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mindovermatter
That's ridiculous... The only way that logic holds any water at all, is if something, he did, caused him to mistakenly apply the accelerator, instead of the brake...
EXAMPLE: If he was wearing slippers, or boots with grease all over the soles... Or if he was speeding, and because of his excessive speed, he mistakenly applied the accelerator... Or you might even be able to make an argument that he wasn't qualified to drive that type of vehicle. Or if he had 5 previous accidents, with this type of vehicle, all involving, mistakenly applying the accelerator. Then you could certainly make a case for reckless driving.
Do you understand how that works...?
Under the stated circumstances, he's guilty of being an idiot and perhaps even a less than stellar driver, And that's WHY you are required to carry insurance...
BECAUSE ACCIDENTS HAPPEN!
So pull his license, and give him 20 points, or never let him drive another vehicle in his life... But there's no crime in being an idiot, certainly not here in Japan, or half the population would be behind bars!
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mindovermatter
We'll Okinawa must be totally different, because I can tell you for a fact, The U.S. bases on Honshu, get their water from "On-Base" deep wells, they have their own sewage treatment plants, generate their own steam, and do have power generation equipment, which could be easily transitioned from to full-time operation, but currently they do get a large chunk of Tokyo Electric power from the grid, but they are not dependent on it.
Oh, but they do contract out waste disposal through local Japanese companies, which make pretty decent money picking up their trash.
Posted in: U.S. ambassador urges Japan to honor base agreement
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mindovermatter
It's unfortunate, but Sounds like a pure accident.... So you arrest the guy...?
Was he drinking? Was he speeding? Was he driving recklessly? Was he driving without a license or without insurance...? Was he taking any drugs..? Did he intentionally hit the kids..?
If the answer to all of those questions is NO, then you have no grounds to arrest him!
What a country....
That's exactly why there's a SOFA agreement, to keep Stupid JN Laws, the people that make them, and the people that enforce them, in check!
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mindovermatter
Just the facts:
Anybody that is going to stand up for George Dubya and his lying-ass sad sacks of shit, cronies that were hell bent on invading Iraq, for oil and Dubya's "War President"legacy is/are not better than those Racist Japanese that deny Nanking or that Japan did anything wrong in WW2...
You're as bad them, even worse...
Afghanistan = The Right War: Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, the Taliban
Iraq = The Wrong War: George Dubya's War President Legacy, Cheney's stock prices (Former-CEO Haliburton) All Cheney's Friends get rich, no-bid contracts...ect, ect, ect...
North Korea has no oil, those Texas folks who got us into Iraq, don't give a damn about N.Korea!
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mindovermatter
Ha ha ha ha....
But molesting someone carries the same penalty as taking a picture on a train...? If you notice they are using the same, "Prefectural Nuisance Prevention law." Gee wasn't it a few months back some guy got arrested for taking a picture on a train... Not anything obscene, just taking a picture.... Crazy shit....
Come on now guys....This isn't a felony...? But I'd bet illegal bicycle parking is though....!
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mindovermatter
@GJDailleult
Ok, I agree we are basically on the same page. I don't think it was "All" Dubya's doing, he just happened to be the one that put the finishing touches on it.... I would actually go back to Reagan, and even give Clinton a good bit of responsibility.
They need to take the money out of politics, publicly financed elections is probably to only real thing that will fix this...
I think Obama got stuck holding a big shit-sandwich. No thanks in small part to that Iraq war, which was all based on a pack of lies... Afghanistan was the right war, and that's where Bin-Laden was, but Iraq was all about oil and enriching Dubya's and Cheney's cronnies....
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mindovermatter
What-ever it is you're smoking, you should be careful, In Japan, it's illegal just using that stuff!
American is "George Dubya's" global model of True "Unregulated Capitalism!" And it's proven what happens in REAL time when you let Industry Regulate itself! Not only did that dummy, "George Dubya" take down the U.S's economy, but he almost took the rest of the world's economies with him!
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mindovermatter
I know it will sound totally ridiculous, but it's because they were girls... And Japan still places the worth of Boys higher than that of girls... They don't say it out right any-more these days, but if you look at the sentencing of these scum-bags that kill kids, you shouldn't be surprised to find that 9 times out of ten, if the gender of the murder victim was a male, then that person who got charged with the crime received a much stiffer sentence. I would speculate, that if these two kids were boys, he would got the death sentence. Actually, I am quite surprised it wasn't a suspended sentence, and it would not surprise me in the least, if he's out running the streets in 3 or 4 years.
