Toilet paper thief arrested!
In another hard-hitting national news story, a staff member at high school in Osaka has been punished for stealing toilet paper:
The 44-year-old female staffer was allegedly caught putting toilet paper — worth 37 yen — into her bag on Aug. 23 last year. The principal of the school subsequently filed a report with police.
The woman was summarily indicted and fined 100,000 yen. She reportedly has admitted to the allegations, but said she “didn’t know” when asked why she had stolen the toilet paper.
The woman’s colleagues had apparently been watching her behavior after toilet paper began running out at an abnormally fast pace around September 2004.
