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Man arrested for attempting to film women in toilet at shrine

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Police in Katori, Chiba Prefecture, have arrested an unemployed 28-year-old man for attempting to film women in a toilet at a shrine.

According to police, the incident occurred just after 2 p.m. on Sunday. Fuji TV reported that the suspect, Masataka Takahashi, entered the women's restroom at Katori Shrine. He then used his cell phone and stretched his arm beneath the partition between cubicles to try and film women going to the toilet. However, one woman spotted his arm and she called out to her acquaintances who detained the man.

Police said Takahashi has admitted to the charge and are questioning him about whether he has done this sort of thing before.

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"olice in Katori, Chiba Prefecture, have arrested an unemployed 28-year-old man for attempting to film women in a toilet at a shrine." NOT AGAIN these creeps unpredictable.

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Nothing sacred, modern nation.

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However, one woman spotted his arm

He should've used a selfie-stick!!

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He's unemployed so he probably doesn't have internet access

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Morality aside, how is that even a turn on? Seriously.

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These kinds of creeps are all too common, and not only in Japan. However, this one seems especially stupid as well.

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He could have gone to the girly magazines in 7-11

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Here's a novel idea- Have him wear a sign telling everyone who passes what a pig he's been for say, 30 days in a hot spot, like Shinjuku or Ueno Station!

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Morality aside, how is that even a turn on? Seriously.

That's exactly what I was thinking. Unless you have a fetish for girls in toilets..And at a shrine nonetheless! A place of worship! this guy is a class act.

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Bartholomew Harte: Here's a novel idea- Have him wear a sign telling everyone who passes what a pig he's been for say, 30 days in a hot spot, like Shinjuku or Ueno Station!

A 'novel' idea? Should he be put in a pillory for that time and be fed only rotting vegetable scraps from passersby who pity him? Should we end the 1 month spectacle with a public stoning?

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Live here long enough and you actually become desensitized to this sort of news; that and family on family slayings. They do everything diferently here, including crime!

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da hell.. that's sawara.. i work near by and have been there often

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She should have stepped hard on his arm and broken it. Lights. Camera. Wait. There's a break in the action.

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I'd have said that the woman should have peed on his extended arm, but he might actually have liked that.

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There is enough free porn so why try to make your own?

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What’s a hell going on in Japan? Are Japanese male becoming perverts because of not getting enough sex from wife or girl friend? Ops sorry I left out boy friend

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