Armed vigilante gangs patrolling for looters in Japan’s lawless disaster zones have been coming under scrutiny after reports surfaced of one group brutalising an unresisting looter they cornered, in a scene which would be more associated with post-apocalyptic fiction than Japan’s supposedly orderly response to the devastating quake.
A member of an NPO conducting relief operations in the area accompanied a vigilante corps on their patrols of a ruined Iwate prefecture port town, and reported frontier justice is in effect:
“This port town suffered devastating damage from the tsunami, and the law and order situation has been deteriorating.
A surviving group of firemen formed a vigilante corps to patrol a district, mostly comprised of ruined houses.
The trouble started on the second day of patrols.”
The vigilante group were patrolling ruined houses at 1AM when they spotted a suspicious vehicle. After checking inside, they found a man in his forties rummaging through a room.
“Who’s he?”
When he noticed the group, he immediately tried to flee.
“You’re a looter then!?”
The 5 vigilantes soon cornered him. He started swinging a crowbar around.
However, the 5 had armed themselves with iron pipes for defence. After a scuffle, the man was subdued.
The problem was what came after…
“The 5 men started beating and kicking the man. He had already stopped resisting.
I told them ‘It’ll be dangerous if you don’t stop’ but the vigilante leader just said ‘With a guy like this, with things as they are even if we leave him as a corpse nobody would know, would they?’
Things got a bit heated there…”
After this the NPO staffer persuaded them to hand him over to police, who were summoned afterwards. As the man came at them with the crowbar first, the vigilantes were held to be blameless.
Japan has been praised for an orderly response to the crisis and a general absence of the style of Mad Max anarchy observed under in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, but with large areas devoid of power, police or people, opportunists have been attracted all the same, and police in the region report making a number of arrests for looting and even rape.
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stupid japs!
stupid you
Imbeciles rules!!!
Are they really Japanese?
And if the looter happen to be non-Japanese, he'd probably be tortured first then killed.
I feel bad for any foreigners living there. You can bet the Japanese people don't give rats ass about them.
why would japanese care the hairy barbarians?
Depends if it was big guy who can fight he might have beaten all five of the vigilantes or at the very least made their victory a costly one.
Well just goes to show the difference between the usa and japan. After Katrina you had roaming gangs of looters basicly terrorizing anyone who got in their way, and in japan you have roaming gangs of vigilantes trying to protect what little people have left.
There's no difference between vigilante and gang when your excuse for killing someone is "nobody would know, would they?"
I kind of thought the real excuse was, "He came about like a vulture, trying to steal what little people have left". I mean, it's not like the gang head actually said it, but it can be assumed right?
I dont think you really need a excuse to fuck someone up that tries to take advantage of people in a situation like whats happening in japan. Anyone who does is subhuman and really should be taken out of society anyways.
Yes because it's you his is the judge that decides the fate of man.
@ ColdCock
Generalizations like that are why this doesn't really work, and why people like you pretend vigilante law actually leads to anything but the reality, which is a bunch of senseless deaths for even minor things. Especially because every stupid person somehow believes that things can be solved by 'fucking someone up' for any offense. God forbid the looter was a man on his last leg and had been out of a job and of all the crimes he chose, he went for the one that wouldn't injure anyone. Or perhaps he could have been someone who came to look through his own house, saw a gang of people approaching him, and ran. Doesn't sound like they identified themselves very clearly, and I'd have probably run from a group of unknown people in that situation if I could, yet he would have gotten beaten all the same. Or of course he could be the most evil son of a bitch who wanted the gold and jewels of every lady who died because he had a vendetta against them. Either way, the same form of 'justice' is not deserved across the board for all those cases.
The looter could have simply been trying to find stuff to survive it really depends on what he was recovering.
Was he looking for food or valuables?
BTW there was little actual looting after Katrina.
The biggest looters were the police and some members of the national guard as they seized people's guns which was highly illegal.
