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Ricky Kaminski
"because she was hungry.... " Sounds legit!
sensei258
If I go to the same store, and steal the same thing, will I be let off the hook?
Michael Jackson
Can I get a recommendation of a leniency if I feel like stealing something?
GW
What is she homeless now??? Then maybe I could understand the hunger, if not I hope we see a fax from her "talent" agency soon with the dropping of their client thingy they often do!
Disillusioned
Well, isn't that just grand? It just shows the power of fame in Japan. A couple of years ago there was a homeless man jailed for a year for stealing ¥10 from a shrine. Yes, ten-yen! This woman steals a few thousand yen of food and gets off totally free? Contradiction much?
GW
Yeah it illness is involved then cut some slack!
mataka
The woman is an actress so safe to say she is not poor by any stretch of the imagination.
She could afford the food.
Her action was immoral and illegal.
Why should exceptions be made?
What would we say to our children if they asked us why she she was excused?
This is typical of Japanese society. Everywhere you look there is a lack of accountability. If you have money and a good lawyer, you get off.
It is an unequal society. The prosecutor should have stepped up and
I think she should be arraigned, prosecuted and punished and made an example of.
If my 5 year old is able to understand this simple rule of law then so can the prosecution be expected to.
The prosecution / court should be forced to explain why such a poor decision was made and all persons involved must be held accountable and named in a public forum.
They should be stripped permanently of any responsibilities or authority in a prosecution role for life.
Everyone is equal in the law under the Japanese constitution. So excusing such immoral behavior without good cause means all persons should be allowed to steal and remain unpunished.
If the law is not upheld, it is meaningless.
So tired of this bull****.
Makoto Shimizu
Sad story. What makes us humans is mercy , compassion, kindness. Not to behave as beasts. She has a sad past. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/03/15/national/media-national/japans-silly-couple-reunite-despite-domestic-violence/#.WYYsCKDQ_qA
lucabrasi
"I bet you're fun at parties," is a monumentally vacuous phrase, but sometimes it's the only appropriate response....
Kashiwa
Pics and video are at http://www.newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/120736.php
FabiusLips
She only gets a pass because she's a woman and a celebrity. The same crime by a middle-class person of any gender, and they'd be in the slammer.
FabiusLips
Everybody knows wealth is the true measure of privilege - that doesn't make it right or just. If you're okay with things being like that, start your own cuntry.
TumbleDry
I didn't see it coming /sarcasm
Bernie O'Mahony
Guarantee if it had been any one of us ordinary plebs, we'd be hauled before a judge!
Michael Jackson
No surprise exercise - I told you that when the original story came out
smithinjapan
She's been named and shamed. So long as she has to do some community service and goes, whatever. Automatically being given a pass because of her celebrity status, though...
Toasted Heretic
Good. The hungry excuse makes sense, in so far as (possible) mental illness is still taboo/frowned upon in certain quarters. Still smacks of a cry for help. Yes; even those in the public eye can succumb to misfortunes.
FightingViking
@sensei258
If you can prove you're really hungry, and without means to pay...
Andy
Does it really matter why exceptions are made - just sleep well knowing they are made, and that there's nothing you are ever going to do about it. Celebrities get special treatment all the time and all over the world. Whether it's cutting everyone in line by playing the "don't you know who I am?" card, having charges dismissed or minimized for repeated offenses or one of 1000 other examples we can all come up with. These are but some of the benefits and rewards society bestows upon celebrities.
sensei258
When I was in HS, I worked in a Price Chopper Supermarket. I watched a woman in a full-length real fur coat (she obviously had money) enter the store, go to the canned goods isle, take a can of green beans, then walk out to her waiting luxury car without paying. I wasn't about to chase somebody down for a can of beans.