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Japan boy 'severs mother's head'

news.bbc.co.uk — A teenage Japanese boy has walked into a police station carrying a severed human head and claiming to have killed his mother. The 17-year-old went to a police station in the town of Aizuwakamatsu, north of Tokyo, carrying the head in a sports bag, Japanese media said.

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  • smartass007, on 10/11/2007, -8/+125teens these days...
    • rebopper, on 10/11/2007, -83/+7Maybe he just wanted his mom to give him head.
    • benijuana, on 10/11/2007, -35/+10Damn you Counterstrike!!!
    • jsearch, on 10/11/2007, -37/+10Maybe next time she'll buy him a Wii when he asks.
    • Mejogid, on 10/11/2007, -43/+10@rebopper
      Ahahahah... I see what you did there. Who'd have thought a single word could refer to both a sexual act and a body part! Oh you comic genius, you.
    • SurrealDream, on 10/11/2007, -9/+34I first thought it said "Japanese boy Serves mothers head"
      ...just as bad, I suppose...
    • AegisGFX, on 10/11/2007, -12/+115Why isn't this under 'video game' news?
    • modex, on 10/11/2007, -23/+2I was going to post something... but I don't think I will be able to match smartass007's comment.
    • donwilson2, on 10/11/2007, -25/+6asians these days...

      Is that what you wanted to say?
    • SnuKs, on 10/11/2007, -20/+4I see were asian cinema gets their inspiration.
    • LovingDigg, on 10/11/2007, -7/+62*****Level Three Completed*****
    • zomgflamer, on 10/11/2007, -6/+6Murder is quality and not quantity according to the japanese.
      http://youtube.com/watch?v=Vhbwpb-pYPQ
    • nimawin, on 10/11/2007, -14/+4Japanese Stewie?
    • Dige, on 10/11/2007, -13/+1In America teens poison or shoot thier parents.
      In Japan the decapitate, stab, and flaunt body parts?
      Cool. xD
    • gardnmi, on 10/11/2007, -6/+17I blame it on Pokemon.
    • Emanji, on 10/11/2007, -5/+25Is his name Ichi?
    • jaxontyler, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1Too much henti tentical porn.
    • EelfinnTy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4I think Ichi would have split her in half.
    • ubuwalker31, on 10/11/2007, -3/+15Happy Mother's Day!
    • OwdenBowden, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Well I have to tell you. Its that dam Rock-N-Roll that is doing it to them
    • Insolent, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The Japanese are so polite. They turn themselves in with the evidence.
  • diggthiscrap, on 10/11/2007, -19/+3http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/8_heads_in_a_duffel_bag/
  • eneshelon, on 10/11/2007, -18/+3i think he mighta took some inspirational American sayings too literally. particularly the one about "getting ahead in life"
  • razrielle, on 10/11/2007, -16/+8oh man, i thought for some odd reason he was running his website from his moms head
  • built2spill, on 10/11/2007, -6/+51I'm certain that Chainsaw Hero made him do it.
    • HyperJack, on 10/11/2007, -24/+2Texas Chainsaw Massacre . . . . . JAPANESE Chainsaw Massacre

      Okay. Sorry. That was totally irrelevant.
    • altjeringa, on 10/11/2007, -8/+7@ohgr
      Doom 3 is my favorite single player FPS! *sniff sniff*
    • HunterTV, on 10/11/2007, -4/+13"Chainsaw Hiro" you mean. Rated 'M' for Metaverse.
  • MenoUnderwater, on 10/11/2007, -4/+34The teen lived with his mother and little bro. Poor little bro...
    • 10001110101, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15"Japanese press said the boy lived with his young brother, separately from their parents. Their mother was believed to have been visiting them on Monday."

      Actually, the little bro lived with his brother, who apparently lived on his own.
  • dweeb79, on 10/11/2007, -27/+4I guess she won't be getting ahead in life.
  • eatsushi, on 10/11/2007, -14/+3holy ***** *****...
  • Renton, on 10/11/2007, -5/+25Should have used the death note.
    • Kotoyumu, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10Hmmm, well if the boy dies from suicide in jail, writing that "shinigamis love apples." then I would figure his little bro used a Death Note.
    • KyjL, on 10/11/2007, -15/+3Good comment, crap series
    • mariowario, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2It only started going bad once they killed off you know who (don't want to spoil it for others). Now it is more of a cat and mouse game.
  • eliomar, on 10/11/2007, -4/+22in before Jack Thompson.
    • weister42, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4I don't think Japan plays the "blame game" like the US when something like this happens. Bad parenting?
    • Urusai, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4The Japanese government issued an official statement that there is no historical documentation of a beheading and they will not apologize; however, they will donate 100 yen in sympathy money to an orphanage for children whose parents were beheaded.
    • Gir53457, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Like hell they play the blame game.
  • OUberLord, on 10/11/2007, -21/+1She'll never be the head of a major corporation.

