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Text Msg Code for "I'm a Japanese School Girl Selling Sex"

Last week, cops broke up a schoolgirl prostitution ring in Saitama and Tokyo, arresting at least five junior high and high school girls who were selling sex online via their cell phones. One was a sixth grader. About 80% of the customers were pedophiles.

The amazing thing is that everything, including detailed ads soliciting customers, was written in code.

Take this piece of seemingly benign code, for example:

IkebLURV1700Yukichi2JC1

Ikeb = Ikebukuro. The neighborhood that the girl is in.
LURV = "I will have sex with you."
1700 = Time: 5PM
Yukichi2 = Yukichi Fukuzawa, the guy whose face is on the 10,000 yen note x 2 = I cost 20,000 yen
JC = Joshi Chugakusei (Junior high school girl. JS would be elementary school girl, JK would be high school girl)
1 = Grade 1. In Japan, 1st year of junior high = 7th grade.

Parents are being warned to look out for code like this on their kids' cell phones. It's a sure sign that they're involved in the sex trade, too.

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Mother Hurls Two Boys and Herself Off A Balcony

A disturbed mother threw her two baby boys, aged three and six, off a balcony in Fujisawa yesterday before jumping to her own death in what police suspect is a murder-suicide.

That's pretty screwed up. She really didn't have to throw her kids off the balcony, too. I'd say that's pretty high up there on the evil scale.

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Pollen Bot Army to Help Humans with Hay Fever

If you see little white styrofoam robots hanging out in Tokyo this spring, don't worry—it's not an apocalyptic bot invasion, it's the pollen-fighting mercenaries from Weathernews, Inc. These 2.2lb-heavy bots are just a foot tall and have eyes that glow in five different colors that indicate the level of pollen in the air. (In Japan, it's mostly cedar and cypress that induces allergies.)

200 volunteers will be hanging these bots near their homes. The monitoring units inside the robots will record the pollen levels in the air and send reports, updated by the minute, to HQ, which will consequently zap the info to the pollen map.

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$94K Tiffany Phone Coming in February

Tiffany & Co. teamed up with Softbank Mobile to make this blinged out, diamond-studded handset, which will hit stores in February. It costs about $94K. And here I was wondering why the iPhone is so damn expensive.

The thing has 400 diamonds on it, which totals about 20 carats. I wonder if people are going to start giving engagement phones instead of rings.

P.S. If anyone in Japan sees people using this phone starting next months, please send me some pics. I want to see what these rich bitches look like!

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Real Bricks Shaped Like Game Boys

Hard core gamers might want to consider building their next house out of these meticulously carved Game Boy bricks. Each one costs about $30, but it's the exact same size as a Game Boy. More pics after the jump.