It wasn’t me! More info, photos and video. It’s amazing it took 50 policemen so long to capture him.
And the 2ch (ni channeru, the world’s largest online community) has gone nuts with artistic renditions:
Naked whitie swims in Japan Palace moat for 1.5 hours
October 7, 2008 · 3 Comments
Categories: Public space · fetish · men
Tagged: 2ちゃんねる, 2ch, 皇居, foreigner, Imperial Palace, japan palace, middle-aged, naked, police, skinny dip, whitie
3 responses so far ↓
tokyo5 // October 8, 2008 at 4:29 pm |
I live in Tokyo, too…so, of course, I wrote about this story. Here:
http://tokyo5.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/skinny-dipper-in-tokyo/
At the end of that post, I mention our new beetle. As you’re in 中野 (Nakano), have you ever visited the 「カブト虫博物館」 (Beetle Museum) there?
Ericthefez // October 17, 2008 at 5:06 pm |
why can’t a flabby bald white man go for a nude swim unmolested? No one would have bothered him in San Francisco
jaredinnakano // October 17, 2008 at 5:18 pm |
If it were the U.S. White House, and not the Japanese Imperial Palace, within 5 minutes they would have beat senseless a crazed naked foreigner with batons and tasers. If that didn’t work, they would have shot him dead. No?