Two Chinese women arrested for stealing vegetables
November 17th, 2008 by James
Asahi TV reports about two Chinese women who were arrested for stealing lettuce from a farm field in Kamakura:
Police, who had been patrolling the area after several reports of stolen vegetables in the last couple weeks, caught the two women as they were pilfering 32 heads of lettuce and two garland chrysanthemums from a farm field at 8:00PM on the 14th. The women, both trainees at a local dry cleaning company, said they stole the vegetables because they had no money and needed food. According to FNN, the estimated value of the vegetables stolen was about 5,100 yen.
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pretty sad that
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If they really are stealing food to survive – and being Chinese immigrants in a low-paying menial job, I’m sure that it’s likely – then I hope that they are treated leniently, and that anti-foreigner/Chinese prejudice doesn’t affect the outcome of their trial (assuming that they are charged of course).
It’s pretty sad that in one of the most affluent and advanced societies in the world, these women apparently felt that they didn’t have any other options. I’m not going to be popular for saying this, but I wonder whether the fact that Japan has relatively few NGOs/NPOs in comparison to other first world nations has anything to do with this.
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I remember seeing this VERY IMPORTANT GAIJIN HANZAI story on the national news well ahead of, like REAL news of international importance. My god they frikkin stole 30 heads of lettuce, possibly MORE! And the annoucners made it very clear that these womens’ story about needing food was a joke [maybe they were feeding their co-workers, too?]
[Not criticizing this site]
If it weren’t Chinese people, it wouldn’t even be on page 20 of a local shimbun, and we all know it.
Alarmist anti-gaijin jourmalism hits another new low double-standard.
Wonder if these ladies are in the special slave-”trainee” visa program?
What’s the next story? An Iranian paying his phone bill 1 week late? A Brazilian parking illegally?
How about the government takes the 5100 yen out of their 12,000 yen each economic stimulus BS cash gift.
Oh wait, foreigners don’t get any of that, even though we tend to be poorer, still pay taxes, get no welfare benefits from the government if we are poor, and could actually use it.
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Screw it. I think I’ll call the TV news next time I see a gaijin jaywalking. See if they bring the cameras down to the scene and do a hard hitting story.
Everyone join in!
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Level 3. Indeed right!!! no right to make fusszz out of this. Eventhough I don’t like chinese people but I feel sad for ‘em and hope they won’t get deported just because of stealing vegs.
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Poverty is the reason for most crime all over the world.
A sad story indeed, but never a worthy excuse for crime.
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Well, yet another shocking piece of top-notch, crack J-Journalism!! As for why it was such a hot press item put ahead of all other “mediocre” international news, they clearly must have left out some details like “their pilferring of 32 heads of lettuce directly caused the national vegetable shortage”. I suppose now upon entering the country we foriegn devils will have to have pictures taken, scan our fingerprints, and acknowledge whether or not we eat vegetables (answering Yes will likely land you on a Organic-Terrorist Watch List).
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