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LOOK AT WHAT THAT ASSHOLE DID!

I have been to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial myself, and I stood in the rain for a good 15 minutes looking at all the paper cranes people donated... the fact that someone could do such a horrible thing makes me feel sick.

I wonder how many cranes are LEFT now...

Wow...that takes a certain level of scumbag to do that sort of shit.

I'm taking comfort in the fact that there are so many cranes donated anyways that they will be replaced easily... but that is 144 people's wishes for world peace that he destroyed.

DPDarkPrimus wrote:I'm taking comfort in the fact that there are so many cranes donated anyways that they will be replaced easily... but that is 144 people's wishes for world peace that he destroyed.

I thought the story said 140,000?

In February 2002, 50,000 paper cranes were set alight in the park. (Compiled from Mainichi and wire stories, Japan, August 1, 2003)

Doesn't seem like the first time someone's done this...

Each person makes 1,000 cranes, I believe.

That's sick. I've been to that memorial, and the thought of anyone defacing it simply to vent their frustration at not graduating is disgusting.

He had better keep a low profile. If I were Japanese and I ever saw him on the street, I would beat the hell out of him.

I'm a little more pissed off at the thugs defacing and breaking tombstones and memorials in France of British veterans from WWI and II. One instance they even took the door off a memorial tomb and set alight the book of condolences that had been signed by loved ones.

Whiel the ironic justice would be for him to be burned at the stake, I would personally suggest he just be jailed, and the key be melted down for scrap metal.

This is one of the most stupid things anyone ever has done.

Admiral Valdemar wrote:I'm a little more pissed off at the thugs defacing and breaking tombstones and memorials in France of British veterans from WWI and II. One instance they even took the door off a memorial tomb and set alight the book of condolences that had been signed by loved ones.

I'd have to say this offends me more...

Burning origami from a peace memorial, well, that can be replaced, eventually. But a book of condelences?

And the burning origami could, somewhat in a loose way, be a political message if they so chose, but vandalizing a memorial to foreign soldiers who helped liberate your country?! No matter what the current politics may be between the two, there's no way the dead soldiers can be held remotely accountable, or be considered a viable target for a political statement...it'd be like defacing the Vietnam Memorial because you were opposed to the Vietnam War.

RogueIce wrote:it'd be like defacing the Vietnam Memorial because you were opposed to the Vietnam War.

More like if youre opposed to the Gulf War 2.

kojikun wrote:

RogueIce wrote:it'd be like defacing the Vietnam Memorial because you were opposed to the Vietnam War.

More like if youre opposed to the Gulf War 2.

True. Better example.

The worse one was the 1st time in France when scumbags painted swastika's on the gravestones and wrote "roast beefs take your trash home". Next time France gets invaded i'm not lifting a finger.

Stupid asshole. No political reasons for this idiotic act, just taking out his frustration over his own failure. Absolutely pointless. Gah.

What an asshole!

I read a book on that girl when I was in Middle School, "1,000 Paper Cranes" or something like that. An excruitiatingly sad story.

I say at least burn to guy so he'll look like a survivor of the blast, make him a living memorial to compensate for the cranes he burned!

Any one know how much a plane ticket to Japan is?
*CLICK!*

This is just one of the reasons why I think pepole should be shot I mean what the fuck I bet you there is a lot of good people who have been deeply hurt by this low life scum bag because he fucked up on something that is not that much of a big deal so what they he failed to graduate.
There's always next year for fuck sakes.

Thats pretty retarded.

Arsonist sets alight 140,000 origami cranes in Hiroshima wrote:The glass rooms are located around the bronze statue of a 12-year-old girl, Sadako Sasaki, who died from leukemia 10 years after she was victimized in the 1945 atomic bombing of the city.

On the other hand, its good to see that the Japanese are objective as ever

Howedar wrote:Thats pretty retarded.

Arsonist sets alight 140,000 origami cranes in Hiroshima wrote:The glass rooms are located around the bronze statue of a 12-year-old girl, Sadako Sasaki, who died from leukemia 10 years after she was victimized in the 1945 atomic bombing of the city.

On the other hand, its good to see that the Japanese are objective as ever

No, she was a victim. She had nothing to do with the war, unless you count that the sins of the father be passed on she was a complete innocent, a victim of war.

You and I both know that the word "victimized" has far deeper connotations than that.

Howedar wrote:You and I both know that the word "victimized" has far deeper connotations than that.

Don't know how you take it, but I take it like it means they went out of their way to hurt this girl, as in that was the whole purpose behind it, not her being in the wrong place at the wrong time or whathaveyou.

Yes. That is how I take it.

You'll notice the museum in Hiroshima makes absolutely no attempt to do anything other than demonize the bombings in every way that is open to them, although this is getting off-topic.

"I did it because I have been frustrated since failing to graduate (in March this year)."

I blame the Japanese school system / mentality towards it for this incident. The attitude they have towards studies is totally insane. This person attacked the cranes since they were an easy target for a demented fool, not for any reason related to what they are. This guy should go to an institution instead of being beat up on the street by people from stardestroyer.net, and the educaitonal system should be fully revamped.

HemlockGrey wrote:You'll notice the museum in Hiroshima makes absolutely no attempt to do anything other than demonize the bombings in every way that is open to them, although this is getting off-topic.

Well, atomic bomings aren't exactly a good thing...

I mean, yes, it was a horrible occurance... however, I think that it was justified... but it happening again, in modern times? The museum is dedicated to ending nuclear weapons testing, and nuclear weapons usage as a whole... I think it's a rather noble goal.

I noticed this in the story:

Sadako believed that if she folded 1,000 paper cranes she would get well, but sadly died after reaching only 644.

Unless I am sadly mistaken, she did fold over a thousand paper cranes.