Canadian man arrested at Narita airport for stealing camera

Big brother is always watching, fool!

At 52, in the country of surveillance cameras, why take chances. Stealing is a bad habit. And it does not pay in the end.

Now he will be in custody for the max 23 days and then charged. Twat.

This guy must have been really desperate or really stupid, or both, to shoplift at an airport.

Wow! Canadians have stupid people too??

Lol. 52 and going through a Japanese airport suggests he has some money...dude why stealing? Say goodbye to ever seeing Japan again

lol... why is this even news? Does shop lifting cases make news in Japan?

lol... why is this even news? Does shop lifting cases make news in Japan?

Great point, Chucky. How many Japanese shoplifters do we hear about?

This is just bizzare. He has the money to fly half way around the world... but thinks that it is a wise use of his airplane ticket cost to try and swipe a digital camera??!!

Of course there might be a mix-up here. I often find Japanese stores' layouts really confusing. Sometimes there's just a red tape line on the floor showing where one shop ends and the next one begins, and when I first came to Japan I thought they marked emergency evacuation routes, but I payed much more attention when I found out that if you step "out" of the shop you're in without paying then technically you've stolen and can be arrested

Here's a link to the TV report that shows the guy and names him. エル アリス アブドゥル カデール Maybe "El Alis Abdul Kader" or something?

http://www.fnn-news.com/news/headlines/articles/CONN00246623.html

Not all Canadians are bad.

He doesn't look too concerned about his action while munching on his buttered loaf of white bread. Maybe in the middle east it's considered a cavaliers delict. From Canada? That's what his cap says ;)

Now he will be in custody for the max 23 days and then charged. Twat.

caught in transit, bound for? when will he reach final destination....?

What kind of colossal moron would try to steal anything in a place with 50 surveillance cameras per square meter...?

Obviously this guy...

Now he will be in custody for the max 23 days and then charged. Twat.

Nah... For one He's Canadian, Japanese Immigration Loves Canadian's, secondly, he was caught stealing, not smuggling Heroin, or even riding an Illegal unregistered bicycle (which in Japan carries a minimum sentence compatible with 1st degree murder...)

They'll get him to confess, then make him apologize, and he'll be on a one way flight back to Canada, or starting a new English Teaching gig in Chiba, before the month is over... I'd say the odds are a pretty even 50-50 split on which of these two actions occurs!

Hey Chucky, it shows the honesty and morality in Japan. Maybe stealing things and committing crimes could be common at your place.

Does shop lifting cases make news in Japan?

Um... You are commenting it are you not?

@roof_of_the_world

Hey Chucky, it shows the honesty and morality in Japan. Maybe stealing things and committing crimes could be common at your place.

They are NO more common-place, any more or less than Japan, but they certainly DON'T make Headline news... I would bet he wasn't the only human being caught shoplifting on that day, and I would bet, he certainly wasn't the worst offender in the Tokyo metropolitan area on that day... Want to take that bet...? There a're tons of foreigners in other countries arrested for stealing things, the difference is, they don't make headline news out of it...

That was his point, Roofy...

Yes chucky3176. In your country, and in my home county it would newsworthy if a day passed without shoplifting from an airport store. In Japan, petty crime is definitely newsworthy, thankfully so.

Canadian arrested at Narita? Call the Economist!

According to Chiba prefectural police, the man, who is a Canadian citizen, was waiting in transit at Narita airport for a connecting flight

His wait is over. He'll be landing shortly at... Fuchu Prison.

If you can afford to fly Canada-Japan, presumably you can afford to buy your own camera. Maybe he drank too much booze on the flight over. Still no reason to use "five-finger discount" (had to use that phrase, it's what kids in school years ago called shoplifting)

Watching the news video from the link made me LOL. The guy is a douche!

They'll still probably try to beat a confession out of him.... and as with most Japanese articles they'll report a nice short blurb on what drove him to commit the crime.

Elbda: Wow! Canadians have stupid people too??"

Har! Hey, there are stupid people in every country, this guy is one!

Buhahaha... We do have stupid people for sure. Sometimes we send them to international airports to make fools of themselves.

I would love to hear this guy's phone call home.

Send his arse back to Lebanon. Or Montreal...))

Maybe this man has mental issue and needs help. Better to send him off to hospital than koban. Holding him inside four wall is not answer -- he needs psychiatric treatment.

Wow! The video clip is priceless! Just eating a sandwich like nothing has happened and fully decked out in Canadian apparel. Maybe he wanted to make Canadians look bad while trying to prevent himself from going back to Canada.

Darwin award candidate.

He doesn't look too concerned about his action while munching on his buttered loaf of white bread. Maybe in the middle east it's considered a cavaliers delict. From Canada? That's what his cap says ;)

Yea, he's probably like, "This place is easy, They not only let me keep my hands, They gave me some Munchies!"

Stole a camera and caught by a camera. Interesting...

I am Canadian and apologize for the actions of this man.

Well he went fo a nikon at least it is a good choice :P

@Dennis711

Darwin award candidate. I'd suggest you look it up the meaning of Darwin Award. To qualify here, shoplifting would require a death penalty....

Wow you guys are starting to get ridiculous with the constant bitching of the J cops, if they miss some guy, you bitch. If they bust some guy, you bitch. If they send too few guys to a riot, you whine. If they send their whole station, you whine again. They won't beat this guy or keep him for three weeks at the station, he's probably already back in Canada. Shop lifting leads to a fine at worst.

On a side note, from how these guys act it doesn't look like a regular shoplifting

At an airport, with very limited options for escape? Sounds to me like the guys a kleptomaniac.

Wow! Funny - "Stole a camera and caught by a camera". Not too smart a man...and all that stress of being arrested on top of having jet lag. Hey wait, maybe he can use that as an excuse in court: "I had jetlag and wasn't thinking rationally".

i think im the wiser person here ,so i wait until i get the real story not only from tabloid ,so i can judge the canadian now :its was just misunderstanding , so people stop judging people , without knowing the truth

you have to be insane to do anything illegal in an airport. They have practically more cameras than people there and if you are a passenger then they already have every detail on you and they will find you.

Chucky3176... Yes shoplifting is news to Japan because this is the most honest country in the world! I've lived here for more than 30 years and I can vouch for that. I misplaced my engagement ring twice during yoga class and in a shopping mall.....got it back twice as well!!!!!!!! Only in Japan!