Student urinates on war memorial

[Shinpachi]

A similar incident that insults the victims of the war happened in the atomic bomb memorial park in Hiroshima on August 1, 2003. A student had lit the gifted 14,000 memorial paper cranes to burn.

It was a rusult of our poor education.



Details(in English) -
Chugoku Shimbun Peace News

[proton45]

Not so much. You don't get to damage or deface public property or the property of others to make a political statement.

well, thats good news.

[conkerking]

First thought: throw the little ****er an SA80 and see how he gets along in Helmand for a few months.

Second thought: stupid, stupid little boy.

[conkerking]

BTW- What do you call a British Redneck?

"Chav" is the nearest we've got I think. Generally not associated with the student classes, who - you would think - would be intelligent enough to know better.

Chav - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Negative Creep]

Living near a Uni I get to enjoy the "hilarious" drunk students most nights. As for this guy, I'd say a public apology in front of the memorial (with vets in the front row) should suffice

[RabidAlien]

...and enrollment in an AA program. Run by Vets.

[conkerking]

Avoided jail, got 250 hours community service. Judge said the kid was responsible for his actions but that Britain's binge drinking culture was a contributing factor; also that he had never seen anybody as remorseful and contrite in the dock.

I would like to think that this has been a very "sobering" lesson to the young man in question, that he has learned
from the experience and that he will turn out to be a splendid human being.

BBC News - Urinating student avoids prison

[proton45]

Honestly, I have given this issue some "afterthought"....and this is just the kind of transgression that deserves the modern equivalent of the public stocks. And by that I mean, he deserves to be publicly humiliated. Maybe a public "shaming" is a better name for it...In this case I feel that the news coverage this story has received is justified.

[conkerking]

The coverage it got over here, believe me, he was shamed.

[proton45]

The coverage it got over here, believe me, he was shamed.

I know that their where a lot of people that felt he deserved to be urinated on, or beat-up...but really he was just a dumb drunk kid who needed to "think" and learn about why his actions where so offensive. I'll bet that sense this story has got so much coverage that he has had more then a couple of people talk to him about their feelings on the issue.

For many years he will be known as the self involved twit who disrespected the good people who gave their life for our freedom.

[RabidAlien]

Yep. Gonna be hard to live this one down. Bet nobody sells him a drink for years to come.