Police in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, have arrested a 53-year-old man on suspicion of violating the swords and firearms control law after he threatened a passenger on a bus.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 10:30 p.m. Friday on a bus in front of JR Nishi-Kawaguchi Station. TV Asahi reported that the suspect, who was on the bus, grabbed the man sitting in front of him and threatened him with a box cutter, saying “Would you like to die with me?”
Another passenger, a man in his 40s, grabbed the suspect’s arm and subdued him, while the driver called 110. No one was hurt in the incident.
Police quoted the suspect, who was drunk at the time of his arrest, as saying, “I got irritated because some of the passengers on the bus were staring at me.”
© Japan Today
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WilliB
This is actually scary. Violent nutters like this should locked away for a long time.
Sven Asai
Not so clever. Next, some prison mates will stare at him, but now he ran out of box cutters.
WA4TKG
Good Point Alex.
Can't recall the last time I carried a BOX Cutter around.
Alex
Also, one does not simply carry box cutters around with them in public spaces. Not unless they intend to use it.
Alex
He threatened violence because he thought people were staring at him? Do you know how many people stare at foreigners in Japan, even within big foreigner-filled cities like Tokyo? Imagine if a foreign person here threatened violence every time they were "stared at". Unbelievable.
Nuno Teixeira da Cunha
It looks like he pick his line from a action movie - you want to die with me? Its always a jobless man in the crime. Why doesn't the social services get them a job?
Lindsay
Uh, oh! Another freak off his leash. Hope this one gets a good psych evaluation and counseling. Sadly, it’s more likely he’ll get a strong talking to, make an apology and be back on the bus tomorrow.
englisc aspyrgend
They surely were after you behaved like a total twat!
shogun36
Not one person was looking at you, Rockwell.
No one checks out random 50 year old dudes.