37-year-old woman arrested for using lost credit card at Tokyo Disneyland

Thursday 16th October, 01:58 PM JST

CHIBA —

Police on Wednesday arrested a 37-year-old housewife for buying 65 one-day passports for Tokyo Disneyland with a credit card she found in Urayasu City, Chiba Prefecture.

Kyoko Kuroda was arrested for allegedly using the lost credit card at Tokyo Disneyland’s ticket counter to buy the passports worth about 350,000 yen on Sept 15. According to police, Kuroda found the credit card inside Tokyo Disneyland while she was there with her 8-year-old son.

Kuroda bought 65 passes around 2:30 p.m. and tried to buy more around 4:55 p.m. but the credit card company reported the fraud use to Disneyland. Kuroda tried to flee into the theme park but was soon caught by Disneyland staff.

Kuroda denied the allegations at first but finally confessed, saying, “I wanted to exchange the passes for money to pay back a housing loan.”

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maryhinge at 08:29 PM JST - 16th October

Silly cow should have stopped after the first scam, but then the ticket will have serial numbers. A no brainer! In a land where to make money is easy, why not use your brain. Sorry- I was thinking as a non Japanese then. Cheers.
Gloobey at 09:23 PM JST - 16th October

That's a good point. I don't have a criminal mind..

Not sure you would actually need to have a criminal mind to know that you need a PIN number to withdraw money from an ATM..
bamboohat at 09:40 PM JST - 16th October

What the heck is a gal with a loan big enough to steal for doing at disneyland? shouldn't they be at the park or something?
seesaw at 09:46 PM JST - 16th October

silly woman..!
MeanRingo at 09:51 PM JST - 16th October

I would pay to see Mickey, Donald Duck whatever the hell Goofy is and the the rest of the Disney gang running down a 37-year-old woman with batons drawn and perhaps a tazer charged and ready to zap. At least I assume the above are who they mean when they say employees of Tokyo Disney. Maybe they could get some sort of scrappy cat fight between this chick and Poccahontas. Awesome.
Betting at 11:58 PM JST - 16th October

Can't pay off her housing loan, but can afford to go to Disneyland ... /sigh.
WilliB at 12:02 AM JST - 17th October

Poor kid, having to watch his mom doing something that stupid and then being arrested.
Zuleyka at 05:20 AM JST - 17th October

yeah right moron, i pity her son..
CMEANDU26 at 09:10 AM JST - 17th October

Just dumb? If she got away with it on the first purchase what would make her think that it was going to be ok for the second one? Greedy.
Good_Jorb at 09:38 AM JST - 17th October

She should have bought some Disney merchandise and character goods, they would have most likely gone up in price as soon as she out of Disneyland and not near as traceable. Made Disney will make her and her son work in the it's a small world ride with all the other poor souls who tried to shake down mickey.
elbudamexicano at 01:35 PM JST - 17th October

Poor woman! She was just trying to have a good time a Disneyland!
BBLeo at 02:08 PM JST - 17th October

What you find anywhere you have to be honest and look for the owner or hand it to police. You could take away something valuable from an honest citizen, and perhaps even poor. Grid will lure you to Devils in detail. At her age she should be shamed of herself.
Spidey at 03:10 PM JST - 17th October

Was she going to scalp the passports? Who would buy them?

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WilliB at 05:01 PM JST - 17th October

Spidey:

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" Was she going to scalp the passports? Who would buy them? "

If you have not noticed, they have second-hand shops for all sorts of tickets (trains, movie, Disneyland, whatever) all over in Tokyo. That would not have been a problem.

The woman should have thanked her luck she got away with it once. But trying the same again 2 hours later was simply dumb.
cagedislander at 01:47 PM JST - 19th October

Poor kid! Foolish woman! Poor financial planning to say the least!.....