Four American youths who attempted to kill random Japanese motorists by way of a rope strung across a road have been arrested for attempted murder after they succeeded in knocking a woman off her bike and fracturing her skull.
The four youths, consisting of three boys and a girl aged 15-18, were all family members of US armed forces stationed at Yokota Air Base, a US air force base on the outskirts of Tokyo.
The group decided to amuse themselves by stringing a rope across a 6.5 metre wide road in order to interfere with traffic, and soon got their desire when a 23-year-old Japanese woman riding a moped was thrown from her bike after riding into the rope.
She cracked her skull on the ground in a violent fall, suffering a severe skull fracture.
The four were apprehended by police at the scene, with bystanders and security cameras witnessing the incident; police soon charged them with attempted murder.
The group admitted their crimes, saying “We didn’t think it would be a big thing” and “We didn’t think people would think of this as attempted murder.”
US armed forces stationed in Japan enjoy a variety of special privileges, and Japanese police actually had to secure their permission to arrest two of the perpetrators who lived on the base.
The US forces impudently refused to hand over the pair for over a week after the initial arrest warrant was served, perhaps thinking police would not renew it after its week-long validity expired. However, Japanese police merely renewed it and after several days of further wrangling the base finally agreed to hand over the pair to face charges.
US bases in Japan, though an integral part of the nation’s defence policy and strategic US alliance, are extremely unpopular in the localities they operate, chiefly thanks to the highly criminal tendencies of the average US army serviceman as compared to the general populace.
A series of high-profile rapes, murders and robberies has ensured US armed forces have had to become increasingly careful lest they further erode the already sceptical public support for the bases, a lesson Yokota apparently failed to learn…
Via Jiji.
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one reason to be happy, about my country(colombia) getting US army bases soon.
Oh yeah.. just ignore all the jobs it creates and the economic stimulation.
Meh, even though the kids are teens, I'm not surprised by this level of stupidity. They probably did it because they thought it would be funny (admittedly it does sound funny), but didn't consider the serious injury that could come of it. Charging them with attempted murder is a bit much though.
she should of been wearing her helmet
Actually, this is so typical nowadays. Teens doing things without thinking about the effects, whether what they did would kill or at least seriously injured someone. Upbringing this days is as good as in the past any more I think. It looks like there're no limits in what we are doing since people are abusing arguments like "we live in a free society/democracy" etc.
By the way, did the Japanese girl/woman wear a helmet. The injury is quite serious if she does wear a helmet.
BAHAHA, STUPID ASS CRACKERS. you know they were white, white people get away with all the shit they do to others and don't feel any remorse.
A bunch of fucking hypocrites. I can picture them now, the stringy haired sunburnt aryan asswipes.
I should try this trick on some of those stupid ass white bikers always hogging up the lanes downtown. might nail a few :)
Hilarious. Those bikers would beat your faggy ass into a gluey paste.
Get these white devils back to their USA.
black pride, kill all white people ok
Oh please, the blacks are probably causing most of the crime and trouble in Japan. You have nothing to be proud of black man.
This seems to me like a bunch of kids who've just learned about diplomatic immunity and going apeshit crazy about it while misunderstading completely.
I was in Germany for a few years, just on the outskirts of one of the American bases. The kids on that base did stupid shit too, because once you go off base, legal drinking age is sixteen years old. So, they had their "fun". However, what I loved over there was when one of those little shits would do something stupid on German soil, you bet your ass the German police had a field day. Regardless if you were a GI's kid or a Generals daughter, if you did something illegal or stupid to a German cop, they were gonna beat your ass, and the American base couldn't do anything about it.
I remember this one drunken loser, must've been 17, called a German cop a Nazi. Let me tell you, I never laughed so hard when they beat the ever loving shit out of him. Ahh... That'll teach the little fuck bucket to go into another country and show disrespect. Especially if it's Germany.
Why hates Artefact Korea, America and (particularly) China so much?
respect the locals
Don't know the laws in Japan, but if they did that in the U.S. that's attempted murder.
You have to wear a helmet (and one of good quality at that) when riding motorcycle, even if for the sole purpose of surviving some stupid fuck's pranks.
Oh, you have no idead how I want to get close and personal with the kid who gave an idea first. Srsly, I believe he deserves death.
Another interesting question is what if the person they got was a cop instead of just a random passer by?
And yes, an attempted murder charge is appropriate for this case, as other people mentioned before (unless she ends up dieing, then murder).
Stuff like this kinda makes you nostalgic for the days when public floggings acted as a deterrent to stupid brutality.
reminds me of a day when even private floggings acted as a deterrent for ANYTHING.
