Cruise News 9/5/18
In the murky predawn hours of August 31st on the mean streets of Tokyo, a young man, working the graveyard shift at a Family Mart convenience store, heard the familiar chime of the doors opening. However, this was no customer calling at 4:10 in the morning — it was a robber.
Reaching into his pocket, the crook pulled out a pair of … nose hair trimmers with a three-centimeter blade that glistened menacingly under the fluorescent lights. With a cold gaze, the middle-aged robber demanded to the clerk, “Don’t move, get out the money.”
This presented a dilemma for the 25-year-old worker: If he got out the money, he would be breaking the “don’t move” command. On the other hand, if he stopped moving, there would be no way for him to take out the cash.
The threat of the tiny scissors and their rounded tips combined with his assailant’s unmeetable demands must have been too much for the clerk, so he simply ran away.
The confusion among both parties luckily managed to eat up enough time that an officer on patrol could be alerted to the crime in progress and rushed over to the scene to make the arrest. The suspect in custody was described as 49-years-old with no job or address, but probably nicely groomed.
