r/mildlyinteresting 4d ago

The Emperor of Japan drove past me in Richmond. Quality Post

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u/uwanmirrondarrah 4d ago

And its armored so thats pretty big

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u/Leaving_The_Oilfield 4d ago

Are the windows? Maybe I’m tripping but they don’t look like armored windows I’ve seen before.

Also, why the fuck aren’t the windows even slightly tinted. “Oh, the Emperor of a country is here? Let’s drive them around in a fishbowl”.

Edit: never mind, I forgot that back window wasn’t the door lol. I can kind of see that they are armored.

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u/DemocracyOfficer1886 4d ago

why the fuck aren’t the windows even slightly tinted.

Swag.

You will casually turn your head when seeing the strange car and you will lay your eyes on his majesty the Emperor's blessed figure, realizing how lucky you were to be this close to him.

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u/Quaiche 4d ago

Apparently the windows can be opaque for privacy reasons, I assume they were not opaque by choice.

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u/Leaving_The_Oilfield 4d ago

If that’s true, that’s pretty cool. And if that’s the case, I’d assume the Emperor requested it or at least had no issues with it.

Personally I’d have them as dark as possible. I hate being in a bright car, especially when I’m wearing my glasses.

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u/ReallyNowFellas 4d ago

Is there any historical precedent for the head of a foreign state being spontaneously attacked on a routine peacetime visit to a friendly nation?

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u/Agreeable_Ad281 4d ago

Franz Ferdinand?

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u/ReallyNowFellas 4d ago

That was a planned attack, and there were major regional tensions at the time. For it to matter whether or not the Emperor's windows were tinted, we have to be talking about someone going about their regular day, suddenly noticing a foreign head of state nearby, and spontaneously deciding to become an assassin.

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u/PyroDesu 4d ago edited 4d ago

Oddly it wasn't really all that planned. I mean, it was definitely planned that he was to be assassinated, the Black Hand had organized and armed assassins for it, but Gavrilo Princip was literally just sitting at a cafe across the street from where Ferdinand's motorcade started trying to turn around (and one of them stalled, stopping the rest) because nobody informed the drivers that they'd changed their plans to go see the victims of their earlier attempted assassination via grenade.

Princip literally just walked across the street and shot him and his wife.

EDIT: Seeing as the other party apparently decided to reply and immediately block me, here's my response:

I don't recall reading anything about "between friendly nations" in your prior statements.

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u/ReallyNowFellas 4d ago

I'm well aware of what happened; the plan was botched but it was thoroughly planned and it's absurd to say regional relations were friendly at the time. I asked a simple question about any historical precedent for an unplanned assassination between friendly nations, and despite the downvotes, the answer is clearly: there is none.

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u/Sa3ana3a 4d ago

Runs on biofuel too