Sailor Petty Officer 3rd Class Oscar Wiygul III, 23, of the USS George Washington was arrested on November 23, 2012 after he allegedly stripped naked and peed in a manga (comic book) cafe in Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken.
Shameful. He was in a manga store.
After Yokohama police were alerted by a cafe worker who saw Wiygul walk around the cafe fully naked, police found Wiygul still naked in the manga cafe, a place where patrons can come in check comic books and anime (animated cartoons), pay for some Internet access and get drinks. Places like this are apparently popular for the young adult crowd who have missed their last train home, as the late-night clientele can sleep in the large reclining chairs at a rate far less than a capsule hotel.
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| Not Wiygul, but if it was - no one would have called the police. |
Wiygul was arrested at 3:24AM Friday, and while he did admit to peeing in the cafe, he says he was not fully naked--though apparently the police have a different view on things. A breathalyzer test applied showed he had a blood-alcohol content of 0.09.
In Japan, the limit (to be considered impaired to operate a vehicle) is 0.03... in Ontario - the province I live in here in Canada, it is 0.08 - though you can, of course still be impaired at levels below this.While Wiygul's 0.09 shows he is wasted by Japan standards, it's really not that bad if you are a hebby durinka (heavy drinker) in Canada. It's 0.08 in the US, though some individual States have different numbers.
The USS George Washington and the 5,000 or so people aboard her had only arrived in port three days earlier after having been at sea in the Western Pacific since August.
Wiygul is the fourth US service member to have been arrested in Japan since the US military installed a 11PM -5AM curfew after two US sailors are alleged to have raped a woman in Okinawa this past October.
I am stunned. I've been drunk and I get the fact that this guy was letting off some steam... but the dude was alone. Where were his friends? And how wasted does one have to be to admit to police that 'yes, I pissed in a comic book/cartoon cafe' BUT to argue that 'No, I was not fully naked'? The police say you were. I think, that even if you are wearing socks, you are naked as long as you are allegedly shirtless, pantless and underwearless. Of course, I do not have any knowledge or fact as to the actual state of Wiygul's state of dress, suffice it to say that he was probably out of uniform.
And the man is stationed on the USS George Washington! Named after the first President of the United States of America! The man who could not tell a lie!
For your edification, the USS George Washington (CVN-73) is a nuclear-powered super-carrier... a super-sized aircraft carrier. In the photo above, it shows: U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships steam in formation while participating in a photo exercise with the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) at the culmination of ANNUALEX 2008, a bilateral exercise between the U.S. Navy and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Brendan Morgan/Released).
Cheers
Andrew Joseph
PS: The photo at the very top depicts a WWII US Naval uniform. It was the only picture I could find of a uniform lying in the ground... which I find disrespectful.
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