Why do the Japanese heat refrigerators: the life of the poorest segment of the population of the country of the rising sun (3 photos)

Under the cover of night, a variety of, sometimes illegal, affairs. And if somewhere it is hooliganism, burglaries and robberies, then in Japan - drowning refrigerators. And now I'm really not kidding.





From time to time, the inhabitants of the Land of the Rising Sun make strange "rituals": at night they take out or take out refrigerators from the house, and then... drown them in the river, which is actually illegal. And here a reasonable question arises - why? Why are they doing that? Is it really in Is there something or someone in this refrigerator?

Not at all. Such a picture is a sign of poverty, but in many rural regions of the country, alas, it is not uncommon. And to understand why the Japanese do just that, you need to understand the mentality of this countries.

Like us, the Japanese pay a fixed fee every month. for garbage disposal, but bulky waste is not taken into it. For export household appliances, including the same refrigerators, you have to pay extra additionally. It is because of this that old technology in Japan is by all means trying to resell, but reselling a broken refrigerator is difficult. In addition, unlike the same TV or even a computer, The refrigerator takes up a lot of space and weighs a lot.



All this leads to the fact that the cost of disposal refrigerator skyrockets: not all families can afford it. But the compactness of Japanese dwellings does not allow the use of a refrigerator in as another locker - people have to get rid of household technology on their own.

And the easiest option is the river. Japanese under cover of night load refrigerators with stones, and then simply dump them into rivers. Of course, this is all illegal and punishable by high fines, but often people just have no other choice. They can't pay a few hundred dollars (in terms of this currency) just for the disposal of the old equipment, because they just spent money on buying a new one!



So it turns out that not only eels and catfish live at the bottom of Japanese rivers, but also ... refrigerators!