The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below.
© 2013 AFPMan arrested for trying to kill woman with poisoned shoes
TOKYO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below.
© 2013 AFP
41 Comments
Login to comment
TokyoGas
Nut job.
TheDevilsAssistant
After reading the title of the article, I thought this guy tried to beat her down with poisonous shoes, or something.
Yubaru
Inquiring minds want to know.....why?
some14some
stalking.
Okinawamike
The interwebs, bring the latest sick attempt for love direct to your screen. Weird world.
nath
that guy did his homework in creative ways to kill apparently.
jimex289
Wow that sucks big time.
Ewan Huzarmy
Total social inadequate........ nothing says 'I love you' more than hydroflouric acid in the shoes. Twerp !
nath
If he is indeed guilty, he can break rocks the old fashioned way.
LiveInTokyo
I thought it going to be like that James Bond movie, "From Russia with Love", where the assailant had a poison-tipped retracting spike in her shoe. I'm glad the woman survived. It must be pretty potent stuff. I guess while no one was around he slipped the stuff into her shoe, but she never felt anything wet in them when she put them back on?
nath
Wow - almost like a spy novel. The craziness of some people neverceases to amaze.
nath
Beast & weirdo.
HonestDictator
The utter lack of mental therapy in Japan needs to be looked on. If a person has been pulled in for stalking, kidnapping, sexual assault, etc they need to be court ordered to see a therapist.
SauloJpn
WOW, scary story. People can be creative in quite a number of ways to kill someone. This is particularly heinous for there is no defense or even a way one could guard against such a unconventional attack. People from outside Japan could argue that you just don't let your private belongings out of your sight but in Japan you leave your shoes everywhere: hospitals, clinics, offices, houses, restaurants. (by the way not all places will require you to take your shoes off but a lot of them will)
Steve Fabricant
Hydrofluoric acid was used in Breaking Bad whenever someone or something needed to totally disappear. Better living through chemistry.
Yubaru
Seems to me that there is a whole lot more to this story than is being reported here. They work together so stalking seems to convenient an explanation.
Relationship gone bad? Spurned his advances? Who knows.
602miko
he failed !
MarkG
HF is nasty stuff. Just like T. Fukasawa. A Nasty man!
Dukeleto
Regardless of the "back storey" or "there's more to this story" nobody deserves to loose their toes and go through the agony of the surgery and recovery and rehabilitation both mentally and physically. People who perpetrate such hideous crimes against fellow human beings have no place in human society. They don't play by the rules so why should they get the benefit of them. Life in prison if convicted and removal of five toes so he can experience what she will experience for the rest of her life. Our civilised penalty system does not appear to deter uncivilised people. Bring back the "eye for an eye" penalty system and those that are intent on being uncivilised might think again or suffer the consequences of their actions. People who don't do this sort of thing would have nothing to worry about.
taj
Poison by dress attempt made on Queen Elisabeth the first is what came to my mind.
What a freak.
Maitake
phat!
Yubaru
Tell that to the people who live with the Taliban or suffer under Islamic law. Do you wear a veil too?
Meguroman
Mistake to use something available at his work place that most people could never get a hold of. Too traceable and rather dumb. Now who will pay for her medical expenses?
TheDevilsAssistant
Try putting the dork in her shoes
wowyz
its getting , its getting its getting kinda hectic....its getting its getting its getting kinda hectic....wonder what shinto ishihara would have said...???
Crazedinjapan
He didn't have to do too much homework if he got it from work, he must have know the side effects from on the job hazardous training. His work place may need to be scrutinized a bit as well for no controlling the substance there.
akkk1
What a heel!
nath
Like in a story from the brothers Grimm.
Knox Harrington
Damn.
It's good to know these kind of people are out there and that substances like this are this easily obtained by seemingly any old fool. Thankfully, kids are prohibited from using parks for ball games so we are safe.
Nutter.
humanrights
They should put some on his little fellow
fannybatter
athlete's foot will probably be no longer a threat but I hope he didn't screw with the new air jordans. pathetic loser anyone?
marialenit
My ghost! The chemical he was using can dissolve rocks....how much more the toes, soft toes of a woman.
MarkG
HydroFluoric acid (HF) is used in various levels of concentration. Lower concentrations are dangerous and may not dissolve rocks. Higher levels are fatal in hours. This seems to have been a diluted level of HF. This guy should be charged with attempted murder.
LH10
omg thats scary! and that disease is more scary. so depressing. hope he gets death sentence.
jj1980
I'm wondering how this acid could dissolve rocks but not shoes?
Maria Ybanez
I feel so bad for this woman. Just because a bad person got interest on her, she lost part of her body and her emotional health for this sad event.
hobart_mark
Whacko
ubikwit
@jj1980
inorganic vs organic acid, or something along those lines.
what a sick story.
cramp
that sucks big time...she should sue him for punitive damages
CatJammies
The man should be punished for both the crime and the failed attempt. It seems that no one can complete a single freakin' task anymore without screwing it up... Even criminals don't have any sense of pride or follow-through...