Police in Tokyo said Saturday they have arrested a man who walked into a police koban brandishing a knife and demanded to be given a gun.
According to police, the man, who has been named as 52-year-old Masatoshi Kanda, walked into the koban is Nishi-Tokyo on Thursday, brandishing a knife and ordered police officers to hand over a firearm, TBS reported. He was arrested at the scene on a charge of attempted robbery.
During police questioning, Kanda was quoted by police as saying: "Life has been hard and I wanted to get arrested. I thought if I stole a gun, the crime would be more serious."
© Japan Today
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sangetsu03
I'm surprised he wasn't given a gun,
TheDevilsAssistant
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?
sillygirl
Wants 3 hots and a cot.
Disillusioned
Wow! It's been a long hot summer this year. The trees are still bearing fruit!
Skeeter27
Well he got his wish....
Laguna
Success!
FightingViking
I guess despair can lead to all kinds of strange "solutions"... It's not always easy to be tough...
Serrano
"Wants 3 hots and a cot"
But at the expense of your freedom? That would get old real fast.
Jack Stern
So now he won't be homeless for a while.
NeoJamal
Would you suggest he`d be free as a Japanese salaryman? Haa haa you are funny
Serrano
@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...
OssanAmerica
While this may work in Japan, in the US he might have gotten shot instead,
Serrano
"3 meals a day in a warm cell beats a cardboard box in a park"
Not for us taxpayers.
Get Real
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?
Vernie Jefferies
He's lucky that none of the cops had an itchy trigger finger.
Fadamor
I would have been more specific and said, "nuts", but yeah.
AramaTaihenNoYouDidnt
Hahahahahaha..... Classic!!