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CavemanLawyer
It was 3 a.m. the accident happened. Who knows what time the car and the dead man were found, but it was probably around the same time the car was reported missing in the morning, sometime after the sun comes up and people start stirring and noticing cars with dead people under them. Not many cops on duty at that time and the few who were had their hands full with a dead guy. It is unlikely the owner of the car was going to move away or flee the country in a few hours, so why the rush anyway? --Cirroc
Posted in: Girl, 14, arrested for hit-and-run during joyride with 3 boys in Osaka
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CavemanLawyer
Well, even more suggestions that the parents should have done more and are responsible, but no suggestions of how exactly they could stop her from leaving the house or how they were supposed to magically know that their 14 year old daughter was going to steal the car.
Armchair quarterbacks with 20/20 vision are infesting JT. --Cirroc
Posted in: Girl, 14, arrested for hit-and-run during joyride with 3 boys in Osaka
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CavemanLawyer
Not sure exactly what the parents can do. I often left home in the middle of the night when mine were sleeping.
But I think most 14 year olds know better than to take the parents' car when they do not even have a license. Its not brain surgery that that is way out of bounds and you do not need stellar parents to know that. I hope they try her as an adult and her buddies too. Seems like they all need a hard lesson.
That being said I bet the geezer out at 3 a.m. was about as cautious crossing the road as the teen girl was driving. --Cirroc
Posted in: Girl, 14, arrested for hit-and-run during joyride with 3 boys in Osaka
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CavemanLawyer
If you think the inconvenience of standing in the rain should be considered right along with safety, then you need to back up and think for a minute. I too am angry at and frustrated with people who speed excessively and do not focus half as much on avoiding accidents as they do on getting there on time. But consider that drivers have to stop their cars all the time already, and it takes time and concentration, and doing it too quickly can have serious consequences. People walking can stop very easily and quickly and safely, therefore, they should, and wait while the death machines roll on smoothly because it is safer for everyone that way.
If the person behind you hits you walking, you probably won't even get a bruise. And if you left the house without an umbrella or into a deluge where an umbrella is useless, its your fault and don't expect a passing motorist to waste on fiber of his concentration on the fact. His concentration is reserved for avoiding the fools that run his path.
You pedestrians have crosswalks, most complete with lights. You have the right of way depite the fact that it is FAR easier for you to see us than us to see you. So quit whining. --Cirroc
Posted in: Man arrested for hit-and-run death of high school student in Ibaraki
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CavemanLawyer
What color was his uniform and was he wearing it? Any reflectors on that bike or his backpack? Was it one of those dark country roads? Was he hit head on the right-hand side of the road (where the rules say one should be) or was he hit from behind on the left (where I ride, heh!), or was he hit the middle trying to cross the road in the usual game of bicycle chicken?
Oh! I know! Just blame the alcohol, because we all know that anyone who has even one beer will automatically wind up in a ditch, wrapped around a telephone pole or running over a bicyclist. This could not have possibly happened sober (except for the time I bumped a cyclist dead sober in broad daylight as he flew through a stop light and a blind intersection at about 30km. True story.)
Most Japanese people don't stop because most people don't like to be crucified for what may well not have been their fault. Not many Jesus complexes out there. --Cirroc
Posted in: Man arrested for hit-and-run death of high school student in Ibaraki
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CavemanLawyer
Maturity, experience, money. Knowing how to dress. Knowing how to conduct a date and the best places to do it. Wisdom. The calmness that comes with age. The way we appreciate a young woman with zeal. And that is just what can happen with age alone. Some of us have always had character in our favor, and strangely, even the kind of character that lends itself toward kidnapping can have some pull.
I am dating a girl 15 years younger than myself right now in fact. The girl is very particular and due to her own nature I do not think she could get along with most guys her age. --Cirroc
Posted in: 46-yr-old man held for kidnapping 20-yr-old girlfriend in Chiba
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CavemanLawyer
Because JT is cramming it down our throats as if it is in some way relevant to the situation.
Was it sensationalism that prompted that headline? Or was it an attempt to insert a certain form of discrimination in our minds? I cannot excuse either. --Cirroc
Posted in: 46-yr-old man held for kidnapping 20-yr-old girlfriend in Chiba
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CavemanLawyer
He is a plumber, like it or not. He may be an illegal plumber by mundane county law. Who cares? I am surprised no one is crying about over-regulation in the good ole U.S.A., land of lip service to freedom. Lots of people breaking those crazy rules in America and are plenty good at their job. The fact that they can and are breaking the rules is one of the biggest evidences of real freedom in the States.
I like the fact that he refused to say who he will vote for. Got to give credit to a man who draws the line right where it belongs.
I am surprised people are complaining about an increase from 36 to 39 percent. 36 percent is already huge. Something tells me that there are too many loopholes and tax deductions if that sort of rate is being charged. I would rather government pull out the eraser to those deductions than tack more garbage on. I would also rather that government scale down so it does not need so much money, and also for the government to focus on keeping point-of-sale costs down rather than tax the excess of people who charged too much in the first place.
Yes, America needs a third, and maybe even a fourth and fifth party so I can vote for someone closer to my ideals. But of the two choices I have, I have to go Obama.
Something will probably be done about Joe now that he has been found out. Its too bad. At a time when Americans need to be talking more, they will receive a lesson that keeping one's mouth closed is safe, in the short run anyway. --Cirroc
Posted in: 'Joe the Plumber' says he has no plumbing license
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CavemanLawyer
Oh please! Everyplace has some dumb restrictions. Here in Japan I can walk down the street drinking a beer, or even toss back a few in a public park. Can't do that back home. In fact, breast feed a baby back home at the mother's own risk.
