[b]Mirrors and Dresses[/b]

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Shooting leaves Japanese jittery over influx of
                                guns

                                By Mark Magnier
                                Los Angeles Times

                                TOKYO — A Japanese gangster opened fire Friday afternoon in a
                                crowded train station in Kobe, injuring a policeman and a commuter after he
                                was caught trying to peek under a woman's skirt, Japanese police said.

                                The incident, which occurred at rush hour, was unsettling in a nation where
                                guns are rare and crime rates low by international standards.

                                "I commute every day by train at peak time," said Kaori Sano, a
                                32-year-old office worker living in Tokyo. "For someone to take out a gun
                                and shoot is unbelievable. It's really dangerous; it feels like nothing is secure
                                these days."

                                The suspect, Masakazu Kubota, 52, was noticed by police on an escalator
                                in Kobe's Sannomiya station using a mirror to try to see under a woman's
                                skirt, said an official with the Hyogo Prefecture Police Department.

                                According to the authorities' account, when the police moved in to arrest
                                him, Kubota pulled a gun out of a nylon bag and fired a shot at the ground.
                                The officers then tried to wrestle the weapon away, but he reportedly used
                                the gun to bludgeon one of them. He then fired a second shot, grazing a
                                57-year-old commuter on the chin, the police official said.

                                Kubota, a member of the Yamaguchi-gumi crime syndicate, was arrested
                                for attempted murder and illegal possession of a firearm. Neither of the
                                victims' injuries was life-threatening.

                                The Kobe and Osaka region is a base for many Japanese mafia, or yakuza,
                                and until about 20 years ago, Japan's strict gun-control laws made firearms
                                extremely rare.

                                But more recently, the number of guns seized or used in crimes has risen
                                sharply, said Masaaki Noda, a professor and criminologist at Kyoto
                                Women's University.

                                "Customs officials are not tough enough," he said. "The yakuza are now
                                bringing them in all the time."

                                What many people found disconcerting about this latest incident, however,
                                was that it appeared to break the yakuza's own code of behavior.

                                Occasional shootings by yakuza occur, but they tend to be turf battles
                                between rival gangs — not random shots involving innocent people

What was someone once said about "When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns?"[IMG]http://www.freakygamers.com/smilies/s/contrib/sarge/Oogle_anim.gif[/IMG]

Dang, caught again!  Why can't they leave us dirty perverts alone? [}:D]

He started shooting?  What a moron.  I thought you were posting something about another fetish you had, Chaingun.



No shite.

Take it easy and don't look under any more skirts till this blows over,
Ice

Yeah, those Yamaguchi-gumi's are a bunch of wild and crazy guys.

Frikken perverts.[}:D]

when peeping up skirts is outlawed only outlaws will peep up skirts

Maybe that should be "peek time."

Darn mall ninjas.

Caught again, it is the Skirthilftemup Gang, notorious for their Peep and Shoot techniques.

Ice

"[b]Kubota, a member of the Yamaguchi-gumi crime syndicate, was arrested
for attempted murder and illegal possession of a firearm[/b]", he will be shot in the back of his head this monday...


BISHOP

well if he had escaped the cops would have found him beheaded somewhere in Tokyo in the next few days. Yes they still do that. These guys really do model themselves after movie samurai.

However he was arrested and is in police custody. So he will be found ignomonusly hanged in his cell and it will be called suicide or perhaps even "death by sexual misadventure". The handcuff marks on his hands and feet will be convinently missed...

The Japanese will find some way to blame us for this too.  Either they will allege that they are getting the guns from US military bases or
they will blame us for still allowing private firearm sales in our country, giving them a "easy" source for guns to smuggle in... anything but the corruption of their own government and the stupidity of their own laws.

From the perfect no crime country, they also have a problem with men groping women on packed liked sardines commuter trains.

If they don't kill him, they'll at least take a finger or two.