
“I was confident after playing driving games at the arcade, so I wanted to try the real thing” – such is the legend offered by a schoolgirl (14), who, without any form of licence or training save what she had learnt at her local arcade, opted to try her hand at the real thing.
However, her first drive ended with her arrest for perpetrating a hit and run, and one man being dragged from her car hundreds of metres, suffering severe injuries as a result.
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Troubled seiyuu 落合祐里香 / Yurika Ochiai, or Yurishii, has been involved in a car accident which “left her face a mass of blood”, and was hospitalised. Her life may not be in danger, but she appears to be suffering quite severe after-effects from her injuries.
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Event goers will be unhappy to note that the next Wonder Festival, one of the top anime hobby events, has had its next opening cancelled completely. This means there will be no Wonder Festival 2009 Winter at all, though it is thought that future events will go ahead normally.
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Just what is going on in this image of a cheerleader in evident distress is something I find rather puzzling; as we saw with the loli mother raep image, it can be a little hard to tell whether things are photoshopped or not.
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Some poor 2channer exhibits his rain soaked box; I know parcels being left out or used as footballs by callow delivery people is uneventful enough internationally, but in Japan? Unthinkable.
No word on whether his Quiz Magic Academy survived the disaster.
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A student archery practicioner (15) who “accidentally” pointed his loaded bow at a fellow classmate (15), and then shot him in the face with an arrow, piercing his skull to a depth of 10cm and leaving him critically injured, is suing his former school for expelling him over the incident.
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A young lady (19), just learning to drive, drove through Matsue City at breakneck speeds, soon crashing her ride into a streetlight at high speed in truly spectacular fashion, tearing the SUV in half and killing the three back seat passengers who unwisely let her take them for a spin, we hear. She was only lightly injured, as was the fortunate young man sat beside her.
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Ten people have been injured in an escalator accident at Wonder Festival, at least one apparently severely injured with a broken leg; the escalator is said to have been overloaded, although staff were present.
Some 50 people on the errant machine were knocked down, and looking at the heights they could have fallen from, it is fortuitous that no fatalities ensued.
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Onlookers looked on, raising not so much as finger, at the spectacle of a lady slowly sinking into a deep pit of faeces, even as she screamed for assistance; the unfortunate lady was walking past an uncovered pit of nightsoil, when she slipped and fell in, and was unable to get back out, nearly drowning in her ordeal.
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