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Convenience store robber repents after 5 minutes

Tuesday 13th May, 04:36 AM JST

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10 Comments

  • GrouchyGaijin at 09:41 AM JST - 13th May

    Must be Catholic.

  • some14some at 10:59 AM JST - 13th May

    Good hearted man looking for a shelter due financial difficulties, purely a guess.

  • whitetrashed at 11:05 AM JST - 13th May

    Guess all the Pachinko parlors were closed so he couldn't gamble it away.

  • telecasterplayer at 12:06 PM JST - 13th May

    Perhaps the judge will reflect about Aoi-san's quick repentance, right before he sends him off to 3-to-5-years of being violated in prison.

  • xpompey8 at 12:21 PM JST - 13th May

    Which is more? 79,000yen or a week's worth of free food and accomodation?

  • romulus3 at 12:46 PM JST - 13th May

    he will probably get diversion. hard to see him as a hardened criminal much less as this was a cry for help

  • Notginger at 01:04 PM JST - 13th May

    What's "diversion"?

  • Hughgarse at 01:11 PM JST - 13th May

    “He said he stole because he didn’t have money, but he seems to have reflected immediately after his act.”

    horseshizer.... he was unemployed, so he probably wanted some free accomodation care of the government...

  • Seiryu at 01:56 PM JST - 13th May

    What's "diversion"?

    Usually some kind of community service, counseling classes, etc. Typically seen for juvenile offendors, petty violations and paricularly for DUI/DWAI types of crimes. Don't know if Japan's criminal justice system even has this, seems they are more interested in gaijin bike theft crime than drunk drivers?

    horseshizer.... he was unemployed, so he probably wanted some free accomodation care of the government...

    It's happened before.

  • LFRAgain at 09:31 AM JST - 14th May

    Unemployed doesn't automatically mean "homeless." Good on him for turning himself in so quickly. It sounds like he just needs help and I hope someone in the system finds a way to do that, rather than just locking him up, out-of-sight-out-of-mind.

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