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Summary

Steve Lee Hayes, a 65-year-old American tourist, was arrested in Tokyo for allegedly carving family members’ names into a wooden Torii gate at the Meiji Shrine.

Surveillance footage led police to his hotel, where he was detained.

Hayes admitted to the act, which could result in up to three years in prison or a fine of 300,000 yen ($1,900).

The Meiji Shrine, a significant Shinto site, was built in 1920 to honor Emperor Meiji and Empress Shoken. The incident occurs amid a surge in international tourism to Japan this year.

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[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 hour ago

As he should be, what an absolute moron.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

what a stupid fuck

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 9 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Oh. I thought maybe he ate a banana on an offering plate or something culturally ambiguous

He fucking carved his name into wood? That's never OK anywhere

[–] FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

That’s a slap on the wrist if they only impose the fine. That should be a five year jail sentence at least.

You cannot act like a dick like this in other countries. Defacing a religious site no less.

[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 10 hours ago
[–] clutchtwopointzero@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Why people want to carve names on stuff... It's the same people who write their names on bathroom doors

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

No idea but it’s been going on for millennia

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 5 hours ago

Bathrooms are like the only place this is OK...but do it in sharpie so it can easily be removed

[–] x4740N@lemm.ee 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Good, americans act like this and they get the consequences they deserve

[–] WhyFlip@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

If anyone acts like this they get the consequences.

[–] A_Filthy_Weeaboo@lemmy.world 37 points 19 hours ago

Like how dumb do you have to be?

... Checks timeline. Oh thats the norm...

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 81 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Put that fuckin Boomer in prison for 3 years.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago

Bordering on Gen X but anyone this disrespectful is still a boomer. They need to jail him. A fine is too easy.

[–] Twitches@lemm.ee 113 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Prison would be most appropriate.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The fine sure seems low for defacing an important religious shrine.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 26 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (4 children)

Not sure that shrine in particular but I do think torii gates in some shrines are replaced somewhat often. At Inari they had business names behind them which I assume are the 'sponsors' of that torii, probably they pay to have the gate fixed and I imagine that brings luck to that business. In short, he might have been lucky to deface the least critical part of the shrine.

[–] boatswain@infosec.pub 2 points 30 minutes ago

My understanding is that the business names are there because Inari is a kami associated with merchants and businesspeople. They donate a gate, slap the company name on it, and Inari provides.

[–] parpol@programming.dev 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The toriis at meiji jingu are gigantic. It would unfortunately cost millions to replace one.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Then the sentence makes no sense to me

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That's good at least. I'd hate to think this was a century old (or whatever) torii he defaced.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago

oh, Im just guessing here though (from what I saw when visiting), hopefully that is the case

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

Kinda like Americans donating to have a bench named after them in a park.

[–] Twitches@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

I completely agree

[–] villainy@lemmy.world 75 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I could have guessed he was over 60 because he wasn't live streaming the whole thing. Just an old school asshole, not an influencer.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

All that really proves is that people don't need YouTube to do things for attention.

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Americans being dumb cunts. What a surprise.

[–] Tug@kbin.earth 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like our election didn't give it away?

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The rest of the world has known this for years.

[–] Kayday@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago

So have we.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, that sounds like an American.

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

No offense, but Germans are no match for the reputation our tourists have...

[–] BarbudoGrande@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

How about tourists suck in general https://youtu.be/kYbnsoWux4s

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

America: making Japan worse since 1853 (with a brief pause in the mid-20th century while they did it to themselves).

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

We're doing it to ourselves again

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would Japan have been better had the shogunate continued?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'll let you know when my window into parallel universes has been completed, but I promised someone else to look into whether or not the Aztecs would have been worse for Mexico if the Spanish hadn't invaded first.

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Damn, I was asking myself this very question about the Aztecs about a week ago. Also how would the indigenous people in america progress if the colonizers didn't discover America. I believe they are nomads?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

One of the reasons the Spanish were able to contact the Aztecs is that their neighbors were really tired of being conquered and forced to pay tribute. So I'm guessing the Aztec empire in Mesoamerica would have gotten and the already massive Inca empire would have become far more massive. Not sure about any of the cultures other than those.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 1 day ago

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes