Police in Saitama said Saturday they have arrested a 15-year-old male student for leaving a foam case strapped to a bicycle at a junior high school in Nishi Ward. A note on the case said it would explode if opened.
According to police, the bicycle was found by the school principal at 7:10 a.m. Friday, Fuji TV reported. School officials contacted police and the school was closed for the day as a precaution.
No explosive device was found in the case which contained some tools and old clothing.
Police said the boy was seen loitering near the school grounds on Thursday night. He has been charged with forcible obstruction of business. He was quoted by police as saying he did it for a joke and didn't think it would cause so much trouble.
© Japan Today
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Disillusioned
Great way to get Friday off school.
nath
...or to get kicked out permanently...
Daniel Naumoff
"It's just a prank, sensei".
smithinjapan
What exactly did this kid from Saitama think would happen? Expel him for starters, then arrest him. Try him as an adult, and not just for forcible obstruction of business, but for making bomb threats.
oldman_13
Now a pipe bomb?
More evidence of western YouTube influence around the world.
KnowBetter
I wonder if this kid will understand now just how stupid that was? How does a 15 year old today lack the ability to understand that words and actions such as he created won't have serious consequences?
coskuri
He is in school to learn. We had pranks weekly in my school, the teachers never considered calling the cops for a petty internal matter. And it seems they didn't do their job so bad as the pranksters have not become terrorists or anything, they have grown wiser.
Ruin his future just for that? You propose what for the others ? Routinely millions of teens : detriorate properties or public equipment, bully others, racket others, assault others, rape others, prostitute themselves, dangerously break traffic laws, unlawfully enter places for adults, overdo drinks/drugs, provoke traffic accident while intoxicated, shoplift, steal vehicules, kill others, join gangs... but I guess all that is nothing compared to a prank.
turbotsat
Better get a lawyer. This is the age of no-bomb-jokes-allowed.
CH3CHO
Over reaction by the school and the police for what a 15 year old boy did. The same goes for the news agency and some of the critics.