A man was arrested and charged over an ‘unsolicited video’ of himself holding a soy sauce spout to his mouth at Kura Sushi, and after being released on bail, he revealed his regrets

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1. Source (in Japanese): [「攻めれば人気者に」くら寿司で醤油さしを口元へ…“迷惑動画”巡り逮捕・起訴 保釈後に男が明かした後悔](https://www.tokai-tv.com/tokainews/feature/article_20230425_27054)

   See also:

   https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64898111

   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11839091/Diners-suspected-sushi-terrorism-arrested-videos-customers-licking-conveyor-belt-food.html

   https://nextshark.com/man-who-licked-soy-sauce-bottle-indicted-in-landmark-case-against-sushi-terrorism-in-japan/

   https://jn8.jp/ja/news_list/18757/

2. >逮捕から45日経った4月21日、保釈保証金150万円を納付し保釈。

   So bail was about *fifteen thousand dollars*. For fooling around with a soy sauce bottle.

   And the rest of the article even has people whose actual job it is to help rehabilitate ex-convicts calling him stupid in a way that implies he doesn’t deserve help in their opinion.

   Have I ever mentioned how much I hate our society?

3. Kids are wilding out in Japan

4. The TicToc generation. But this happens in the US, too. Remember that gal that opened ice cream containers in supermarkets and licked it before placing it back in the freezer? This generation is out of whack.

5. So they can arrest people doing these but not people groping in trains.

   Their logic is they can keep arresting these kind of people until there are none, but you’d need female-only carriages because you can’t arrest enough creeps.

   I do think that female-only carriages are a necessity, but it doesn’t solve the root of the problem. Nor does it even attempt to.

6. They need to prosecute these people and make no one want to copy them.