A man who uploaded a video of himself chasing a schoolboy on a bicycle in his car whilst threatening to run him off the road to YouTube has committed suicide, despite police and the boy declining to press charges, prompting furious speculation as to why he would kill himself when he remained anonymous and faced no punishment.
The incident began in July of 2011, when a Himeji company employee in his forties apparently succumbed to road rage and began chasing a middle schooler on a bicycle, screaming various threats against the boy, including telling him he would ram him into the river.
He recorded the entire chase on his dashboard camera, and for reasons which are not clear decided it would be a good idea to upload the video onto Youtube:
He later deleted the video, but by then mirrors had proliferated and it was too late, and soon the police became involved.
The boy being chased was less than fazed by his ordeal, brushing off his pursuer as not worth bothering with – “I got through it fine. I’m not scared of some guy like that.”
He declined to press any charges against the man (with a complaint from his victim he could have been charged with misdemeanour intimidation or similar), and police had to settle for issuing him a verbal caution and making him sign a written pledge not to do it again.
The Internet, however, was much less forgiving – viewers of the video clamoured for his arrest and denounced him with much vitriol, outraged by his reckless and potentially murderous conduct. The media soon picked the story up as well.
All this was evidently too much for the schoolboy chaser – on the 27th, Tottori prefecture police reported discovering him dead, in what they are treating as a suicide.
There appears to be very little sympathy online, but there is a great deal of curiosity as to what actually transpired:
“This guy had no balls at all, did he?”
“He gets hit back and he kills himself…”
“This is the happiest news I’ve heard all year.”
“The kid didn’t even file a complaint. Why’d he kill himself?”
“He’s trying to get back at the kid.”
“He killed himself to atone. A happy end.”
“Did the kid even do anything to provoke this?”
“This is not going to leave a nice aftertaste for the kid.”
“You guys drove another one to suicide I see.”
“Nobody actually found out who he was and put it online, did they?”
“Nobody found out who he was. There should not have been any public impact on his life.”
“Scum has died, that is all.”
“He was probably up to all sorts of other dodgy stuff which would have ruined him if it got out.”
“If he had any real sensitivity he would never have uploaded that.”
“Apparently he went missing shortly after this blew up, after saying he didn’t think it would be this big of a deal.”
“Watch the video. Guys like that are a waste of oxygen.”
“The classic case of a dog whose bark was worse than his bite.”
“He probably had a mental illness of some sort.”
“A real ruffian wouldn’t have uploaded it like that. He was just a total coward in the end.”
“He had probably done other stuff which would have come out if anyone investigated.”
“Could have been his family which applied the pressure.”
“Was this really a suicide?”
“Why was he found in Tottori? With no complaint filed against him he basically got off scot-free.”
“He was probably unstable to start with. I’m more worried about the effect him killing himself will have on the schoolboy…”
maybe he did seppuku?
He killed him self because he was MENTALLY DISTURBED did anyone baker act this looser.
Maybe the YouTube fame made him suicide. :V
Maybe he was suicidal and someone on a forum said “Wait before you do it, just do something badass or crazy and upload it to youtube”
tht’d make sense right?
What is with people insisting on calling the Japanese police ‘useless’ or ‘incompetent’? I do not think anybody here has actually researched into the history of the Japanese police (and their result) and they get upset by one or two blunders that is pretty embarrassing but insist that this is happening all the time and label the police useless and incompetent.
I like how nobody compares the Japanese police to say… the American police, or the Italian, or the French or the British, or the Chinese or the Indian etc. etc.
Stop complaining. You will probably be better off being caught by the Japanese police than anybody else (maybe not true 20 to 30 yrs ago, but due to a lot of internal inquiries….)
Maybe aside from the Public Security Police….
GTA Tottori
Oh man I wish someone would do that towards me. Would put him down on the ground.
the law doesn’t want to kill him, even after what he did, so he choose to kill himself.
if death is his plan from the beginning, why not just do that?why go looking for “support” in the internet?
wait.. maybe that is his plan from the beginning.
I don’t care how bad your day is or how much road rage you have, WTF!
I think it is clear as day what’s really happened: The boy found him later and killed him. He looked weak, but was a real psycho inside.
He was the real mastermind here…
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I wonder how much of the strong response comes from people remembering their own experiences of being bullied.
dude CUT TO THE CHASE
Kira found out his name
Just another addition to the deathnote.
Maybe the cops killed him.
He killed himself because of his shit music taste.
@ 4 minutes into the video, a man with what-seems-to-be a flat-top hairdo walks by… this man is obviously Yakuza…
Now we know it wasn’t suicide…
The boy was Yakuza, too, and hired that hitman to make the rager’s death look like suicide.
The end.
Looks like this man…
*sunglasses*
Was driven mad.
