A young man (18) who stole an old lady’s car at knifepoint has offered his pressing need to attend Comiket as his reason for the crime. He needed to travel some 250km to Tokyo to get there.
The young man, a university student, chose as his victim an old lady (65) who had just returned to her car, parked in a shopping centre car park, after finishing her shopping.
He menaced her with his kitchen knife: “Don’t act up! If you do, I’ll stab you for sure!”
Having overpowered her he took off in her car. The lady was unharmed and immediately reported the theft to police.
He managed to get a kilometre before into his journey a police helicopter discovered him, after which he was soon apprehended.
His explanation is straightforward: “I wanted to go to Comiket at the Tokyo Big Sight, using the car I stole.”
Via Asahi.
His excuse seems so bizarre that it’s difficult to see why he would make it up?
What’s worth to jack is a plane and then crash that into a comiket. HAHAHAHAHA
GTA meets otaku = funny, he should get a consolation prize, probably a few doujins he was excited for?
This is just stupid… not only he missed Comiket but he also got arrested.
Next time, google it and steal an empty car.
This way, at least he’ll be able to enjoy Comiket before getting some fun time in jail.
WTF? No trains going to Big Site? He was too poor/cheap to get trainfare?
I’m also wondering how the heli-cops found him so quickly — it’s not like the old lady’s car was particularly noticible from the air — it wasn’t an itasha, right?
that’s one lame excuse >.>
But awesome. I’d dig it
I know how much one wants to attend Comiket, but using this as an excuse only give bad name to Comiket and not true otaku-spirited.
I remember my first Comiket, I went hitchhiking from Fukuoka to Tokyo. It only took me little over a day and a half to get there.