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[Tom Emberson <ate_st@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Teen dies while giving 'finger' to pursuing cops


KAMEOKA, Kyoto -- A teen-age motorcycle rider died Wednesday as he
turned to give the finger to police officers who had given up pursuing
him and slammed into a taxi, police said.

A 20-year-old friend of the 19-year-old unnamed boy killed in the crash
also sustained a broken jaw.

The driver of the taxi into which the motorcycle rider crashed was not
hurt.

Police said officers in a patrol car noticed the motorcycle riders had
ignored a traffic light shortly after midnight, so turned on their siren
and began chasing them.

But the motorcycle was able to maneuver the narrow roads far easier than
the patrol car and soon sped off some hundreds of meters ahead of the
police.

Realizing the chase was futile, officers turned off their wailing
sirens. The two students riding the motorcycle turned around toward the
officers and gave them the finger.

However, they failed to notice that they had gone through another red
light and slammed into the taxi. The boy steering the motorcycle died
instantly. (Mainichi Shimbun, Aug. 14, 2002)


http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20020814p2a00m0fp012000c.html/


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