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Police were recently forced to conduct an emergency arrest of a boy for the grievous crime of damaging a school cafeteria menu, after teachers concluded his behaviour was so outrageous they could not possibly be expected to handle him.

The incident occurred one morning at an Okinawa middle school, where a 15-year-old boy became annoyed at being warned not to play on a balcony near a classroom, and tore down a menu describing the school’s lunches.

The school immediately called in the police, saying his behaviour “went beyond the limits of school discipline,” and responding officers quickly arrested him at the scene for criminal property damage.

The boy admits the charges, saying “I got angry at being warned so I tore it.” The incident was also dutifully reported in the pages of local media.

In light of recent events, there has been a certain amount of concern expressed online:

“What an outrageous crime!”

“A major incident indeed!”

“What were the teachers doing…”

“If this required an emergency arrest, the ones at Shiga needed to be shot immediately.”

“This is more important to police than forced suicide practice, nice to see they have their priorities straight!”

“Criminal damage of about 5 yen…”

“Come on, he was probably a problem kid who did other stuff too!”

“Police shouldn’t be dealing with kids with learning disabilities.”

“Perhaps the school didn’t think they would actually arrest him?”

“He probably just got sick of them putting that disgusting bitter melon in everything they served…”

“Making an emergency arrest over this has got to be abuse of police powers.”

“Pretty scary that the police could get away with arresting someone on such trumped up minor charges…”


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    Avatar of Josh
    Comment by Josh
    09:19 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Of course if he bullied someone into sucide it would have been fine...
    Seriously, petty vandalism= emergency arrest.
    torture of another student until suicide= "can we call it an accident?"

    Comment by Dark Mage
    10:52 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Really ripping down a menu shouldn't be no more then a one hour of detention thing at least that what I got for defiling posters with a marker when I was in Jr High.

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:25 21/09/2012 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    Teacher: Can you come? We have a bully problem.
    Police: Sorry not interested.
    Teacher: Our menu was bullied by a kid!
    Police: We'll be there in 5 minutes.

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:30 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Japan- A nation where a paper menu has more rights than bullied school children >.>

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:31 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    At least the bullied menu is not dead, there is hope.

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    Comment by Erzfiend
    10:19 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    And with the menu-creation rate in Japan, they need to keep all the menus they can.

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:32 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    So, it's OK to bully a schoolboy into suicide, but uncool do desecrate a mere caffeteria menu?

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:36 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Kids these days...

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    Comment by Shiro_Amada
    09:37 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    It's OK to bully some1 into suicide, but it's an act of terrorism if some1's to tear a caffeteria menu up.

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:40 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    The school had to pay to get that menu made.
    The school doesn't pay the students to enroll.

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:39 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    It's the teachers' fault. They placed the menu where it can be torn down. Maybe the students can suggest that it was just a gravity problem?

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    Comment by MasterJ633
    09:48 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    *Facepalms*

    Dafuq is wrong with people?

    Not at the kid, the Police and School.

    I'm shocked they didn't send in Seal Team 6 on him. [/sarcasm]

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:49 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.4)

    To be fair it may have had more to do with his tendency to "play on a balcony" than his petulant defacement of a menu.

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:49 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    On the side of the news: Teachers, especially principals, are heavily promoting and tolerating bullying of others as long as they students could force the victim to go kill himself/herself. The worst they would do it the better.

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:52 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Asia-land is becoming far worse of a place than the states are.

    Seriously.

    Cops looking for you because you ask a little girl for directions? Cops arresting you because you tear up a lunch menu? People destroying stores because of bunch of islands and a sense of "national" duty? Teachers keeping their jobs after passing a suicide as an "accident" after it happened under their watch? Some old dude banning (fictional) books?

    At least here if the cops are unusually mean, it's played out all over the news and internet, causing the said officer in question to resign from his post. While this country is fast approaching being hidden camera capital of the world, at least I can ask people where the nearest gas station is and not be arrested for it.

    Oh, and the porn is leagues better. Something about women who just squeak through the whole thing like they're not enjoying it really isn't worth watching.

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:57 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Considering almost every cell phone has an active camera, I would say pretty much every first world country is becoming a hidden-camera capital.

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:52 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    "Oh, and the porn is leagues better. Something about women who just squeak through the whole thing like they're not enjoying it really isn't worth watching."

    That's entirely a matter of opinion, though as far as I'm concerned, all 3D is equally disgusting.

    Comment by Anonymous
    22:51 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Hentai >>>>>>> 3D porn

    And hentai is from...?

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:53 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Hahah oh wow.jpeg

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    Comment by Shaolan-kun
    09:56 21/09/2012 # ! Quality (+0.9)

    Can't they just call it "an accident"?

