3 stones thrown from apartment building narrowly miss boy below

walking toward the entrance of the 15-floor apartment building

It's easier now since they can catch that suspect based on this profile, otherwise all people in 15-floor apartment building suddenly become a suspect.

saw an elderly woman on the stairwell of the sixth floor

Another such incident in Osaka?

May be best to glance up once in a while and walk closer to the curb when near tall buildings.

Good to learn no one was hurt.

Limited details at this point. “5-cm stones” don’t read like part of the masonry.

Perhaps we’ll learn from nearby cameras the “who, what, where & how” soon enough.

The “why” is always the deepest mystery of such malicious acts.

The boy is safe & physically uninjured. However, he’s now questioning the ever-present possibility of sudden & unexpected random acts of cruelty & violence from those others in the same society with serious mental health issues.

Hope mother can get him some professional counseling so he can continue with a happy life.

Scary. This why I always carry a strong bag when I visit big cities in Japan in case of falling glass in the event of an earthquake.

snowy

Or he could be very mentally tough and shrug it off or even be happy he made the news. Everyone is different.

Now I'm picturing that Monty Python sketch with the Hell's Grannies, a gang of elderly women terrorizing a town.

I always look up if I’m walking by a building with scaffolding but I never really thought of the possibility of somebody throwing rocks from a building.

Idiots! I remember when I was a university student, two students who were roommates threw their mattress from their 11th floor window on the last day of school. They almost (unintentionally I might add....I think) hit a student and to make matters worse it was a black student, so the student thought it may have been racially motivated. Well, the 2 students who threw the mattress out of their 11th floor window were expelled, of course. It's hard to understand how stupid people can be in some bizarre and dangerous attempt for attention and to be funny.

saw an elderly woman on the stairwell

"GET OFF MY LAWN............er, I mean Sidewalk!!!"

stone throwing granny, that’s a first. I thought they just baked cookies

Japan seems to have a very broad definition of attempted murder.

@Concerned Citizen

Yes! I’m glad someone else has noticed that.

@ Concerned Citizen

It certainly is drawing a long bow at this early stage. Could book her for littering, damaging the footpath though.

Or, as a parent, wouldn’t you’d want the perpetrator identified and brought to justice/evaluated for mental illnesses causing them to be a threat to themselves and others?

With all due respect (we discussed before), as a teacher, isn’t that what we want children to learn:

civilized society is set up to help AND protect ?

*- @thepersoniamnow 9:43am**: “snowy*

Or he could be very mentally tough and shrug it off or even be happy he made the news. Everyone is different.” -

Seems most ‘sensible’ people would advise trying to avoid or dodge falling objects like this smart boy did. Seems quite idiotic to advise others walking around a big city like Osaka not have full situational awareness:

“Don’t look up. A rock could strike you in the eyes and ...” -

Those stones could have fingerprints, no?