Knife-wielding man attempts to steal gun from police in bid to get arrested

Hahahahahaha..... Classic!!

Wow! It's been a long hot summer this year. The trees are still bearing fruit!

I would have been more specific and said, "nuts", but yeah.

He's lucky that none of the cops had an itchy trigger finger.

In some countries that's bringing a knife to a gunfight. Fortunately cops' guns seem superglued to their holsters here.

Wasn't there a case years ago where someone disarmed and shot dead a policeman in Shinjuku or Nakano?

"3 meals a day in a warm cell beats a cardboard box in a park"

Not for us taxpayers.

While this may work in Japan, in the US he might have gotten shot instead,

@Neo - Har! But we don't know if he is/was a Japanese salaryman, he might have been a ramen shop master or a taxi driver or a barber or...

But at the expense of your freedom? That would get old real fast.

Would you suggest he`d be free as a Japanese salaryman? Haa haa you are funny

So now he won't be homeless for a while.

"Wants 3 hots and a cot"

But at the expense of your freedom? That would get old real fast.

I guess despair can lead to all kinds of strange "solutions"... It's not always easy to be tough...

Success!

Well he got his wish....

Wow! It's been a long hot summer this year. The trees are still bearing fruit!

Wants 3 hots and a cot.

Sad. Was life hard Where he couldn't pay rent and wanted free room and board? Or did he really want a gun to take his life?

I'm surprised he wasn't given a gun,