Dirty otaku NEETs have been arrested for stealing the Keionbu’s guitars and various K-ON! figures, saying they did it because they wanted the figures.
The incident began with the previously reported theft of cash and K-ON! related artefacts from the Shiga prefecture school which served as the model for the school in the anime.
The guitars were later found dumped in a ditch, but the figures and cash were never recovered.
Following up on his arrest in connection with the theft of property from offices and a supermarket, police searched the home of an 18-year-old unemployed man from another town in the same prefecture, and there found the stolen K-ON! figurines.
Also arrested was an accomplice, an unemployed 17-year-old youth. The pair are thought to have been part of a wider gang responsible for numerous other burglaries in the prefecture.
Investigators report they suspect the pair to have broken into the school early one morning, where they set about stealing 3 guitars, 20 figures and the unrecovered cash, over $1000 in all.
The boys explain their motive for the terrible crime: “We like K-ON! and wanted the figures.”
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still doesnt explain why they trashed the guitars
Simple deduction is because they were considered as the Keionbu's girl/boyfriends.
/Quoting from Tachibana Himeko [http://i408.photobucket.com/albums/pp166/Harujion21/vlcsnap-2011-02-04-18h41m29s41.png].
i see what you did there
They weren't fans. They don't like K-On.
They wanted quick money and didn't care for anything else. They didn't even have the guts to turn themselves in.
GIITA NO!!!!
Actually I can't play the guitar, so I just dumped it.
K-on Figurines = Serious fuckin business.
When those things are approximately $50-$70 US dollars for each, hell yeah they are. XD
that can't even buy a ps2 : /
K-ON! Figures: At last, we're free from these filthy, smelly NEETs! They shall be executed for ruining our boy/girlfriends... we mean our instruments!
Sweet, sweet justice... True fans go legit, pal.
Actually I think they have proven how big of fans they are, to risk going to jail over their waifus
big fans wouldn't dump the guitars in a ditch
Dat's because he's an idiot. He's a total shame & DOESN'T deserved to be called a FAN.
probably tried sellin them???they'll get a high price if they the intruments were a expensive brand..
brain tumors can make you do weird stuff and k-on is one of the most severe
They don't know how to play guitars so that's why they threw it away :P
if they didn't want the guitars they shouldn't have taken them in the first place.
How Stupid of them.
I was also thinking, why didn't they try to sell those guitars... compare the cash and all the figurines, if those guitars are the real deal (most likely), then they are worth more than what they kept.
But thinking again... whoever put those 'offerings' there probably at least memo'd down the serial#, making the simple ownership of it a hint to the crime. Forget selling it, he's gonna get identified super easily, or tracked back down eventually.
Well Gita is a Heritage Cherry Sunburst Les Paul Standard worth ~2,700USD and Mu Is a Fender Mustang (I don't recall the price) is pretty pricy and Elizebeth herself being a Fender Jazz Bass not being too pricy aside from the fact it's a lefty, these prices are from my area and the opinions are based on my budget so they may not be 100% but you'll get the idea? PS: Lefty instruments cost more to be converted (I play lefty so that I know *sadness...) Oh! and fun otaku fact about me! : I bought exact models of Gita, Mu, Elizebeth, and Mugi's Korg Triton Extreme Keyboard! (I would try to get Ritsu's Drums and Mugi's Keytar, but I am just learning drums and I don't know where'd I'd get a Keytar so I'm SOL I gues...)
True fans wouldn't make their waifu sad by doing criminal activity.
^Damn right
Now now, I think these men deserve careful consideration and open respect regardless of their crimes. We must be able to listen to their dedication and recognize how much they love K-on, and thus, respond to their actions with a long, drawn out, and eloquent response:
Fuck 'em! Give em' the chair!
lol XD FOR THE K-ONS XD?!
'The boys explain their motive for the terrible crime: “We like K-ON! and wanted the figures.”'
True fans don't dump the guitars in a ditch...
What they did was blasphemy to that shrine, and they are nothing more than half-ass thieves who should never even even look upon that room...
Also, I noticed this from the above article:
"18-year-old unemployed man"
"an unemployed 17-year-old youth"
Hehe, I guess when you turn 18, you stop being a youth and become like everyone else~
Well, his accomplice has 1 more year to go before he gets a taste of the real deal...
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This is like Music to my ears...
& why would fans of the caliber they supposedly say that are do what they did to the Guitars among other things?...
Welp, I know 1 thing, THEY ARE FUCKED as far as the otaku community is concerned...
Yui is disappointed!
They weren't stealing, they were merely eloping with their waifus.
Although their treatment of the guitars was uncalled for.
They were just getting rid of their love rivals. Yui has some pretty serious feelings for Gitta.
loled
And here I was shelling out money on buying merchandises I'd really want to steal.
They would appreciate those figures more if they bought them.
Still doesn't explained why they stole the money.
To buy more K-On! merchandise of course.
"Also arrested was an accomplice, an unemployed 17-year-old youth."
Wow, I'm impressed that he does have at least one friend..
god i soo wanna smack those guys silly for dumping the said guitar in a ditch!!
damn them for soiling the name of being a FAN DAMN HIM ALL TO HECK!!
Wonder if they will steal or carjack a K-ON printed car?
"The pair are thought to have been part of a wider gang responsible for numerous other burglaries in the prefecture."
I imagine them being in an otaku gang and getting into otaku gang wars.
Next we will see Otaku Yakuza :)
So if they wanted the figurines, why the hell bother dragging guitars with them???
Just out for what they could re-sell or rather "Hawk/Pawn". The guitars would be too recognizable, but the figures could be re-sold.
I'm for showing mercy to a thief that steals food to survive or medicine for a similar purpose, but guys like this deserve to lose a hand.
Didnt something like that happen already some months ago ?
it's them
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/11/18/k-on-girls-robbed-of-instruments-in-otaku-mega-heist/
Oh KON! Otaku what WON'T you do?
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Seriously. I actually have one of those guitars and need a "quickie" so what's worth to ya? =p
#/Sarcasm
Imagine the play on this in the press if they were unemployed foriegners!! Hang 'Em High!!!
Time to go yandere on their asses.
that's what you get NEET's :P
Um... Umm...Um...
Yeah....they ditch the guitars for the figurines. Are they Idiots. This is why the really horribly inflicted NEET OTAKUS will be rather stupid and always poor.
First of all, even if you are only going after the figurines, YOU JUST DON'T DITCH 60,000-100,000 yen guitars!!! You resell them and make a profit off of the stolen goods. Oh and when reselling them, you don't sell them online. I'm not supporting theft but seriously that's rather stupid. That's how you properly use a brain in criminal activities.
@Artefact,....
dude,... you keep mispelling the word Artifact (with an 'i' with your own name -Artefact).
^_^
what happened to the real Lamberto?
did he get banned for his constantly idiotic rants which had no bearing on the articles?
finally,... one less tard, only a few dozen more to go.
See, this is why I stopped watching K-ON! early: So I didn't become someone as crazy and obsessed with it as these people. I'm not saying liking K-ON! is a bad thing, it's just that some people need to know their limits when obsessing oer something.
Wow.