About 800 tulips planted in beds along a street in Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, were found chopped up on Monday morning. It is the second such incident in less a week. About 1,000 tulips planted near Maebashi station were chopped up on April 9.
According to police, a passerby noticed the tulips cut up around 5:40 a.m. and called police. Neighbors told police the tulips were OK on Sunday night.
© Japan Today
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smartacus
I wonder what this nut has in mind next. Isn't this how serial killers get started? Cats and rabbits come next.
outofmydepth
what kind of sick nut job is this??? this is just so sad. these poor horrible creatures have not gotten the attention they need from their parents, families or schools. people - talk to your children and your students!!!!!!!
Bogi
Gee, that's weird!
lipscombe
could we soon see the worlds first tulip sting operation?
electric2004
Who knows, maybe it was a misguided lawnmower man? And his Navi system had failed?
DenshaDeGO
Remember a Japan when this was high crime?
timorborder
Tulip Mania?
eiver
perhaps they should install a hidden video cam to catch this weirdo on his next strike, as this has already happened twice... poor tulips.
notimpressed
Yeh im sure there are some hidden cameras in the ladies toilets that could be put to use on this sting operation. But seriously, what a wacko, and only tulips at the station. Probably has a grudge against the station of the council , and just wants to cause expensive damage easily. Just booby trap the tulips.
Zaphod
"poor tulips"? Err... what is the normal fate of a tulip then?
I am not losing sleep over tulip vandalism, as long as the perp does not graduate to bigger targets.
HoDeDo
I find tulip vandals repulsive
cleo
You mean like sunflowers or hollyhocks?
Or - gasp - trees?
I think that would create a lot of insomniacs.
eiver
Tulip beds with their bright colors are supposed to be seen and cherished especially that it symbolizes early spring, not to be chopped up. Insensitive and incompassionate people like you and the perp of course dont understand that.
cleo
lol You'd think so if you saw the tulip fields of Toyama - headless tulips as far as the eye can see. They take the flowers off to make the bulbs grow bigger.