Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Michael Studte To: seiyuu@usagi.org Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:11:31 +0800 Message-Id: <20660.1213632691@iinet.net.au> Subject: [seiyuu:26426] Re: Akihabara incident today Reply-To: seiyuu@ml.usagi.org ML-Count: 26426 Precedence: bulk On Mon Jun 16 11:49 , cuso4@cuso4.com sent: >>(I'm not even sure why it'd be some sort of story if the people=20 >>offering flowers and prayers were family or not; I know about vigils=20 >>and memorials over in the US; many of the people that go to such=20 >>places aren't family, but people who are connected with the area,=20 >>neighbors, etc., so it's not that unusual for unrelated people to do=20 >>so). > >Same in Akiba. Reports said people keep going to the site to offer >flowers, bottled drinks, sandwiches, and even anime cels (Gundam ones, >to be precise) on the 14th and 15th (the day that Akiba's chuou-douri's >car traffic does not stand still in the afternoon). Most of them are >people connected to the place, not family/friends. > >One report even showed a maid leader a prayer in front of Softmap. > >The reports also said there are many police on site : one every eight >meters. And apparently the other day they carried out random searches, and detained a guy for two hours... Because he had a swiss army knife on him... (which he used to fix bicycle problems with) Honestly, if a little thing like a 4-5cm swiss army knife is going to get p eople into trouble then none of the restaurants in Akiba better give their patrons knives to eat with...