Woman slips, breaks elbow after 3 students pour liquid on stairs

There are consequences to their actions, but unfortunately, young brains can't think beyond their impulsive thoughts. If only those boys were kept busy with sports as most children here are then perhaps they wouldn't be bored out of their gourd.

They sound as though they may have been drunk or high. That's too old to be so thoughtless.

According to police, the three boys, who are aged 15-16, said they poured the liquid on the stairs as a half-hearted joke and didn’t mean for anyone to get hurt.

And just what was this "liquid" in the first place? These kids need a serious whuppin' Half-hearted joke? Have them dress us in blaze-orange jump suits that read "I am an idiot" and have them pick up trash around the area everyday for a few months, particularly in the hot summer sun.

Should make the 3 children do all the work she cannot do now and go thru rehab with her.

What is that TV show where naughty teenagers are sent to a prison for a day to experience and speak with inmates about how rough prison life is? These kids need to be scared straight!

"According to police, the three boys, who are aged 15-16, said they poured the liquid on the stairs as a half-hearted joke and didn’t mean for anyone to get hurt."

How could they NOT expect someone would be hurt? And what did they think the punch line of said "joke" would be besides? Obviously these kids are not criminal masterminds and what they did is not deserving of anything severe, but they obviously and for starters need to pay all of the woman's medical bills, plus punitive damages, and spend a very long time making it up to her, the station in question, and society in general through public apologies and some good old community service.

They might had plan of murder or if liquid was not water,, ,, to burb building. Anyway, they will stay in jail for quite while. Because one person is injured, they may be changed as Satsuma Mitsui zai. Japanese prosecuters and nudges are not lenient oln juvenile delinquent.

there seems to always be this huge hole in these types of stories: how in the hell do these people get caught???

every day, it seems, i see some sort of illegal stuff going on on trains or in stations

they're such crucibles of human behavior, you really get all kinds, and yet, they can be so fast paced, it makes you wonder how you can keep people who do these sorts of things around long enough to get arrested

the chikan posters seem to imply that 14-year-old girls are suppose to pull a Betty Parris and freak out on the victimizer until help comes

how were these boys caught?

Those nasty students should be banished to juvie facility and the parents made to compensate the poor woman.

such young age, not having courage to admit their mistake and learn from it. do not see any good future in their life

Idiots. They're lucky she didn't break her neck on the way down.

Their half-hearted joke was to enjoy watching someone slipping and rolling down the stairs, losers!

These youngsters need some education. At the station, two boys came to my ears and shouted so hard. It seems like a game they set up to do because they ran away laughing and celebrating.

make the 3 children .... go thru rehab with her.

She's already suffered enough

"And just what was this 'liquid' in the first place?"

The TV news said it was kind of "lotion" as in the slippery transparent kind.

"how were these boys caught?"

As it was a train station it was probably on CCTV and the J-Cops would just wait for the kids to pass through again the next day at the same time.

they poured the liquid on the stairs as a half-hearted joke

The Japanese they used was 「いたずら半分でやった」 so they will probably just get off with a warning as the little CHINPIRA obviously did not mean any harm.

According to police, the three boys, who are aged 15-16, said they poured the liquid on the stairs as a half-hearted joke and didn’t mean for anyone to get hurt.

This suggests they don't understand how dangerous stairs are. Deathtrap-level steep stairs are not rare in old Japanese houses, and most of those antique staircase chests that now go for high prices would be dangerous if used to go up and down. Boys will lark about and do stupid stuff anyway, but I think there are cultural blind spots to certain dangers and stairs are one of them for Japan. It's good that it's just a broken elbow.

Put them in jail. Fine the parents. Splash their name across the Internet. NO MERCY!!!

15-16? thoughtless sociopaths on a training run.