Hear hear.
Stop being stupid. These vigilantes are the exact came as any gang. And there were no "gangs of looters" after Katrina. In fact, they exposed the biased reporting of Katrina that went on during the disaster. Fucking weeaboo.
Note that the source for this article is the rag "Weekly Post". A pinch of salt is advised.
it's like i'm really playing swan song
I was actually playing swan song the day before i found out about the quake... kinda scared me a little.
I don't blame them. People have morals until they break. Once they break they drive on instincts.
A person's moral fiber be a fragile thing.
Many people will set aside their morals in a desperate situation.
Maybe the best story to show this was the 80s movie trading places which was a comedy of all things.
wow this is just like my American movies
Lol-ed at Fallout ref.
I prefer going for the right side tho :3
at least we know where the next fallout game is going to take place.
You wa shock!
you wa shock!-mind.
WE STILL FIGHTING, FIGHTING IN THE EIGHTIES!
NINETIES. XD
NO BOY NO CRYYYYY
TOUGH BOY TOUGH BOY TOUGH BOY
Every post-apocalyptic corner of the world must have mohawks riding on any kind of vehicles, and people who have the power to beat them up.
YOU WA SHOCK!
Well...
In my opinion, looters should be shoot on sight.
No mercy for thiefs.
Da ORKS be lootan
Can we expect to see a battlewagon soon?
During riots in my city (before I was born), my uncle (who served in Vietnam as a chopper gunner) sat on my mother's roof with a rifle. No one touched a damn house on the whole block.
Then again if he was on the roof they could have just sniped him and they'd know one house that didn't have a primary defender.
The typical rioter:
1. Doesn't carry a sniper rifle around
2. Probably can't operate one of those weapons
3. Would rather settle with all the other unprotected houses
True Dat. Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot.
True that, 02:49.
My money's on the guy that's battle-proven. Odds are good that better people already tried to snipe him (and failed).
lol i remember that is from the Batman novel
That's a bit extreme I mean it's just material possessions... Though it can always depend on the situation.
It's funny when it comes to people stealing their stuff the scum of this site grows a moral backbone and become moralfags. But you know what's even more funny, I bet more then half of the people on this site steal daily pirating stuff off from the internet.
You hypocritical smug bastards are lower then thieves imo. Talk, talk, talk.
If there aren't severe consequences for looting, soon you're going to have a shit-ton of looters. Someone has to discourage people from roaming through property that doesn't belong to them and applying a 5-finger discount.
"As the man came at them with the crowbar first, the vigilantes were held to be blameless."
That's not really how self defence works, you know. You can't keep beating them up once they've given up.
And here I thought firemen were so much better then cops
The looter is getting the RPG feel of his life; No loots without a turn-based battle with the Vigilante Gang..
yea it sucks when he got the first move and accidentally picked an ineffective attack...
Crowbar? It was Gordon Freeman?
Probably looting crates for ammo and medkits.
Edit: and probably thinking "Oh God, where have I woken up this time? What year is this?"
Holy shit I just realized...this is viral commercial for Episode 3!!
Valve, you fucking geniuses…
Fallout3 style....medkits ..rad away...
In time..radscorpions..mutant ants...ghouls :P
and worst of all...Deathclaws!
keep a lookout for Zombines and Barnacles! *slurp slurp slurp*
That bastard deserved it!! he was TrYinG To sTeAl ANTLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111
Who the fuck cares about looters. This homes belong to no one now. Or are people gonna come back for their smashed posessions?
It's still their property, moron. And yes in the case of important or sentimental items that might have survived, they could come back and retrieve them.
I'd raid their collections for doujins, anime and manga. Then sell it back to them.
well the looters came for the victim's smashed posessions right? why the owner can't?
If it was Gordon Freeman, they'd all be dead, and he'd have about sixty weapons by the end of the day.
Yep the story would read five men found with skulls crushed in.
so the headcrabs got him this time?