Am I the neighbour from hell?

[scotsman]

Well today is my 28th birthday so you may think I am celebrating....unfortunately not. I've had some trouble with my neighbours and ain't too sure what to do.

It all started on Saturday the 21st. I had some friends round for cocktails at my appartment. We kicked off in the early evening and the last guest left at around 4:30am on Sunday. Admittedly I didn't tell any of my neighbours, except the ones I invited, that I was having a do. Anyway at 3:30am on Sunday one of them came round and said "ssssh!" so all the music was turned off (not that it was really that loud in the first place) and only 2 mates stayed round for one last drink.

On Sunday my neighbour, Tomomi, (who was at the party and is the grand daughter in law of my landlord) came round and said one of the uninvited neighbours (my direct next door neighbour, I only have one as I am at one end of the building) had complained about the noise. So together we went round to say sorry. He gave her more s%*t than me saying she should have explained the ground rules when I moved in. The end of it, or so I thought.

On Monday night when I was in bed (round about 10pm, I still felt pretty ill from the Saturday night) I heard a dog barking outside my back window and some shouting in jp. Fair enough I imagined that some of the others who were pissed off with me decided to cause me some irritation. Next, what sounded like stones hitting the window occured. Swiftly followed by the sound of smashing glass as someone's foot came busting through. Okay now it was my turn to be the wronged party. This guy who was standing on my back balcony (I'm on the ground floor) was a grandson of my landlord so in effect he was trashing his own property! He kept banging on about Saturday night (my jp ain't that good, I've only been here for 3 months) which I still thought it fair enough that I should be saying sorry for. I don't know how many times I said "sumimasen deshita" but he just seemed out for revenga.

As things started to calm down and his brother who was holding him back was almost about to get him off my balcony he kicked out again and the whole window came crashing in, all over my lovely tatami. It was only then that I noticed the maverick was actually holding a baseball bat too. I can only assume that he hoped to do me an extreme physical discourtisy.

Well they eventually left and then round 2 started outside. Me, Phill (my upstairs Aussie neighbour) and Tomomi on one side and the daughter of my landlord and her 2 sons on the other. They still wanted their appology for the Saturday night scenario. They were also pissed off that I hadn't gone round off my own back on the Sunday to say sorry. Fair point, but what about my window?!?

Basically the advice I'm looking for is as follows:

1. Do you think this will all blow over?

2. Has anyone had a similar experience?

3. Should I put up photos of my busted up window with an apology for the whole block to see. I'm thinking of trying to shame the crazy fool.

4. Is going to the police an option I should consider. (He never laid a finger on me but I did feel threatened. And he did lay more than a finger on me window.)


p.s. total party guests was only 14. Half gaijin, half jp.

For anyone taking the time to read. My thanks.

[Anonymous]

You poor sausage.
My advice is to get a big bad dog so if it happens again you can release the hound. You may have to set the stage like the hound of the baskervilles so they have no idea where the hound is coming from with mist, and muddy moores.

<Marliyn singing>
Happy birthday to youuuu
Happy birthday to youuu
Happy birthday Mr Cowan
Happy birthdaty to youuuuuu


Cheers

[EW]

Don't bother with the cops unless you want to be painted as the bad guy.

[Anonymous]

You are the reason most landlords won't rent to GAIJIN. Ever stop to note that Japanese party outside because the houses are too small & not soundproof?

I imagine it must have been some party with you still hung over on Monday.

You are just lucky the police were not called on you on Saturday at 3:30AM.

Finally, you must not be an english teacher, at least I hope not judging from your grammar & spelling. How could you get a job in Japan?

[Anonymous]

Come on guys give him the benefit of the doubt! Regardless if he is a "Gaijin" or not he has the same rights as anyone else! You should have called the police, they have no right breaking the window in etc, it seems sort of stupid they would damage their own property. He seems a bit off his rocker! How could you accomdate 14 people? Is your place soundproof? Are you the only renter in your house? ( example is anyone else on the lease)?

I have parties and well, and I do play my music loud at times, but I tend to keep it at a reasonable level when it is after 11:00PM. (As the law states). Just use your best judgement and use common sense when throwing a party. Who cares if it last all through the night and long as your noise level is reasonalbe after 11:00PM You should take pictures, and document what happend, and yes go to the police, for goodness sake he broke your door! I know owning and renting can have different policies! Of course when we bought our place it was more soundproof, and it did not matter! Other nationalities have parties too, ( Japanese) but because he is different or not a resident here does not mean he should be treated differently!


