Latenights said...

Latenights at 06:04 PM JST - 1st May

Cop: Yes, this is domestic abuse. You ought to seek protection.

Victim: Er, I thought I just did...?

Posted in Wife, two children arrested for father's murder in Hiroshima at 06:04 PM JST - 1st May
Latenights at 01:29 PM JST - 19th February

Sudo told police that he felt relaxed when he surrounded himself with the underwear

This is the best euphemism ever! It's up there with all the pervs who take up-skirt photos to "relieve stress".

1,600 - yuk!

Posted in Man held for stealing women’s underwear; police find 1,600 items in Tochigi home at 01:29 PM JST - 19th February
Latenights at 06:54 PM JST - 18th February

Hoshijima’s lawyers criticized the prosecution’s method, saying it emphasized the atrociousness of the crime.

... which was surely the point!

Posted in Man gets life term for killing female neighbor, mutilating body at 06:54 PM JST - 18th February
Latenights at 06:21 PM JST - 28th January

I agree with Samuraiiki - you have to count the kids, and not just getting in and out of the car! The parents had every right to expect the staff to notice if their child was snatched by a pervert or wandered off to play in some water somewhere. He…

Posted in 2 ex-nursery staff get suspended terms over child's death due to heatstroke at 06:21 PM JST - 28th January
Latenights at 06:03 PM JST - 28th January

So is any training involved in obtaining a license? If he had gone to the trouble (and expense, presumably) would anyone have told him that there was poison in the testes? Just wondering...

Posted in 3 in serious condition, 4 others ill after eating globefish at 06:03 PM JST - 28th January
Latenights at 06:42 PM JST - 21st January

If the point of the handout is to stimulate the local economy, does the government care if they spend it on booze and cigarettes? Considering the proportional taxes on such items, I rather think the government would prefer us all to spend our ￥12,000 thus.

Posted in Homeless could receive cash handout at 06:42 PM JST - 21st January
Latenights at 12:59 PM JST - 21st January

This buys into the national belief that these people are homeless by choice, and that they actually could stay at self-help centers or with relatives if they REALLY wanted to.

... And how will they inform homeless people who aren't already registered somewhere of their new entitlement?

Posted in Homeless could receive cash handout at 12:59 PM JST - 21st January
Latenights at 03:04 PM JST - 19th January

“That’s extremely rare,” Dickey said. “The chance of it hitting both engines, I’d guess it is less than 1 percent.”

You'd "guess" right, Dickey, since LaGuardia hosts 71 flights per hour, if one percent of them were rendered inoperative by birdstrikes it would happen roughly every 90 minutes or so.…

Posted in Crews hoist ditched plane from Hudson River at 03:04 PM JST - 19th January
Latenights at 01:52 PM JST - 19th January

Buggerlugs: calm down - the market wasn't just closed to foreigners, it was closed to all visitors, that's why the new tourist info pamphlets are also in Japanese.

Wakarimasen: There were no designated areas for tourists so they were wandering around snapping photos and getting in the way of the…

Posted in Tsukiji fish market readmits sightseers to tuna auctions at 01:52 PM JST - 19th January
Latenights at 07:54 PM JST - 13th January

At least it sounds like someone got him to have a shower before getting on the plane, can you imagine having to sit next to a tramp for 12 hours? If I had money for flights to and from Mexico and three months to spare I'd be off the plane…

Posted in Man returns to Japan after stay at Mexico airport at 07:54 PM JST - 13th January