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1 Aug
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Posted by Musashi
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Thieves in Beijing have taken to lightening residents’ pockets Mr. Miyagi-style – with chopsticks.
| Category: News | Tag: china, chopsticks, crime |
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19 Apr
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Posted by Musashi
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A 23-year-old Chinese student in Toronto was chatting with a friend back home in China when an unidentified man broke into her apartment and brutally murdered her…while her friend sat helplessly and witnessed the crime via webcam. I think this just made my ‘Most Horrible News Story of the Year’ shortlist.
The friend she was talking to reportedly lives in China and was Liu’s boyfriend, according to posts on a Chinese-language chatroom, the Toronto Star reported. He reported seeing a struggle break out between the two before the man turned off Liu’s laptop and threw her cellphone on the floor.
Police say the laptop is now missing.
The friend tried to get help but the people he tried to contact were asleep, the Star reported. No one got his frantic message until 8:30 a.m. Saturday and it wasn’t until 10:30 a.m. that the landlord unlocked the apartment door, the Star reported.
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11 Mar
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Posted by Musashi
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What kind of irresponsible douchebag leaves his son at home while he runs around the neighborhood dressed as a ninja? A real father would’ve taken a hint from Lone Wolf and Cub and taken him along on his nocturnal adventure Daigorō-style.
Police say Hurst, 28, told them his mother was watching the child, but the boy’s grandmother said Hurst never asked her to babysit.
In an affidavit, Patrolman Joseph Lane said that he asked Hurst “why he was playing by himself” at around 1.30 a.m. on March 3.
“He replied that there are not a lot of people who want to play ninja,” the newspaper quoted Lane’s affidavit as saying. “I advised him that it looked to me that he was doing something else. Hurst stated that he was not doing anything wrong and was going home.”
| Category: News | Tag: crime, fatherhood, ninja, wtf |
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23 Nov
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Posted by Musashi
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When I read this headline at MSNBC, I initially thought ‘Man, that show’s really gone off the rails…’ Then I remembered it was cancelled. Then I was all like, WTF? Apparently Michael L. Brea had an epic-level freakout, chopping his mom into kibble while shouting ‘Repent, Repent!’.
“I had just dozed off to go to sleep and then I woke up to somebody screaming,” neighbor Bernard Bent told WPIX. “It sounded like lady’s voice and after a while I just didn’t hear the woman’s voice again.”
The newspaper said the suspect was undergoing a psychiatric evaluation at Kings County Hospital.
Citing website BelFim.com, WPIX said Brea had appeared as a dancer in film “Step Up 3-D”.He appeared in a 2009 episode of “Ugly Betty,” the website said.
“I remember growing up and my mother was always feeding people who were less fortunate,” Brea is quoted as saying on BelFim.com. “My parents raised me to always share and to give charity in the name of God.”
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14 Sep
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Posted by AnaKhouri
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Ah, Pedobear. Everyone’s favorite curiously cute ursine cartoon character, twisted and corrupted by 4chan. According to the California Sheriff’s Department, Pedobear is no longer a kind of funny-yet-disgusting joke. He is a dangerous reality.
He’s Snatching Your People Up!
I think this is some of kind of mistake, or someone is putting one over on the CA cops. I can’t imagine real pedophiles would adopt Pedobear as a mascot; everyone who is anyone (and by that I mean Internet addicts like me) knows who he is and what he represents. They’d be stupid to use him. They probably have a secret handshake instead.
(and I’m guessing that ‘Southern California event’ was an anime con)
| Category: Uncategorized | Tag: 4chan, California, crime, pedobear |
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16 Aug
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Posted by Musashi
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Thai authorites are on the lookout for Lee Aldhouse, a British professional kickboxer who knifed an American tourist to death one week ago. Aldhouse, who seems to have quite the reputation as a violent douchebag, provoked a fight with 23-year-old ex-Marine Dashawn Longfellow at a Phuket bar before following Longfellow back to his hotel and stabbing him to death.
Aldhouse, who trained in Thai kickboxing or Muay Thai, was known for “getting drunk and picking fights and bragging that he’s invincible,” Anukul told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.