But sex on the beach can get anyone arrested and jailed anywhere. So can public nudity.
Sorry to rain on your scaremonger parade of hate. --Cirroc
Posted in: Britons get jail time for sex on beach in Dubai
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CavemanLawyer
A step forward is great. But some can't let go of the two steps back. I cannot fault the right for cheering the step forward. Neither can I fault the left for clearly remembering the two steps back. --Cirroc
Posted in: U.S. military: No. 2 al-Qaida in Iraq leader killed
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CavemanLawyer
If that is in the context of no military action, I agree. Iraq should not have been invaded.
It beats the "We can defeat them all!/ Bring it on!" mentality any day. Had the focus remained on al-Quaida, this guy probably would have been killed or captured a long time ago, and we would probably have bin Laden to boot. But no no. We just had to make up stuff about WMD in Iraq as an excuse to invade despite no ties to al-Quaida or 9/11. --Cirroc
Posted in: U.S. military: No. 2 al-Qaida in Iraq leader killed
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CavemanLawyer
But not representatives from S. Ossetia and Abkhazia?!? Of course the Russians refused that idea. If they did not, the Georgians would then turn around say "See! Russia annexed them and won't give them a voice!" It seems to me that Russia has the right of this, despite military over-reaction.
This is like a messy divorce where the ex-husband is trying to negotiate being reunited by meeting with her new boyfriend,a pastor, and a neighbor, but with the woman in question not present. Of course the boyfriend rejected that idea! Of course the woman did too! --Cirroc
Posted in: Georgia-Russia talks angrily break down
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CavemanLawyer
How do you know that?
Well, I am not sad he is dead, but then, I could only be happier if we had him alive so we could get information on number one.
I think this is a small victory and worth celebrating. If Bush and the Republicans can be said to have dug us in a hole 50 foot deep, I suppose this raises us to 42 feet. Still a long way to go. While I am happy he is dead, as a key element of al-Quaida, his death hardly gets anyone off the hook. But here is to a small victory in the battle Obama will end and McCain would only perpetuate.--Cirroc
Posted in: U.S. military: No. 2 al-Qaida in Iraq leader killed
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CavemanLawyer
Study Japanese if you care so much about this harmless crime.
For a harmless crime? No sense even suggesting it for a second. Get your Japanese skills up to date, demand the guy go with you to the station attendant and demand he hand you his cell phone so he cannot erase the pics. He just might do it. This is Japan after all.
Even if he runs, he just got busted and that alone will deter people better than a lot of people think. Just walking over, getting close and looking at him with extreme disapproval is going to have a huge effect, and you don't need language skills to do that. --Cirroc
Posted in: JR employee held for peeping up student's skirt on station's escalator in Kyoto
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CavemanLawyer
Oh dear. That would make it so much different. Suddenly I realize how much my sister or daughter would be devastated by someone filming up their skirt. They probably would not be able to leave the house for years wearing a skirt. Oh the horror! The shock! Your tactic of making this personal has totally worked. NOT! Fooled you!
No, I would still feel sorry for him. My sister has broken many hearts and turned many heads. Surely any daughter of mine would too, and spark lust and anguish everywhere she goes. Force or violence however I will not tolerate and will return in kind, my daughter or not. --Cirroc
Posted in: JR employee held for peeping up student's skirt on station's escalator in Kyoto
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CavemanLawyer
Sarge, can you name those policies please? Or did you actually mean policy singular?
And could you name some specific Democrats? I hope its not Jimmy Carter (again.)
If it has something to do with Carter, or even Clinton, please explain why the Republican controlled Congress we had all those years Bush was president (and it did include John McCain) did not forsee and avert the disaster. Thank you. --Cirroc
Posted in: McCain vows to whip Obama's 'you-know-what' in last debate
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CavemanLawyer
goodDonkey, thanks for detailing the brainwashing that goes on with the wording over the videos. It is sad and amazing how people succumb to that garbage. Sadder still that would pass it on by posting it here. --Cirroc
Posted in: McCain vows to whip Obama's 'you-know-what' in last debate
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CavemanLawyer
I bet that chunk of land is real important and real useful. NOT!
Has nobody ever heard of diplomacy? I would give that chunk of land to the fool who wants if I could get something more valuable in return, like something in the form of a treaty. --Cirroc
Posted in: 2 Cambodian soldiers killed, 5 Thais wounded in border clash
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CavemanLawyer
Is he a perv for doing it or wanting to do it?
I think I would hold off on the perv accusation unless I found out he was doing this all the time. It might have been the first time and intended to be the last. Ooops. --Cirroc
Posted in: JR employee held for peeping up student's skirt on station's escalator in Kyoto
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CavemanLawyer
It does not have to be the whole LAPD. Geesh. Some cops take it personal when they feel a bad guy got away. And when they catch up to him, look out. Remember the cops that were talking about how they would get OJ this time? Not to say those cops were improper, but the words reveal the mindset, and some cops go to far.
I have no idea what to make of this honestly. But it does seem odd that he sat in Saipan for seven months with no indication of anything, not even a failed attempt. He offed himself in seven minutes like he has been doing it all his life. --Cirroc
Posted in: Case against Miura formally dismissed; supporters question jail suicide