The neighboor handled the situation by complaint, and the owner should have responded in another manner then what occured! I would have called the police the minute it happend, and not wait! It is well known that they should not even be conducting a business if they plan to act in this manner, get out of there now ,and just move into a more reputable place!


Some people come here to just vent ,and when venting some can not deliver their best grammar, give the guy a break!

[Anonymous]

Often foreigners do not really realize how unsoundproof apartment are. But now you do and you apoligized and that really shoul have been enough. That punk who broke your window is a disgrace to the Japanese race. (I am a Japanese). Your landlord should pay for the window replacement and apoligize to you for his misbehaved family member. Please do not hate Japan.

[EW]

Definately talk to the landlord. Apologize to him, but explain that you feel you are not responsible for the window. And that you want to receive an apology too.

[Kent Brockman]

Ritual disembowelment "Scottish style" is your only honourable option.

You have brought enough shame upon your noble ancestors by not firing the intruder over the f__king balcony in the first place...

I, Kent Brockman, am offering to be your assistant (Kaishakunin). My rates are quite reasonable. Payment IN ADVANCE please...

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1. Lay three (not four, good GOD, not four...re:step 5) large white bedsheets on the floor.

2. Invite the aggrieved to your apartment.

3. Have a "Seppuku" book with large diagrams opened to the applicable page. With a funereal face of stone, show the guests this page. Sombrely explain in slow English that "Braveheart is Scottish Samurai".

4. The last meal. Three slices of pickle should be served, "mikire" means both "three slices" and "cut flesh". Leave this to me.

5. Immediately prior to The Act you will be offered a last cup of Drambuie by me. It will of course be served with the left hand poured to the left. Your cup will be filled in two pourings, you must drain the contents in two pairs of two sips. "Three" is taken to imply repetition, 2 X 2 is 4, or shi, which can be read as "death". DO NOT F__K THIS PART UP. You will lose face with the landlords family.

6. A loose kimono should be worn with a Partick Thistle supporters patch on the LEFT breast (NOT on the right...re: pouring in step 5). As soon as the tray with the smashed half empty bottle of Drambuie is placed before you, allow the kimono to fall open, reach forward, pull the tray toward you, pick up the bottle and cut from left to right. The "jumonji", the crosswise cut, may be omitted by colonials but gentlemen will know better.

7. Look to the heavens and start yelling in a guttural manner "SCOTLAND THE BRAAAAAAAVVE".

8. Remove the bottle, replace it carefully on the tray and signal the Kaishakunin (me) to proceed.
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Oh, and Happy Birthday! For the other day!

[Anonymous]

Dont forget the reward of the well endowed bosoms of the lass in the background who you will ravage.....

[scotsman]

Craplo, if I ever have another house party, which I somehow doubt, I hope you can make a guest appearance. We need more people like you dishing out the positive vibes! For all the other posters thanks for your suggestions. Although KB I'd much prefer a nice single malt to that Drambuie stuff.

To be honest the appartment is fairly well sound-proofed. Gaijin live upstairs and I never hear them, well unless they are literally jumping up and down. That game gets played most days. I didn't mention in the original post but the complaints weren't about the music, they were about 4 people chatting till 2am on my balcony (3 jp and 1 gaijin, not that this makes any difference). Incidentally 2 of the Japanese on the balcony are related to the thug who busted up my door.

With hind-sight I realise that I was out of order. However the whole smashing window affair seems outrageous. All I did was make a bit of noise with my friends. It's not like I ran his kid over or called his wife a slut. Friendly guy, I love it here but it could cause problems for both me and my neighbour if we can't come to some sort of resolution. Well, I've a few more apologies to make tonight then off to see the landlord.

As one poster enquired, I am an english teacher. Well ALT, is that teaching? Anyway with my students I place much more emphasis on communication that grammatical correctness. If a kid won't speak because they're afraid of making a mistake, how will this help them? And as many more respected posters on this site than Craplo advise, this is a forum for advice. I ain't sittin' no exam. So Craplo, check yo self before yo wreck yo self.

Aye.

[Anonymous]

Guess I can be the english teecher too. Just get me one of dem fake deegrees. What shoild I worry about? I'll have a job within days of my arrival in 2 weeks!

I nerer even hinted that breaking your window was ok. I would have called the police on that one especially if he was carrying a weapon. There is no excuse for that american style crap.


