Teen calls police over man she thinks is holding a knife

Better safe than sorry. A child or teenager doesn’t need to be groomed against speaking out. Plus, Japan needs more Good Samaritans, unafraid to speak out if the see something suspicious, especially in public venues.

I still have one working in condition. A very good piece of technology that was made to last.

She make assumption that was a weapon which is false

And that is still better than the opposite, had she been right she could have prevented injuries or a death, as she was wrong only a few people lost some time, it should be obvious which result is more important to prevent.

Her accusution can harm innocent preson

How? according to the article her only "accusation" was seeing someone with a blade, how is this supposed to harm anybody? is a knife going to magically appear in the belonging of the person with the cell phone? obviously not, so as soon as the incident is clarified nothing is lost except for time.

officers will assume that person have a weapon in the first place and will use excessive force if necessary.

In Japan? when has this happened? this is not realistically possible, specially because no violence was even reported.

A man with a knife attempting to abduct an elementary girl (May 22) or a teenager with a box cutter encountering her favorite male idol (May 21) are real issues. Perhaps focus more on real “Crime” in Japan?

It may not been officially reported as big a problem here, but what exists is still a problem, not sensationalized from simple, periodic witness errors.

Need a friend to convince her, and dozens officers to confirm that she is paranoia. At least what she said something that can be proved, If she said that man a chikan, that person can be arrested only because what she said, since there's no proof necessary only her words.

Making an understandable mistake and choosing to err on the side of caution is absolutely nothing like making a false accusation on purpose. Crimes in the past may have been prevented if people noticing something wrong had made a report to the police in time.

The accuser saw something tht she thought was dangerous, and instead of just assuming everything was right she left the decision to the police, that is something that should be encouraged to a certain degree.

Better safe than sorry though it is a little surprising considering how flip phones are still regularly used in Japan. Also, we're calling female teenagers "women" now? Not "youth"? interesting....

Good job the phone owner was Japanese.

End the end, “No harm, no foul”. -Like the mistaken child here, perhaps the author makes a bigger issue out of a simple mistake?

- “With his cooperation, they searched his belongings and sure enough, he had a flip phone on him, but no knife. No charges were filed against the man, and no injuries were reported, because, again, it was a phone.” -

She is paranoia as a school girl, what kind of paranioa she will become. when she become a housewife. In the US pointing someone has a gun while is not, can make innocent people die by law enforcement.

Maybe more young people need to watch older TV shows and movies instead of just cartoons and YouTube.

Good on her! Better to be wrong than have another potential mass stabbing event, which could have possibly been avoided, not reported!

I don't know. Doesn't a fax machine look like a bomb from certain angles?

Guy should sue this stupid teenager. Or if underaged, her parents. Nobody holds any kind of knife looking at it, or putting it alongside their head as one would with a phone. Short of someone pointing such a phone at someone and threatening them. there's no way anyone with a 3 digit IQ could mistake any phone (flip or otherwise) for a knife.

Mr KiplingToday  08:56 am JST

Good job the phone owner was Japanese.

So if the man was not Japanese, Japan would quickly re-write the laws to make carrying a flip phone a crime?

The teen should be required to be eye checked.

It is impossible the teen would be the only one to see a blade the size of a flip phone.

And bringing 12 officers for a check, that is also ridiculous. Because if the man were a would be criminal , he may have gotten frenzy because of such presence suddenly.

There is no praise when there is no reason to have called police.

By saying it was the right thing to do, everyone is going to call police for any (bad) reason. That is without consideration of the other stated potential hurt mentioned above. This is not a game.

Think of consequence.

It is already the case for calling ambulance in Japan, remember all articles during hard covid times.

Let’s be clear. The individual making the call to the police was a teenager. She was a girl.

she was not a woman.

A knife???

That's a Knife!!!

I remember a story about a small child a few years ago in the west who had never seen a book and was trying to swipe the pages like in an ipad. So this is not surprising to me. talk about a generational gap.

Hmm strange the old phone they give to the children to play even in preschool I saw many kids playing with old flip phones.

Thank God for the Smart Phones. They are better and don't look like a knife.

dozens of officers rushing to the scene. When they arrived and spoke with the caller, however, her friend, also a woman in her teens, told the police that she had seen things slightly differently. According to the friend, what the man was carrying wasn’t a knife, cutter, or any other type of blade, but a garakei.

Either way, officers still felt the need to investigate, and after analyzing security footage they were able to identify and find the man the girls had seen. With his cooperation, they searched his belongings and sure enough, he had a flip phone on him, but no knife. No charges were filed against the man, and no injuries were reported, because, again, it was a phone.

Need a friend to convince her, and dozens officers to confirm that she is paranoia. At least what she said something that can be proved, If she said that man a chikan, that person can be arrested only because what she said, since there's no proof necessary only her words.

He should sue the police for harassment and the nosey teen should he prosecuted for wasting police time.

With such a youth all thinking about how the future will be becomes obsolete. lol

The accuser saw something tht she thought was dangerous, and instead of just assuming everything was right she left the decision to the police, that is something that should be encouraged to a certain degree.

She make assumption that was a weapon which is false, and use valuable resource dozens of officers to make confirmation of her paranoia which is false. Her accusution can harm innocent preson, especially when she accussed innocenet person having a weapon, officers will assume that person have a weapon in the first place and will use excessive force if necessary.

Praise where praise is due. She did the right thing.

Precisely why teenagers shouldn't be regarded as adult women.

As usual a ridiculous scandal making false accusations by a fe※※le

OssanAmerika:

So if the man was not Japanese, Japan would quickly re-write the laws to make carrying a flip phone a crime?

Let me translate Mr Kipling's joke into American:

Good job the phone owner was white (and not Black).

It was definitely a knife because she could see the pointy tip of the blade .