Cigarettes, Cigarette Butts and Gari at a Kaitenzushi Restaurant — Finally, the “Prank Video” Has Turned In to “No Prank Video”

Sushi Choshimaru, a major conveyor-belt sushi restaurant, announced on February 4 that it had found an e-cigarette butt mixed in with a box of gari for shared use. The police are already investigating.

From now on, the restaurant will ensure that employees bring shared food, soy sauce, tableware, and other items each time they guide customers to the restaurant, and that they check for safety on their return.

While such incidents have surfaced on social networking sites on a regular basis in the past, this is probably the first time that it has caused such an uproar. In the past, Twitter was derided as a “moron detector” or a “bakatter,” but nowadays it is often spread through TikTok and other social networking sites.

Once a video has been spread on social networking sites, it is almost impossible to stop it. It is truly a “digital tattoo.” Even if a video is filmed for viewing among friends, if there is a traitor, it can be circulated on the Internet.

Moreover, now that it is a hot topic, it is easy to get viral, which satisfies the need for approval. Unlike television, social networking sites do not have a blur editing, and people’s real names, schools, and workplaces can be identified. It could ruin your life.

An unwanted video that could change your life in a big way. Post Seven reported that the “Peropero Boy” at Sushiro, who can be said to have initiated this move, had “voluntarily dropped out of school. Both the boy and his parents are said to be exhausted.”

On Twitter, Hiroyuki wrote

“It’s like everyone is fulfilling their sense of justice by bullying the weak who won’t fight back,” Hiroyuki posted on Twitter.

The boys were so exhausted that they drop out of school. He believes that “too much blame” on the perpetrators is bullying.

On the other hand, publicly traded companies have seen their stock prices plummet, and small stores have been forced to close, so the damage to the victims is still great.

Prank videos are surfacing on a daily basis of people drinking soy sauce from kaitenzushi, using toothpicks to put it back in, and directly eating gari (pickled ginger) shared at a beef bowl restaurant. In addition, some prank videos that are not of restaurants have appeared, such as a person throwing a stick used at construction sites from the top of a building toward the railroad tracks.

However, the recent revelation of Choshimaru’s cigarette butts is a different kind of prank.

The video is not a “prank video,” but rather just a kids goofing around. Instead of taking a video and enjoying it among their friends, they put the cigarette butts in a garri box so that they would not be noticed. Moreover, cigarette butts can cause poisoning symptoms if accidentally swallowed or if the nicotine that has dissolved in them is consumed. This is one step worse than putting saliva on sushi.

The severity of the crime may also change. Perhaps the video exists between friends, and it may be leaked later, but at a time when the public is in an uproar and wondering why such act still not stopping. It may be necessary to take deterrent measures such as installing security cameras in the store to prevent the kind of prank rather than to ensure privacy.

The world will no longer tolerate youthful indiscretions. We must keep in mind that this is a life-altering act.