A man stole 270,000 yen from another man who was about to deposit it at an ATM at Odaiba in Tokyo on Wednesday morning.
According to police, the robbery took place at an ATM on the 1st floor of Aqua City at about 4:30 a.m., TBS reported. An employee of a bar told police he was getting ready to deposit the money when a man came up behind him and threatened him with a knife, demanding he hand over the money.
The employee was not injured, police said. The suspect was described as being 170 cms tall, wearing a white sweater over black pants. He also wore a white face mask, police said.
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rickyvee
hmmm...sounds awfully fishy to me. maybe he and his friend corroborated on the crime.
Shumatsu_Samurai
Hard to say. Bars can make significant cash deposits. He might have just been unlucky.
Amidalism
Good thing he wasn't wearing a hat too, then he'd blend in with all of the other muggers described in these articles.
timeon
damn, I use those ATMs on the 1st floor of AquaCity pretty often (the UFJ one). but not at 4:30 am
waltery
A bar-barous crime. If lived near by I would go to the bar and help recover their loses.
Elbuda Mexicano
What kind of an idiot has 270,000 yen CASH at 430 am??
timtak
Only 27 brown notes and this is the second highest headline? Gosh Japan is a safe place.
Elbuda Mexicano
If this does not sound like an inside job, I don't know what does! And this so called victim was not hurt at all??
nath
Are ATMs open at 4:30 a.m.? Who is not asleep at that hour? And why couldn't he wait till 9:00 a.m. like the rest of us?
Resurfaced
This is not coincidence. I am sure there is a lot more to this story. Why couldn't he wait till morning for a deposit and why carry that much in cash?
JonathanJo
Yes, machine's don't need so much sleep.
Night-club workers, and thieves.
To reduce the probability of being robbed of the money in the mean time, and avoid having to queue behind you.
avigator
That is what happens when water business rely so much on liquidity.
kingston
Don't be fool "its an insiders Job"...
Alex Tokyo
Someone who works for or owns a bar and doesn't want to leave 270,000 yen in cash there for another 12 or 13 hours until it opens up at 5-6pm (at which point, 270,000 will become 370,000, then 470,000 and so on).
If the bar's safe or tills were stolen, you'd be asking why the money was left in the bar. Can't win with some of you guys.
Mirai Hayashi
4:30am ...bad move
Joselito Asi
Whew... a companion (i.e., co-worker) should be with him during the time (4:30 a.m.) of making a deposit. Really a bad move!
BulltheBuffalo
Too many of you lead sheltered lives.
In rougher cities, it is completely commonplace for strongarm criminals to wait within view of an ATM after bar closing times, waiting for bar staff to come and make a deposit, or for last-round drunks to mug. At the bar I used to work at, the manager doing the cash deposit run always took two of the bouncers with him.
Looks like this practice has finally made it to Japan.
viking68
The employee was probably depositing cash from the register of the bar.
There are requirements for retail stores to deposit their take to the landlord. The landlord takes his share of the cash as part of the variable rent amount and remits the rest to the retail store owner.
Basically, this is likely someone who staked out the retail depositor and took his money. It could be an inside job, but it was more likely a planned robbery to steal the nights take from the bar.
Since this crime went so splendidly, expect to see more retail store depositors getting robbed in the middle of the night.