So tired of the touchy, feely 'your special in your own way' garbage.
Holy shit, what is with the American hate here? There's probably a majority of you that are American, why the fuck are you criticizing your country? The last time I remembered, AMERICA IS A DEMOCRACY. YOU PICKED YOUR PRESIDENT.
Christ, I'm not even America, I'm Canadian. I'm sick and tired of seeing all this America hate when the rest of the world is just as rude and ignorant as America is.
Japan is probably even worse socially than America, but none of you live there, so you can't fucking say anything about it.
Nationalistic American detected. At least other countries don't send their people to other countries to rape and enact other acts of violence on their people.
Something's a bit off with that. I did remember saying it's his or her fault if they do something stupid in the country that gets them deported. Nobody knows what's going to happen these days especially when a foreigner who is breaks a laws in another country. Whatever happens is that persons fault for doing it. you said" at least other countries don't send people to other countries to rape and enact other acts of violence on their people. One problem, HOW IN THE WORLD WOULD ANYBODY BE AWARE OF WHAT THAT PERSON IS GOING TO DO IN OTHER PLACES!? They know nothing of what that person, either a he or she, was going to do in other countries? If that foreigner messed up and gets in trouble, it is on them not everyone else. That comment fails to make sense.
You don't really know about any the special forces of other countries then, do you?
Yeah, other countries have their own people to rape and murder their fellows. Goddamn Americans, always stealing jobs.
Idiots don't listen to the president when he tells them not to do shit like this, if he actually knew about this.
As for criticizing America... it's the dumb kids' fault for acting like morons in foreign territory. By being on a US base, they are public representations of America to the general populace. If they choose to act like that, of course people are going to hate America, because they don't have any evidence of Americans doing anything better.
A bad reputation is easy to gain. A good reputation is not.
Obama increases pubic relation bowing to the Emperor
Four Fuckwads + the U.S. army destroy and good he did.
it's actually sad, that there are so many faggots out there.
Americans are stupid and some soldiers tend to do moronic things.
That's a weak statement, I'm American, but don't put me down with those other idiots. Getting sick of all these stereotypes and nonsense. Some people do got commen sense and are smart enough not do something so incompetent, unlike those four Americans army brats.
*common sense* I can spell all right. this really happens.
*rarely I mean*
Rofl
Pretty much true of everyone in the world.
I hope these idiots spend a long time in prison. Not knowing it was attempted murder? Ignorance of the law is not an excuse, and definitely true in this case.
A bad showing by the commanders at Yokota. I might be able to understand their reluctance, especially if the two they did not want to hand over were the younger ones, because the difference in juvenile laws between Japan and the US. However, that is a what a consular officer from the the embassy is for.
I do have to wonder if the reluctance had something to do with the experience of US troops in South Korea, where the local authorities DO have a history of harassing and discriminating against US servicemen and their dependents. Listening to former military lawyers who served in Korea can be a very eye-opening experience.
Yeah it's sad all right, I read some of the news about this, I just want to yell knowing that somebody messed up big time and that person might be American. None of this would never happen if that person didn't do what he or she did that just gives their own nationality a bad name. Whatever reason it was done is definitely no excuse. That person disgraced him or herself and is provided as a bad example of how you act in other countries.
Even if it is arrested by them, the person related to the U.S. military is innocent because the U.S. military protects it until evidence is destructed even if the person is killed.
It is not possible to judge by the law of Japan because the U.S. military doesn't hand over the person even if U.S. service member rapes and does the grade-schooler, and the minor offense treatment in martial court.
I bet they won't do these kinda pranks if they were in the U.S.
They need to set up a similar pranks on them and split their skull open, and see how they like it.
Probably not, why should they do something to others that they are not willing to do upon themselves? BECAUSE THEY ARE FUCKING MORONS!
What the fuck goes through their heads when they do shit like this, murdering all for some shits and giggles.
Just becaused our troops are stationed in a foreign country our Japan, DOESN'T MEAN they or their families have carte blanche to mess around with the locals in a bad way!
Our nation's credibility is already in the toilet as it is!
This African American is saying that those four American boys are Idiots.
One of those American Service brats is a female.
"African American"?
Don't you mean black? I personally prefer nigger though.
still better than those white sons of bitches always stepping on everybody else...revenge will be sweeeeeeet
I have to laugh at your stupidity, above Anon...you think you're going to get revenge haha...may I remind you, in the US, it isn't the black population that's slated to become a majority within the century. It's the Latinos, and they won't put up with your shit like we Whites did. Continue to bite the hand that feeds you....you don't have a clue how good you have it you filthy ingrate.
