Current Events > 31-year-old arrested for stealing whistles from little girls

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On May 17, in a park in Kasuga City, Fukuoka Prefecture, an 11-year-old girl was playing jump-rope in a park after school. For her security, she had been given an ID tag and a crime prevention whistle to blow in case of trouble.

On this particular day, however, it was initially hard to tell if trouble had arrived in the form of a 31-year-old man who approached the girl. Blow your whistle, requested the man, and when the girl refused, he grabbed it and the tag from around her neck and ran away.

The girl was unharmed but quickly reported the incident to police. Her description of the thief matched that of similar reports in the area of a strange man asking girls to blow their whistles and then running away.

Something in this latest report must have been a big tip off though, because on Friday, Fukuoka Prefectural Police announced the suspects arrest. In addition, upon searching his home, police discovered a collection of 12 similar whistles. They are currently investigating how each of these whistles came into his possession.

The whistles were put on display for the media along with a sign officially declaring this incident as a tokui setto or unusual theft. Adding to the peculiarity of it, the suspect reportedly admitted to the crime saying, I like girls around elementary schools age. I wanted her to blow the whistle.

Online comments were equally confused, one comment also suggested a possible link to the web comic/anime "Made in Abyss" which features a 12-year-old heroine who is part of a group of cave explorers which uses different colored whistles to assign ranks.

Hopefully the suspect is just a really socially inept anime fan whos totally into whistles and thinks little girls are simply cool. Tensions in Japan have been heightened following the murder of a seven-year-old girl in Niigata and an overall apparent spike in bizarre incidents involving adult men and adolescent girls.

Maybe its wishful thinking, but hopefully this time an unusual theft is really nothing more than your average run-of-the-mill unusual theft of whistles.

Full Article: https://japantoday.com/category/crime/31-year-old-arrested-for-stealing-whistles-from-little-girls



Wasn't this a Father Ted episode?
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The is the most Japan thing ever
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brotrrwinner posted...

The is the most Japan thing ever

Don't be racist
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