Here's your funny news for the day-In Japan, refreshing ideas for the fearful (you won't believe it)

[DS1]

On a narrow Tokyo street, near a beef bowl restaurant and a pachinko parlor, Aya Tsukioka demonstrated new clothing designs that she hoped would ease Japan's growing fears of crime.

With a deft motion, Tsukioka, a 29-year-old fashion designer, lifted a flap on the front of her skirt to reveal a large sheet of cloth printed in bright red with a soft drink logo partly visible. By holding the sheet fully open and stepping to the side of the road, she showed how a woman walking alone could elude pursuers - by disguising herself as a vending machine.

The wearer hides behind the sheet, which is printed with a life-size photo of a vending machine. Tsukioka's clothing is still in the developmental stage, but she has already created several versions, including one that unfolds from a kimono, and a deluxe model with four sides for more complete camouflaging.


































http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/21/news/japan.php

[xchrom]

1. she'd scare the living shit out of her mugger that stopped to plug

the machine with a quarter.

[Guava Jelly]

2. umm

Genius pure genius :sarcasm:
They will probably make a mint.
geezus

[Sugar Smack]

3. OMG, I need one of those at work!

The only problem is, the main manager there would be molesting me if I were a snack machine. :o

[Chovexani]

4. God I love Japan. (n/t)

[fizzgig]

5. why does the vending machine have feet?

:P

[Cabcere]

6. It's teaming up with the vicious gangs of Keep Left signs

to attack vicars. Duh. :P

[fizzgig]

7. i see now

:P

that actually made me lol....i needed that

[Cabcere]

8. Glad to be of service.

:hug: You doing OK? :pals:

[fizzgig]

14. i'm ok today

thanks for asking :pals:

[deucemagnet]

9. Ah, yes. The "Agent 13" method of disguise.

[evlbstrd]

10. How not to be seen.

Voice Over: In this film we hope to show how not to be seen. This is Mr. E.R. Bradshaw of Napier Court, Black Lion Road London SE5. He can not be seen. Now I am going to ask him to stand up. Mr. Bradshaw will you stand up please

In the distance Mr Bradshaw stands up. There is a loud gunshot as Mr Bradshaw is shot in the stomach. He crumples to the ground

Voice Over: This demonstrates the value of not being seen.

[Blue-Jay]

11. Where does the Coke come out? Does it make change?

[Richard Steele]

12. I heard that Japanese has 32 words for "rice", but no word for "too much free time".

:rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. The Japanese are simultaneously one of the most amazing cultures, and one of the most bizarre.

Traveling around Japan is a kind of constant mindfuck between outrageously brutal and inhuman military and feudal history and businessmen with Hello Kitty breathing masks... and incredible long-term historical understanding and centuries old buildings and traditions and habits standing next to American tacky classlessness taken to a depth that even Americans have never managed to succumb.

I love it!

[DS1]

15. kick for the walking coke machines

[nadine_mn]

16. I laughed so hard I peed a little - is there a Depends version? eom

[NV Whino]

17. And it's such a stunning skirt all by itself

I don't really need to use the sarcasm smilie, do I?

[qnr]

18. Could be self-defeating. Have you ever seen how irate people become when

vending machines don't work? Sure, the mugger might pass the person by, but then the innocent consumer comes along and can't get their soda...

[DS1]

19. That's a very good point. Form of, Coke Machine. Shape of, kicked taco!

[texas1928]

20. Wouldn't the tennis shoes give it away?

Unless they have athletic vending machines in Japan. :shrug:

[Midlodemocrat]

21. Besides the shoes, wouldn't the writing in English give it away?

:rofl: