Convenience store robber repents after 5 minutes
OSAKA —
A man who stole cash from a convenience store by brandishing a knife turned himself in only five minutes later, saying he wanted to be punished, police said Monday. Ginji Aoi, a 23-year-old unemployed man, threatened a convenience store worker with a knife on Sunday in Osaka and got away with 79,000 yen, police said.
But as soon as he was out the door, he headed straight to a nearby police station, an officer at the station said. “He told police, ‘I did something bad,’” the officer said. “He said he stole because he didn’t have money, but he seems to have reflected immediately after his act.”
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GrouchyGaijin
Must be Catholic.
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some14some
Good hearted man looking for a shelter due financial difficulties, purely a guess.
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whitetrashed
Guess all the Pachinko parlors were closed so he couldn't gamble it away.
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telecasterplayer
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.
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xpompey8
Which is more? 79,000yen or a week's worth of free food and accomodation?
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romulus3
he will probably get diversion. hard to see him as a hardened criminal much less as this was a cry for help
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Hughgarse
horseshizer.... he was unemployed, so he probably wanted some free accomodation care of the government...
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Seiryu
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?
It's happened before.
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LFRAgain
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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