Underwear thief arrested in Utsunomiya

The most popular news video on Yahoo! Japan this morning was about a 43-year-old underwear thief arrested in Tochigi Prefecture:

When questioned by the police, the man admitted his crime and said that he did it because he can feel at ease when surrounded by underwear.

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Comment by Made in DNA

2009-02-20 10:02:23

I wrote both a short comic script and video game scenario based on panty thieves of Japan. After a decade of being buried in news on panty-thieving in this country, it dropped into my lap like a pair of knickers knocked from a second floor balcony clothes line with a pole.

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Comment by Philip

2009-02-20 11:21:24

1600 pieces of women’s underwear……. respect.

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Comment by Jeremiah

2009-02-20 12:05:31

Happosai?

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Comment by Nin

2009-02-22 20:44:02

XD It’s awful what YouTube comes up with for related videos.

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