1) Guy gets road rage and freaks out at some kid once, posts it on youtube for some reason.
2) People tear him a new asshole about it
3) Guy dies (APPARENTLY a suicide)
4) All of Japan: “He’s dead? SERVES HIM RIGHT! Happy end!”
Honestly? Fuck the Japanese. They make good cartoons and all, but there’s something truly deranged about the whole mentality of their culture. It wouldn’t have surprised me if his identity had wound up on the internet and someone decided to go lynch him.
Oh yes, and that mentality is unique to the Japanese nation as a whole. Yes. Yes. You are not racist at all, and how you fail to neglect many a cases in whichever country you come from (because surprise, this kind of mentality exists everywhere)
Puddle Of Mudd 😀
…but ‘I’ like Puddle Of Mudd too.
The kid was so composed that my guess is he has “connections” and the bully’s death was not self-inflicted.
conspiracy much?
Either he was gonna lose his job or someone killed him. Seeing as people online hated the guy, it wouldn’t surprise me. I wonder what the kid did to make him so mad.
Why is everyone pissed?
He did something dishonorable and faced his shames properly by committing seppuku like a true Japanese.
Of course he’s raging, he’s listening to puddle of mud.. who wouldn’t be angry about that?
old chicken chaser did the world a favor and offed himself. i guess he relapsed and took his signed pledge a little too seriously, lol.
in b4 some douchebag indie dev makes an FPS game out of this.
>Japan
where everyone kills their self over the littlest things
You’d be surprised over some of the things people do over little things… or not.
>stupid kid make a wide turn while car begins to turn
You know, I really hate children.
Light strikes again.
Considering the other reporting’s of suicide in Japan, i doubt this was really a suicide.
He (bicycle boy) owns a Death Note!
News said this guy committed suicide.
Not a joke. it’s truth
natural selection
treating as committed suicide? oh yeah right.
Ugh Those narrow streets are so dangerous, It’s like a real life toy land, cept people kill themselves.
How is suicide happy news?
what the fuck is wrong with people
The guy obviously had some serious issues, and it wasnt anything to laugh at
I wonder if he happens to live in Yomiyama…
..and somehow I can sense this case leading to an urban version of Sleepy Hollow..
what we should? is to ban car!
Nah won’t be safe enough. We have to ban roads too.
If he was going off like that, he probably was already in a mentally fucked-up place and close to the edge anyway. Not surprised.
But I agree with the bottom commentator – the important thing here is to not let it psychologically damage the boy. Geeze, poor kid got roped into a lot of shit.
The thing I found oddest about his behavior was that he seemed to be in an awful hurry to get somewhere. But, when he encounters the kid, he has all the time in the world to give him a hard time.
People always act like that when they want to act hard.
Uhuauha a ghostbikerider kill him!!
(what they are treating as a suicide.)
No way Again?
In my day, men chased after schoolgirls not schoolboys.
It was obviously more than just a chase. He stopped the bicyclist and got out of the car to harass him.
I blame the American music. If he had been listening to J-Pop, this would not have happened.
If he was listening to J-Pop, he wouldn’t seems as threatening.
Happy end after all!
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he is probably listening to lady gaga’s “Judas”…that’s probably why he committed suicide.
>j-pop
that’s enough to make any sane individual kill their self alone
/deal with it. faggot
Truth. If he were listening to J-Pop he would’ve stopped and shared some “love” with the boy. Most likely by way of handshake… or possibly by way of drive by spray, depending on his talent.
But yeh, joking aside…
“I blame American music. If he was listening to J-Pop, this would not have happened.”
PLEASE tell me that was sarcasm.
In America the kid would have pulled out a pistol a capped his ass!
No loss.
That most-Americans-have-guns stereotype makes me laugh every time.
Ohh yes, we’re all armed and we’ll shoot you if you piss us off. /sarcasm
Also, that guy must’ve been real insecure or weak-minded to take out his anger on a kid and take his own life because of it. Sad.
More like the guy would’ve taken a gun outta his car and shot the kid dead instead.
where the fuck in america are you seeing that at? e.o
detroit, michigan
No, most of the kids around here are too broke to even get a stolen gun! God I hate Detroit.
no idea what America you live in…
Nothing like a dash of denial right? If this was China all you Sankaku users would be up voting a comment that said “The bike would of exploded anyway”.
Oh you people…
20:11, I guess the truth struck home to you then huh? Probably because you closely associate with my statement than majority here. Why else would you reply with an insult rather than a coherent reply.
Oh you failed internet activist. So anonymous. So forgettable. Try again next article….
The one that exists in movie theaters…..
And you wonder why america is gonna fail lol
Wrong. In America such a man would’ve been correctly diagnosed with a mental illness 10-20 yrs. earlier & would’ve had all that much time under therapy & medication & would therefore not have uploaded such a batshit crazy video in the first place.
