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American man arrested for staying at Iwakuni city hall for over 10 hours

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Police in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, arrested a 41-year-old American man who refused to leave city hall on Friday night after he stayed there for more than 10 hours over a passport issuance argument.

According to police, the man who lives in Iwakuni and claims to work in sales, visited city hall at around 1 p.m. on Friday, TBS reported. City hall staff told police that the man got angry after being denied a passport application document, even though he was told that passport procedures are handled by the U.S. consulate or embassy.

The man refused to comply with requests from staff to leave and remained in the lobby until 11:30 p.m. when police took him into custody.

Police quoted the man as saying, "I said I was going home.”

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Idiot of the week award.

0 ( +10 / -10 )

The usual American angry with all world

7 ( +17 / -10 )

Deport this d head

9 ( +17 / -8 )

Deport this d head

Probably broke and did this for a free flight home. Don't city halls close at like 5 or 6? Too much patience to take him into custody many hours after closing.

5 ( +8 / -3 )

I'm kind of surprised that they waited till 11 o'clock at night before finally taking him away.

3 ( +8 / -5 )

There's a USA military base there, right? My guess is he wandered off the base (drunkenly?) and ended up at city hall. The nearest USA consulate is in Fukuoka methinks.

-6 ( +1 / -7 )

I hope he gets the help he may need, whatever that may be - mental, consular, administrative...

-7 ( +2 / -9 )

Why would you go to a Japanese city office when applying for an American passport?

5 ( +7 / -2 )

Why would you go to a Japanese city office when applying for an American passport?

It's a good question and it's why I'm wondering if there's something more going on with him beyond being a belligerent foreigner making a nuisance of himself. And I'm assuming it was an American passport and that he didn't want a Japanese one for some unfathomable reason. I hope he's ok.

-4 ( +2 / -6 )

They have a USAF base in Iwakuni but the American claims he works in “sales”, so at least he’s not military. I’d like to know what kind of sales job he’s in and what his status of residence is.

1 ( +2 / -1 )

A lunatic a possible menace and danger to the public perhaps. The needs to go into the loony bin to straighten himself out and stop disrupting the decent members of society.

-6 ( +1 / -7 )

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