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Man arrested after backing truck into office in attempt to kill boss

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Police in Tondabayashi, Osaka Prefecture, have arrested a 45-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he backed a truck into the office of his 65-year-old boss in an attempt to kill him.

According to police, Mitsuhiko Midorikawa, who works for a transport company, has admitted to the charge, and quoted him as saying he wanted to kill his boss, Sankei Shimbun reported. Police said he used one of the company’s large delivery trucks to back into the office several times at around 9 p.m. Friday.

Midorikawa’s boss was alone in the office at the time. When the truck smashed into his office, he managed to escape through the back.

Police said they were told there had been trouble between the two men for some time.

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Surely if he was serious in his intent he should have waited until his boss left the office and then run him down (bump, bump, bump, then reverse!), I was drunk and didn’t know what I was doing and put it in the wrong gear, terribly sorry!

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Another mentally ill patient.

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Another mentally ill patient.

Not everyone who commits a crime is "mentally ill" you know. Some people are just a-holes.

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Another mentally ill patient.

Or perhaps like Popeye. "That's all I can stands, 'cause I can't stands no more!"

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all jokes aside, I once heard of a story, where an African was being racially harassed near his residence, and it was said that someone put a strange substance in his mailbox to cause harm while he slept. It was also said that when he moved into the area many nutcracks were informed. You can see such similar stories on Utvbe

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OOOOOPS, LOL

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Anyone who is in the thrall of wanting to harm another is, at that time, MENTALLY ILL. To say otherwise is to say that such ideation is 'sane' and to suggest that such ideation resulting in harm is somehow sane behavior even as we claim it to be a 'crime'. This distinction may confuse the simple minded and suggest that such behavior be allowed or forgiven. No, we cannot allow hostile actors to run free at ANY time but to suggest that they are 'sane' at the time they commit obviously insane behaviors is confused thinking that, itself, looks 'sane' to the observer but is as lacking of sanity as the 'criminal'. 'Degrees of sanity' in the face of our insistence on only two simple minded definitions, sane or insane, would do much to clarify our retributive systems of meting out punishment and might even motivate REAL efforts at understanding and 'rehabilitation' versus our current blind punitive reactionary vengeance which, at least in the United States, seems to serve up only greater harm.

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Well ...

Obviously the driver didn't really want to kill the boss did he.

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Bosses should be kind. Especially during a pandemic.

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“Michael MachidaToday  08:21 am JST

Bosses should be kind. Especially during a pandemic.”

and money should be free! Oh hold on allow me to remove my rise colored glasses.

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This action can be interpreted as a cry for help.

Society is at fault for not providing acceptable methods of dealing with abusive supervisors.

This is especially problematic in a culture with a prevalent vertical hierarchy. Those at the top are often narcissistic and impossible to deal with, leaving abused underlings no alternative but to express frustrations in a violent manner.

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Another mentally ill patient.

Knock it off with the assumption that mentally ill do this behavior.

They don't.

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Never experienced it first hand while living in Japan, but it seems a lot of people (mostly men) hold it all in a lot more than we in the West. But when the breaking point finally gets reached, they are already beyond reasoning with. This may have been a very twisted cry for help, but all he's going to get now is a long prison sentence with doubtless minimal mental health care. We don't really know the whole story. His boss might have been constantly riding him or threatening to fire him. It's a dangerous game playing with someone's life support and financial security.

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