Foreigner Vs Japanese Binman
Now, in general I’m a pacifist (i.e. coward) but like any other man I derive pleasure and entertainment from watching justified violence from the anonymity and safety of the internet and my comfy chair. This video is a classic example of that.
Often, foreigners in Japan think they can get away with anything. Nurtured by the fact that Japan tends to ignore or turn a blind eye to eccentric foreigner behaviour, some foreigners believe they have a license to do whateverthefricktheywant, because there will be little or no repercussions. This can range from small stuff like generally being loud and obnoxious when everyone else is relatively quiet (e.g. talking on the phone whilst on a train - which is actually forbidden) to larger acts of public nuisance, like the Australian fellow in this video clip. He and his friends thought it would be a splendid idea to throw a bike at a garbage truck - whilst the driver was inside. Run that through your mind and tell me why, how anyone could think that it wouldn’t cause some kind of negative reverberation - but such is the mentality of a select subculture of foreigners in Japan.
Well unfortunately for the Australian guy, there was a negative reverberation, that being a guy resembling GENGHIS KHAN flies out of the fricking truck and lays several shades of smackdown on the hapless Aussie.
Of course, the Aussie protests but the shock and fear of being punched in the THROAT by a 12th Century Mongol warlord somewhat hinders his ability to speak in anything but totally rudimentary Japanese, and he simply splutters out a meaningless “…daijoubu” (which could either mean “are you ok?” or “I’m ok”, either one being largely irrelevant to a man who wants to tear you a new arsehole).
It ends with the binman (literally) dragging the Aussie to some nearby police officers, who then take the somewhat humbled foreigner away for questioning. The binman walks off to get on with his morning shift.
Disclaimer: I do not know any of these people. This took place in Osaka (many hundreds of miles from Tokyo) - I simply got it from a foreigner-in-Japan discussion board I am a member of.
VIEW THE CLIP (the fun starts at 2 mins 30 seconds in, just skip through the start)
Dude, you’re totally just jealous that ‘cos you got the slanty eyes, you can’t push over old ladies and laugh at them like us blancos.
nah, in the eyes of the Japanese I’m just as foreign as you “blancos”. It’s the way we smell.
The weird thing is, when I was waiting for a first train one night in Shibuya, I saw some drunk foreigners picking up and throwing bikes all over the place. Nobody did anything (and I was on the platform a bit far away), but maybe there is something to this bike throwing phenomenon?
Oh, and yes, there is the Gaijin Smash, which is kind of a trade secret among seasoned foreigners. http://outpostnine.com/editorials/teacher16.html
About time. Well, that Aussie should at least be grateful it’s not a yakuza or something.
Perhaps in their drunken state they thought those bikes were actual Japanese people — who knows?
Updates every day since the relaunch; I’m shocked and amazed. In a good way, except where Mr Gynae was concerned.
Philip Adams once said, “Every young Australian travelling treats the world like one long pub crawl.” Pretty good proof right there. I always think it’s much cheaper to ride around on the abandoned bikes than catching public transport.
Wow, makes me so proud to be Aussie. Spitting on bikes, offending homeless people, pissing off government employees. Ozzie, Ozzie, Ozzie!
There was an article in the one of the Sunday papers here (Sydney) a while ago which basically said we’re generating a name for ourselves overseas as “the new Americans” due to our disregard for other cultures and unwavering belief that “everyone loves an aussie” so it’s all good!
I’m not going to be the “Aussie Jesus” and take on the collective sins of a nation, but I definitely think we could do with refresher course on travelling etiquette and cultural sensitivity.
Josh J: Loved the Gaijin smash article.
Cheers
Brian
God, that guy is such a twat. He would have had my toes for teeth if he threw a bite at my car or any of my stuff for that matter. He didn’t even fight back … not even in a girly open fisted way. Made my morning nonetheless.
Alex > I’m honoured that you’ve decided to visit! Or have you been here before? Funny timing, I just slapped in your Related Entries plugin. Cheers!
@YF: Oh, I am flattered that you are honored by my visit despite you dishonoring me by placing my plugin below the comment box.
To tell you the truth, I have been a closet YF reader since I came across Cuddly Dominion zoo from hell entry. I left a couple of comments before, but they lacked attention whoring expletives like twat hence were never actually read.
With formalities out of the way we can now get to mutually flatering love fest of comment spam.
P.S. Friday + work + crap Weather = piss poor sarcasms.
ah well I literally just plugged it in to see how well it works. It’s very useful, so I’ll put it in a more conspicuous location over the weekend.
Damn I just realised I should have asked for caption ideas for the above pic. HEY, DO YOU HAVE ANY CAPTION IDEAS FOR THE ABOVE PIC? swish.
