Appearing on Nippon TV’s “DayDay.”, comedian Kazlaser commented on the case of a 7-year-old boy who was left behind by his father on a Mt. Fuji hiking trail and rescued by police about two hours later, saying: “Leaving a child outside alone for eight hours… doesn’t that scare you?”
On the 5ch Entertainment & Sports News+ board, opinion split between users who, noting the boy was left near a mountain hut, showed some understanding (“that’s a call you can only make because Fuji is basically a theme park”) and those who criticized the father, arguing “there’s no way a 7-year-old would just wait quietly” and “he only left him because he wasn’t scared.”
Kazlaser on the Father Who Left a 7-Year-Old Boy Alone on Mt. Fuji: “Leaving a Child Outside Alone for Eight Hours… Doesn’t That Scare You?”
Kazlaser (41), of the comedy duo Maple Chogokin, appeared on Nippon TV’s “DayDay.” (weekdays at 9:00 a.m.) on the 24th, where he commented on the rescue by police of a 7-year-old elementary school boy who had been left behind by his father on Mt. Fuji.
At around 7:40 a.m. on the 20th, staff at a mountain hut at the sixth station of the Fujinomiya Trail on the Shizuoka Prefecture side of Mt. Fuji reported to the Fujinomiya Police Station that “a child has been left alone.” Officers rescued the 7-year-old elementary school boy roughly two hours later.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
"The lion pushes its own cub into a thousand-fathom ravine," and all that.
Sounds like how Kenkoba was raised (comedian famous for his brutal upbringing stories).
If you left a kid alone for 8 hours in the middle of a city, wouldn't that get you arrested?
You think he thinks ahead?
How long are people gonna keep treating them like toddlers?
his second son gets sick and stops moving, so he just dumps him there and leaves.
You can already see this garbage father ending up abandoned by his own family someday.
Something tells me this kid's life isn't going to go well from here either.
So basically this is a ghost story about that older brother — part urban legend, part mountain horror tale.
Fine if he were 3 or 4, but at 7 he should just be following his dad.
There's no "abandonment" about it.
and told me to climb the rest alone from there.
leaving the kid to wait at the mountain hut
or making him climb Mt. Fuji alone,
I think it's reasonable to figure the hut is the safer option…
Feels like a lot of people are ignoring the actual circumstances and just knee-jerk slamming him over the word "abandoned."
Wasn't there the option of waiting together at the hut until the kid recovered, or just giving up on the climb for the day and heading home with him?
Normally you'd just go home together.
So you're saying you'd be totally fine leaving your own kid outside for 8 hours?
it was at a mountain hut, right?
Is it really that bad?
If you think a 7-year-old will just sit quietly and wait in a hut, you're not fit to be a parent.
This is a call you can only make because Mt. Fuji is basically a theme park.
Plenty of 7-year-olds go off to the park alone for about 8 hours as it is —
leaving around 8:30 a.m. and getting home before 5 p.m.
You clearly don't know any actual 7-year-olds.
What if the kid couldn't wait, wandered off, and had an accident?
What if he got hypothermia, or was taken by some weirdo?
Can you really raise kids with someone who can't even picture that?
Police should've treated this as an actual case —
this father might just laugh it off as a funny story otherwise.
My kid climbed for 10 seconds, then rested for a minute.
Still made it to the summit that way.
We did stay overnight at a hut partway up, though.
How was he even planning to pick the kid back up?
You can just climb back up one station from the 5th station, right?
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