Motorized suitcase rider referred to prosecutors for 1st time

You should be arrested for riding one ANYwhere! They’re ridiculous.

Still, 13kph is nothing. Bicycles go faster.

Throw the suitcase....I mean the book..at her.

She could have knocked over and killed a child or senior citizen.

Couldn’t they have issued a warning first?

What is the difference between the suitcase bike and e-scooters and e-bikes?

Asiaman7 Today 04:59 pm JST

Couldn’t they have issued a warning first?

It depends on how she behaved when the cops caught her.

Knowing china people, and having witnessed how argumentative & violent they are when caught red handed, I'm not surprised she was referred to the prosecutors.

What is the difference between the suitcase bike and e-scooters

Finicky technicalities, mostly. E-scooters are classified as "specific small motorized bicycles" (特定小型原動機付自転車, it just rolls of the tongue) and have to fulfill very specific safety requirements and limits, but then don't require a driver's license (but still a license plate and insurance).

I guess the motorized suitcase fouls one of the requirements ans is consequently classified as "regular moped" (原付バイク) requiring a driver's license.

Of note is that the classification rules are somewhat wishy-washy. If you ask three people about the specifics you will get four different answers.

So, basically it's an e-scooter that just happens to have storage space? What is the point of this? Can you actually check this in at the airport?

I saw one of these some months ago in Tokyo at a busy intersection full of people trying to cross the street. No idea what I was really looking at at the time. Why do these exist anyway? What's the point in having a suitcase that can double as a scooter???

The woman purchased the suitcase on a Chinese website and said she did not know she required a license, according to the police.

Then do some research before you buy, you simpleton.

License or no license this is really trivial. Mamachari go faster and there are literally millions of them with people doing dangerous things on them daily.

Japanese police have stressed to the public that riders of electric motorized suitcases must have a driver's license

Looking deeper into it, I believe this to be a mistranslation. The original Japanese news of this incident speak of "無免許運転", "driving without a license", not of a missing driver's license (運転免許証, note the kanji order).

I strongly suspect she did not have a license for the vehicle (and the associated license plate), and probably also not insurance, both of which are mandatory for self-propelled electric vehicles of any kind.

Deal with the unruly cyclists properly while you're dealing with this.

These things are a menace, i see them almost daily. A woman bumped into my dear partner while riding one of these contraptions, it made her and me ruddy cross. They are a menace. The police should confiscate them and send to a recycling plant.

They have GoGo carts on the streets of Tokyo and yet a person riding a suitcase rider is arrested and to be prosecuted, looks like she didn't pay someone for the ride!??

Poor woman will almost certainly get kicked out if school and deported. Hopefully she will survive detention.

This got to be a JOKE, Electric Bicycles , skate boards, and scooters, and roller blades go just as fast and more , are we suppose to get a license too?

Stay Tuned.

Electric Bicycles , skate boards, and scooters, and roller blades go just as fast and more , are we suppose to get a license too?

In that order: no, no, yes if electric, no.

Imagine having

"Here lies Steve, run over by a suitcase. Travel light, folks."

on your gravestone.

My taxpayer money hard at work.

Dev

Nice one. You actually made me smile with that.

They have GoGo carts on the streets of Tokyo and yet a person riding a suitcase rider is arrested and to be prosecuted, looks like she didn't pay someone for the ride!??

They drive them on the streets though, not on the sidewalks. And the drivers have licenses and the cars are registered and insured.

The cops don't really have a choice not to prosecute. Especially since she isn't Japanese.

It could have been just a warning but being a chinese must have upgraded to prosecution.

Do you SIT on top of the suitcase?

Ridiculous, but then again, look where it’s MADE

Do you SIT on top of the suitcase?

It might not look classy, but they are cheap. I'm looking at one now that's only HK$4000. It claims to be able to hold up to 110kg. It's empty weight is 9.4kg. So, it and me put together will be under 90kg, which leaves 20kg for cargo. Of course I can walk and only use it as a cargo lifter, too. Either way, it looks very welcome.

My thought is darn it, let it go cop. People can make over 13km/h in a sprint, and I don't think if I'm sitting on such a thing I'd dare push it that hard - I'd be going at walking speed in case it loses its balance. This thing's dangerousness is no more than a large human being. I won't even bother to issue a warning for that even if it is a formal violation of the rules. Don't make people miserable over a HK$4,000 purchase, which even with today's weak yen would only be 20,000 yen, less than a good bicycle.

This is in the same class as "Hair must be Black".

Was she riding it on the sidewalk or something? I fail to see how this is a major felony.

Couldn’t they have issued a warning first?

I think we know the real reason why her case was referred to the prosecutors...

I think we know the real reason why her case was referred to the prosecutors...

Because anyone who is arrested under suspicion of a crime has to be referred to the prosecutors who then decide whether to indict or not?

Chinese again!

People on mamachari bicycles are much much worse as they take up the entire footpath with their huge bicycles and at travel super fast speed past the pedestrians!

People walking around with usual rolling suitcases are almost at the same speed as this three wheel so called motorized suitcase.

Last month of my friends ( white skinned ) living in Azabu Juban area was stopped by the police 2 times for using a similar suitcase and given a warning not to ride it ( no arrest despite my loud mouth friend protesting that the law isn’t very clear in it ). He walked away with the suitcase and the next day used it again and was given a warning again without being arrested!

Bottom Line, if it was a white skinned American riding this, they could have probably gotten away with a simple warning from the police instead of being arrested. Blacks or other Asian countries people aren’t so lucky in these types of situations!

If they want people to go to the shops using electric power rather than a an ICE, they are going to have to make stuff like this easier to use. You won't get a family shop home on an electric scooter, but you might in one of these.

Clearly an open and shut case.

WoodyLee

June 29 07:41 pm JST

They have GoGo carts on the streets of Tokyo and yet a person riding a suitcase rider is arrested and to be prosecuted, looks like she didn't pay someone for the ride!??

The difference being that the carts are driven by people with legal international driver's licenses. You should try using your brain for once.

Waste of tax payers money going after a Chinese tourist using an electrician suitcase. How ridiculous the police and government is.

I do not know what is more stupid... a law demanding a drivers license for this bizarre contraption, or the people who actually buy and use it.

This should be a simple ticket/fine situation. No need for arrest.

Looks like the word is out. Not seen any of these contraptions whilst out and about the last few days.