    Avatar of Gradius
    Comment by Gradius

    It was an INCIDENT!

    Comment by Anonymous
    15:28 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    The grounds of the cafeteria are sacred, this boy is lucky that the Hakurei miko didn't heard anything about this.

    Avatar of Pyrolight
    Comment by Pyrolight
    11:46 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (-0.2)

    The Chinese need to riot has now passed to the Japanese.

    Run for your lives!!!

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:40 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Was the menu printed in China? If so then it is on!

    Comment by Anonymous
    09:57 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    O_o I blame the radiation from the bombs we dropped. Nothing but Godzilla and retards left.

    Avatar of Rene
    Comment by Rene
    09:58 21/09/2012 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    Wow, way to ruin the kids life over a fucking scrap of paper. Couldn't have given him detention? Couldn't tell him to cut out his shit? You just HAD to call the cops?

    Son of a bitch.

    Comment by Anonymous
    12:16 21/09/2012 # ! Drivel (-1.0)

    Actually, they very likely can't give him detention. Something about every student having a right to attend classes.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:29 21/09/2012 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    how about detention after classes?

    Comment by Anonymous

    Too lenient. He should be hanged for his crime.

    Comment by Anonymous
    17:43 04/10/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    @07:48

    Or sent to jail! Tearing down a school menu, sheesh, whatever could the maniac have been thinking!?

    Comment by Anonymous
    18:49 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    And I have the right not to be held against my will. When I commit a crime that right is taken from me.

    Comment by Anonymous
    19:07 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    Exactly. Rights are taken away when you can't carry the responsibilities that accompanies them.

    We are given the 'opportunity' with rights. Not blank check that doesn't run out no matter what you do. The big difference is that no matter your social standing, you are still given that right at birth. It is not alienable by actions of others, but most definitely alienable by consequences of your own actions.

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:47 21/09/2012 # ! Quality (+1.0)

    Bet the kid is just some commoner's son. If he was the child of a PTA chairman for example(Shiga case), he'd step on the cafeteria staff head and they won't give a tiny speck of shit.

    It seems the lower your 'caste' in Japan, the harder the cops go down on you and the faster they are at it too. I'm aware that cops around the world do the low profile/high profile distinctions, but this?

    Seriously what the fuck...?

    Comment by Anonymous

    Actually, in America, it's more like if you are high profile you'd better watch your P's and Q's because cops are ALWAYS out there looking to get you on some charge to bolster their careers.

    Comment by Anonymous

    “Come on, he was probably a problem kid who did other stuff too!”

    Consider this. Consider it greatly.
    Then shut up with your idiotic posts.

    Comment by Anonymous
    20:51 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Japanese school staff is notoriously ridiculous and low-life. So it doesn't come as a surprise.

    Comment by Anonymous

    your mom bitch

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    Comment by Anonymous
    10:05 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    OHH MY GOD WHAT!! HE TORE THE MENU!!?

    WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO!!

    Comment by Dark Mage
    10:11 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    I'd like to force these teachers to teach a class in south central LA and then they'll know what real problem students are.
    Well that's if they don't get shot or stabbed as those kids won't put up with their shit.

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:04 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    They will be calling the SWAT in no time!

    Comment by Dark Mage
    07:33 22/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    The SWAT will be put on paid vacation first.

    Comment by Dark Mage
    10:07 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    The police should have arrested the teachers for calling them over such a trivial matter.

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:51 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Will someone please think of the cafeteria menu!

    Imagine the bright future it could have, now all torn apart. It must go all the way up to the supreme court this should not be dismissed.

    The police was enough to handle the case for now, but imagine if things escalate and babies start crying over spilled milk? They would have to call the army! It was for the future sake of all menus and japan!

    Thank you for your support.

    Avatar of Gradius
    Comment by Gradius
    10:51 21/09/2012 # ! Good (+0.4)

    I don't want to live on this world anymore!

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:40 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    I've already tried to stop it, too many people in line to get off before they do.

    Comment by Anonymous
    10:58 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    In China, the menu wouldve exploded on its own before it got ripped.

    Comment by Anonymous
    13:04 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    this is an international incident, that menu contains characters based of the chinese system of writing!!!

    Comment by Anonymous
    11:01 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    So it's okay for the school and police to bully students like this?

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    Comment by Vertices
    11:09 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (+0.2)

    That little bastard! What did that menu ever do to him?

    I hope they give him the maximum sentence over this!

    Comment by Anonymous
    14:43 21/09/2012 # ! Neutral (0)

    Summon the Gundam Meisters now to deal with this travisty of a situation before it gets outta hand. Call forth all the Gundams before Japan is finished by the School Menus.





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