Man jabs umbrella into student's eye in Saitama

[TheNoNamedOne]

The Yomiuri Shimbun (http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070717TDY02001.htm)

A 19-year-old university student was seriously injured Sunday morning after a man jabbed the ferrule of his umbrella into the student's left eye during an altercation on a street in Fujimi, Saitama Prefecture.

The student was taken to a hospital, where he was unconscious.

Horrid! Follow the link in the title.

Have you ever gotten in a fight just for strange looks at another person?

[dk]

I've never gotton into a fight for strange looks.

That's pretty messed up to stab someone with an umbrella. I've thought about umbrellas as weapons of self-defense, but it's not every day you hear a story of someone being assaulted with one.

My guess is there was alcohol involved.

[Isaak Brodsky]

One of my students told me a story about a certain Marine in his unit who's now serving time in the clink up north for having cracked open another Marine's skull with an Orion beer bottle at some seedy beer hall on Hwy 58. The convicted admitted that he just snapped when he thought he saw someone from across the bar giving him a strange look.

Disturbing. You never can tell about some folks, expecially when alcohol is being served up.

[P_chan]

that happens all too often where I'm from. My buddies often wonder once some one looks at us strange and I say "where I'm from you'd get your ass kicked for that."

[socalheart]

My friend and I had a couple female Marines try to start a fight with us in a club, because my girlfriend supposedly looked at one of them funny. The female Marines were very drunk, of course. We were both sober and had known the club owners and bouncers for nearly three years. The female Marines were essentially thrown out of the club. We never saw them there again. We did see them at Club Red, which is known for trouble, some time later starting another fight with someone else. Liquor and beer make regular people stupid, but makes stupid people mentally disabled.

[TheNoNamedOne]

Even the girls!? Just looking gets girls in fights, too? Adult women who are Marines engage in this kind of behaviour? Not very high standards of professionalism.

I think the last time I recall that looks were reason for fighting was in elementary or Junior H.S. To me this story in the OP would not shock me so much coming from Americans who seem to like to wear a certain degree of machismo on their shoulder, but here in JAPAAAAAAAN!? C'mon.

[dk]

To me this story in the OP would not shock me so much coming from Americans who seem to like to wear a certain degree of machismo on their shoulder, but here in JAPAAAAAAAN!? C'mon.
I take it you've never partied with/near servicemembers. I mean really partied? Like really drunk at 4am on gate 2 street? It seemed like there was a fight every weekend on the street back when I used to help organize parties out there. And a lot of them were just strangers passing each other.

[socalheart]

To me, the inexplicable fights are between those guys who fight over bar (juicy) girls. Come on, guys! Hello?! duh... They're women who basically sell their "time" to anyone as a profession. Hmm... yeah, that's a personal opinion.

[TheNoNamedOne]

I take it you've never partied with/near servicemembers. I mean really partied? Like really drunk at 4am on gate 2 street?

Yes, I have. Countless times, sometimes almost all the way up to PT. <wink>

And I never recall any of them going ape over someone looking at them. But, I don't deny that it does happen. The more I think of it, the more I think it is strange that I never experienced seeing that. Perhaps I didn't hang around with the lose canons.

[Tempestuous]

Yeah, it happens with girls and even non-americans.
EVEN without alcohol involved.

Myself, pregnant friend and another friend go to the movies. At the end of the movie the pregnant friend rushed to the rest room....she was 8mths along and the gal at the front of the line let her cut in line to be kind. Then a toddler came in doing the potty dance, so pregnant friend let her go first (anyone who has been around kids knows, they often wait WAY too long and when they are dancing there isn't much time left). Behind them in the line a ruckus starts.
Friend leaves the bathroom- comes back out, we watch the credits and then me & the other friend stop by the bathroom.

As we are in the stalls a British flight attendant comes in wanting to fight because a few minutes ago while her friend was in there there was a ruckus & she wanted to "handle" it. She is looking for a particular person and doesn't believe that we arent her so she says she is going to stand there and wait for us to come out of the stalls. I guess I gave her a look that said " you are incredibly ignorant!!" When I came out and she was seriously standing there to give us the once over.

She leaves in a huff and as we walk out going about our business her and her friends are standing a few feet from the exit catcalling and slinging insults seriously wanting to fight us.
I mean seriously?!?!?! They wanted to fight a 35yr old, 8mth pregnant woman & her two friends for something that happened in a bathroom?!?!?!

Ridiculous!

[Boost]

That is ridiculous. To cause permanent damage to another person just because they "looked at you funny" is far from rational.

To the best of my memory, which isn't always that reliable, I don't think I have ever gotten into a fight for something as simple as a dirty look. Asked a person what their problem was because of it, but not actually fought over it.

[roxy_skyy]

Maybe the guy was just ugly, like U-G-L-Y you ain't got no alibi, cause you ugly, yeah, yeah.... lmao. I know people are psychoitic when it comes to staring but there are people in this world that you stare at not because you want to but because you can't help it...like a bad car accident....you can't help but stare.

Maybe this guy was the straw that broke the camel's back. It's not an excuse, but I can see some reasoning behind it. lol

[Boost]

Maybe the guy was just ugly, like U-G-L-Y you ain't got no alibi, cause you ugly, yeah, yeah....

LoL - Now you're just being cruel! You might be right, but still not very nice!

[roxy_skyy]

I wouldn't call it cruel as much as being realistic, nowadays everyones getting mad and causing harm to others over the tiniest things.

Just like parents who watch their kid play sports and get into physical fights over it, just because your kid sucks doesn't mean you have the right to beat up a parent on the winning team's side.....trust me I've seen it happen a couple of times....fun to watch but still...

[P_chan]

That is ridiculous. To cause permanent damage to another person just because they "looked at you funny" is far from rational.

To the best of my memory, which isn't always that reliable, I don't think I have ever gotten into a fight for something as simple as a dirty look. Asked a person what their problem was because of it, but not actually fought over it.

When have people ever been rational?

[Boost]

When have people ever been rational?

I know right? We'll have none of the rational crap around here!

[DAPRINCE69]

and they say japanese never resolve their altercations in violence...ha