Moped rider arrested for snatching glasses off people's faces

The Japanese man must want to be like the mythical Greek Argos Panoptes

A spec fetish?

Mental problems for sure…

Should’ve gone to Specsavers (UK readers only).

@ Newgirlintown

Should’ve gone to Specsavers (UK readers only).

Much appreciated....

Today it's glasses, next week could be mobile-phones..... what's going on with this worldwide-epidemic of thieving people's personal possessions.

Top-marks for the cops arresting this thief, jailtime coming hopefully.

Okay. Now we have eye glasses snatching; the new fetish in Japan. I can't seem to focus on this one. Can you give us more specs on this?

Glasses can be expensive AF, depending on the lens and frames.

This fool is causing some regular people, problems.

I buy my glasses from a ¥100 shop, five at a time. Reading only. I would have to pay about ¥16,000 if I got them from an optician.

The first sentence gave me whiplash. Is the article about a guy stealing glasses, or is it about increased traffic violations and accidents by people riding motorized bicycles?

Do they mean e-bikes?

Haven't seen a moped for years since those Puch ones.

Probably, as E-bikes are now considered to be in the Moped classification of “two wheeled vehicles with an engine displacement not exceeding 50cc.”

Or it could be an older gas engine/pedal hybrid type like the Tomos.

"Glasses can be expensive AF,"

Automatic-Focus lens...?

> kurisupisuToday  07:36 am JST

A spec fetish?

Mental problems for sure…

He sure seems to have some strange obsession alright. The cops ought to get into his place to search for pairs of glasses.

Stah-RANGE!!!

To jail pathetic clown..

while riding a moped with pedals, 

What is a "moped with pedals"? Do they mean an electric bicycle, or something like Velo Solex (which I have never seen in Japan)?

Haven't seen a moped for years

All mopeds have pedals. The post office delivery workers use them all over Japan

are you sure it was moped?

something like this

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/sunday-morning-motors--421860690069196633/

?

I have never saw one here...possibly very "professional work" of journos?

N. Knight

All mopeds have pedals. The post office delivery workers use them all over Japan

The post office uses Honda Cubs. They have clutch and brake pedals. Is that what the article writer meant? I took "pedal" to mean pedals to move the contraption.

sick individual lock him up with the panty thieves and the stealing animal that steals slippers from daycare

kaimycahlDec. 3 10:42 pm JST

sick individual lock him up with the panty thieves and the stealing animal that steals slippers from daycare

They have weasels in Japanese prisons? :)