“The 44 year-old who stole chocolates from national
civil servant: ‘I wanted [the chocolates]’”
—real title of a news
item, Yomiuri Shimbun, Feb. 18, 2013
On February 16 (Sat), a 44 year-old, self-described
unemployed Sendai resident was arrested for stealing a bag of Valentine’s chocolates
and other things worth a total of approximately 550 yen off a bicycle owned by
a national civil servant. The civil servant chased down the thief and took him
down.
To be sure, the story did not appear in the
hardcopy Tokyo edition. Still, as a former national civil servant, it’s nice to
see a civil servant mentioned in the media as the victim, not the perpetrator,
of a common crime. What next, an ex-policeman making a citizen’s arrest on a
shoplifter? A Self-Defense Force sailor on shore leave rescuing a kitten from a
tree? Stay tuned.
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