And yes, when I lived in my 1DK in Tokyo I did have some small "parties". We even drank beer & shochu.

[Anonymous]

You guys are all missing the point here,
Regardless if people were talking till woteva time in the morning, and it upset 'someone', that gives no right to take the law into their own hands. You would all have different responces if the Scottish lad had been a Scottish lass wouldnt you?

[Anonymous]

craplo, do you have a TEFL certicicate or something? no, wait. you probably majored in english education. what does it matter? there are plenty of people w/o teaching degrees that can teach quite well. and there are plenty of people with certificates that suck at teaching. the way english is taught in schools in japan is a joke anyway. no need to attack the scottsman about his spelling and grammar. id rather have students that make spelling and grammatical mistakes, but try, than to have students who know it all, but wont say a peep. communication should be the first goal.

he was seeking help about his situation, not asking you if you think you are superior.

and as for that situation... i have a feeling that all the appologizing in the world wont matter.
the damage has been done and youll never be viewed the same by your landlord again. you are now the dirty round eye son of a #$"%, troublemaker. say your appologies, then dont worry about it anymore.

but definitely get the window thing sorted. and i would go to the police. he attacked with a friggin baseball bat for gods sake!

[Anonymous]

Randy!

Is that you? That crazy Scott from London? Geez, if it is those parties you used to have back at your place were legendary! I can see you're still keeping it real even all the way over in jp. Sounds like you got yourself in a bit of a pickle there mate. You be careful buddy!

Party on!!

[Neil]

what is you playing at fool?
This would never have happened when i was with you in Japan. You could get Momoko to breathe on them or maybe Kosuge san could "lose" them.

Remember the Sean maneuvre? That would have been my advice at the time. Now I reckon you should move out and don't get the window fixed either.

Console yourself with a Cheesu Burger & a Bekkamu doll.

Geppu

[Anonymous]

Don't put up with that crap!

The landlord is responsible for the new window. Tell him the grandon's behaviour was unnaccetable. I would go down to the police station with a japanese friend and tell your story. It's worth an inquiry. But don't get your hopes up.

Failing that, if the landlord won't fix it start by calling one of those tennant associations. I believe there's a Shinagawa Tennant Association, but I don't know. If not city hall might be able to give you some info. They only speak Japanese and charge fees for some services. I've only heard about it so you'll need to do some research.


Keep us informed!

Good luck!

[carlos]

Bukka, Dis is Da Carlos,

Andy for a start you should have summoned up some 'potion' power and delivered a nice 'Cyclone' manuveure to take him out!

But baseball bat dude probably just a bit peeved he did not get an invite to the gonzo party.

Still hung over on Monday! Have 3 shandys instead of 2. Flying over for that drinking competition Saki style soon!

Easy Now.

[Anonymous]

Andy,

Get the Yakuza in.

Seriously, I know that Japanese culture is all about saving face (similar to Chinese), so it might not be a bad idea to apologise again to the landlord but also to ask for an apology for the stress or nearly being clobbered.

Now this party. Are you sure you didn't end up wrestling in the middle of the night like you did in Dublin.

[Anonymous]

Wrestling in Dublin?
Do you all want to know what he did in Melbourne Australia.......
I woke to find him sprawled on the couch.....semi naked.....tapping his foot on the floor.........
For all who know this delectable chap he aint small! So yes he was half hanging off the couch and half on it.
This was after the first night he was in Melbourne and had the utmost pleasure of showing him 'around', along with his friend from London ( the one who likes to wear pink shirts

Long live King Cowan

[Anonymous]

I have lived with this scotsman before so I understand his neighbours problem !!!! (joke)

Personally, I would give the nieghbours the chrome to the dome and ask them if they 'like the taste of steel'.

I can't believe people create discussions forum's to deal with this stuff...................... er................. and now I've joined it.

What is 'no poo mouth'. Sounds like something from Jackass.

[Anonymous]

can't believe KB was the only one to advise a thrashing. admirable self-control, but i would have had the prick on his knees picking slivers of glass out of my tatami. then again, for all you know, this bloke could be yakuza himself. you might wind up swimming w/the fishes. you know they like to practice that "american style crap" too.

[Anonymous]

Sonya - I have not got any pink shirts !

