Japanese slingshot car for noisy delinquents
On Sunday afternoon photo shoots at Harajuku’s cosplay Bridge, I often meet my crazy photographer buddy, Masa-sensei “ninja shooting” the freakaziods (as shown below).
Another Japanese subculture that Masa-sensei likes to shoot are the bosozoku, the “violent running tribes,” who he captured last weekend. I first I thought this photo was a weaponized bosozoku sling shot car.
However, the yellow slingshot turns out to be two huge collapsable flag poles that the bosozoku use to fly their gang flags and banners during their terror runs through the neighborhoods.
The Violent Running Tribe’s main entertainment is to modify their exhaust systems to be extra loud and drive through town late at night, waving imperial Japanese flags and shouting obscenities, occasionally throwing Molotov cocktails and carrying swords spears, and generally having noisy fun.
Refer to my previous 3Yen report: Japan’s noise tribe — the Bbosozoku
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March 13th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Proof that I live in a craphole #55:
All bosozoku are grey haired around 60 to 70 year old farts… and their punked out cars/bikes have the orange raindrop beside the imperial flag. (aka the “geriatric driving to the farmer market” warning sign)
(i wish I wuz making this crap up… but unfortunately… no…)
March 13th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Yep, the bosozoku have become irrelievant.
March 14th, 2010 at 11:47 am
Hey! This is a great gearheadpost. I’m going to email this to my friends. I stumbled on this while surfing for some MP3s; I’ll be sure to visit regularly.
March 16th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Hey! Where did Massa Mania’s English blog go to? It was the BEST!, then he got tired of it and phhhhtt!
Great to hear that he is still shooting his crazy pix, but where to find them???????????????
March 16th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Poor Masa-sensei’s English blog, Massa Mania, was KILLED by its super success. Often he got more than 100,000 hits in a day and his Internet provider would shut down his site because he had a bandwidth cap. Now he only posts at http://mixi.jp/ (which is Japan’s version of Facebook) since Mixi doesn’t have any cap on exceptionally high traffic.
Also, he has new gaijin wife (sort of a relative of mine), so he does NOT need to practice his engRish by posting in his blog.
March 17th, 2010 at 4:14 am
I agree with what you’re saying but it could do without the AutoBuddha, Actuallym the “Buddha”, means “awakened one” or “enlightened one” is a title, not a name….