Put that level of scrutiny on politicians, please.
This
Steal $7 and get jailed, steal $7 million and get a bonus
Yeah and preferably before someone has to shoot them with a homemade shotgun
This punishment does not fit this crime
maybe they assumed he was doing this everyday for 3 decades stright: 7 x 365 x 30 = 77k (add %10 tarrifs) = 84k math checks out
Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups.
“If our strict measures were not accepted, then our organization could become careless and it could result in eroding the public’s trust,” he said.
They don’t think telling this guy to starve in his old age over $7 will undermine public trust? It’s undermining my trust in this official’s judgment right now!
I guess I don’t live in Kyoto so they probably don’t give a rat’s ass what I think.
Asia is so interesting. My coworker went to Japan for 2 weeks this month and said that they’d just follow in line and stare at you if you’re disturbing the public peace. They were sitting at the end of the seats at a station and supposedly they were expected to get up and move to another seat whenever someone else wanted to sit?
And everyone would just be organised in lines when waiting. Quite friendly people, but cold. Nobody would be speaking on public transport and it would be deemed impolite.
My wife from Indonesia also hates it that teenagers are loudly talking to eachother on public transport here in Belgium.
The whole expectation of respect is so different.
So I completely believe it, when a bus driver loses his pension package for stealing 7 USD.
Their streets in Japan are clean while there barely are any public garbage bins available.
Ah, I need to travel more. But where’s the time. We’re expecting a baby. Do people travel with a baby? Is it safe? Is it insane? I think we’re just gonna have to stay put for 3 years or so.
You don’t have to get up because another person gets on, for priority seats they are reserved for those with “special needs” I.e. the elderly or disabled. But it’s common courtesy everywhere to offer your seat to an older/disabled/pregnant passenger.
People should also absolutely be judged for disturbing the peace if you want to talk to your friend on the train you talk in a quiet respectful volume there is no need to talk loud enough everyone around you can hear it.
The Japanese just generally have a respect for rules and for not negatively affecting other people
They were sitting at the end of the seats at a station and supposedly they were expected to get up and move to another seat whenever someone else wanted to sit?
10 years in Japan now and I have zero clue what this might be referring to. Unless they were marked as priority seats, anyone can sit there. They might have been loud or disturbing without realizing it or something?
Nobody would be speaking on public transport and it would be deemed impolite.
It’s not impolite to talk, it’s impolite to be loud. It’s fantastic, IMO, especially on the early, packed trains going into work in Tokyo and the like; the extra stress of noise is not needed and, many days, it served as a naptime.
Their streets in Japan are clean while there barely are any public garbage bins available.
This very much depends upon the area. They’re also clean because people are cleaning up the shit in front of their houses basically every morning. I used to live between some bars and a hotel and those streets were not clean.
Please don’t travel with a baby
Sincerely,
Someone tired of sitting in planes next to crying, screaming kids
In my experience, the younger they are the easier it is to travel. Especially <3 years of age.
Not for people around you, but sure, who cares about them
And to be clear I’m not saying folks with kids can’t travel. Sometimes people die, sometimes there’s a major life event. But we’re talking about a generic you having a vacation your kid won’t remember. This is about you hurting others so you can have fun after making the choice to have a child. The world sure as shit doesn’t need more kids.
If you think YOURE annoyed by the kid, just imagine how the parents must feel with everyone hating them for it, too! Think of the poor, helpless parent who had no other choice but to put an infant on an airplane
Every time this topic came up on Reddit. Babies should be banned from planes or cost more to take on them
In this thread: people who dont understand japanese culture. Except this guy, who heard the truth of japan from their coworker.
What is said is correct.
Also, do you live or work on the region of ghent by any chance?
Man sentenced to economic death for profaning a transportation ritual.
Humans are animals.
In all fairness, it appears that the amount is $84K total, not per year. $84K is not much of a retirement and would only yield about $280/month following the 4% rule. It’s still a wildly disproportionate punishment and likely represents a significant portion of this man’s retirement.
In the US, they just lay you off and say sorry we have to make sacrifices. No cause, no nothing.
Good. Crime doesn’t pay. I hope he’s learned a lesson.
Have you ever heard of the phrase “disproportionate response”?
Right. Because he’s the unluckiest man alive, and he got caught the first time he ever stole 🙄
He was caught stealing 7$, he likely stole a lot more over his 30 years. I think a precedent should be set and it should be an example in mandatory training.
wow, i expected a legacy media website to be so ad choked that their page would be unusable, but I didn’t expect my lemmy interface to auto play this video!
yeah, this is actually completely unacceptable default behavior, and I’ve been unable to find a setting to change it. I’m on a metered data connection, so the video buffering without me interacting with it first is literally costing me money. I went straight to the comments to avoid this.
Still seems quite excessive
Lies when stealing the money
Lies when asked to confess, likely so they could find a way to keep him on staff if he told the truth.
Sorry dude, honesty counts.
Not that much over 7 dollars, get fucked
Ya reckon it was the only $7 eh?
When imposing punishment, there is a burden of proof. So the punishment is for $7 theft until something substantiates otherwise.
Seems to be a case of FAFO looking at the article
Yeah. Of course, I feel sorry for him, but when he stole in front of a camera he had to know about, well…
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