84-year-old woman apprehends 22-year-old burglar in Fukuoka

Monday 30th March, 09:51 AM JST

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IchyaWarFare at 02:02 PM JST - 30th March

Maybe he smarted up when he got caught.
Triumvere at 02:44 PM JST - 30th March

Awesome.
dennis0bauer at 03:13 PM JST - 30th March

bamboohat , maybe he just wants a roof over his head and jail provides that. I am glad he was not the psycopatic violent type.
yataFTW at 03:17 PM JST - 30th March

but she wouldn’t have a bar of it,

this was my favorite part. Don't ever try to pull one over on obasan, she's not buying it. Good for her.
norinrad21 at 03:27 PM JST - 30th March

Epic failure in life, that's what it is
DeepAir65 at 03:41 PM JST - 30th March

I am not sure it is good for her - she got lucky this time but it so easily could have gone anther way and we could have been reading her obituary :-(

I suspect denis0bauer is correct
Disillusioned at 07:01 PM JST - 30th March

Why was there a bag containing ¥140,000 in the kitchen on a Sunday morning and did the perp know it was there?
ca1ic0cat at 09:08 PM JST - 30th March

Go grandma go!

He's lucky she didn't have a gun....
space_monkey at 10:20 PM JST - 30th March

She probably did the old pointed finger in the pocket trick.
ZazoomZa at 02:08 AM JST - 31st March

good that it seemed all pretty quick; quick thinking of obaachan, the daughter and amazingly the police.
bushlover at 10:34 AM JST - 31st March

She shoulda tazered him. Just for coming in univited.
Himajin at 09:37 AM JST - 1st April

How about he just gently places her in another room and continues out of the household. What a knucklehead.

Aren't you glad he did though? He could have beaten her to death and didn't. Thank heavens.
sageb1 at 09:59 AM JST - 1st April

This would never have happened if Japan had a social welfare system.

Hopefully Katsu-san has learned the error of his ways. And hopefully he gets shunted into some make-work project rather than 5 years for theft.

This could work if people overcome their conservative attitude towards unemployed youth.
sageb1 at 10:28 AM JST - 1st April

as for the bars of iron, he was trying to sell them.
boboh at 08:51 PM JST - 1st April

If only Japanese males had as much intestinal fortitude as this lady.... And how tough does this guy look to his mates, he`s an embarassment to his relatives and friends, stealing or not.