Dahon.Steve
12-23-04, 08:46 AM
SHIZUOKA -- A man who stole a bicycle and later asked for directions at a police box was arrested Thursday after officers felt he was acting suspiciously, police said.
Naoya Enobi, 28, a man describing himself as a company employee from Obu, Aichi Prefecture, stole a bicycle from an elderly woman's home in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture at about 11 p.m., Wednesday.
He then visited a local police box near JR Fujinomiya Station and asked officers for the way to JR Shinfuji Station on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line.
After one of the officers told him that the bullet train station was located some 10 kilometers from the police box, Enobi told them that he had come from Aichi Prefecture.
The officers, feeling the man was acting suspiciously, asked him who owned the bicycle.
Enobi finally admitted that he had stolen the bicycle and was arrested for theft. (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Sept. 16, 2004)
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200409/16/20040916p2a00m0dm008000c.html
Naoya Enobi, 28, a man describing himself as a company employee from Obu, Aichi Prefecture, stole a bicycle from an elderly woman's home in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture at about 11 p.m., Wednesday.
He then visited a local police box near JR Fujinomiya Station and asked officers for the way to JR Shinfuji Station on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line.
After one of the officers told him that the bullet train station was located some 10 kilometers from the police box, Enobi told them that he had come from Aichi Prefecture.
The officers, feeling the man was acting suspiciously, asked him who owned the bicycle.
Enobi finally admitted that he had stolen the bicycle and was arrested for theft. (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Sept. 16, 2004)
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/archive/200409/16/20040916p2a00m0dm008000c.html