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As far as lawsuits go, this one’s about as odd as it gets. In Japan, a “karate master” is being sued for allegedly breaking the jaw…of a “ghost.”
- In 2011, a group of coworkers on a work trip visited a Kyoto theme park, where one of the attractions is supposedly haunted
- One unnamed member of that group was a “yudansha,” or “karate master,” and entered the haunt with one of his coworkers hand-in-hand
- A theme park staff member in a “scary costume” came out of the darkness, and the karate dude reacted with a reflexive right foot kick that connected with the jaw of the employee and broke it
- The karate expert had reportedly been drinking prior to entering the haunt
In 2015, the karate man settled the suit, agreeing to pay 10 million yen in damages, which is just over $68K American. Now, the karate guru has filed his own lawsuit against the theme park, saying they bear some responsibility for what happened…and should be on the hook for part of that settlement because there was “no partition between ghosts and guests,” the park didn’t train workers to “avoid attacks from customers,” there wasn’t “adequate warning” that the “haunted house contained ‘human’ actors acting as ghosts,” and the park should’ve “prohibited the man from entering the haunted house because he’d been drinking.” Not the most solid of cases, is it?
Read the story at Japan Today