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Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

GJB995 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:05:48 -0000

He's gota be crazy, why wuold ny one in their right mind would swim node at the imperial palace?

I almost barfed when I saw that pic at the bottom of the page

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

Cellulite — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:25:04 -0000

Hey, how do you know that? whomsoever he is, this is totally weird!

Jessica

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

Jante — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:43:53 -0000

ihaXsakito: Lol so true so true. xD

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

sarix — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:25:20 -0000

lol! old dudes goin senile XD

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

ihaXsakito — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:04:21 -0000

well look at the bright side at least he wasn't American

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

acjama — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:52:32 -0000

Looking all that cellulite the one US law enforcer might have had to use 50 tazers to do he job.

Perhaps the 50 japanese colleagues were there to carry him off the site.

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

LovelyMystery — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:22:20 -0000

wow....thats just sooo wrong! and disgusting ...ugh! I would run away from that too! Nobody wants to see a naked fat man ! But I dont know whythat would take so many people ? IN US...the would have just got him and BAM! done.....
But I wanna go to Japan so much better than America, Im getting bored here and Japan is so modern and advanceedd in technology ! ITs a country of entertainment XD

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

LovelyMystery — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:21:11 -0000

haha

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

Zuzu — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:11:40 -0000

um....the answer is who WOULDN'T do this.
I mean a bath in the imperial palace. I'm in.

(joke)

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

Nujabes — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:57:08 -0000

lol wow thats some crazy stuff there. I feel somewhat bad for the lad, but still why did he have to go commando (go out nude)when he could have worn his under garments? I suppose that his luggage was very important that he just immediately went into action without having it thought out thorougly.

Well thanks for posting up this interesting story, Erin =)

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

altonet — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:30:06 -0000

Strangely enough he reminds me of Golem in The Lord of the rings 0.0

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

Tofugu_Erin — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:06:02 -0000

Thanks for sharing that with us!

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

Kristofer — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:32:20 -0000

Hi, umm... the confusion English/Spanish is because although he is English, he actually works in Spain (and I think he has Spanish family somewhere, so he could be half Spanish).
I know this because he happens (or happened) to work in Mallorca (where I live), along with a friend of mine. As far as I've heard, the guy is on some sort of medication, so isn't too right to begin with, and at the moment that happened, HIS luggage was the one that ended up in the water, so it must have been... somewhat shocking for him. Apparently he suffered from depression, but after seeing the videos, I suppose something else was going wrong too...

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

Digijere — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:19:31 -0000

I love the photo. All the Japanese are completely shocked, and there is one foreigner laughing in the background.

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

spacejay4000 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:39:46 -0000

i wonder if he had always wanted to swim in the moat, pond or whatever in front of the buckingham palace (if it had one) and the one in front of the emperor's palace was close enough to fulfill his dreams! maybe he also thought he could get away with it while he was in japan than in his home country.

bakana eikokumin!

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

Jessica — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:51:50 -0000

hahaha!!! thank God for tasers! ......maybe the police force thought going old-school with shields would be better on camera!!!...lol....and the cellulite was killer for the ladies to see!!!

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

mistawang — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:23:59 -0000

Hey I was wondering if any one of you guys (on the Tofugu staff) could take a look at this video I found of Shoko Nakagawa eating her cats' faces...I found it kind of disturbing, but I guess she had no problem with it. Is there a term for this practice, and is it exclusive to Shoko, or does everyone do it in Japan? Please and thank you :].
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75y2hp_ohK8

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

Alexis olson — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:49:56 -0000

Well to start, being an amerikajin who is about to travel to Japan for 5 months of foreign exchange, I would just like to thank this man for making the impression that some Japanese people have of gaijin being troublesome even stronger than it already was. There is the possibility that he was doing this for a TV show. I know Jackass filmed an episode in Japan, just to see what the reactions of their crazy stunts would be like from Japanese people who had never heard of them. But even if this was for the sake of television, he definitely took it way too far. Or who knows, he could just be plain crazy,

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

micah — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:43:22 -0000

that's the funniest thing I have seen all week, the police backing away from a fat naked gaijin. I would love to buy him a drink.

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

Tofugu_Erin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:46:45 -0000

Just to clarify, this article wasn't meant to be prejudiced against foreigners. I discussed it because a) it's obvious that he is a foreigner from the pictures, and I was sure people would want to know where he was from and b) because if he wasn't mentally unsound (which it has subsequently been found that he is) his being foreign might account for him not knowing just how bad of an idea it is to swim naked in front of the emperor's house. I agree with your point completely.

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

Jennifer — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:17:11 -0000

Ugh *buries face in hands*. This makes me sooooo embarrassed to be a gaijin in Japan right now.

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

Ms. Kathy — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 07:59:18 -0000

The guy is obviously metally ill and quite delusional--which has nothing to do with where he came from as assuming THAT is a form of prejudice. Mental delusions can come from anywhere---from biological abnormalities to drug induced mania. Those of you claiming to be ashamed to be "foreign" because of the actions of another have your own codependency issues. You should only be embarrassed by your own actions. With that said, although it is hilarious seeing the police run from a naked man--it is sad that he is mentally ill.

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

Tofugu_Erin — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:58:26 -0000

He's definitely not as cute as a hairless hamster.

I like naked guinea pigs better, though.

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

ch1ka — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:31:53 -0000

Ye us brits do this on a regular basis 8)
if u enjoyed this video come check out hyde park ;)

oh and doesnt he just look like a hairless hamster
http://www.hamsterific.com/HamsterUniversity/im...

Re: Foreigner Skinny-Dips at the Imperial Palace: Why?

Satsami — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:48:50 -0000

oh. my. goodness.
ah, the luxury life of the Brits...