Comments on: Camp Zama’s Dangerous Golfers

By: Fore! (Wizbang)

Fore! (Wizbang) — Sun, 18 May 2008 01:43:26 +0000

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By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Sat, 17 May 2008 20:27:56 +0000

Thanks Sonagi, even if it was just a short blurb in the media it is still stupid to even include it. You are right about the hangeul, I really need to figure out how to change the code on this blog to support it.

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:37:23 +0000

A commenter at the Marmot’s Hole wondered if the story was just some short filler produced by a local station. Out of curiosity, I went to the Asahi Shimbun. Nothing in English, but there was a short blurb in Japanese titled “Golf Ball from US Military Golf Course Injures 6th Grader, Sagamihara City Protests.” The concluding paragraph notes that in 2006 and 2007 there were two incidents each of wayward golf ball causing property damage and in 1980 a woman was injured by a stray ball. For some reason, I wasn’t able to link directly to the story at the Marmot’s, but I’ll post the URL here:

http://www.asahi.com/national/update/0517/TKY200805170017.html

I’d post the title in Japanese, but since your blog doesn’t like Hangeul, it probably doesn’t like Kanji, Katakana, or Hiragana either.

By: ChickenHead

ChickenHead — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:23:50 +0000

Poor kid.

It sounds like a terrible case of birdie flew.

By: Lee Dae Balls of Fury

Lee Dae Balls of Fury — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:25:54 +0000

A US dependent suspected to have been murdered by a US servicemember. The ROKs also had nothing to do with the investigation when the US major threw his wife’s body off the Incheon Airport bridge a few years back, even though it was the ROKs who caught him in the act.

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:38:34 +0000

I was struck by the last paragraph in the Stars and Stripes story:

“South Korean police have no plans to investigate the death, the spokesman said, because the woman falls under the U.S. military’s Status of Forces Agreement.”

Can that be right? Does SoFA prevent a South Korean investigation into the off-base death of a US dependent?

By: Lee Dae Balls of Fury

Lee Dae Balls of Fury — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:19:34 +0000

This is a boring story. I don’t know why there hasn’t been any blogging about this:
http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=62095&archive=true

Everyone in Daegu knows about it. It’s horrible.

By: lsa

lsa — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:05:31 +0000

lol good one

By: Breaking News: Kid Gets Bloody Nose After Being Hit by Golf Ball | The Marmot's Hole

Fri, 16 May 2008 20:41:04 +0000

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