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Police in Chiba city said Sunday they have arrested a 51-year-old man on suspicion of groping a woman on a train on the JR Sobu Line, as well as forcible obstruction of business.
Police said a woman accused the man, Shinya Ieda, of groping her on the train. When the train arrived at Makuharihongo Station at around 8 p.m. Saturday, she asked station staff for help, Fuji TV reported.
While station staff were questioning Ieda in the office, he fled from the office, ran along the platform, jumped onto the tracks and climbed up a steel transmission pole where he sat perched on a steel beam for about two hours.
JR East said train services on the Sobu Line were suspended for about 2 ½ hours until police and firefighters talked Ieda into coming down.
© Japan Today
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Ah_so
Great escape plan
Mlodinow
Should have tasered him down...
Tokyo-Engr
Wow! As much as I do not like gropers I gotta admire the effort by this guy.
I imagine he will be punished but maybe the worst or most painful will punishment will be the invoice he receives from JR
maybeperhapsyes
Gotta love how folk just assume he is guilty ;)
Ricky Kaminski
The one that DIDN’T get away.
Pukey2
Exactly. Some people actually enjoy perching on steel towers, having a good gossip with the sparrows.
socrateos
Japan: He runs away and climbs up a steel tower and sit there for a couple hours before police and fire fighters convince him into coming down.
US: Police shoots him down.
nakanoguy01
Gotta love how only guys think he may be innocent.
cla68
The story doesn’t say, but I expect the police and station personnel sealed off the tracks at either end which is why he climbed the tower.
Michael Jackson
Stupid, he should have just kept running.
Michael Jackson
@ nakano - how can you possibly know that only guys think he's innocent?
Vince Black
No way to go but down, boy!
maybeperhapsyes
He's sat up there because he knows that whether he is guilty or not, he'll more than likely be found guilty, lose his job, maybe do a bit of time (23 days?) and lay down some cash to the victim.
Seem fair to you?
commanteer
He was desperate. He suddenly knew his life as he knew it was over, and reacted that way. I do feel some sympathy. I don't support what he did, but it is sad to see his (and his family's life) ruined because he couldn't control his urges. Many men are brought down this way.
Toshihiro
Considering how evidence and witnesses can frame him up, running away only makes you look more guilty. Running up a transmission pole, really?
kurisupisu
Literally, ‘up the pole’
Wakarimasen
Not the greatest escape plan.