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Tires punctured on 30 vehicles in Sapporo residential area

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Police in Sapporo said Thursday that tires on 30 vehicles were punctured overnight.

According to police, a total of 41 tires were punctured by something resembling an ice pick, NTV reported. The vehicles were in two parking lots about 600 meters apart in a residential district in Kita Ward.

The vandalism was discovered at around 6:30 a.m. Thursday by a resident who alerted police.

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Scum, sub-human scum

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No camera's nearby?

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Who wants to bet that when they catch the guy who did it he claims that he did it because he was "stressed"?

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Last year the same thing happened somewhere , I can not remember where and using same method ..

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Cannot remember how many times I have seen similar news in Japan. As Amidalism says, the reason is given is usually stress relief, after strenuous denials. Usually done in the middle of the night, early hours of the morning, stealthily, over months or years.

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Car tire shop owner needing a business boost before the holidays?

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"Who wants to bet that when they catch the guy who did it he claims that he did it because he was "stressed"?"

I bet the cops won't catch the guy ( or who knows, maybe girl ).

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There is no word for "vandalism" in Japanese except the rare, academic neoligism "hakaikoui"(destructive behaviour) because it is so rare that when it occurs it makes national news, as in this case.

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timtak, perhaps vandalism is not the right concept for this. Often these people have a grudge against someone or society in general. Spite, malice, revenge, Urami?

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Possibly vandalism.... but it could also be a case of coercion. Suppose these were new parking lots... some other parking lot owner may have lost business. Or suppose someone wants to tear up one of the parking lots to build there. Sure it could just be pointless vandalism... but there always are other possibilities.

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I think that people do vandalism for spite, malice, revenge, urami, and for business reasons too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandalism

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