8 Comments

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  kaminarioyaji at 09:36 AM JST - 28th March

  witnesses report hearing ‘‘sounds of explosion,’’

  Probably the heated gas in the carbonated drinks inside...

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  romulus3 at 09:43 AM JST - 28th March

  Oyagi,

  It could have been a tobacco machine. A frustrated salaryman in need of a smoke and without a taspo card but with a lighter could have done the damage.

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  fireant at 10:53 AM JST - 28th March

  romulus3 - Except in the article it says 'beverage vending machines.' Maybe that was added after your comment, though.

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  romulus3 at 11:10 AM JST - 28th March

  fireant,

  maybe, maybe not. I still have a beer haze from last night in shimbashi. I will reprase it. It could have been a very drunk salaryman, looking for cigarettes blindly and mistaking a beverage machine for a tobacco machine and not having a taspo card but a lighter and a pocket full of docomo tissues from the morning "ohio" girls in mini skirts, setting fire to it out of frustration.

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  Altria at 11:31 AM JST - 28th March

  I hear the machines were carrying that brand of canned coffee with the Stevie Wonder commercials...what was the name again?

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  umbrella at 01:43 PM JST - 28th March

  na, I heard it was the red hot used panties machines....

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  Nessie at 03:30 PM JST - 28th March

  Frappmachino.

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  sincity at 05:28 AM JST - 1st April

  I'm with Umbrella.

  The Local Rumour Mill has it that a young woman was seen running from the scene, screaming:

  pantsu ga moete iru, pantsu ga moete iru! Dare ka, tasukete!!!!!

  Soon after she was seen to enter a nearby love hotel with 2 men in business suits.

  It is not known if they were able to extinguish the flames, but all 3 emerged with stupid grins on their faces an hour later.

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