That’s why America needs gun control.
Sabe que es America? pedazo de ignorante, si no sabe que es America no comente de America.
Puddle of Mudd made him do it.
Lemme guess, the guy stabbed himself in the back four times and threw himself off a bridge.
The boy had shinigami eyes.
the child gangs made justice, that is why they didn’t want the useless police involved.
i bet he was driving a honda civic
This guy was the scum of the earth, and we’re better off without him.
You know it’s comments like these that drove him (and others) to suicide.
But what’s done is done. Internet will continue on as usual… till the next one suicides from cyber-bullying.
I think the man was extremely fragile to begin with. He had no friends & no life so whatever he uploaded onto Youtube became HUGE to his self-image.
As an UN-TREATED mentally ill person, he was prone to wild mood swings (although, according to the kid he seemed anything BUT threatening) so he didn’t count on making an ass of himself on tape.
People call him a bully. Wrong. He was a bullied man himself that TRIED to be a bully. He tried and failed miserably in front of thousands of Youtube viewers. The kid wasn’t even scared of him. Of course, had he had proper treatment for his mental illness ( Japan SUCKS at mental health treatment) then he’d have no need for such an asinine stunt.
If this Youtube debacle didn’t cause his suicide then I’m sure something else would, within 5 years, easily.
I was asking myself if there was no Elite comment you made it. Soziologistic and psycologist Remakes. I See it the Same Way, he needed to get help before he hurts Himself or anybody
Hold on, now. This guy is a bully. He tried to terrorize someone weaker than himself for fun. He thought he could get laughs for doing so on youtube.
He is a terrible person. I can’t feel bad that he’s gone.
No, it is YOU who is the pee-pee head.
Hold on, now. You’re a bully. You try to terrorize people for fun. You think you can get laughs for doing so on the internet.
You are a terrible person. No one will feel bad when you’re gone.
All I can say is that the kid was such a boss… didn’t even flinch when the retard pulled over.
We have no idea what the driver looked like. For all we know he’s the Japanese Don Knotts.
Being a loser at its finest.
Firstly, he was never identified.
Second, no one is pressing charges.
The world is a much better place already. If he committed suicide just to spite those people who were writing nasty comments then he really is a loser.
>>“The classic case of a dog whose bark was worse than his bite.”
Obviously the guy had mental problems to begin with to have done any of this shit, so why are folks surprised he offed himself? I only wish more assholes of the world would do us all a favor and do likewise.
Agreed! why can’t all these whiney bitchy emo kids’s take the final step? let us know they’re serious. Japanese youth often kill themselves and Japanese soldiers would stab themselves over Honor issues.
The Japs make Suicide Noble or a ‘final statement’ – they are not afraid to take control or responsibility for death’s or their own death. No finger pointing or blame – they just do it! If only the trash in America had this resolve.
lead the way…
🙂
Attention whoring and stupidity, it happens everywhere. Not just in Japan.
If you simply don’t care aboot the consequences then go on and continue to post retarded shit on YouTube. Others with too much tiem on their hands will eventually start following or stalking, if not raise some kind of stink. Its the nature of YouTube.
Your opinion is unnecessary, no one cares what a Canadian thinks.
Your opinion is unnecessary, no one cares what an asshole thinks.
Hopefully, it won’t affect the kid too much, but it’s not ever that easy.
HUH, What the fuck happened to make him snap like this..HOLY SHIT ;(
I think he could have handled the situation a lot better!!
That’s Kira riding his bike home after school.
Nothing was lost.
He clearly drives on the wrong side of the road. Crazy Japs.
You sir, clearly do not ride on the correct side of the road.
You do know that many countries drive on the left? Oh well.
Wow all this rage at this dude. It’s not like he killed someone. What he did was messed up but come on. You lot need to grow up and face reality. Get out of your parents house and join the real world. Maybe then you’ll realize the world is not black and white according to your limited experiences.
This is just stupid.. nothing happen he was just a reckless driver lol
It always surprise me how big of a pussies otakus are. The kid didn’t gave a damn, but they had to whine like a bunch of little girls on the internet. It’s not their business and noone was hurt… Well, except for a guy who killed himself. But to do it because of internet trolls is a shame on it’s own.
Otakus? Nah, it’s just people on the Internet.
There’s thousands of comments here talking about how otakus should die, or someone in China needs to be nuked, etc.
And you same people drive others (Asians) to suicide as well. It’s no different.
Who says he was even an otaku? Not every Japanese net user is.
He means the people whining about the driver…
You’re driving on the wrong side of the road >.>
actually most countries drive on that side, US is the odd one out.
Lol, no.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Countries_driving_on_the_left_or_right.svg
*feeds the troll* Press play, and say it again. (I’ll give you a hint, “He’s in Japan.”)