The plugin works reasonably well. Of course, by reasonably I mean that it has an about 10% chance of picking a post that is remotely related to the one you are reading.
Caption: Japanese noogie!
I’ve beaten an American’s Ass in London for being a waste of sperm. If I EVER saw this in Japan I would waste no time in smashing the camera and beating some serious disrespectful Aussie Ass.
I lived in Osaka for about a year and a half. Osaka people have much pride. You do not fuck with Osaka people. Tokyo people on the other hand… hahaha
You are a gifted writer Yongfook.
Why is it I can only watch half of the video? I wanna see someone get beat up :)
my god! daily updates! goes into shock
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As an Australian, I can say, what:a:fuckin:tosser
What a disgrace those aussies are. Actually their accent sounded American to me - they must be from the wrong state XD
Anyway, what assholes!! His friend with the camera didn’t even try to help the other guy. Only 2 seriously afro’d Japanese tried to really stop the binman. And did I hear the aussie say “gomi” a few times? Err, and how would saying “trash” help his situation…
They should play that clip on all flights into Japan.
Hilarious. I’m a pacifist as well. But…. :-D
While I think it’s every non-asian’s right to ignore most of the rules of society whilst in Japan, you also just never screw with someone’s wheels! That’s just not cool! Be it a bike or car or tricycle…you don’t go screwing with another man’s mode of transport.
Also…learn to speak the local talk before you start making a public menace of yourself. What a ‘tard.
Ooh. Prettyyy blog. Long time no see, mister.
Love your blog! I know it’s only been 3 days but where are you?? Swat vac just isn’t swat vac if i actually have to study. In desperate need of procrastination material!
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Oh dear….I think the bin man should have done a more thorough job on that nob.
why are you all ranting “that AUSSIE..”?? it’s not a fucking disease. is it that a gaijin from somewhere else would never do such a stupid thing?
I don’t really think it is a matter of him being a foreigner. The problem is that he is a douchebag, and douchebags remain douchebags regardless of what country they are in.
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Granted a douchebag is a douchebag whereever country he comes from, but you think they would pull this shit back in their home? How about in Brooklyn? It’s pretty obvious these jerks don’t think highly of Japanese people or laws and have a racist sense of entitlement.
Where did you find this brilliant video ?
How come I can only watch half this video? Agh but it is funny of what I’ve seen which is half…gaijin are idiots though but that’s kinda criticising myself because I’m half a gaijin which makes me half an idiot :-)
haha! Classic.
That’s sankaku kouen in Osaka ne.
Okay, granted this guy was loaded and acting like an idiot, but as far as I could tell he didn’t hurt anyone. He didn’t even appear to damage the bike all that badly. Does that give any HUMAN BEING the right to harm any other HUMAN BEING?? Here in Japan, many men use alcohal as an excuse to do whatever the hell they please. This includes starting fights with anyone (including women), shouting obsenities at anything they think is looking at them funny (including mailboxes), and feeling free to grope, molest, harrass, and fondle anyone they feel like. I’ve heard perfectly sensible salarymen tell me about their wild nights out after work, and how they hope their wives don’t find out. The problem was not that he was Gaijin, but that he was drunk, and drunk = stupid. EVERYONE has a stupid drunk story; his just got filmed and passed around to internet savvy nerds.
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He’s lucky the binman was a nice guy. If it would have been here in Hiroshima he might have ended up in the back of the truck.
In the old days, that tit who through the bike would have been quickly taken care of by a little thing called natural selection (i.e. that binman).
Ahhh yes, the old days. (sigh)
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Hello I am Japanese. The foreigner saw Movie to joke because it came to Japan. When the country where Japan is serious has and such an action to joke and the trowed thing is taken. It is natural that it is caught by the police etc.The feature in the country of the coming Japanese oak to Japan though there might be a lot of people who think a trivial country, too, when saying to a word ..a serious country.. ..not good if it doesn’t come to Japan more after it studies… I think that the amount Japan is peaceful and a rich country.
I, Japanese hello It questions the foreigner. What impression in view of the foreigner, does the Japanese have?
Yeah …he did a pretty whacky stupid thing and yeah he got just punishment in the form of an embarrassing dressing down from the authorities and countless hours of humiliating mockery from us his mates. So be it. This is simply humourous footage of a guy caught being foolish to the extreme, drunk in Osaka disregarding reputation and personal safety. Some, of the ‘holier than thou’ sentiments here expressed are quite literally, retarded righteous bleatings, we are not all saints, nuns priests acolytes etc you get the drift we all lapse once in a while. Japan, the wonderful place is very good to us Australians and we are in the main good to it. Enough said!
i agree with you.
The Japanese is serious the foreigner’s joking too much. A foreigner and Japanese middle is the best.