    Seriously though, how much time until someone suggests that video games caused it? Minutes? Seconds?
    • OUberLord, on 10/11/2007, -14/+0Clearly the people digging me down haven't yet lost all hope for humanity and aren't yet desensitized to crap like this. Bravo, I suppose.
    • Jwoey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+23the reason i dugg you down is because you were like the 4th to use the same joke, and then again the 3rd or so to mention video games.

      =)
    • OUberLord, on 10/11/2007, -13/+2*cries* I hadn't seen that one done yet, and I'm too lazy to think of a new one :P
  • 10001110101, on 10/11/2007, -9/+2"Become vengeance, David. Become wrath."
  • forethree2, on 10/11/2007, -11/+2Probably all that wacky anime.
  • pitchpitch, on 10/11/2007, -4/+25Coming Fall 2007: Anime about this.
  • funkmachine, on 10/11/2007, -9/+1"No, no. You keep YOUR head whilst all around are losing theirs - not your mother's."
  • synapticcleft, on 10/11/2007, -11/+0That is no way to get ahead in the world...
  • qwerty1263, on 10/11/2007, -9/+4Happy Mothers Day, MOMMY DEAREST!!!
  • mayh3m, on 10/11/2007, -12/+2FATALITY!!!!

    Scorpion Wins!!!
    • bIuebonics, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11that would be sub zero, you douche, not scorpion...
  • ninefournine949, on 10/11/2007, -9/+0I bet this is a new Japanese fetish. haha
  • CloZackPassion, on 10/11/2007, -6/+5Carrying his mother's head around?

    This is definitely more Final Fantasy VII than it is Doom!
  • djdev, on 10/11/2007, -4/+29over 30 comments, all lame jokes and none have anything to do with article. Someone find out why he did this please.
    • kaiser44, on 10/11/2007, -13/+3he thought he was GODZILLA.
    • pbaehr, on 10/11/2007, -4/+14Maybe she was a zombie.
    • meltingrobot, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13Find out on your own if it's that important to you. My guess is, he did it because... he's ***** in the head. But I guess I'm just too simple to look for something else to blame his actions on.
    • altjeringa, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1@meltingrobot
      Being ***** in the head is usually a result of something else....
      Being simple is usually a result of not having been ***** enough in the head...
      Both are delusional states of states of being.
    • Murdats, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I think he meant, what are his motives?
    • foobar5892, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2@altjeringa (#6695844)

      Moron attempting philosophy.
  • Antibland, on 10/11/2007, -13/+6The Japanese are finally adopting our customs and traditions!
    • altjeringa, on 10/11/2007, -8/+3And doing a better job at it than us, as always!
    • kaiser44, on 10/11/2007, -5/+17WHERE ARE YOU FROM, THE MIDDLE EAST?
  • Ewookie, on 10/11/2007, -12/+3This kind of thing would never happen in Canada.
    • RossTizma, on 10/11/2007, -10/+2Neither would a kidney transplant, looolololol
    • profOblivion, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10No, instead we have a crazy farmer who feeds dead bodies to pigs (allegedly, of course).
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pickton
    • Valleye, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1@rosstizma

      I read your comment quickly after ewookie (dork) and the timing in my mind was perfect!

      I busted out laughing aloud in the office, much to to the distress of my team.

  • slapthemonkey, on 10/11/2007, -10/+2Barbaric moron!!!
  • anagoge, on 10/11/2007, -10/+3BOOM HEADCHOP
  • ronaldinho, on 10/11/2007, -18/+1Damn this is sickening.....the perfect Mother's Day gift!? Holy *****

    Japan, known for docileness and respectfulness, unfortunately also known as the land of S&M and hentai......goddamn this country is really Jekyll and Hyde. If only all girls in the real world ARE actually that horny, all of us would never have to masturbate again.

    I guess all crimes in Japan are rare in between, but it's going to be a biggie everytime.
    • Veritate, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18Don't believe everything you hear. Stereotypes about Japan are often overdone.
  • MarkOfTheDead, on 10/11/2007, -6/+0sounds like the beginning of a Battle Royale sequel.
    • Kotoyumu, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0There is a sequel to Battle Royale already...

      if anything, a prequel!


      *either that he was reading the manga of Battle Royale, that is one crazy manga!*
  • jerrycan, on 10/11/2007, -9/+1Another sorid chapter in the spiralling, out of control life of Japan Boy, the once proud ward of the currently deceased superhero Samurai Man.
  • Vassili84, on 10/11/2007, -10/+3pics or it didn't ***** happen
  • PJBenny, on 10/11/2007, -13/+7I'm amazed that this is being treated so trivialy by everyone! Severing your mothers head, thats pretty ***** sick... and your all laughing about it? This, in my opinion, is worse than shooting up your school... no one seemed to be cracking jokes about virginia tech
    • MysticSavage, on 10/11/2007, -2/+15Dude, have you looked at what site you're on?
    • Kotoyumu, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Yes it is disturbing, in fact this is the types of things you hate to hear about. Yet, one of the bigger things in japan is the NEET/hikimori lifestyle that ive seen that always gets harrased by media, because a majority of cases similar to this are from individuals who fit the description.

