Why won't American Cities do this?

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I guess in Japan, the cities host parties for all who become of legal age. THink about that - a city throwing everyone who just turned legal to drink a party celebrating their new right to imbibe!

http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040112p2a00m0dm009000c.html


Paramedics attacked while treating drunken reveler

FURUKAWA, Miyagi -- Drunken new adults viciously kicked, spat at and abused paramedics as they tried to treat a man who had fallen after frolicking around on the roof of a hall where an official Coming of Age Day ceremony was held here, police said Monday.

Nobody was seriously injured, including the man whose drunken stupor caused him to topple from the roof of the building where the Furukawa Municipal Government held its Coming of Age Day party for new adults on Sunday.

Furukawa Fire Department officials said they answered a call to go and help the man who had fallen in the wake of the ceremony.

When paramedics arrived on the scene and hurried to find the injured man, they were surrounded by about 10 drunken men, who hugged and jostled them until they finally managed to reach the man needing help.

After they placed him on the stretcher, drunken men kicked at the paramedics, spat on them and shouted obscenities. One man kicked the ambulance carrying the injured man, leaving a massive dent.

No arrests were made in connection with the incident.

Monday is Japan's Coming of Age Day, a national holiday. Municipalities across the country hold formal parties for all those who in the past year have reached 20 years of age, the legal age for adulthood. Many of the parties are stiff, formal affairs and shenanigans are common among the new adults who attend them. (Mainichi and wire reports, Japan, Jan. 12, 2004)

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