Japan’s Thieves can be very polite!
Some thieves in Japan can be very polite!
A would-be Japanese robber armed with a wooden stick was arrested after being confronted by an angry shopkeeper, apologising and calling the police to confess his crime, an official said Wednesday.
Takashi Owada, a 54-year-old unemployed man, demanded money from the 59-year-old female cashier at a convenience store in the northern city of Fukushima on Tuesday, according to a local police spokesman.
But she told him, “Don’t be silly!”, Owada immediately changed his mind and said: “I’m sorry.”
He called the police at the store exit with his own mobile telephone and was arrested within minutes on the spot for attempted robbery.
Japan has a strict control on firearms and most gun violence is linked to gangs.
Even so police do not recommend scolding robbers, the spokesman said.
Source: AFP via Google / Image source
I think this was the first time ever for this man to do a crime…and failed miserably!…At least, nothing “bad” happened!
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Japanese sense of oneness is very strong. I suppose to them, stealing from a fellow Japanese would be like mugging your own aunt. In comparison, a very heterogeneous society, where people have fewer salient bonds, would rarely see something like this.