
A man has been arrested after he brutally assaulted a 10-year-old girl by patting her on the head and picking her up.
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Legendary seiyuu Daisuke Gōri (郷里大輔) has died under circumstances police consider likely to be suicide. He was 57.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jan 12, 2010 03:03 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Chikan, Crime, Exhibitionism, Internet, Pantsu, Police, Skirts, Tokyo, Trains

An anonymous post apparently calling for a mass gathering of exhibitionists on Tokyo’s trains prompted a massive police response, with 60 officers crowding the threatened station, but nobody came.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jan 9, 2010 15:23 JST
- Tags: Alcohol, Bizarre, Crime, Dubai, Islam, Law, Marriage, Police, Rape, Religion, UK

A British woman who reported being raped has been arrested by Dubai police for violating Islamic law by having sex out of wedlock, and now faces a possible 6 year prison sentence.
Both the alleged rapist and the victim’s boyfriend have been charged with having sex with her outside of marriage as well.
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The cartoonist whose satirical drawing of Mohammed caused him to be vilified by Muslims the world over has been the subject of an Islamically inspired assassination attempt; he escaped death, though his assailant was shot several times by police.
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A mother who approached police with a complaint about a man who allegedly refused to pay her for pornographic pictures of her daughter has been arrested, prompting the apprehension of a number of other mothers involved in similar crimes.
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A mother who found her son engaged in a late night gaming session felt she had no option but to call police on the boy, as he ignored her commands.
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A court has judged a man guilty of indecent exposure after a female passerby observed him naked in his own kitchen and complained to police.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Nov 28, 2009 22:43 JST
- Tags: 2ch, Bizarre, Exhibitionism, Guro, Internet, Police, Sites, Suicide, Video Gallery

A girl has leapt to her death live on video streaming site Stickam, disappearing off her balcony and into the night sky in a broadcast which later showed police arriving and exchanging off-colour remarks…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Nov 23, 2009 01:46 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, Cannibalism, Crime, Guro, Makeup, Murder, Peru, Police, Superstition

Police have arrested a gang which murdered as many as 60 people in order to drain their bodies of fat and sell it on an international black-market for prices as much as $15,000 a litre.
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Police who used a Taser to electrocute a 10-year-old girl for refusing to take a bath as her mother told her have been exonerated, and the girl in question has been charged with disorderly conduct.
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A man who repeatedly reported an unusual emergency via a series of 911 calls has been arrested – operators apparently took a dim view of his insistence that someone be provided for him to have sex with.
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