17-year-old boy in Yamagata Pref arrested for threatening to shoot down Vietnam Airlines plane

Good job police. Happened on January 5. Traced the call. What the date today?

Put the dropkick in the loony bin where he belongs. With no phones...

Is that all the police do in Japan?

Arrest the subject?

Surely, the kid should be in a mental hospital being treated?

Why didn't he just buy one of those prepaid credit cards, register it in a false name, charge it at a convenient store, wait a few weeks until CCTV footage is overwritten, buy some credit at a SIP trunking provider and access that via an anonymous VPN?

That boy needs his @ss kicked for stupidity.

I wonder whose mental disorders of the involved are bigger. lol Do they really believe and act after such kiddy phone calls? Normally one would expect that such a phone number is in a database where such sickos are stored and then you just laugh and end the call.

A year ago, many would say “He’s still a minor” and can’t be accountable for his actions since Japan’s legal age of majority starts at 20.

Still “minors” but come April 1, 2022 we will all be viewing these recent 17-year-old deviants in a different light.

Jan 4, 2022: https://japantoday.com/category/national/revised-civil-code-and-juvenile-law-in-april-to-lower-legal-age-of-adulthood-to-18

“*Revisions to Japan’s Juvenile Law will also mean more severe punishment and criminal responsibility for 18-year-olds, who were previously considered minors when committing offenses in the eyes of the law.* In addition to harsher penalties, a suspect's full name will be disclosed to the public when the revisions come into effect.

“Police said the boy has a mental disability”

That means the boy will face no criminal charges nor will he be held liable for damages.

The emergency landing was arguably an overreaction as landing in Fukuoka means that they were at least an hour into the flight and flying at 30,000 feet or more. What did they think he was going to shoot it down with?

Arrest huge workforce inquiry tons of paperwork warning shut the case wait for next incident

@Mods, my arrow symbols disappeared in above post!

I don’t know, the kid called out the direct airline flight number.

Either he’s just picking the first name off the list, or he did it for a reason.

But unless he’s buddies with Jung Un or Putin, he’s not shooting anything down with his little BB gun.

Mental disability or not, Gotta find the parents on this one.

@Fighto!Today  05:04 pm JST

Put the dropkick in the loony bin where he belongs. With no phones...

Imagine having a mentally challenged kid yourself in a country with limited assistance. Sure he shouldn’t have access to a phone but would throw your own blood in the “loony bin”?

it’s called Empathy, which is sadly lacking from the world I feel.

Give the kid the invoice for the cost of diverting, checking the plane, compensation to the crew and passengers for inconvenience, fuel used, airport costs, police time. if he cant pay, put him in a quarry breaking rocks until hes paid it all off, i think he will be there for some time.

Just another juvenile delinquent, which has been on the rise steadily for some years now.

Calling from his home phone - surprised police cars didn't show up at his house within minutes

Is that all the police do in Japan?

Arrest the subject?

Surely, the kid should be in a mental hospital being treated?

Perhaps it's a blessing in disguise, a formality that now guarantees he is put into a treatment regimen in which he belongs.

Put the dropkick in the loony bin where he belongs. 

Glad to see the Compassion Patrol has showed up...

@KuroTokage

You have all the answers for how to get away with the perfect crime and you have the nerve to say the boy needs his @ss kicked for stupidity. I disagree, I do believe the boy needs some mental health counseling since he has a mental disability. He really needs help he has no idea of what he has done. Locking him up is not the answer, but your advice on how he should have did it and get away with it, is just a bad, and you call yourself sane? Perhaps we will be reading about you to soon!

Why didn't he just buy one of those prepaid credit cards, register it in a false name, charge it at a convenient store, wait a few weeks until CCTV footage is overwritten, buy some credit at a SIP trunking provider and access that via an anonymous VPN?

That boy needs his @ss kicked for stupidity.

If he can shoot down a plane which is flying from Narita and going to Vietnam from his home in Yamagata, the defense department needs to get this kid in immediately. Maybe he's got some "Ancient Aliens" technology laying around in his tatami room.

Is that all the police do in Japan?

Arrest the subject?

Well, yeah. That’s what police do. They arrest suspects. It’s up to the judge to decide what happens. Unless you’re advocating for the cops to be judge and jury.

As for this case, I’m honestly a bit baffled by some of the frankly laughable punishments being suggested. A lifetime in a ‘looney bin’? Hard labor? I was unaware Snidely Whiplash had a JT account, because some people here are being cartoonishly spiteful.

The suspect has a mental disability. What that disability is, we can’t say for sure, but it likely was a factor in this case. I expect there will probably be fines to be paid and perhaps some physiological exams to be held, but the idea that he ought to be breaking rocks like he’s in a 20s chain gang would normally make me laugh if I didn’t know that some of you goofballs were being serious.

It took six weeks to address a possible terrorist threat within Japan? Still, the actual crime was making the threat and diverting the international flight @zichi 6:00pm. The police had no idea of the perpetrator’s age or if they even had the means.

*- @zichi 6:00pm: “How does a teenager shoot down a plane? Homemade guided missiles?” -*

Came here at this hour after reading @ReynardFox’s 12:06am reference to “Snidley Whiplash” nemesis of our Canadian National treasure “Dudley Do-right”, and older brother to “Dick Dastardly” and distant cousin to “Boris Badanov”. This 17-year-old’s snickering over the phone like ‘Muttley’ may also been a give-away to his eventual ID.

“Well, yeah. That’s what police do. They arrest suspects. It’s up to the judge to decide what happens. Unless you’re advocating for the cops to be judge and jury.” -

What are his reasons for such an

Action,!

Mental disability? You think? He’ll get a slap on the wrist and do some kind of public service and/ or fine. Japanese prosecutors aren’t going to waste their time on mentally disabled kid.

Alan Harri:

Just another juvenile delinquent, which has been on the rise steadily for some years now.

Really? Where did you get your data?

My understanding, based on official white papers, is that the crime rate by youths in Japan has been going down rapidly since 2003.

For example, the crime rate by youths (per 100,000 youth population) in 2003 was more than 1,200 cases. Today it is 233 cases. In last twenty years, the crime rate by youths plunged to one-fifth.

https://hakusyo1.moj.go.jp/jp/67/nfm/images/full/h3-1-1-1.jpg

Good job police. Happened on January 5. Traced the call. What the date today?

LOL exactly!

Was he planning on using an imaginary surface-to-air missile?

I hear he made one in Minecraft lol.