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Coworkers use blundering used car salesman as air rifle target, ashtray A group of Saitama used car salesmen whose idea of punishing a co-worker allegedly involved using him as a target for air rifle practice and as an ashtray are now being targeted themselves, but by crime fighters, according to Shukan Shincho (11/16). Michihito Suzuki, Yoshie Sato and Yosuke Ne have been arrested for assault and inflicting bodily injury on a 30-year-old man who worked at the same used car yard in Saitama. At first, all three allegedly told the cops they tortured the man as a joke. But there wasn't much funny about the fact that their co-worker had to be rescued by public health authorities and shunted away in a mental hospital for a couple of weeks until he could recover sufficiently to talk about what he'd been put through. The man had been posted to the Saitama car yard in July last year and was working there as an accountant. "It's a fact that I wasn't used to the work and made a lot of mistakes. And I hated getting told off so much, I once forged some documents to cover up a bungle," he tells Shukan Shincho. "At first, even when I made mistakes all they did was scream out at me. But, by about autumn, whenever there were no customers around, they'd all hit me and kick me." In January this year, Sato told the man he would teach him how to ride a motorbike that he could use to get to work. Not long after the man got on the bike, he felt a pair of hands grab his shoulders and whisk him off just as he was building up speed. "My legs disappeared beneath me," he says. "I remember spinning around and seeing the sky, but nothing else after that." Later that day, the man's family received a phone call informing them that he had been rushed to a nearby hospital. A relative recounts the events of the day. "We got to the hospital as quickly as we could and he was already undergoing emergency surgery. The surgeon told us he'd had a brain hemorrhage," the relative tells Shukan Shincho. "People from the company told us that he'd fallen off the bike a few days earlier and collapsed in the office. He ended up hospitalized for two weeks." Not long after being discharged, the co-workers purportedly began using him for air rifle target practice. "They told me to stand up and they repeatedly fired into me at close range. When I rolled up my sleeves, my arms were covered in red sores and I was bleeding," the man says. "They used to use me to put out their smokes. I figured I'd be all right if I just held out for a little while longer and that stopped me from feeling any pain." Several other employees were apparently aware that the man was being brutalized, but stood by idly and watched without doing anything to stop it. The man's relatives and a health counselor appealed to the company to look into his claims of harassment, but a probe never took place. Eventually, they filed a criminal complaint with the police in July, the result of which was an investigation that led to the arrest of the trio at the end of October. Although the three initially admitted to the allegations against them, they have recently changed tack. "They totally deny anything like this ever happening. The arrest warrant is really vague, saying only that he was shot with an air gun and had cigarettes extinguished on him at various times from August last year until May 29. We want to know specific dates and places, and the names of people who supposedly did all this stuff," the lawyer for the used car company tells Shukan Shincho. "Don't forget, the man has admitted to forgery and embezzlement and the company is considering pressing for charges to be laid on him for these offenses."

Post Title: Re: Coworkers use blundering used car salesman as air rifle target, ashtray (FaLeX)
Posted by: cdn20VALVE at 10:18 AM 11-13-2006

messed up thing to do though...



Post Title: Re: (MRVW01)
Posted by: SpeedRicer at 11:54 AM 11-13-2006

If these guys were his superiors, it makes sense that he didn't fight back. That's not really culturally acceptable, plus simply quitting the job may also be difficult for several reasons (although nowadays, the whole "lifetime employment" concept is becoming less common).

That's probably partly why once in a while, there are cases in Japan of people bottling up harassment and bullying inside, only to explode and go on a rampage later on...

Modified by SpeedRicer at 9:11 AM 11-13-2006



Post Title: Re: Coworkers use blundering used car salesman as air rifle target, ashtray (FaLeX)
Posted by: GS Audio at 11:58 AM 11-13-2006

Can't believe anyone would sucumb to that sort of treatment.



Post Title: Re: Coworkers use blundering used car salesman as air rifle target, ashtray (FaLeX)
Posted by: Viss1 at 2:02 PM 11-13-2006

Breakfast Club.... Nice



Post Title: Re: Coworkers use blundering used car salesman as air rifle target, ashtray (Viss1)
Posted by: spdfrek at 2:23 PM 11-13-2006

lol

"I think that I shall never see: / My cataracts are blinding me."

Post Title: Re: Coworkers use blundering used car salesman as air rifle target, ashtray (Talus)
Posted by: JustinCSVT at 2:24 PM 11-13-2006

Niiiice!

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