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Police in Tokyo have arrested a 61-year-old man on suspicion of stealing money from the wallet of a man who lay collapsed beside railway tracks after he was struck by a train.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 10:50 p.m. on Aug 29 along the Seibu Shinjuku line, Sankei Shimbun reported. The man in his 50s was struck by an express train traveling between Toritsu-Kasai and Nogata stations.
Police said Toshihiro Yoshida, an unemployed resident of Tokyo’s Nakano Ward, allegedly stole cash from a wallet in a bag belonging to the victim as he lay unconscious by the tracks. The victim had been riding his bicycle when he was hit by the train on the crossing.
Security camera footage showed Yoshida taking the wallet, removing the cash and putting the wallet back in the bag.
A passerby called 119 and the victim was taken to hospital where he died of his injuries.
© Japan Today
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Ah_so
That's low. So very low.
NOMINATION
How low can you go like limbo?
Mr Kipling
Well, He probably thought he won't be needing the money...
But, quite a shocking story for Japan.
shogun36
um……what?
How does that happen?
Either the guy was super drunk, and shouldn’t have been on his bike.
He had a deathwish, and wanted to go out anyways.
Or he was trying to make a tik tok video, but it failed.
The guy that pickpocketed him is lower than scum, and should die slow himself.
But I think the focus of the story is on the wrong person here.
Mark
What a SCUM.
Ubesh
I know some of the comments here are focusing on the stolen property, but why did a person on his bike get hit by a train?
kaimycahl
WOW, this is about as low as a person can get. Instead of calling for help or doing what ever he could to assist the injured victim Toshihiro Yoshida, an unemployed resident of Tokyo’s Nakano Ward, allegedly stole cash from a wallet in a bag belonging to the victim as he lay unconscious by the tracks.
Jim
Seibu Shinjuku line is one of the worst in Tokyo because a large number of people living along these line stations are probably jobless or part time workers with no cash as well as lots of stress and frequently get into confrontations while commuting. The trains along this line are super packed every night and at least one or two fights do break out on a daily basis. I used to use this train while staying in Numabukuro area until I realized that Nakano station was just as close and safer! Also as the train track runs inbetween many roads with improper barriers / gates, humans entry on the tracks or accidents delays the train every other day!
William Bjornson
I would have preferred more information about the man who encountered his final misadventure at that crossing with, perhaps, a footnote on the desperate thief. Somehow that seems the more important information than the state of desperation among Japan's middle aged reported here that they would rob the, essentially, dead. That kind of desperation in this world, and how well we ignore it and condemn the so desperate, is too well known already...