Police in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, have arrested a 25-year-old man on suspicion of home invasion after he was found sleeping in another person’s home on Sunday morning.
According to police, the 53-year-old man who lives in the house awoke and found the intruder, who is a firefighter, sleeping on a sofa in the living room and called police, local media reported. The two men do not know each other.
Police said the firefighter was drunk at the time and quoted him as saying he does remembers entering the house at around 5 a.m. but nothing other than that.
The lock to the man's house had been broken for some time.
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sakurasuki
Common phrase in Japan, I don't remember that.
Laguna
Happened to me once when I was living in Taiwan. The guy was asleep half-way into my window. I'd recently noticed money missing, but he was a poor student, so I let him off with a stern warning.
Aly Rustom
Laguna- that was very big of you.
Stephen Chin
So? What's wrong with that? The man was very tired and so lay down to sleep! Perhaps he thought he was in his own house and lay down to sleep because hervwas so tired. What's wrong with that?
falseflagsteve
Sounds like he was drunk
Jonathan Prin
Is that a crime to mistake your home ?
No breaking, no hurt, nothing.
Maybe just snooring.
What a news !
bo
Guy needed a sleep ,wasn't harming anyone .
BeerDeliveryGuy
This happens quite often in big cities with identical looking apartment blocks and lots of late night drunks.
I once woke up to a 30 something year old looking woman sleeping on my sofa and half empty carton of milk on the floor.
I had to leave for work, so I left her sleeping. When I came home that evening, there was a new carton of milk in the fridge, a 6-pack of beer, and 20 bucks on the table.
Diego3
BeerDeliveryGuy: Too bad you didn't get her number! She was a keeper!
masterblaster
What's with the owner of the house not fixing a broken lock?
Rootless
Yesterday, many communities held a bonfire gathering called "Don-do Yaki." Typically, sake is handed around and the firefighters show up to make sure that the fire is doused at the conclusion of the event. (We live in a farming community and participated in this event yesterday.) They are often gifted with the leftover sake. (Our assigned firefighter went home with an unopened bottle of the local brew.) This article's firefighter apparently drank all of his gift in one go and had to sleep it off somewhere. Hopefully he fulfilled his firefighter duties first and doused the fire before dousing himself.
John-San
Master: I never lock up anything. My House my car is always unlock. I hate locks. Over 40 years and never had a problem.
falseflagsteve
John
Strewth, lucky you don’t live in my manor then. Your car would go within the hour, make no mistake.
owzer
Did the guy wake up to a fire in his house?
No? Looks like the firefighter was keeping things safe. Well done!
Makoto Shimizu
The drunk guy needs immediate psychological, psychiatric treatment, he is not a criminal, but a human being in need of mental health support.
Elvis is here
Diid some one steal your car?
Cephus
Perhaps the guy was tired or had a drink one too many!. Please note, If you live in huge apartments where everything is identical. Its very easy to mistake your Apartment from your neighbors especially drunk.
Elvis is here
I don't always come home drunk, but when I do, I sleep in my bed, after taking a shower
Our house is upside-down. The sleeping area is downstairs whilst the living area is upstairs so it's quite easy to do, you see.
Mocheake
Reason to get that lock fixed and USE it too. The firefighter is 100 percent at fault but when you lock the door, someone has to pick the lock, break down the door, etc, and I don't think this guy had his firefighting gear with him. The only place I would never lock my door every night is heaven.
Chico3
Oh come on! This excuse gets old before we know it. I should be rich by now, after hearing this so many times.
John-San
garypen: I can't lock up stuff. I have a problem with locking anything. I have hard time staying at hotel like Route Inn were the door lock itself unless I place a shoe or something between the door and door jam. Some people hate heights, confine spaces; I can,t lock stuff and this bloke is probably the same.
Martimurano
Amnesia - a very popular medical condition here in Japan.
BeerDeliveryGuy
Diego3:
Believe me, the thought did cross my mind, and my young imaginative mind was making up multiple scenarios of what to do if she was still there when I got back.
I had to leave at like 5am, because I was still in the military back then, but I left her a note that said something to the effect of; “I’m sure you’ve noticed by now, but this is not your apartment. Don’t freak out, you are at (my street address), and I found you here at 3am today. You look like you had a fun night so I didn’t wake you. Help yourself to anything in the fridge, and feel free to use the bathroom and shower. Feel free to stay as long as you need to.”
I didn’t have anything valuable in the my apartment, so having stuff stolen wasn’t a concern. And it was the mid 90’s and people were a lot more trusting.
CaptDingleheimer
Was the man dressed in his firefighting gear? No? Then the headline doesn't need the word "firefighter" in it.
'Man finds a drunk sleeping in his living room', or finds a "man" sleeping in his living room- a man or a drunk or a drunk man who happens to be a firefighter. If he was a janitor or a cook at a curry restaurant, I doubt the profession would've made it into the headline.
Paul
Shows how safe Japan is! My neighbor never locks his house.
kurisupisu
Why call the police?
It seems to be an honest mistake
Don’t Japanese know how to deal with situations without calling the cops?
iradickle
LOL, this comment with this article!? Wow