      Just like here in america how the blame gaming, movies, t.v. etc for all of these haneous acts of crime. Is there ways to stop this kind of behavior, sure, yet do the proper officials take this seriously before it happens, no.

      Yes, we make jokes, but alot of it is just stereotypical hoopla (ie like the Death Note and Battle Royale comments.) or any general violent, sociapath type animes that are out there.

      Im not blaming any of it on that, its the people and the actions they take.
  • zmigliozzi, on 10/11/2007, -8/+3They are so going to blame this on Gears of War.
  • Hockey37, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2Someone needs to tell Japanese Sylar to just cut off the tops of the head, not the whole thing.
  • judicar, on 10/11/2007, -5/+3Kids do the darndest things!
  • akatherder, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2Well, this America guy hopes she pulls through.
  • zod000, on 10/11/2007, -5/+0This boy was clearly the victim of watching the movie "8 heads in a duffel bag". The government needs to pass an anti-Joe Pesci law immediately.
  • MysticSavage, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Geez, I hope he didn't use public transportation en route to the police station. I'd hate to be the guy sitting next to him on the subway.
  • mandarin, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13At least he came to the cops about it... Kids here run away to Mexico...
  • jbspin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18There can be only one...
  • anthony1124, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1battle royale
  • altjeringa, on 10/11/2007, -6/+3I wonder 3 things:

    1. Why are we doing stuff like this?
    2. Have we always done this sort of thing but it's been kept under wraps better?
    3. Is the levity of most comments in the thread and attempt to deal with the attrocity or an indication that we are becoming desensitized?
    • Sheff, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6My .02: I think as a whole we are becoming desensitized. Also it seems like Americans are more concerned with Americans, i.e. a headline like 'all 258 passengers were killed including 2 Americans.' Americans seem to value American life more or at least that's how I perceive the media to be reporting it.

      Here is one local example - http://www.lvrj.com/news/7458252.html

      A drunken 19 white kid kills five Mexican immigarnts, ages 32, 13, 9, 2 and a 7 month old. His friends are spray painting "Free Ronnie" on the crosses and leaving burned diapers at the accident site.

      I also think that culturally we are more visual. We watch more TV than read books. So if there isn't a 'real' picture to go along with the story, it won't affect us as much.

      In any case, I think things like this become progressively more extreme to get a rise out of most people. Granted, both stories are sick, but I can't seem to laugh about dead children.
    • altjeringa, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2@Sheff

      Wow that's some pretty twisted stuff going on in that article you linked to!
      Thanks for replying. Stuff to think about.
  • HanSolo69, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1Japan boy? Is that a new anime?
  • bookishboy, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Get me Jack Thompson on the phone, NOW!
  • dotlizard, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2it could be worse. he could have kept the head in the trunk of a car for a month while he partied and blogged about it on myspace.
  • shallwedave, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2For a second, I thought I stumbled into the Future Sitcom Writers of America convention.
    • MrQuoz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4If that's true then I'm never watching television ever again.
  • stotch, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1ewwww

    guys in japan get head from there moms
    • icon1985, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1learn your English grammar / spelling before posting meaningless comment. People who read will not laugh (at you) as hard.
    • squiggles, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3@icon1985

      "before posting meaningless comment"

      ..
  • Chaindrop, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0he's probably a fan of guro manga.
  • loquax, on 10/11/2007, -3/+7This is a perfect example of how a crazy person (like the dude at Virginia Tech) will find a way to use anything to kill another human being. Opponents in America (and Europe) to 2nd Amendment would have to ask themselves if outlawing knives would put an end to this type of killing. The answer clearly is no, as this boy is sick and would have found some other way to kill his mother. Sure, a gun makes killing more efficient, but Japan (and the rest of the world) has seen its share of weird knife related murders that involved multiple homicides. The whole "guns don't kill people" cliche is trite, but it does bear up some truth--people have (and probably will) continue to kill each other with whatever is available. The problem isn't the tool that is being used, the problem is that we really need to face the truth that a certain segment of the population (of any population) has a greater likelihood of killing another human being. The real question is how do we identify and minimize the harm that these people do before they do any harm.
    • thrallie, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2I agree with you 100%. Guns for regular citizens in Japan is illegal, and the only people with guns is the government and the gangs. Gun control doesn't work. We need more personal liberty.
    • transcendz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Maybe you should get your facts right, then : there are far less murders in Japan than in the US. BTW, you also have knives AND guns. The greater the temptation is...
  • Darthcactaur, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Shows the difference in Culture; In Japan the kid turns himself in to the police, in America the kid would hide the murder, then plead insanity.
    • BrutusCato, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Or you know the was off his ***** rocker and just in amoment of lucidity he did a horrible act.
  • adamclif, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0This most definitely a modern day X-File.
    "the latest in a series of grisly killings in Japan, a country renowned for its low crime rate." The article makes the murders seem almost motive-less.
    Despite that this is not in Fox Mulder's jurisdiction, do you think he would still check it out (In the early-mid seasons that is)?
  • CrAsHnBurN45, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Kids really do cost you and arm and a head.
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