Japan right-winger crashes through nuclear plant gates

[jpak]

http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20110331-271213.html

TOKYO - A man driving what appeared to be a right-wing propaganda loudspeaker truck on Thursday crashed his vehicle through the gates of a Japanese nuclear plant and was arrested by police, officials said.

The man first drove to Japan's disaster-struck Fukushima Daiichi (No. 1) plant, was turned back, and then rammed the vehicle through the gates of its sister plant, Fukushima Daini (No. 2), in the early afternoon.

The driver fled after spending about 10 minutes inside the Daini plant, said a spokesman for the agency, Yuichi Sato.

Police tracked him down and detained him about two hours later, Sato told AFP. "His identity, motive and affiliation are not immediately clear," he said.

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[leveymg]

1. He came to volunteer. Bring the guy back, and suit him up! Pick-up Jack Welch, too!

The whole GE Board and top executive echelon just volunteered!

[Scuba]

2. Hope he brought lots of his colleagues. n/t

[drm604]

3. It's not exactly encouraging

that he was able to crash through the gates and spend 10 minutes inside. Even a properly functioning nuclear plant should have better security than that.

[leveymg]

4. What damage could a terrorist do that would be worse than this?

Besides, who wants to stand around and guard the place?

[RC]

6. The damage shown in the picture was all cause by the tsunami.

[drm604]

7. Nuclear plants should have gates that you cannot crash through.

The plant was not always in it's current condition.

[flamingdem]

5. So the US isn't the only country rife with winger nutjobs nt