It is ironic how it is perfectly fine to be racist towards "white" people nowadays when it was the "white" American/EU politicians that made those anti-racism and equality laws.
If a white person says anything against anyone it's racism but not vice-versa it seems.
And yet "Minorities" in "white" countries always pull the discrimination card whenever they can.
What the hell where they thinking?!
I hope they throw the book at these idiots. I did some dumb shit in my day, but never anything that would have maimed/killed someone.
american idiot!
That's not a moped, it's a scooter. A Suzuki Choinori to be exact.
All I have to say is "Like father, like son".
Americans are dumb and meen people, expecially those who live in military bases.
The number of rapes and violent crimes to avarage american is very high rate.
It's because you live in military aka. us versus them mentality and by that group mentality they support stupid ideas they get from the moment and back their friends who see it right to abuse and attack locals.
US citizens are hated across the world exspecially in asia.
Asia has got the most shit from US then any other part of the world. South America has it's share too.
I do not feel bad if these kids get 10 to 15 year sentence and get raped by some hiv positive yakuza fucker.
At least their parents know what it means to be reletive to those who they themself have made harm.
I don't think you know when you are talking about.
>meen
And you Eurofags can't spell anything.
I understand what you're saying, but I'm a bit bother that you would put me down with the rest of those other idiots. Sure USA got some of their idiots in our country, but that doesn't mean that other countries do not have their own idiots in their countries as well. And even if the numbers don't lie, don't just judge everyone else as the same. I read the news and I know I'm disgusted with the somebody's actions, whether they be American or some other person from another country, because it is wrong. Even though I'm african american, I know I had nothing to do with that crap going on around the world, and you hurt me by saying I'm dumb, but I'm in college doing fine and I'm very respectful to people no matter where they are from. So you think you know me just because I'm an American right? Wrong, Me and few other Americans got common sense and the smarts to not do the wrong things. And you don't even take the time to see other people's views on the situation, especially some americans are also disgusted at one of their owns's actions. You just see the news about 4 stupid american youths doing something moronic, you get mad and act on your anger about it without a thought.
All these stereotype nonsense is getting on my nerves, and I don't have to keep up this drivel, after all, this has been going for a long time, and some people don't even try to make sense of the whole thing, just complicates arguements with the most simplest of words out of the hatred for another country.
I said my words, don't even reply to me because I'm not going to reply back.
I think this really depends on the speed of that road. If it was 5 miles an hour it probably just got out of hand. But if it was 60 or somethin then yeah they deserve jail-time.
Also the populace seems to hate them... It's self for filling if you hate someone for something and then they do it. I wonder how they were treated by the Japanese...
What kind of people go out and do this for a laugh. it's disgusting that they intentionally go out and ty to hurt someone and to a certain extent ruin there life.
Yeah, where do some people, especially some US soldiers get off thinking they can actually do anything they want here without consequence? I read some news about this constant stupidity. Face it, some US soldiers in the ranks stationed in Japan can not control themselves and leave some people alone. This is partly one reason most people diss on the Americans, though some of us are unaware of what is going on in Japan, and some of us have some dignity and control. It's sad.
Idiot children make for an idiot country..
i work at a hotel, and recently a relgious group stayed, with there children....
the children were little devils.. complete assholes the lot of them, spray painting the hallway walls ( work at an upscale place so bad thing) didn't calm down till the police arrived and told the parents that he'll take them off to jail if they don't calm down...
kids should be afraid of there parents.. that it.. afraid to piss them off cuz they know the'll get a beatten if they screw up! i was totally afraid of my mom getting upset...and she never ever touched me... Thats the way it should be!
My grampa used to say to the teachers of my dad and uncles when he wen't to talk to them in school "Entrégeme sólo la zalea si es necesario" Which roughly translates to "Just bring the skin if necessary", so my uncles would behave in school.
These days if one goes as far as calling "dumb" any student you get both parents on yourself and if you're unlucky, you can even get sued...
As a future US Army officer, I am very disgusted. If my future kid(s) were to do that I'd turn them over to the police- after I beat the crap out of them that is.
Put it this way Japanese would rape them in Prison if these children got convicted.
Army brat here.
No sympathy.
They were being blatantly hurtful and stupid.
Simple as that. "We didn't think it would be a big thing" my ass.
American army brat here:
This reminds me of that time in Germany when some American kids decided it would be funny to drop rocks from an overpass at cars. They ended up killing at least one person.
Whaa...?! You mean this is a pretty standard hobby?
Most people prefer isolationism. Some of them just don't know it. It's human nature, really.
