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83-year-old man arrested for sprinkling flammable liquid at neighbor’s front door over noise dispute

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Police in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, have arrested an 83-year-old man after he poured a flammable liquid outside the front door of his neighbor’s apartment.

Police said Takashi Ibata poured the kerosene-like liquid at around 12:40 p.m. on Tuesday, Kyodo News reported. A woman who lives next door to Ibata called the police at 12 noon and said that a gas canister had been thrown onto her balcony.

When police arrived at the scene, they found a trail of the liquid leading from the woman’s front door to Ibata’s apartment, and the gas canister which was intact.

Police said Ibata has been involved in a noise dispute with the woman since February. They said Ibata has admitted pouring the liquid to intimidate his neighbor but that he had no intention of starting a fire.

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Oldies doing bad stuff again.

-1 ( +11 / -12 )

83 years old, 83! Can you believe it?

Maybe he has dementia or something. We need better social services to monitor and possibly take care of these types, I find it all incredibly sad .

-9 ( +4 / -13 )

Just this week another Octogenarian attack other person using sharp object, now this?

https://japantoday.com/category/crime/man-arrested-for-cutting-off-octogenarian-neighbor's-ear-in-tokyo#comment-3975238

-13 ( +2 / -15 )

It has to be said though that some people are unbelievably noisy. From putting their washing machines on at 5:00 am and letting their dogs bark to stomping around at night and having TVs at full volume. And always first job of the day is noisily putting away dried dishes. And many apartments are made of paper. Ok, attempting to burn the lady out is extreme but I have some sympathy for people's aversion to unnecessary noise and dislike of inconsiderate behaviour.

6 ( +12 / -6 )

Such a polite society where manners are of the utmost importance. If this was enough to report on, imagine what's been going on before it got to this stage.

2 ( +5 / -3 )

Ibata has admitted pouring the liquid to intimidate his neighbor but that he had no intention of starting a fire..

Ok, just an demonstrated threat, be careful some of these olf farts, are a powder keg ready to detonate.

2 ( +2 / -0 )

@moonraker

putting their washing machines on at 5:00 am

I lived next to a guy who did exactly that. It woke us up every morning. It was horrible. Fortunately he moved out about six months after we moved in.

0 ( +3 / -3 )

Just cut the power cable and no noise. Fire kills.

-2 ( +1 / -3 )

We just faked numerous complaints to get the noisy neighbours out.

Job done.

-7 ( +0 / -7 )

We just faked numerous complaints to get the noisy neighbours out.

If they were that noisy, why didn't you just make real complaints?

7 ( +7 / -0 )

ojisan, please behave. i can't imagine the scene you sit behind the bar and counting your days

-4 ( +1 / -5 )

Some of these old people were criminals, yakuza etc., in their youth.

-6 ( +1 / -7 )

Beware the wrath of the Seniors! haha

-5 ( +0 / -5 )

All these old dudes never having people tell them no really coming back to bite us

0 ( +0 / -0 )

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