Japanese robber calls police to confess
The 3Yen contributor, “ECM,” sent in this only-in-Japan behavior of Japanese robber calls police to confess while still in front of the convenience store he attempted to rob.
As “ECM writes, “in the USA he’d have pistol-whipped the woman and made off with the loot.”
Robber calls police to confess crime
October 2, 2009 — smh.com.au…..Takashi Owada, a 54-year-old unemployed man, demanded money from the 59-year-old female cashier at a convenience store in the northern city of Fukushima on Tuesday, a police spokesman said.
But she told him: “Don't be silly!”
Owada immediately changed his mind and said: “I'm sorry.”He called the police at the store exit with his own mobile telephone…more…
Such politeness sounds crazy but in Japan most criminals know that self-refection and confession automatically reduces the sentence of a crime by 50 to 80%….in a country with a conviction rate is 98%.
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