Man robs convenience store of Y100,000 in Ibaraki
IBARAKI —
A man robbed a convenience store of 100,000 yen in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Sunday morning.
According to police, the man entered a 7-Eleven store at around 4 a.m. and threatened the 30-year-old male employee on duty with a knife, TV Asahi reported. He demanded money and fled with 100,000 yen, police said.
There were no customers in the store at the time. A second employee, 22, was also in the store, but neither employee was hurt.
The suspect is described as being in his 20s or early 30s, about 170 cms tall, dressed in gray and wearing a baseball cap and mask over his mouth.
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FightingViking
No surveillance cameras? This has been happening quite often recently, they should be able to come up with some sort of defence against these attacks!
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FightingViking
The person who thumbed me down must be the thief...
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ivarwind
They did, and as this story recounts, it worked perfectly - the robber was given the rather limited amount of cash and nobody got hurt! Not exactly newsworthy, though.
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the-grouch
There are deterrents. However, why defend the money or goods? Let the security cameras inside and outside the store do their job. As for the employees, good for them they didn't fight. SOMEONE could have gotten hurt not to mentioned killed. At that point, no amount of money could replace human life. Let the thief take it all... he will be caught. At the end of the day, everyone goes home, everyone is alive BUT the only one who can't sleep is the thief. He's nervous, he's anxious and above all he's regretting every event that led up to his actions.
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billyshears
Coming from Chicago, I agree. But it's probably a good sign that in a country of 126,000,000 people this story makes the news. There was a TV report of a similar attack in Osaka last night though (the robber used a cutter knife and got away with 90,000 yen)
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Ranger_Miffy2
Wearing the "doctor" mask...good call on the thief's part. So how far is that Y100,ooo yen going to take this thief? Perhaps he should reconsider his life's course while he is at it.
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Ben Jack
I have never seen a convenience store without them. I assume that in addition to the employees description that the data from the camera was used to create the profile mentioned in the article.
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jojo_in_japan
In the US/Canada a 24 hour convenience store would have less then $50 bucks in till. 1. You want to deter crime, carry less cash or at least have a cash drop system as most stores have in the west. No $ to steal, no crime to happen. 2. As others have already wrote let the cameras do the work. No point risking life and limb for min.wage. 3. Train staff to spot suspicious ppl, it never hurts to call for help.
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Tom Webb
Two employees and they couldn't over-power one thief with a knife? What happened to JP employee's concern to protect the employer's goods at all cost?
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Ben Jack
Employees are trained not to take such risks. The most important thing is safety. I guarantee this is the policy where you come from as well.
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Tom Webb
BJ, where I come from, you will get shot if you try to rob a convenience store!
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Ben Jack
Tom,
Okay, but I think they are doing that more to protect themselves and their customers rather than store goods. Anyway, in almost all cases, store employees in Japan do not have guns.
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