Posted in: Man gets 17 yrs for fatally abusing girlfriend's 2 daughters
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mindovermatter
How about no longer have any contact with the girl...?
Or does this reek of too much common-sense...?
Posted in: Student leaps to death after trying to kill girlfriend
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mindovermatter
Absolutely agree!
I'm surprised they were able to connect them to somebody.... Now that they have somebody, maybe they "force" a confession out of him...
But then again, I wouldn't leave anything to chance, knowing these J-Clown-Cops, they could just as easily screw that up too.
I wonder what kind penalty they have for grand-theft auto under Jn Law...? Probably more than disposing of a body, but less than illegal bicycle parking...
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mindovermatter
How about someone coughing or sneezing right in your face... Ever experienced this...?
I have to wonder who the hell wrote this article....? Again, no email to send comments to the writer... As is the case in ALL big newspapers and web sites..
Posted in: Do it at home: Train manners in Japan
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mindovermatter
Sounds like self-defense...
A 72 year old man and 46 year old guy...
Unless this forty-year old is in a wheel-chair...
The key words here, "during fight," it doesn't say argument, it says, "during fight..."
Fight = Physical Altercation
And a 72 year old man, unless he was an Olympic boxer, or Tae kwon doo fighter, he has a right to defend himself, in his own home when faced with a much stronger and younger opponent...
Now, if he was laying in wait, for his son to walk through the door, and then jumped and stabbed him, it's an entirely different matter.
It's unfortunate, it was his son..
Sounds like he'll be just fine in a few weeks, and now he's learned a valuable lesson, don't mess with dad...
Posted in: Man arrested after stabbing eldest son during fight
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mindovermatter
Sure, but they aren't systemic like the JCops... Every once in a blue-moon, you will get some criminal cop on the force who will rape a girl or pull a DUI which ends up killing some people, yes, that occasionally happens.
But you will never ever read about incident after incident, week after week of cops breaking into homes, groping women, or stealing their underwear.... In the states, every single cop, with the small exception of some small hick-town / back-woods police departments in Alabama, Georgia, or Texas (which you would probably never ever have the occasion to run into) are throughly screened with psyche evals, lie detectors and background checks. Perverts like those of the JCop police force would never make it past the initial screening.
Posted in: Cop arrested for breaking into female cop’s apartment in Chiba
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mindovermatter
You can just tell you're going to get a fair trial here...
They might as well walk down to the preschool at the end of the block and ask those 5 year old's to put together a pretend court and you could come up with a more suitable environment...
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mindovermatter
"I just want to want to take all of my clothes off and take a dump on the balcony!"
"Can't I have a minute of peace...?"
Posted in: Cop arrested for breaking into female cop’s apartment in Chiba
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mindovermatter
Ha ha ha ha....
Japan's finest....
With friends like the J-Cops, you don't need any criminals....
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mindovermatter
They're ALL at fault, including the parents of these kids, for letting them right 2-wheeled motorized vehicles in Japan...
Kids under 18, shouldn't be riding anything without pedals, it's not a question of "IF" you will have an accident, but only "WHEN!"
Just look at the stats....
It doesn't matter How Good of a rider you are, it's the other guy or women driving the car or truck, and kids don't have enough experience to be on the road.
I feel sorry for the girl, because her parent's let her ride around on the back idiot's bike! I hope he's stuck with bill! BAD PARENTS!
Posted in: 15-year-old girl killed after moped collides with truck
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mindovermatter
Ha ha ha.... Yea... You'd have half the Kanagawa police on it....
I take it you're not from NY city or Detroit...? There are some women there that would give some of these JN "Girly-Men" a really ass whipping...
But you have to remember, Gaijin's are the really cause of all the problems in Japan, or so they say... And you can bet that 99.9999% of Japanese father's teach their kids from the age of 3, that all foreigners are evil....
Nihonjin = GOOD, Gaijin = BAD!!!
It would be funny, except it's true, they really teach this kind of stuff...
Posted in: Cop arrested for molesting woman on train
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mindovermatter
Oh... now this is a big crime....
Posted in: Seven bicycles set on fire in Chiba
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mindovermatter
Good point, and I whole-heartedly agree, I think Mr.Obama is only doing it out of diplomacy, as opposed to George Dubya, who would probably expect the Emperor to kiss his hand... But I do think he needs to realize that while he may think that it's a good thing to be as diplomatic and courteous as humanly possible, at the same time, he needs to realize that his actions are on behalf of America. In this instance, I do think a polite hand-shake would have more than sufficed.
But I still like the Macarthur photo with Hirohito.... That really says it all.... Wasn't much of a General, but he sure knew how to play politics.
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