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61-year-old man arrested for not paying taxi fare

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Police in Asahikawa, Hokkaido, have arrested a 61-year-old unemployed man after he was unable to pay his taxi fare.

According to police, the man got into the taxi at around 3:40 p.m. Friday and asked to be driven to his home, Hokkaido Broadcasting Corp reported. When they arrived, the man told the driver he couldn’t pay the 1,790 yen fare because he had no money on him. But he promised to get the money from his home.

However, the taxi driver was suspicious of the man’s behavior and called police. Police accompanied the man into his apartment where he told them that he didn’t have any money there either.

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A small problem that can easily be worked iut

-8 ( +2 / -10 )

kurisupisu !

How can this small problem be worked out?

The man has no money on him. And he has no

money at his home. Are you kurisupisu, going to

pay his 1,790 Yen taxi fare to work out this small problem?

5 ( +8 / -3 )

This guy is essentially a thief. He should be made to clean the taxi every day for a month.

6 ( +8 / -2 )

How does this become news? Like seriously. A guy doesnt pay a taxi fare...

4 ( +9 / -5 )

It shows that reporters have nothing more important to write about when they start reporting news like this!

What a wonderful country Japan is!

1 ( +6 / -5 )

1,790 Yen is within walking distance.

7 ( +8 / -1 )

It would have been more newsworthy if he was one of those guys who take a taxi half way round the country and then say they can’t pay.

6 ( +7 / -1 )

1,790 Yen is within walking distance.

please watch the weather news. Some places in Hokkaido are minus seven degrees and this fare is probably 4-5km.

-2 ( +0 / -2 )

> kurisupisu ! 

How can this small problem be worked out?

The man has no money on him. And he has no

money at his home. Are you kurisupisu, going to 

pay his 1,790 Yen taxi fare to work out this small problem?

….

of course, I would pay the fare in order to save a lot of useless bother-absolutely no problem!

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please watch the weather news. Some places in Hokkaido are minus seven degrees and this fare is probably 4-5km.

I have walked longer than that in conditions much colder. -7C is not very cold assuming you dress for it.

-1 ( +0 / -1 )

I always wonder how they pick these crimes for the news, someone didn't pay their taxi fair, someone dated a 17 year old etc, must be thousands of these cases every day. The one getting picked must have some really bad luck, or a reporter is personally involved with the case.

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