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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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?
NeoJamal
Would you suggest he`d be free as a Japanese salaryman? Haa haa you are funny
sillygirl
Wants 3 hots and a cot.
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.
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?
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!
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.
Fadamor
I would have been more specific and said, "nuts", but yeah.
AramaTaihenNoYouDidnt
Hahahahahaha..... Classic!!
Vernie Jefferies
He's lucky that none of the cops had an itchy trigger finger.
sangetsu03
I'm surprised he wasn't given a gun,