Lalalacasbah
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Thanks, that's wild! Yes, skating isn't quiet and with young children trying to get to nap/get to bed I totally get the annoyance now that I'm a parent haha... I'm glad the skate park is still used.@Lalalacasbah I also hung around with skaters in the early 00’s (high five! haha), but just on that - there are videos out there on YouTube of the groups of skaters who used the adjacent skate park by the Miyazawa house and they were certainly not a quiet bunch let’s just say that. If you search 祖師谷公園スケボー they’ll come up. Most are early 00’s not too long after the family were killed, so likely some were around when it happened. Interesting to see.
In fact, that skate park still has big groups who use it today and it now includes elementary school skaters too. They have dedicated clean up groups to prevent it from getting too messy with leftover trash, cans, bottles, etc, now though.
I think the killer was a bit on the fringe/socially awkward and never quite fit in. So if a skateboarder (or not) and interacted with this regular group in some form at the skate park, I feel like he wasn't quite 'in' the cool/regular crowd. He would've been in and out and almost outcast/observer (poser?).
I think he was an outcast and maybe that's why the expensive/overtly stylish clothes? BUT I am thinking like a Canadian who isn't in Tokyo! However, I do remember the 00's well (living in Vancouver BC at the time)... the killers style was typical and trendy - not skate clothes I have seen skaters skate in. Most guys I knew wouldn't skate in those clothes but more like something one would wear who was really trendy. MOO