Man arrested for scattering mealworms inside train
A man in Osaka has been arrested after scattering 200 mealworms around inside a train car on the Keihan Railway:
The man, who was arrested for obstructing business, told police officers that he did it because he wanted to see the surprised reactions of other passengers:
At the time of his arrest, Mizuta had about 3,600 worms contained in small, photographic film cases in his bag, the police said.
The incident took place as the train was traveling on the Keihan line through the city of Neyagawa around 10:05 a.m.
The suspect, a resident of Hyogo Prefecture, is believed to have scattered about 200 mealworms, the larva of the darkling beetle, a feeder insect for birds. The railway car was cleaned immediately but the train was delayed by about three minutes, according to the police.
Why such a quick response? Apparently this wasn’t the first worm scattering incident on the Keihan line, so police were on the look out for worm-related activities.
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