Authorities believe Aldhouse is still in Phuket, NBC News reported, and they are working with Immigration officials to intercept him if he attempts to leave from Phuket or Bangkok airports. So far, there is no record of him leaving Phuket via the airport.
According to NBC News, police have set up checkpoints in and out of Phuket and local police have been briefed about Aldhouse in case he attempts to escape by land. There is only one bridge leading off the island.
A man who identified himself as a manager at the Yanui Paradise Resort declined to disclose details, saying he was only speaking to the U.S. Embassy. The embassy could not immediately be reached for comment.
Longfellow had served in the Marines and was a machine gunner for the 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Matt Gronbach, of Fort Dodge, Iowa, who was in the same unit with Longfellow, said.
| Category: News | Tag: crime, douchebags, kickboxing, sad, thailand |
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10 Aug
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Posted by Musashi
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American reporter Jake Adelstein sat down with a bunch of Yakuza gangsters and posted what they thought of the Playstation 3 game Yakuza 3. I’m not sure what blows my mind more – the fact that they did it in the first place, or that the game seems to have gotten more right than wrong.
Choice quote:
S: I don’t know any ex-yakuza running orphanages.
K: There was one a few years ago. A good guy.
M: You sure it wasn’t just a tax shelter?
K: Sure it was a tax shelter but he ran it like a legitimate thing. You know.
| Category: Video Games | Tag: crime, jake adelstein, japan, playstation 3, yakuza, yakuza 3 |
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1 Jul
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Posted by AnaKhouri
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A guy in South Korea has been arrested after he sold a gadget that he claimed made tap water into holy water with healing properties.
Why would you need a evice to make holy water? The pope can make it just by waving his hands around and saying stuff.
Or maybe you could make holy water by taking regular water and boiling the Hell out of it.
Of course, this dude’s holy water has nothing on North Korea’s super drink:
What the BBC failed to mention is that the super drink is just Kim Jong Il’s magic pee.
| Category: Uncategorized | Tag: crime, fraud, holy water, north korea, south korea |
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21 Jun
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Posted by Musashi
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I’m a pretty die-hard rationalist, and when I hear of efforts in this country to shoehorn cintelligent designism into our schools or vaccination ‘skeptics’ freaking out about links between autism and potentially life-saving medical treatment it makes me cringe. But at least I don’t live in a country that frees rapists through ear exams.
La Ngoc Tinh said the case was reopened at the request of Vietnam President Nguyen Minh Triet, after traditional medicine specialists said the men could not be rapists because they had never had sex.
The men were convicted in 2002 of raping an 18-year-old woman in Hanoi, and sentenced to 11 to 16 years in prison.
Pham Thi Hong, an acupuncturist at the national traditional medicine hospital, said prison officials had sent one of the men to her for treatment in 2006.
She said examination of a pressure point beneath the convict’s ear showed a small capillary was unbroken, which Vietnamese traditional medicine holds to mean that he was a virgin. Hong then examined the other two men.
“I recognised these three men had never had sex with women,” Hong said.
Following Ms. Hong’s examination, the case was reopened – and subsequently all three men were released from prison.
Seriously, folks – common sense…use it or lose it.
(via Tommy Holland’s Vision)
| Category: News | Tag: crime, sad, superstitions, vietnam |
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24 May
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Posted by Musashi
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Are you fucking kidding me? This is what passes for ‘news’ in Cincinnati these days.
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20 May
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Posted by AnaKhouri
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Three muggers in Australia got the fright of their lives when their attack was interrupted by five black-clad ninja warriors.
The thieves were assaulting a German medical exchange student in Sydney, but the alleyway where they struck was next to a school for ninja warriors.
One of the pupils raised the alarm after noticing the attack.
Police say they have arrested two men and charged them with robbery, and are still looking for a third suspect.
“We just ran outside and started running at them, yelling and everything,” said ninja master Kaylan Soto who instructed his students to take action.
“These guys have turned around and seen five ninjas in black ninja uniforms running towards them. They just bolted.”
