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What to do with 13 liters of urine? Conventional wisdom might advise against accumulating that much pee in the first place, but hindsight is 20-20 and doesn’t help someone dealing with this much golden liquid in the moment.
So, where does one put so much urine? A toilet comes to mind, or a tree or shrubbery could work, but when dealing with such large volumes it could backfire.
Perhaps some of these ideas floated through the head of a 46-year-old security guard in Fujinomiya City, Shizuoka Prefecture before he ultimately decided on a place that’s often used in the same sentence as “waste.”
On Nov 6 last year, staff at a pachinko parlor in the Nakaharacho area of Fujinomiya came across an abandoned cardboard box in the facility’s multi-story parking garage. Inside the box was a collection of 27 plastic bottles ranging from 500 milliliters to two liters containing a grand total of 13 liters of urine.
An either really involved or really low-priority investigation was launched and police managed to track down the producer of the pee using surveillance cameras. On May 24, they finally found their man and arrested him on charges of violating the Waste Management Law.
According to police the man said: “It was a bother going to the toilet, so I saved it. But I had trouble disposing of it, so I threw it away at my favorite pachinko parlor.”
Readers of the news were naturally amused by the absurdity of it, with some comments suggesting the suspect may have been a “bottler.” This is a Japanese term for a person who gets so engrossed in an online game that they can’t tear themselves away long enough to use the toilet, and…well, the name really says it all.
“What does this guy guard?”
“I never tried to pee in a bottle before. I looks really hard.”
“Is there some kind of instinct behind this, like hoarding or marking territory?”
“Truck drivers just throw it out the window.”
“We got a bottler…”
“Even if you throw it away, why in a parking lot?!”
“So he was playing a game, right?”
“Maybe he didn’t want to waste water by flushing.”
“Just pour it into a public toilet somewhere.”
“Reduce, reuse, recycle.”
“If you’re planning to gather that much at once, it’s probably worth investing in a gas can.”
A gas can would be a good investment, or perhaps one of those old-time hollowed out sake gourds for a touch of class. Then again, such forethought is probably a little too much to ask of someone who can’t be bothered to operate a toilet.
Probably the only way to deter this behavior is to remind everyone that police in Japan do not take waste abandonment lightly. Whether it's pee in plastic bottles or poop in bento boxes, they will find you…unless they have something better to do at that time.
Source: Terebi Shizuoka, SBS News, Itai News
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snowymountainhell
His story fits right in. SoraNews24 and online media have really got to the toilet on more than one occasion as of late.
Spinnaker Peter
Right nasty habit that, taking cues from Howard Hughes.
shogun36
Classic. Great logic too.
I take it his closest accessible toilet is further away from the pachinko garage?
CaptDingleheimer
That's one hell of a trucker bomb...
I'm in sales so I drive around a lot. I once learned the hard way that I'm just not cut out for peeing in water bottles. I've become a master of public urination, though. I can pull it off right in the middle of Boston.
Rodney
For those who don’t live in Japan, to dispose of pet bottles they must be fully rinsed out, and labels removed and discarded separately. Depending on your area, you put them in a designated place on a designated day either once or twice a week. These plastic bags must be paid for and can be obtained at most combini or supermarkets. Bag size ranges from 10-40l. If it is a single empty bottle you can discard it at the nearest convenience store, but out of good manners you should buy something. You should remove the lid and deposit sparely. The urine inside the bottle can be discarded in a nearby storm water drain.
if you are a truck driver, you must wind down your window and throw it onto the side of the road, making sure it won’t cause an traffic incident.
Spinnaker Peter
This topic leaves me salty. You’re a good bloke, Rodney with that PSA for Japan’s filthy PET habits.
Need more young people like you doing good stead of rubbish like this pachinko patron.
Meito Iwa, the Wedded Rocks, in Ise Prefecture is now a World Heritage national embarrassment.
Japan’s shorelines are covered in PET bottles. Clean up after yourselves and keep the seas clean.
finally rich
can't witness something more sad than a 50m long queue in front of one of these parlors on a beautiful sunday morning
eye
Potential Amazon employee!
