Comments on: Video Series “Only in Japan”: Part 3 - Orange Ball

By: The One With The Orange Ball « So no one told you life was gonna be this way.

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:30:39 +0000

[...] (春), Tokyo (東京県) — tutousan @ 12:30 am 22 months in Tokyo and I have yet to see the orange ball. They are round, colourful and embedded deep in the Japanese retail culture. Every bank and post [...]

By: tobashiya

tobashiya — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:13:21 +0000

all the people commenting such as “throwing a marking paint would make the crook shoot you” don’t realize that guns are not common in Japan. the Yakuza have them, but they dont really have an interest in robbing a small time store…

just because they sell them all over the usa doesn’t mean everywhere else in the world is the same. wake up.

By: Ao

Ao — Tue, 08 May 2007 16:37:03 +0000

Just goes to show what a safe country Japan is.

I remember reading an article about a thief who contacted the police because he was worried his drunken salaryman victim might have been ill.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/member/nn20050903a7.html

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 08 May 2007 15:09:27 +0000

Personally, it seems like this is a good way to just piss off the criminals more. I mean…if you were gonna rob a bank and you had a gun, probably you’d go in there thinking, “Well, I’ll wave it around at ppl so they’ll take me seriously and gimme money, but I don’t wanna KILL anyone.”

BAM!

Smacked with a giant paint balloon. Wouldn’t that just make you want to shoot the person who threw it?

By: steve88

steve88 — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:50:51 +0000

I have been looking a bit, but I finally saw one of these yesterday! What a crazy way to “tag” criminals… I didnt think this was for real… but I guess I was wrong! Gonna keep an eye out for flouro coloured robbers from now on.

By: Mike Hardy

Mike Hardy — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:41:46 +0000

It wouldn’t necessarily hurt to spell “fluorescent” correctly instead of writing “florescent”.

By: glaubdes.net » glaubdes.net archiv : japan: anti kriminalitäts bälle » japan: anti kriminalitäts bälle

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:24:21 +0000

[...] unglaublich diese japaner! anscheinend sind diese anti kriminalitäts bälle überall in japan zu finden. aber was sind eigentlich anti kriminalitäts bälle? diese bälle sind mit einem geruchsintensiven farbstoff gefüllt und können zum beispiel bankräuber oder einbrecher hinterhergeworfen werden. sobald sie auf dem täter aufprallen explodieren sie und die kleidung wird eingefärbt. speziell abgerichtet hunde können den geruch dieses farbstoffes schon von weiten riechen und die verfolgung aufnehmen. also wenn ihr das nächste mal in japan seit, wisst ihr wofür diese bälle zu verwenden sind. quelle und mehr informationen dazu: http://www.stippy.com [...]

By: e-Rod Tech Watch Blog » The mysterious orange balls

e-Rod Tech Watch Blog » The mysterious orange balls — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:35:17 +0000

[...] I came across these little thief taggers while surfing through the pages over at Stippy and couldn’t resist the post. [...]

By: Orange balls to throw at bad people in JapanBoing Boing

Orange balls to throw at bad people in JapanBoing Boing — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:25:33 +0000

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By: long john

long john — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:15:00 +0000

i dont get why people wouldnt buy them and just throw them at others they dont like.

even if it was made a crime to do that, i bet people would still do it (stupid ned gangs etc)