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In Miyama, Fukuoka Prefecture, four men aged 18 to 19 were referred to prosecutors after repeatedly weaving through traffic and running red lights on motorcycles. When a patrol car gave chase, they abandoned their bikes—wallets and all—and fled on foot, but it later emerged that they turned themselves in to police, saying they “figured they’d give it back.” On 5ch, the discussion ranged from exasperation at the young men’s selfishness, to whether penalties should be toughened, to whether the responsibility for discipline lies with the family or the schools.
This footage was filmed in Miyama, Fukuoka Prefecture.
A motorcycle weaves back and forth, drifting into the oncoming lane. Another bike then appears, and together they ride straight through a red light at an intersection.
Four men aged 18 to 19 were referred to prosecutors on suspicion of this kind of reckless driving.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
He might not even have 5,000 yen on him
Also, his buddies are probably gonna rough him up for this later
I bet his buddies are on the same level
They should confiscate modified bikes and make traffic prison the default sentence
Rather than harsher penalties, it'd be better to write clear legal standards for measuring noise levels, and revise the law so police can force a stop—even by methods that risk a fatal accident—on people who ignore a stop order and try to flee.
Harsher punishment doesn't really deter crime.
What works is making sure they get caught, that they can't get away.
If getting caught is guaranteed, the crime stops being worth it, and fewer people will do it
No way you can allow forced stops for something that won't even get harshly punished once you catch them.
Harsher penalties have to come first
Zero is impossible, though
It's negative! ("yaken" — Kyushu dialect for "because")
If you want to huddle together, go do some charity work instead 😜
Teachers mustn't scold kids because it might count as harassment.
Let's protect the kids who are bad at sports.
The result: kids with dulled intellect and ability get mass-produced—less like bean sprouts and more like thin, flimsy processed konjac noodles. Well, you could see this coming a mile away… 😮💨
That's exactly why it's not a teacher problem, it's a family problem—it's on the parents. You're missing the point
Decent paycheck, a pretty wife and kids,
owns a home, living happily
lots of hometown friends too
Decent parents don't teach their kids to misbehave. You're missing the point
When someone waltzes in to turn themselves in like this, all they can do is roll up the rest of the gang one by one
They cover their faces though—usually wrapping a bandana around their mouth or wearing a mask
Evidence items generally get returned once the whole investigation wraps up and the sentence (or disposition) is finalized
Background and Key Points
In Japan, gangs of young motorcyclists who weave through traffic and run lights are called bosozoku — a subculture that peaked at roughly 40,000 registered members nationwide in the early 1980s and has shrunk to a small fraction of that today as police crackdowns and an aging youth population thinned the ranks. Miyama is a quiet, semi-rural corner of Fukuoka Prefecture, not a nightlife district, which is part of why dashcam-style footage of bikes running a red light there drew attention. Because the four men are 18 or 19, they fall under Japan’s “specified juvenile” (tokutei shonen) category, created when the Diet lowered the age of adulthood to 18 in 2022 but kept a modified juvenile-law track for 18- and 19-year-olds — they can be named and tried more like adults than younger teens, yet the case still moves through prosecutors rather than an immediate criminal trial.
The thread’s real disagreement wasn’t over whether the riders were foolish — that was assumed — but over what would actually stop this behavior: posters calling for harsher sentences and confiscated bikes clashed with posters arguing that certainty of being caught, not severity of punishment, is what deters, with one reply noting that legalizing forcible stops requires harsher penalties to already be in place first. A second, separate fault line was whether this reflects failed parenting or a school system too afraid to discipline students.
What outside readers may not realize: abandoning wallets and turning themselves in doesn’t guarantee leniency, and as one poster noted, seized items are typically returned only after the case is fully resolved — turning yourself in speeds up processing, not necessarily the outcome.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (News Express+) thread “[Fukuoka] “Wanted to feel that sense of unity as we all rode wild together”—Bikers flee patrol car, ditch motorcycles with wallets still inside…turn themselves in, saying “I figured they’d give it back”.”
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