THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: bork on August 18, 2007, 09:52:02 PM
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(Akihabara is Tokyo's "electronic town," or as I like to call it, "nerd mecca," where fanboys flock to tons of video game, toy, anime, electronics, and porn shops, plus arcades and maid cafes.)
Twins arrested for extortion in Akihabara
TOKYO — Police on Thursday arrested 20-year-old twins on charges of extorting money on the streets of Akihabara. "We wanted quick cash. We looked for geeks who were there to buy computer games, because we figured they are too chicken to stand up to us," they were quoted as saying by police.
The twins, identified as Satoshi Isono, 20, a student at Chuo University, and his sister Yuka, unemployed, from Yokohama, allegedly acted like a couple and extorted 34,000 yen from a 23-year-old male company employee on the evening of Aug 2. Yuka bumped into the man on purpose to start a quarrel, and Satoshi then showed his tattoo on his shoulder. "In my world, you either have to pay a million yen or chop your finger off for what you did to my girl," he told the victim who reported the incident to police.
Satoshi, who was studying to be a lawyer, said he needed quick cash to buy his sister a cell phone. Police believe the pair may have carried out similar shakedowns before.
All that for a cell phone. Jesus.
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Japanese cell phones are very advanced.I can totally understand.
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What's going to happen when the iPhone is released? :o :o :o
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Prostitution of course.
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Is buying porn in Akihabara a communal thing? I don't know if its a misconception but it seems like theres troves of people window shoping for porn without any shame.
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Seems that way, doesn't it? But usually the people going in and coming out are in a hurry not to be seen. Also some of the big, 6-8 floor stores have their hentai manga and anime shops in the basement, and when you're going down the exit-only stairs, it's easy to access without being seen. :lol
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Jap porn isn't even real porn. It's worse than the stuff on cable. How is it possible to get turned on by a bunch of pixels covering up 1/2 the screen?
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Cell phone my ass. That guy was full of shit.
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I wanna go to Akihabara now.
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Jap porn isn't even real porn. It's worse than the stuff on cable. How is it possible to get turned on by a bunch of pixels covering up 1/2 the screen?
Half the screen, huh? Seems like I was misinformed about the size of Japanese penises.
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Akihabara pretty much sucks now, ever since Densha Otoko got big it's turned into one huge goddamn freakshow. I hate it.
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It's very creepy to go into a big video game store only to notice that it has a basement floor filled with porno. And it seems that's the way it is for most of the big stores in Akihabara. Gotta cater to the deviants!
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God, I would love for some random (non-yak) japanese person to attempt to mug me. The ass whoopin after that would be hysterical.
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Akihabara pretty much sucks now, ever since Densha Otoko got big it's turned into one huge goddamn freakshow. I hate it.
It seems pretty much the same to me, just with maids and shit now. But even that seemed to be in decline last time I went there. Since I pretty much stopped buying old shit a couple of years ago, the only reason I even want to go there now is to go to the import game shops and buy American games, or search for Xbox games that I won't find anyway.
It's very creepy to go into a big video game store only to notice that it has a basement floor filled with porno. And it seems that's the way it is for most of the big stores in Akihabara. Gotta cater to the deviants!
They know their customers! There's more porn shops now than before, too. First time I went to Aki was in 2001. Tons of game shops everywhere. When I went back in 2004, the first shop I walked into (up some stairs right around the corner from the station exit) had been changed from games to PORN. :o
God, I would love for some random (non-yak) japanese person to attempt to mug me. The ass whoopin after that would be hysterical.
I don't think they'd try to mug a non-Japanese, no matter how weak and nerdy they might look.
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They would especially not try to mug a 6'1" 225 lb guy from Kentucky lol