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The story
A video posted to 5ch’s “Nandemo Jikkyo” (Live Commentary) board shows a brawl breaking out among several young people inside a taxi, with the driver pulling away before the door had even fully closed. Some posters suggested the footage was filmed near the Piccadilly building in Umeda, Osaka. The thread split into two camps: those criticizing the driver for the dangerous departure, saying he’d “be treated as an accomplice,” and those defending him, arguing “it’s understandable if he’d simply had enough of unruly passengers.” There was also debate over whether one of the people involved in the brawl was dressed as a woman, with many noting it was hard to tell exactly what was going on from the video alone.
What people said
Isn't that a crime?
why the hell did he drive off
and he let them ride in the end too, what a nice guy
Yeah, probably crossdressing
He drove off because he was fed up with the obnoxious passengers
kinda feel bad for him
Be as angry as you want, but you can't just drive off like that
if someone had died from this, it'd be a huge problem for the taxi company too
taking off with the door not even closed
If he hadn't picked up such weird passengers this wouldn't have happened, so you can kind of feel for him
Nah, he should've just broken up the fight first and then driven off
if he can't stand weird customers he should quit being a taxi driver
there's tons of weird passengers in that job
if it's the job he chose, that's on him
has he lost his mind
not a single person in this video makes any sense
feels like gender roles are flipped for young people these days
what was he gonna do if he'd run someone over?
Some guy hit on a girl who turned out to have a boyfriend, the boyfriend got mad and punched the guy who hit on her, and now the one who got punched is going 'catch the culprit, call the cops' because he got hit?
Knew this felt familiar — so that's what it was
Or wasn't it something to do with the 'Kickers' crowd (young Kick livestreamers)?
he could've run someone over if he wasn't careful
That driver started going off about people's upbringing — a totally irrelevant personal attack
You're just white-knighting for him ("chin-kishi," a mocking term for someone who reflexively defends another person)
Background and Key Points of the Debate
“Toyoko Kids” is a nickname for young people who gather on the streets of Kabukicho in Shinjuku, Tokyo, a term often tied to runaways and delinquency — but posters in the thread pointed out that this video may actually have been filmed near the Piccadilly building in Umeda, Osaka, so it’s impossible to confirm from the footage alone whether the label matches the real location. The taxi pulling away before its door was fully closed could be seen as a problem under the Road Traffic Act’s duty of safe driving, but the video alone doesn’t reveal whether the driver was simply at his wit’s end dealing with disruptive passengers. The split in the thread’s opinions comes down to how much weight people place on the driver’s “duty of care for safety” versus the “occupational risk of not being able to choose your passengers” — and there isn’t enough here to say definitively which side is right.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (“Nandemo Jikkyo G”) thread “[Video] Toyoko Kids Start a Brawl Inside a Taxi wwwwwwwwwwwwwww.”
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