Japan is a safety country? - a podcast by ApocD

Yesterday, the wife and I were at Kinokuniya, a bookstore in northern Osaka, and something strange happened. I was looking for a computer book, but couldn't find anything. As we were about to leave, the wife showed me a children's book she had found. It was about the differences between people and dogs. For example, people pet and dogs lick. People cry and dogs growl. It's was pretty good.

Anyway, as we were checking it out, two guys burst through a side door, which I think is just used for deliveries, and ran into the store. The first guy was running from the second guy, who was right behind him. I'm not sure, but I think either the first guy had stolen something from the second or they were both just gangsters. They ran down the same aisle the wife and I were standing in and just missed us. They knocked a little kid over and disappeared in the store. It was over so quickly there was no time to think, so there's no way I could describe either of the guys. Store staff came and checked on the little boy, who seemed to be fine but just a bit shaken. Beyond that, I don't know what happened to the guys. It was hard enough for us to walk through Kinokuniya, which was packed, so I'd guess they must have pushed a few more people out of the way.

A few minutes later, I was disappointed that I hadn't clocked the first guy in the grill and ended the whole thing. The wife said, "You'd be dead. They could have had knives." I told her I would have kicked the knives away, and she just shook her head. She's right. Also, I don't know who the bad guy was in this situation. They were both putting the people around them at risk. Japan is very safety, indeed.

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