Fearing Crime, Japanese Wear the Hiding Place (rise of URBAN CAMOUFLAGE)

NYT ^ | 10/20/07 | MARTIN FACKLER

[papertyger]

I believe private firearms are illegal in Japan.

[doc1019]

Sorry to post again, just having a hard time keeping my coffee in my mouth visualizing 30,000 Marines charging the enemy looking like soft drink vending machines.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Will get enemies distracted enough to be wiped out.:-)

[doc1019]

They would laugh themselves to death. Still in stitches over the mental picture.

[Kevmo]

Here’s one for the not-a-ping list.

[Fairview]

Of course, the bad guys are never going to notice a Coke machine trundling down the street by itself, with little white shoes sticking out from under it.

[Tamar1973]

Looks like a halloween costsume run amok!

[dglang]

don’t tell

[Tribune7]

Either this is satire or the NY Times will believe anything.

[ozzymandus]

Yeah, I’ll dress up like a Coke machine whenever I walk through a dangerous neighborhood. That’ll fool them rascals!

[tanuki]

Why, hello there, Mr. Smart!

[ozzymandus]

Yeah, apparently people in Japan don’t bust open Coke machines to steal the quarters like they do here.

[PLMerite]

“Where do you insert the quarters?”

Or more importantly, what comes out when you do?

[Minn]

lifted a flap on her skirt to reveal a large... caliber semiautomatic pistol.

Guess I just have a dirtier mind than you.

[Slings and Arrows]

Gotta do something about the shoes...

Yeah, vending machines usually wear wing-tips.

[ThomasThomas]

Nobody steels money from vending machines in Japan?

[packrat35]

LOL

[puroresu]

Japan’s a world unto itself in many ways. And that is definitely cool!

[primeval patriot]

Who are the assailants?

[usmcobra]

This stuff is why I love Japan.