A 53-year-old woman has been arrested in Kawabe town, Gifu Prefecture, for throwing raw eggs at a neighbor's house on two days.
According to police, Yoshiko Kakamu, is accused of harassing her neighbor by throwing multiple raw eggs at the house on July 19 and July 25, broadcaster NTV reported.
Police said Kakamu has denied the allegation. However, police said surveillance camera footage showed her throwing the eggs from a window of her house.
When she was put into a police car after being arrested, Kakamu yelled abuse at onlookers.
The woman who lives in the house next to Kakamu told local media: "At times, it was about 20 eggs. I don't know why I have to live like this. I haven't done anything to her. She started throwing eggs into my balcony and garden around the beginning of December 2019 and it has been happening regularly since then.”
Feeling in danger, the woman said she installed a security camera. Kakamu was arrested once on the same charge three years ago, but continued to commit similar acts since then.
The woman said Kakamu would dump trash on her property and call her an old hag.
The two women have been neighbors for about 20 years.
© Japan Today
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Abe234
Well someone really took this to the EGGstreme.
Some dude
Siri, show me what passes for exciting headline news in Gifu.
Sid
Doctors have confirmed that due to stress she just cracked up, apparently suffering from shell-shock.
Hawk
What's the matter? Can't take a yolk?
BB
You guys joke, but for this woman it's a real eggsistential crisis, so...
virusrex
I hope the arrest have more lasting consequences this time, obviously it did not do much the first time so maybe something more serious is justified now.
Jimizo
I get the feeling this bad feeling started a long tamago.
piskian
Wow,eggs being as pricey as they are,I would have set up some kind of net and looked on the sunny side of the situation.
lostrune2
Halloween is getting earlier and earlier in Japan each passing year!
Cephus
A nutcase crying for mental help?
ClippetyClop
Haha! You win it. Whatever it was, you won it. All of it.
Mocheake
The shelling went on for quite a few years so I hope we can find out eggzactly what caused the feud. You never know she could have been egged on by someone or her mind was just scrambled to begin with.
Some dude
The neighbour, who studied French at university, repeatedly told the accused "hey, that's an oeuf!"
TheDalaiLamasBifocals
In this heat they will be fried by the time they hit the neighbour's house.
WA4TKG
Somebody beat me to it:
Happy Halloween
Pukey2
I'm trying to find the egg pun.
kaimycahl
The neighbor who got bomb tried to figure out what came first the egg or the chicken once she installed cameras she realized it was the chicken neighbor that came first who threw the eggs after 20 years of hatching them she saved up enough to throw!
Abe234
Its at times like this the police really go the EGGstra Mile. Nothing worse than a rotten egg for neighbour.
falseflagsteve
Obviously she has some kind of mental illness, I mean she done it before. Well. She needs help, least she don’t appear to be dangerous you see.
Newgirlintown
I’m sure the woman will have a ‘whale’ of a time in prison!
commanteer
Clearly trying to eggs-terminate her.
Richard Jordan
how is this even news? Shame on you Japan Today
WA4TKG
People in the West don’t normally COOK eggs they’re going to throw at something.
virusrex
Why would not this be news?
Not everything has to be a world changing event in order to appear on the news, people can be interested in unusual things happening and this surely is something out of the ordinary.
Nagoya Neko
I'm thinking there is more to this relationship than what is being told, unless she's just a nutjob.
factchecker
The EGG is on the perpetrators face now being placed under arrest.
patkim
Well, if it were just a few eggs a day, then it wouldn't be news. However, it seems like this has been going on for some time now and at most 20 or more eggs were being thrown each day. I don't know about everyone else, but if those eggs were being thrown at my house, I would be angry and take it to the police. The sad reality of it all is that you just can't pick your neighbors. I'm so lucky that there are no weird neighbors where I live, but I feel for those who have to live everyday next to a weirdo.
wallace
I would crack one but eggs are expensive these days.