Japanese defending their right to litter the beach?
Conservationist falls onto bed of nails in cruel pit prank
MSN-Mainichi, August 3, 2006, FUKUOKA — An 18-year-old student was injured at a beach here when she dropped onto a crude bed of nails set inside a covered pit, police said….they found a total of six similar pits with nail-ridden boards inside. Bamboo sticks and twigs were set across the top of the pit, and plastic sheets covered the hole...more…
The only thing worse than a Japanese swimming pool (see Swimming with 15,000 of your closest friends) is a Japanese beach.
Japan is the only country with a charming policy of concreting its entire coastline. Besides the misguided government beach destruction, the Japanese people themselves have a compulsion to litter every spot of sand they find. Resentment runs high against general beach cleanup and in this case of the conservationist the punji traps wer put out at the sea turtle breeding ground preservation site. Nearly everytime I’ve finished a volunteer beach cleanup, I’ve found nature-loving Japanese who have dragged dead tires and trash back out onto the beach to create bonfires. Arrrrg. After a decade of trying to promote cleanup, now I just leave the beaches they way the Japanese like them, covered in dead jellyfish, trash and concrete tetrapods.
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August 4th, 2006 at 12:34 pm
Those tetrapods are supposed to help diffuse tsunamis, aren’t they?
August 4th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
Nope, they don’t diffuse tsunami. The tetrapods only diffuse LDP kick-back money to construction companies. Tetrapops “stablize” the coastline but destroy the natural movement of sand needed build beaches as well as ruining the surfing. Japanese in the concrete souls loooove tetrapods, seawalls and hate a true protective coastline of sandy beach, dunes, followed mixed sand shurbs and pine.
August 4th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
The funny quip I heard on the Web was:
“What kind of research was this Japanese ‘conservationist’ doing at the sea turtle beach? Culinary research?