The victim suffered minor injuries, and the men stole his mobile phone and iPod, according to police.
Mr Soto said the man could have escaped the assault with some training in ninjitsu – a Japanese martial art. As for the attackers, “They just picked the wrong spot,” he added.
And the moral of he story is, if you’re going to assault and rob someone,
| Category: Uncategorized | Tag: australia, crime, ninjitsu |
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10 May
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Posted by AnaKhouri
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So, this sucks but I kind of want to laugh because it’s so ridiculous. This poor guy in China had a fight with his neighbor. Neighbor disappears, police assume poor guy killed the neighbor and throw his ass in jail. He spends a decade in jail. Then the neighbor shows up…alive.
Here’s the funny/awful part: the neighbor ran away and hid because he was afraid he’d killed the poor guy who went to jail. I guess their fight was physical and maybe pretty intense- but couldn’t he have called some other people in the village and asked what happened? Maybe they don’t have phones but you’d think sometime in the past ten years he would have tried to find out if the guy he fought had died for sure.
This is what happens when you don’t communicate, people.
| Category: Uncategorized | Tag: china, crime, justice |
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16 Mar
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Posted by AnaKhouri
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I hate cell phones. Sometimes I still work at the bookstore, and I fucking hate those idiots who stand in line yapping about stupid shit while you’re trying to check them out. I hate idiots who drive while babbling on their cell phones. Worst of all I hate the cretins who just absolutely have to have intensely private conversations about their colonoscopies or fight with their boyfriends in really loud voices in public. Once I heard a woman ordering something, giving her credit card number very loudly. I wrote it down and considered giving it to her but got distracted. At least in North Korea you don’t have to worry about that crap. You do, however, have to worry about being executed for calling a buddy.
No Cell Phones in North Korea!
(note: this is from The Daily Mail, which loves to outrage people, so take that as you may)
| Category: Uncategorized | Tag: cell phones, crime, north korea |
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9 Mar
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Posted by AnaKhouri
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In Japan, you can hire people to seduce your spouse so you have a reason to divorce them. And they even have a job title that isn’t ‘prostitute’ or ‘skank’!
Kuwabara approached the 32-year-old mother in a supermarket in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, in the guise of a chatty stranger, and asked her if she could recommend a place that sold good cheesecake.
Yes, this is the way to get a woman to fall for you. Talk about cheesecake. Oh, yes. <– sarcasm
| Category: Uncategorized | Tag: crime, divorce, japan, wakaresaseya |
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9 Mar
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Posted by Musashi
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Boing Boing’s Lisa Katayama posted part one of an interview with badass reporter Jake Adelstein (Tokyo Vice), who is equal parts Hunter S. Thompson and Bunta Sugawara.
In April 2008, I was trying to figure out how Goto knew that I was writing a book about his liver transplant. There was a yakuza real estate broker; he was a good source, and I had paid him. I remembered having a conversation with him a few months back, and he was asking how my book was coming along — I suspected he might have been sounding me out for information. So I went to his office and said, “Listen, did you sell me out on Goto? Did you tell him I’m writing a book”? And he said, “Yeah of course. He pays much more than you do. Why wouldn’t I? It’s not like we’re friends. It’s nothing personal.” He didn’t even try to deny it. So I said to him, “Remember a couple years ago when Sugiura got hit? I’m gonna tell my friends in the Sumiyoshi-kai that you gave away his location. They may not believe me, but they might come ask you some questions, and when they do I don’t think they’ll be very nice to you. Nothing personal.” And as I turned my back to leave, he jumped on me. He started hitting me really hard and kicking me. So I ran to the corner of his room and got a golf club, and kept hitting his knee until his knee broke. I was just running around in circles aiming at his knee. Even after his knee broke, he was still crawling at me. I was like, god! Why don’t you just give up?
This is apparently just the beginning of a slew of Yakuza-centric goodies that Katayama and Adelstein have planned in the near future. Should be fun…
| Category: Cool Links, News | Tag: crime, interview, jake adelstein, japan, tokyo vice, yakuza |