[scotsman]

It's finished. Apologised to my landlord last night about the problems I had caused him regarding Saturday night and for the family tension. He accepted this happily. I offered to move out if this would suit him but he said that as long as I didn't have any more parties then this was just stupid. He said that his place was much more suited to parties as it's a detached house. As long as he can join in, future parties are to be held at his place....Then to show that all was okay he took me and my mate out for dinner.

[Kent Brockman]

I have Partick Thistle supporters patch.
I have smashed half empty bottle of Drambuie.
I have three not four large white bedsheets.
I have pickle.
I have mouth to feed.
I have Bill to pay.

YOU DO NOT TREAT MY PEOPLE LIKE THIS.

[EW]

Good landlord.

Now be a good lad and tell us all when the next party is.

[michaeljprime]

bryster,
you'll be receiving chrome to the dome unless you send me a copy of ali g post haste.
aiight.

[michaeljprime]

scotsman,
is your neighbour peregrine in disguise?
cravat man

[Anonymous]

Greetings and may I be of assistance?

Ask yourself two things scotsman. Were you the most important person in the room on the occasion of your birthday and during the fracas that ensued. If the answer is yes to both of these then people will not f*ck with you. If not then you are a short short hairy girl with features of a goat with shitty tendancies.

You are a true diplomat from the soft side of Edinburgh. You have broken and mended bridges with ease showing that you have negotiating skills worthy of a great teacher.

Lang mae yer lum reek.

Byeee

[Anonymous]

Now come on Son, you know your major is in Toilet cleaning and Child care.... your not exactly qualified to teach either are you? Now I have warned you before even though your my son I will spank you in front of everyone here so stop it ok.


Mom say's hi....

Love

Dad

[samantha]

High fives with craplo.
To the writer, it's IDIOTS like you that are the reason other foreigners have a hard time getting housing. Sure, go ahead, have your party, but keep it QUITE and finish at a decent hour, like 11pm. Have some consideration for your neighbours. Alternatively, why not have your party in a bar? There are plenty of small bars that you could rent out rather cheap for a night.
I'm also surprised that it took a day for someone to smash your window. If you were in your own country, it probably would have happened the same night.
I just thank my lucky stars that my apartment only has Japanese neighbours, because I feel really sorry for your neighbours!!

[westsan]

I agree 100% with EW.
Cops are not an option in Japan in this type situation

I say your option 3:

> 3. Should I put up photos of my busted up window with an apology for the whole block to see. I'm thinking of trying to shame the crazy fool.

And if there are any costs incurred upon you accumulate as much proof as possible because you may demand reimbursement.
Anything that you can show a reciept for you can bill to them. Hotel, Moving expenses, Hospital bills, everything except for hardship. Exhagerate (spell) a little.

The process is after you have moved out you send an invoice. Then you send a bill as a registered letter called "Naiyou shoumei"
Most Japanese will pay at this point.
After that you go to small claims court and sue to win.

You will need your own interpreter -- which I would be glad to help --free-- if your telling the truth.
Matter of fact I would do it all as your paralegal for a small fee !(^^)!

[westsan]

Ohh, I just wanted to say that was an tremendously entertaining story!! Thanks

---- but I thought that Scotts were into head butting?? I would have beat him with his own bat sight seen.
I hate to be threatened.

[The Equalizer]

Samantha,
it obviously sounds like you haven't read this entire thread. the scotsman has already said that he has apologised, and had his apology accepted, for staying up late and making a noise. and as for calling him an idiot, i think that's a bit out of order. he may have been a bit noisy once but an idiot he ain't luv.

"...and finish at a decent hour, like 11pm." even the pubs in england give you 20 mins drinking up time at the outrageously early closing time of 11pm. you can even stay till 11.30 if the barman is a good bloke.

let's not forget, we are only talking about 1 night here. it's not as if he has been doing it every night. infact, as a percentage, he has only been noisy 0.0273973% of the year, or 0.0273324% on a leap year. you're not going to deprive the man of 0.0273973% fun in a year are you? actually, it sounds like you are.

i'm trying to build up a mental picture of you, lord knows why, and the only image i seem to get is, early 30's, frumpy, turtle-neck sweaters, dunlop green flash, snow wash denim, hair in platts and single. i know that you said you are glad that no gaijins live in your apartment block but i bet that there are hundreds thanking their lucky stars that you don't live in theirs what with your obvious sense of fun and letting your hair down. from your platts of course. even the japanese can be a bit noisy once in a while. i live in a decent neighbourhood, and, shock horror, the japanese do sometimes stay up past 11pm. it's all swings and roundabouts.

the next time you go and get all menstrual don''t start having a go and getting all high and mighty on this website. it's for people to seek advice on various matters and not have folks like you and the illustrious craplo sledging them. and don't bother to point out the irony that i am in turn sledging you because i am already aware of it. you made me do it. you and craplo should get married and have some annoying little kids.

i've said my piece. adieu.

