Japanese arrested for pushing the “LATE” button!

I wish there were “Late” buttons so the company won’t notice why I am arriving so late to work…but unfortunately, this buttons are illegal in a sort of way! If you still have doubts about that, ask this japanese employee that seems to push that a lot!

A Japanese railway worker halted a commuter train by pressing an emergency stop button because he needed an excuse for being late, police said after arresting the man on Monday.

Masahiro Matsumoto, 23, employed at the Nishioji station in Kyoto prefecture, pressed a roadside emergency stop button at a train crossing on Monday morning, causing a Nara line train to stop for about four minutes.

This is the PERFECT excuse if you are late for work….NOT!

A police spokesman quoted Matsumoto as saying: “I was running late for work and I thought it could be an excuse if a train stopped because of the emergency stop.”

The police officer told AFP that Matsumoto, himself a rail commuter, was trying to cause follow-up delays on the train line so that he could “tell his boss that his late arrival could not be helped.”

Police were staking out the crossing following six similar cases and were investigating whether the railway employee was responsible for any of them.

West Japan Railway Co said in a statement: “We sincerely regret the arrest of our employee, which caused our customers and others concerned to lose trust in us.”

Source: Yahoo News / Photo: AFP / “Parody” photo edited by Toonleap…source is Wiki

Next time, blame the dog, the cat, the traffic jam, anything, but think twice before pushing that button!

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