A 45-year-old man who allegedly hijacked a bus because he wanted to visit his parents was arrested in Miyazaki Prefecture, police said Monday, after he let the driver go to the toilet.
The local bus was traveling from Miyazaki airport to Miyakonojo just before 10 p.m. Sunday, when Seiichi Sato threatened the driver and passengers with a pair of scissors, Jiji press reported.
"We received an emergency call at 10 p.m. from one of the passengers who said the bus had been hijacked," a spokesman for Miyazaki police told AFP.
Media reports suggested the bus made a number of stops to let passengers off, before pulling over at a convenience store some time before midnight.
After a stand-off that lasted more than an hour, officers swooped when Sato let the driver off the bus, ostensibly to go to the toilet, media reported.
Sato told police he had hijacked the bus "to see my foster parents in Ebino city", Fuji Television reported.
No one on the bus was injured, police said.
© (c) 2014 AFP
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wontond
Of course he is!
khulifi
Probably Sato san will tell police investigators that he did not remember what he did ...!!
TSRnow
Only in Japan....?
Laguna
Disappointed - thought he'd have asked the drive to take him to Cuba....
stormcrow
And the village idiot award goes to . . .
MyJT2014
Give the man a break he just wanted to visit his foster parents. What a good son he is even those he has no money still make an effort the pay the parents a visit. “The thought that count” Was it mother’s day.
nath
"Sato told police he had hijacked the bus “to see my foster parents in Ebino city”
by any means necessary.....
StormR
C'mon folks he was just trying to go see his mummy, after all it was mothers day.
He could have just bought a ticket for crying out loud, just lie everyone else had done.
Stewart Gale
Mental illness.
TSRnow
Thank you some for the thumbs down, but it was really just an innocent question. I didn't know scissors were used so often in armed robberies or assaults! So google tells me...
Horenzo
"Man arrested for hijacking bus in Miyazaki" "to see my foster parents in Ebino city"
Good intentions...Bad methodology..
"threatened the driver and passengers with a pair of scissors"
intimidated people to get his way....what a bantam, his foster parents raised.
avimazalto
It wouldnt suprise me if japanese government now restrics the sell of scissors in Japan because one case, this is the logic here, ohh he used scissors to hijack the bus so scissors are dengerous and we should all restric them in Japan, my god help us all.
Abhorsenaube
If only Japan had an affordable, reliable public transportation system. I don't see how he decided this was even remotely a good idea, could he not of just payed to ride the bus or trains? I never found Japan's public transportation system to be too expensive with the exception of extended taxi rides or the Shinkansen. Even then my immediate thought wasn't "guess I'll just hijack it then"