People always like to group together on some sort of common ground, whether it be religion or race or skin colour or even political views... (proof: almost every north american city has a "little italy" and/or "chinatown")
That is why there is so much intolerance and discrimination on the internet and in multi-cultural societies...
Canada for example has no national identity. Very few people choose to call themselves Canadian.
As for your previous comment on "globalism" I can see what you mean. Given enough time, "liberal/moral" fags like EU politicians and Equality Now (or death!) will try to force totalitarians laws againts anything that they believe is immoral...
porn!? no. degrades women.
2D porn!?!? no. it harms virtual women...
2D porn loli!?!?!!?!?!?? child molestor jailed.
I hope America destroyed soon.
americans are really all the same
so are the japs, and the kraughts, and the russians and the brits. But who cares? This whole world is full of crap and its all going to end soon. make your peace with God now or suffer an eternity in Hell
Id've had a severely smacked bottom, A good few smacks around my head and a right telling off if I did anything like this! (But I wouldnt cause im not that bored/retarded)
We've all done stupid things as kids but shit those "kids" were 15-18 for Christs sake!! (Mommy and Daddy obviously wernt showing them enough love and attention)
The worst things I did as a kid were Hedge hopping, Postmans knock and Pulling Moonys and Sunnys. (Shame on you dirty trick pulling imperialist yankee scum)
To you sons of bitches who want to blame this on "white people", fuck you. I'm American, my parents were born here, and my grandparents in Germany. Yet I'm sure this is enough for one of you WHITE people on this site to base a stereotype. BTW, all this American hate here, has anybody bothered to notice that this site has a US URL, and is not sankakucomplex.co.jp? Also, you speak English here, so you are either in an English speaking country or you liked the language and cultures enough to learn it. Some of you talk about destroying America or killing the whites, you don't understand that once the American whites are gone, who are the Islamic radicals going to decide is the final thing in the way of Allah's paradise? They wont stop until your democratic *puke* government and free- willed women and unmarried children are slaughtered. I don't support these little shits but who are you people to say all of us are alike?
Wow, to attack racism with racism... bra...vo?
Any reason we think these kids aren't blacks or latinos??
I used to think beating kids is wrong.
Used to.
This story is bull. Stuff like this happens everywhere. Who gives a fuck. 15-18 year olds serving overseas? WTF? Anything that comes from the Chan boards cant be trusted.
As a member of the USMC I have made it very clear to both of my kids that if they ever pulled something like this I would personally hand them to the authorities AFTER I disciplined them myself...this kind of crap is to widespread and is why Americans are in danger abroad.
In Finland the popular deadly prank is to do this with cross country skiing trails. Of course we barely discipline the kids even after they almost kill someone.
im an American and i find that retarded and beyond stupid. its idiots like them that make me ashamed to be an American sometimes. gawd. i really hope they get what they deserve and i also hope that the Japanese woman gets better.
Ugh, I cant believe the Americans actually tried to hide attempted murderers and stood in the way of police trying to punish the perpetrators for their crime! (probably only because they were American as well)...and to hear that the areas in Japan that house US military bases are pretty much ghetto because of the increased crime, rape, and other violent activity BECAUSE Americans are there...makes me ashamed to call myself American....
Americans should stay in their home.
ok im stationed over in japan and all i can say is that the children get their parents in a shit load of trouble on a daily basis.... its for the craziest things too this being one of the craziest iven seen and im a cop....the partents most times either dont have much time to watch their children or just out right dont disclipine them...i feel terrable knowing that the dependents do this and they are very out right disrepectful to everyone....its been a few who just hate japan and want to go back to the states so they do things like this....i love japan
pfft... western people...
I love how some of you base your opinions of America on the actions of the stupid ones. If did that I would think that all Japanese people run around stabbing each other when they are not too busy chopping up their girlfriends, or killing their boyfriend after stealing all of his money.
Ive seen some stupid shit since I've lived in Japan and I gotta say Japanese has its fair share of crazy people as well.
And those kids are Air Force Brats NOT Army brats, which explains a lot.
I believe it's nothing more than "the invisible rope" gone wrong. Cause if it was trully caught with security cameras they would be airing that to hell. Plus footage of the damage to the bike plus to show the rope in general.
damn brats! i hope they get a nice long sentence. this is why America has so much bad rep! wtf is wrong with kids... i hope that girl will be okay.. T_T
HAHAHAHA That's cool. Well with some servicemen coming from it's good to relieve some of that stress on a different population hahahahaha. GOD BLESS U.S ARMY NAVY MARINES AIRFORCE COAST GUARD. NUKE again.
those American Soldier should just fark back off to their on soil.
