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CavemanLawyer
Much appreciated pizzaboy, and your post was very informative on the way things work in the real world. If the cops acted on tips from civilians alone, they would get even more hell from the public. People want it both ways. --Cirroc
Posted in: Murdered Okayama woman had complained to police about being stalked
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CavemanLawyer
Please read the thread carefully. Plenty of suggestions there. It is not about confrontation (from you anyway) it is about avoidance. Moving house is an option. And to that naysayers out there, I am not saying a woman should have to, I am saying that, realistically, it is an effective option.
Naturally, going out at 9 p.m. all alone is a bad idea. In a perfect world, it would not be like that. But the only perfect world I ever saw was when my eyes were closed. I believe many in this thread have their eyes closed right now. --Cirroc
Posted in: Murdered Okayama woman had complained to police about being stalked
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CavemanLawyer
Via prefectural law, it is illegal almost everywhere in Japan. According to my concept of jurisprudence, the national law would over-ride the prefectural, but that is not how it works in Japan. --Cirroc
Posted in: GSDF member arrested over sexual relationship with 14-year-old girl
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CavemanLawyer
The police had three hours to extend the cordon and get the hecklers far away.
I cannot see why an obstruction charge would not stick.
--Cirroc
Posted in: Jeering crowd goads suicidal jumper to his death in England
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CavemanLawyer
It had been building up to its brief golden age in the 1950s. Now its going back the other way after disaster in the 1970s and brief revival in the 1980s.
Stop. The article does not say they had sex. They used the words "sexual relationship" which is from "waisetsu koi", which is a vague charge. The article says he admitted to that vague charge, but that means little because we do not know what it is.
The article also does not say the girl was kidnapped, beaten, tricked, coerced, paid, or even contracted a VD, so its safe to assume those things did not happen. I know moral outrage alone will make heads explode among gaijin (would love to watch that dude BPA's cranium go up like a Chinese firework factory on this!) but the Japanese do not share those morals. They will approach this with calm, which I dare say is better than the moral sledgehammer many will wildly beat this and anything near it with.
Japanese morality is this: Sex parts must be blotted in pictures and video, and other people are nasty for not doing it. The two sides will never understand each other or agree. So better to forestall the cerebral hemorrhage and let it go. --Cirroc
Posted in: GSDF member arrested over sexual relationship with 14-year-old girl
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CavemanLawyer
These guys could become folk heroes. No one has been hurt while these guys rob the robber barons who charge us to have a checking account, charge us for not having "enough" money in the bank, charge us to withdraw our own money, give us fine print brochures full of information except what we need to know, sell your loans and mortgages to collection agencies without your permission, raise interest rates at a whim, and close their doors before you could possibly get there from work.
All the money they stole is insured, so us taxpayers are paying for this. However, we are only paying hundredths of a penny each. If they give to charities, their names could be right up there with Robin Hood. --Cirroc
Posted in: California bank hit by 2 robbers on same day
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CavemanLawyer
If you live in New York, is it much good to have online friends in Seattle?
The izakaya and love hotels are all full. Nobody that can meet real people within touching distance should care about online social life. --Cirroc
Posted in: Japan's online social scene isn't so social
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CavemanLawyer
There are no healthier options in my home town but to cook by yourself. But even when folks in my hometown do that, they do not have a clue what is healthy or how to cook such a meal.
Well that is my hometown, U.S.A. But my last trip to Las Vegas, I did not see any vegetarian restaurant chains there either. So I am curious, what are those healthier options? --Cirroc
Posted in: Calif restaurant chains required to list calories
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CavemanLawyer
I have not got a clue what you are talking about. What facts have I challenged and how was I lacking in authority when I did so? It seems to me I have been right from the start. It is not the cops' fault this happened, and the woman failed to take steps to protect herself, including properly reporting the stalking to the police.
A bunch of people here just thought they had an easy swipe at the cops. I do not like the cops any more than anybody else, probably less. But I will only swipe at them when they deserve it, and that is often enough. No need to grasp at a straw like this. --Cirroc
Posted in: Murdered Okayama woman had complained to police about being stalked
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CavemanLawyer
Seems like a waste of time and money. For one I do not believe that knowing the calorie content tells us much of anything useful for how fattening or unhealthy a food is. Second, if you know enough about calories that it would have any real benefit, you should be able to examine the food and guess for yourself.
