaranteed to lacerate feet, tires, or what have you. Caltrop city.
So this is pretty heinous.
But just offhand, at what floor does "littering" become "reckless endangerment"? I am thinking anything glass or metal over third floor can be deadly and plastic would be painful.
Himajin
Things like coffee milk and strawberry milk are often sold in single-sized glass bottles. Morinaga's and Daisen's home delivery milk is in glass bottles.
Scrote
Perhaps fingerprints can be found on some of the pieces, particularly the PET bottles?
nath
Probably, but if the offender does not have their fingerprints on file, the prints won't help find the offender. They will only help in a conviction if the offender is caught.
5SpeedRacer5
Scrote That is an excellent idea. Someone else has pointed out A problem, but considering that Japan has national police, the database is pretty huge, and starting with local searches, they could probably find something easily. And I am willing to bet that interviews of neighbors can point them in the right direction. One also has to consider that someone who would do something like this has run afoul of the authorities at least once before.