I wonder if, adjusted for population, more or less Japanese kids get up to this sort of shit. God knows I read enough about it here. Face it, there is a notable (if expected) degree of racism to this furor.
Even the protests over the US not handing over the kids immediately are not as reasonable as they seem, to anyone who knows anything about the Japanese legal system with its remarkable 98% conviction rate.
Anyway, Artefact could have just written a generic comment "America sucks!" as the first comment and closed the thread. It would have summed up 99% of the comments, anyway.
if i were POTUS , i would make a trip to japan , gut the little fucks like a fish , then put their heads on spikes at the front gate of the base in a public ceremony ...
their worthless parents would be flogged until they died , then i would present the injured party with their ears and noses , plus all her expenses paid with compensation...
but our potus is a worthless coward who would never have the guts to do anything so bold...
amen and amen.
The fact is the American forces refused to hand the punks over to authorities, so yes, the Americans - at least at the base, ARE at fault for not discouraging this type of behavior. It was good to see that the local authorities didn't give in.
But on a broad level, I wouldn't limit this to "American stupidity" in general, as there are plenty of ill-mannered punks wasting air on this planet. It's a shame that we have laws protecting so-called "kids" at the expense of others. If it were up to me, I'd host a public execution for those little sacks of shit.
this only prove the inferior and patetic mind of the americans!!!! get fuc....k america!!!
Shit like this makes me hate being an American teenager. I can't wait till I turn 20 later this year.
There is no shame being American or being your own native at all, Don't let these idiots make you feel otherwise. Everyone is equal and need to be treated right.
The hell? Didn't the event happen way back in August?
You should mention that they have just been formally charged and arrested as of 12/04/2009, just to be factually correct.
Besides, the US didn't REFUSE to hand the children over. The problem was whether to arrest them before formally charging them as per Japanese law. As there is no precedent for dependents of US personnel on whose responsibility it should be to handle them in case of criminal action. Besides, I like how Artefact doesn't mention Japan's archaic and Draconian legal system which would have denied even normal Japanese citizens of a Fair Trial much less those evil gaijin...
As another reason why Japanese tolerate American presence, the bases provide a significant amount of jobs to local Japanese.
You came to Sankaku for non fiction?
Non fiction does appear on sankaku at times.
OH CMON PPL! KIDS ARE JUST HAVING SOM FUN!
Fun? yeah, how would you feel some kids decides to pull a same exact prank on you? and they would say, "oh, we didnt mean no harm, its funny" and your skull is craked open, bleeding like hell, and they get away scott-free? Would you have exact same opinion you've stated above? "OH CMON PPL! KIDS ARE JUST HAVING SOM FUN!
"
No, ofcourse you won't. That clearly states how much you care about other human beings. Maybe someday you will be badly hurt, because some kids pulled a prank that threatened your life, and some stranger on a blog said, "hey, those kids were just having fun! hahahhhhahaha dhuuuhhhhhhh~ who gives a shit for fuck anyways, its not me! haha"
omfg cant be bothered reading all that. Boo hoo so some chick got clotheslined of a moped. Woopee. Atleast she isnt getting her foot hacked off by a machete in my home town of Melbourne.
You can't be bothered to read the article, yet you feel compelled to write a paragraph of ignorant, irrelevant bullshit regardless?
The only insight you've provided (albeit unwittingly) is a reminder of just how idiotic people can be.
Yet another shame on my country.
Bring them home. All of them. Bring all of our military home to the U.S.
We will be better protected and the world will be a better place. Especially Okinawa
I agree-bring them all home and let each nation and country defend themselves.let China have free reign over Asia. Let North Vietnam invade and destroy the south. Let Iran point their nukes at Italy, Greece and even Japan and see who steps up to cover your weeping, lazy asses. bring our boys home and close OUR borders. Bring them home and guard OUR cities from allah and his stupid hell bound followers. IF this story is true, I hope the kids DO get just treatment, but to say things like "all americans are bad" or "stupid" or "white parents" are bad-how RACIST can you get? I suggest you get back to your anime porn and let us do what we do best: Kick ass. And stop asking for help and then questioning our methods. Further more, don't forget who started it on December 7, 1941- 68 years ago TODAY- the day YOU woke up the sleeping giant- and who ended it- August 5 1945. Would you like for me to continue, or is that enough history for today?
^
I'm pretty sure they are not saying 'get out American'. They are just asking that those who commit crime, recieve a well deserving punishment. Wether they are Natives or Army Brats who thought hurthing people were funny/amusement.
What do you mean by especially Okinawa?