Japan: Woman arrested for squashing bun in Lawson shop (www.bbc.com)
from oce@jlai.lu to world@lemmy.world on 17 Feb 03:41
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ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Feb 06:10 next collapse

The owner followed her out of the store and restrained her over ¥180? Where do people even find the energy to turn these kinds of petty disputes into full-blown confrontations?

Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win on 17 Feb 06:26 next collapse

Conversion link puts about $1.20 US. Shop owner claims she’s done this repeatedly in the past so why wasn’t she trespassed in the first place?

commander@lemmings.world on 17 Feb 21:28 collapse

Probably because the shop owner was being reasonable and hoping it would stop without having to get authorities involved.

djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 17 Feb 18:47 next collapse

When you come down hard on minor infractions, it creates a culture of forced politeness enforced by fear.

commander@lemmings.world on 17 Feb 21:27 collapse

Is it really petty if she did this on purpose?

She damaged a product badly enough that it can no longer be sold. If it was an accident, sure I can understand letting this go. But did she really accidentally step on some bread?

kogasa@programming.dev on 17 Feb 21:31 next collapse

She didn’t step on it, she apparently used her thumb and damaged one of the buns in the pack

ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 17 Feb 21:38 collapse

Where are you seeing that she stepped on it? The allegation is that she pressed it with her thumb, and she doesn’t dispute that she pressed it on purpose—she was checking the firmness, which is a weird thing to do to a bun but I don’t think it’s worth chasing her down over. If you really can’t sell it with a dent in it, telling her not to come back seems like a proportionate response. But honestly if I were the owner, I’d probably just eat the dented bun and call it a wash.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 17 Feb 07:30 next collapse

Imagine what they would have done if she had squeezed the Charmin.

pHr34kY@lemmy.world on 17 Feb 08:17 next collapse

I noticed everyone in Japan was surprisingly well-behaved. I wondered if this was the punishment for those who stepped out of line.

oce@jlai.lu on 17 Feb 10:20 collapse

There’s a culture of not sticking out of the pack, and the feeling that everyone is judging you if you do. It’s sadly more about that than deep understanding of the value of civism, according to my native friends.

QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works on 17 Feb 16:03 collapse

This just how I think of society and people in general why I have so much social anxiety

oce@jlai.lu on 17 Feb 23:39 collapse

I think Western cultures often value differentiating yourself from the mass, it has its stupid downsides too of course.

TheBat@lemmy.world on 17 Feb 09:23 next collapse

She can squash my buns😇

toynbee@lemmy.world on 17 Feb 15:27 next collapse

youtu.be/SEaAXca89vQ

ganoo_slash_linux@lemmy.world on 17 Feb 18:39 next collapse

youtu.be/38m-wnbHPLA (Great movie btw)

anonymous111@lemmy.world on 17 Feb 22:51 next collapse

Not me topic!

captainlezbian@lemmy.world on 18 Feb 01:53 collapse

Yeah you don’t fuck with a conbi in Japan. They take those things seriously