- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Dec 28, 2008 03:41 JST
- Tags: Aichi, Cars, Comiket, Crime, Nagoya, Otaku, Theft, Tokyo, Tokyo Big Sight

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.
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A man, who deleted his friend’s three and a half year old max level MMORPG character, is being prosecuted for cyber-crimes.
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As you can see from the below video, stripped may be too strong a word to describe what this shoplifter underwent at the hands of security guards, being forced to expose herself to the camera and being lashed when she tarried in so doing, but her humiliation was evidently the same.
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A sailor (29) who tried to force himself upon a lady, but then instead settled for robbing her of her underwear and fleeing, has been arrested.
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A young lady (20) who had the temerity to charge her phone using a socket at a railway station has been arrested for theft of electricity, after a passerby called police to avert the robbery, having stolen 0.015 watt hours (or 54 joules), worth a shocking total of 0.03 yen ($0.0003).
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A class of third year elementary school girls had an unwelcome surprise when they returned from their swimming in the school pool, only to discover a thief had made off with their pants, with all 14 pairs unaccounted for, along with socks, shirts and other items of apparel. The changing rooms had apparently been left unlocked, and the door unattended. We do not hear whether the girls went nopan for the rest of the day.
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The Greenpeace activists cum burglars who stole whale meat from a shipping company in an earlier publicity stunt have just had arrest warrants served on them, we hear. Aomori police intend to arrest two people involved on the morrow, on suspicion of theft. Of course they are innocent until proven guilty, but Japanese arrests usually result in conviction. Via TBS.
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A landscape gardener (51) has been nabbed for stealing two pairs of pants from a veranda, but this turned out to be the tip of the iceberg, for searches on his arrest led to another 2,000 pairs being found.
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Greenpeace’s claims to not support criminal direct action seem to be wearing thin with the news that they stole (“took away without permission”) a box containing 23 kilos of whale meat from a shipping company’s warehouse. Apparently, the meat was, along with 47 other boxes, earmarked for delivery to the homes of crew members of the “research” vessel Nisshin Maru, after their return to port for a break from their strenuous scientific endeavours in the Antarctic.
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