Far more beneficial would be knowing the amount of salt, granulated sugar, MSG, and types of fats added. All I can say for this calorie counting nonsense is that it might be a start for reporting of those things. --Cirroc
Posted in: Calif restaurant chains required to list calories
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CavemanLawyer
Thank you nigelboy for all that excellent and helpful information. --Cirroc
Posted in: Murdered Okayama woman had complained to police about being stalked
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CavemanLawyer
I would give him life in prison, the end. No early release. When his heart stops he will get out. And my sentence would be the same no matter the detail of whether she could have done more to save herself or not.
I am saying, for the sake of anyone now who is being stalked or will be, that the police can only do so much. There is likely a lot this woman could have done to save herself, and the living should take heed. Pointing that out takes not one, not one iota of responsibility for the crime off the perp. So I am not blaming the victim.
Posted in: Murdered Okayama woman had complained to police about being stalked
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CavemanLawyer
proxy, I should have thanked you for you last post. I am happy to see that at least one other can see the problem those machines represent, and is non-partisan enough to see that both sides will partake and steal democracy from us. --Cirroc
Posted in: Voting for president begins in pivotal Ohio
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CavemanLawyer
Nonsense. If you filled your petition with the names of the deceased and those outside of your voting area, you have no right to run. And why should anyone deign to run against someone who cannot even get the names of legit living people at the grassroots on a petition? That is just inviting corruption. If you keep such an illegitimate on the rolls, you legitimize them and they could defeat you with more lies and dirty tricks.
Electronic is pretty title. There are many kinds of electronic voting machines. The problem here is with computerized machines, some actually connected to a network. That is just asking for it.
Some countries, it is the law that the votes must be made and counted by hand. It makes sense. More hands means more trust. If the vote gets stolen like that, then the people were corrupt anyway. And if the people are too lazy to this, then they do not deserve democracy. --Cirroc
Posted in: Voting for president begins in pivotal Ohio
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CavemanLawyer
How do you know they did nothing? And why do you think they should have done something? Are you sure that the level of stalking reported required immediate action? On hindsight? What do you know that we don't?
If the woman was really in fear of her life, I would think she would stay home at night. If she did not report properly to the police, you cannot expect them to predict her death.
For all you know, they may have talked to the guy and told him to stop stalking. And that might have made him angrier. Who knows? There is no perfect solution that the cops can just fetch out of a manual. There is no crystal ball to tell us who will die.
And I will bet they get plenty of bogus stalking reports too. Think of all the drama queens you have met in your life. On unwanted mail a week and they will claim they are being stalked. How are the cops supposed to know who is for real and who is just an attention hog? --Cirroc
Posted in: Murdered Okayama woman had complained to police about being stalked
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CavemanLawyer
She could have moved. She also could have worked more to make sure she was with another person as much as possible, such as get a boyfriend who will come pick her up. She could have informed neighbors if this guy was hanging around her place a lot. They could have helped. God knows I would have.
As it is she went alone at night apparently unarmed. Seems like she did not take that stalking all that seriously herself. But you expect the police to take some action? What action? Arrested is a temporary situation. So is jail. Either might have cooled the guy out. Or maybe not. There is only so much the police can do.
OK. So I told you. So how about you tell the parents?
I feel sorry for this woman and anyone who has to deal with a stalker. But probably less than one percent end in murder. The police have other things to do. Even if they cut the crap, like bicycle stops, they still won't be able to prevent this. So protect yourself. Even if the cops really care, they lack the time and the resources to treat every stalking case like a potential murder. And its not my fault, I am just the messenger. --Cirroc
Posted in: Murdered Okayama woman had complained to police about being stalked
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CavemanLawyer
The police can be helpful, but they are no one's personal bodyguard. Stalking, fighting, threats, whatever all you are guaranteed is that the police will write a report. Adults have to take of their own problems for the most part.
And hind sight is 20/20 in this. Of all the stalking case the police hear about, there was probably no special reason to think this one would end in murder.
The woman left her home at 9 pm to see a movie. The confession was the morning of the following day. Did you expect the police to all have ESP fits in the night, wake up, and go grab the perp???
--Cirroc
Posted in: Murdered Okayama woman had complained to police about being stalked
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CavemanLawyer
They cannot get the cookie so they settle for stealing crumbs. It beats having them try to steal the cookie by a large margin though. --Cirroc
Posted in: Man reeled in over fishing for women's underwear
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CavemanLawyer
There is one.
I cannot say if the comments are right or wrong. I am no literature buff. But Americans insult Europeans plenty, so I am not taking this so hard. --Cirroc
Posted in: Nobel literature head: U.S. too insular to compete
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CavemanLawyer
So if the engineers at Diebold did their jobs correctly, there computerized vote stealing machines will give the election to McCain no matter how many voted for Obama. --Cirroc
Posted in: Voting for president begins in pivotal Ohio