KuroTokage
First of all it is irrelevant what was in the box. The garbage was dropped in the facility’s multi-story parking garage, according to the above article. Now this is a private property and 廃棄物の処理及び清掃に関する法律 （or 廃棄物処理法 for short）will not apply here. The owner of the facility will need to do one of the following.
1) Ask the person to collect the garbage
2) Remove the garbage, initially on his own cost and later invoice the perpetrator
3) If the person refuses to collect the items and also refuses to pay for the removal, the facility owner can as a civil court to collect such costs.
No person will be arrested here since this is a civil matter.
KuroTokage
Yes, actually more people do just that than you would imagine. Including me.
I don't like the wording "must". Cause there is no obligation for doing that - and likewise no punishment if you don't separate them.
Restless
@KuroTokage
Well police definitely didn’t just pick him up to take him out for more drinks? This story, like other criminal stories you’ve recently posted with your legal commentary reads “Police…, arrested… and, violation of law”.
Disillusioned
“It was a bother going to the toilet, so I saved it. But I had trouble disposing of it, so I threw it away at my favorite pachinko parlor.”
A serious candidate for a major psych evaluation.
KuroTokage
Well, you already know of the inflationary use of the word "arrest", especially in English articles. Even in the case where a person has actually violated against a law, such an "arrest" constitutes solely the identification of the perpetrator.
In this case however, it is solely a civil matter. The facility owner can ask police with the identification (as to which the perpetrator needs to cooperate) and then he can take legal action against him.
Spinnaker Peter
Good gracious KuroTokage, thank the gods you’re not my solicitor here in Japan.
Says here the bloke was “arrested”. Or do you just show up for the final sentencing?
Spinnaker Peter
And while we’re at it, mate… You sound off like a barrister but you refuse to do your part with simple community requests and guidelines to separate your recyclables?
“Yes, actually more people do just that than you would imagine. Including me.”
“I don't like the wording "must". Cause there is no obligation for doing that - and likewise no punishment if you don't separate them.”
Forgive us for asking everyone to do their part.
Interpreting rules that suit only you seems entitled. Then perhaps you should move into politics after law.
Best to you, mate.
KuroTokage
Then I suggest that you consult your current solicitor and I will guarantee you that he or she will confirm that all of my legal explanations I have made in this forum to date are correct. You might not agree with all of it but it still is correct from a legal point of view. Instead you should be thankful that you are getting free legal advice.
KuroTokage
There is no room for interpretation of the law. A law that requires you to separate different parts of a plastic bottle just does not exist. It is merely a request which you can follow or not. If you feel better by following the request then there is nothing wrong with it and I respect that. But it is wrong to say that you must seperate the parts prior to recycling as that would suggest that it would be required by a law and thus violating such a law would have legal consequences. Since this is not the case, it is misleading at best to make people believe it was.
starpunk
Totally unbelievable.
Spinnaker Peter
Both a “guarantee” and “free legal advice” KuroTokage? Just to clarify, you are currently an active and practicing solicitor in Japan, have passed the local bar exam, been approved by the Minister of Justice and registered with the Japan Federation of Bar Associations?
If not, it’s not “legal” advice you’re giving in these forums. Like everyone here, they’re just your personal perspective.
If so, best to you, mate. I’ve heard of someone in New York recently having difficulty passing their bar. Maybe you can also offer them some advice.
Spinnaker Peter
What greedy corporations and selfish persons choose to do isn’t always right, Vreth. When you camp, do you burn everything, plastics as well, in your campfire or,
do you know it’s all toxic to breath and for that matter, cook with?
Makes good sense to at least have good habits, right mate?
Mr Kipling
Vreth...
That's "recyclable plastics" not PET bottles. In Tokyo about 80% of so-called recyclable plastic is burned after we carefully separate it. In Kanagawa I hear its 100%.
Paul
24 liters!!! How long has he been on a job that does not allow for toilet brakes??? Employer should face charges!!!
Paul
13 liters
Mocheake
A:What are you in for?
B: I'm in for taking a lot of piss and not taking the piss out.
A: Well, urine for it now!
geronimo2006
Pretty high up there on the weirdness scale. And what's more scary is they have a name for it in Japan.
Newgirlintown
Urine trouble now.
Newgirlintown
That should’ve been the headline.
starpunk
Well now the cops are pissed off.