Edward Woodward

p.s. it's "QUIET", not "QUITE".

[samantha]

Dear equalizer,
For your information, YES I have read the whole thread, with disgust actually. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that even ONE night of partying is going to disrupt the neighbours. So he said sorry. So what? Perhaps he can learn from this lesson (although as per the comment above, if he uses his brain next time, does he need to?)
It was very entertaining to read your 'essay'. How long did it take to you figure all that out about staying up late etc?......Pleassseee.... give me a break!!!You obviously didn't read the threads either because if you had you would have seen that there were many different opinions put here, good and bad.
You also seemed to miss the part where I said that he can party in a bar. Nobody is trying to deprive the guy of his fun, we are just giving ideas about how he can have his fun and let his neighbours sleep next time. Alternatively, he can have the party in his apartment and keep the noise to a minimum.
The fact that we are not in England or Scotland or whatever does not give us the right to act like dickheads and party all night, even once. This is Japan and people have respect for each other here; obviously something that you or the writer don't know about. I'm assuming you just got off the plane and have no damn idea about the culture here.
Even more entertaining was your 'picture' of me!!! Boy THAT was a laugh. How far you are from the real me!!! No, I'm not an English teacher. I work in a Japanese company and do modelling, and have done several commercials, catwalk and catalogue work. I'm actually thin and tall and wear rather fashionable clothes that I buy from top designers etc. Definately no plaits. Maybe when I was three........and I'm in my early 20's and YES, surprise, surprise I have a boyfriend.
Sorry about that..... you are just hopeless at picturing someone!!
Now I guess I don't need to even think of a mental picture of you.....you definately work for Nova, have just got off the plane from (England???) where you were too much of a d#ck to find a job so you decided to try in Japan.....oh of course you're also here for the endless parties (no doubt in your apartment), sex on tap from any teenage screaming schoolgirl you can find, not to mention the money (well I'm sure you already know that it doesn't go that far, not with all the partying).
So how did I do? Perfect or what???
And by the way, the reson that there are no foreigners in my apartment building is because 99% of them wouldn't be able to afford to live there. I enjoy being the only foreigner, as I can have peace and quiet from people like you!!


PS- I often read things on this website and I would love to help people if I could. We are all here for different reasons and we should be trying to help each other. The 'illustrious' craplo does more for this site than anyone else. Perhaps if you'd READ his other threads you would see that he is never judgemental (so even I was surprised by his comment here, which was SSSOOO appropriate for this situation) and is always giving good advice on visas etc. There are a few people like him, triphop, hiyodori, and glenski that give more help and advice to foreigners than even immigration ever would. And remember something else-they don't get paid for this, they are just trying to help out others who are in need.

[westsan]

Hey Scotsman,

I think you should start head butting all your neighbors.

Didnt you ever see that fabulous movie Acid House?
In the skit where the new guy just takes over?
Thats how I thougt it was done in Scotland!?!!

Thats how I think you should do it.

westsan


PS: If Scotland ever decides to take over England>>> I would sure enlist to help ya!!

[scotsman]

Time for the Scotsman to jump back in.....westan, glad to see that there are people out there that like to keep the spirits up. Yup, I've seen the Acid House one or two times. It's good to know that you'd be there to back me up on the Glasgow kiss frontier. I'm actually a tad scared of violence though. That's why I fled Scotland for the serenity of Japan.

Moving along.....while wanting to follow the rules i.e. no sledging individuals a few things have gotta be cleared up. This post went up on the 24th of June. I posted the resolution to the situation on the 25th (of June). So quite why samantha, the model, had to jump in on the 20th of August to give her 'advice' seems odd, if she reads the board "often" as she claims. Anyway, let's bring it on.....samantha states:

"I often read things on this website and I would love to help people if I could. We are all here for different reasons and we should be trying to help each other. The 'illustrious' craplo does more for this site than anyone else. Perhaps if you'd READ his other threads you would see that he is never judgemental (so even I was surprised by his comment here, which was SSSOOO appropriate for this situation) and is always giving good advice on visas etc. There are a few people like him, triphop, hiyodori, and glenski that give more help and advice to foreigners than even immigration ever would. And remember something else-they don't get paid for this, they are just trying to help out others who are in need."

Don't know if th, hiyodori or glenski have read this thread (doubt they'd waste their time replying anyway as I agree that they spend their time on this site giving helpful advice) but I can't imagine they'd appreciate being compared to craplo. That's outrageous. For some of craplo's "good advice" check out these threads.

http://www.gaijinpot.com/forums/read...486#reply_2496
craplo giving glenski s%*t.

http://www.gaijinpot.com/forums/read...;t=80#reply_81

http://www.gaijinpot.com/forums/read...=617#reply_618
In both these threads craplo is asking how to find a Japanese wife!!! Now there's plenty one could say about that, however wanting to keep to the point (that samantha raised), how is a comment like 'how do you find a Japanese wife?' giving good advice???

Perhaps with all the money samantha has she can go and buy herself a clue.

Despite what I've just said I think I'd actually quite like her. If I saw her in the lingerie section of her catalogue that is. Surely couldn't take that long to knock one out.

Where's KB and COC when you need them?

[Kent Brockman]

Hey, don't knock Samantha, she's actually thin and tall and wears rather fashionable clothes that she buys from top designers etc.

COC, the coin-operated-clown...yeah, where IS that loquacious contraption?

[samantha]

Dear scotsman,
If you had bothered to read my post you would have noticed that I was replying to the smartas# comment from the equalizer. He noted that I must be some dropkick who wears snow wash denim and has plaits and never goes out partying.
I was not trying to be a smartas# about my job/life etc. I don't need to be. This is what I do and it's not a big deal. I was simply trying to make a point that he had his 'image' of me totally screwed up. Sure, if I had plaits etc he would have been right on the ball; but he didn't even come close. He was trying to make out I was a loser, and I made it quite clear that he was ssssssoooo WRONG!! I have nothing to prove, and I made sure that my point got through his thick head (well lets hope it did)
About giving 'advice' to the writer, it was only a quick rundown of how he should behave in Japan. Nobody has the right to tell him what to do, just to give advice. You should note that the writers opening line was 'Am I the neighbour from hell?' I believe this would be a yes or no question, and my answer was yes. I also have parties in my apartment, where I invite 30 or 40 people to chill out on my balcony, however, I've had these parties on the weekend, during the day, and never finished after 9pm. They are also not noisy (actually it's BBQ's that I have) You should note that these forums are for giving people advice or stating your opinion, whether it's good or bad.
About Craplo asking how to find a Japanese wife, what is wrong with that? Sticking to the point on giving advice/asking questions on this forum; I think it's a valid question. Everyone has something different that they need advice on; from finding a can opener to finding a wife. I have read the strangest things on this website, including the one where a guy was gonna pay $10,000 for a wife. As I am so open minded, I think that's also okay. The guy wants to stay in Japan and maybe he can find a Japanese girl who needs the money. That way they'll both win. He can legally stay in Japan and she can buy her Louis Vuitton bag or whatever they spend money on. I wish him all the luck in the world!! It seems as though you aren't as open to these issues as what I am though.....
PS- about wanting to help people etc......yes, I've been here almost 5 years and although I know the answers to most of the questions put here, I don't answer them because:
A) I don't have alot of time to do it and
B) The questions are usually answered by the experts, meaning Glenski etc.
I only answer those that I find either rather amusing (like yours) or a downright disgrace to Japan and an insult to other foreigners who are worthy (like the writers)

[westsan]

Scotty>>

OK. So dont headbutt 'em. Sue like I originally suggested!

[Anonymous]

What the hell were you thinking? A man breakes into your window and you apologize? If it were me, and someone comes through my window, baseball bat or not we are scrapping to the death. It's called tresspassing, and he had a weapon. That punk is very lucky to be alive. If he had tried that with me him or I would be a red smear on the sidewalk. By the way,You hesitated, your lucky too. I found that when placed in a position of voilance here in Japan. You act like the crazy Gaijin they think we are and they take off running back to daddy. If not you'll get a good scrap out of it.
You should have called the police and screem muder and help. They will be there quick. They have nothing to do really. Not like the cops back home "bang bang ...freeze"
BTY
It's not over. They think you're scared. be prepaired for them next time and beat the spit out on the guy.