70 Year Old Woman Gets 2 Year Sentence for Stealing 98 Yen Eraser

[Mulboyne]

Asahi: Woman, 70, to serve time for theft
The district court here Tuesday sentenced a 70-year-old woman to two years in prison for shoplifting a plastic eraser worth 98 yen from a supermarket. The sentence is without a stay of execution, which means the woman, a repeat offender, must serve the term. Presiding Judge Satoshi Miyamoto said the woman had a previous record of shoplifting and other offenses, and the nature of her crime "reflected her experience." He accepted the amount in question was negligible, but said the woman could not avoid prison. The woman was released from prison in January and has been living alone on welfare.

Other news reports mentioned that the woman was writing a letter to her son in pencil telling him she was fine when she wanted to use an eraser. Apparently, a number of people appealed for clemency, including the shopkeeper involved, but the Judge decided her record counted against her.

[Behan]

She's gotta learn that it's white collar crime that pays.

[Iraira]

She should have just e-mailed her son...letter writing is so 18th century.

[Ketou]

She's gotta learn that it's white collar crime that pays.

Yep, or learn to steal from gaijin.

[Takechanpoo]

Japanese women, whether young or old, are too pampered so they take it for granted that they are tolerated and exempted from every single crimes and punishments. This is a good lesson for Japanese bitches.

[FG Lurker]

[Mock Cockpit]

When I was in uni I worked at the local supermarket at night stacking shelves. Sometimes we'd go up to the managers office and make harrassing phone calls and look through all the paperwork. One was the reports of people caught shoplifting, the majority of whom were women over the age of 50 which can be read two ways- post menopausal woman are habitual thieves or they just get caught more.
As an aside, the customer injury reports were always fun. My favourite was;
Injury- Cut finger
Cause- Customer ran finger along the edge of knife to determine sharpness

[TFG]

:clap:
Japanese women, whether young or old, are too pampered so they take it for granted that they are tolerated and exempted from every single crimes and punishments. This is a good lesson for Japanese bitches.

You mean, she should have been asked which hand she stole the eraser with, then had the hand chopped off in public with an axe?:confused:


Are you going soft Taketanpon?

[TFG]

[Ketou]

Other news reports mentioned that the woman was writing a letter to her son in pencil telling him she was fine when she wanted to use an eraser. Apparently, a number of people appealed for clemency, including the shopkeeper involved, but the Judge decided her record counted against her

Still, the shop called the police, now didn't they!

I doubt they expected her to get anything more than a talking to.
Judges in Japan are a fucked up lot....their opinions have more weight than fact.

[Behan]

White Collar Crime and Political Corruption Do Pay, Grandma

A former president of Nishimatsu Construction Co. was handed a suspended 16-month prison sentence Friday for his part in making illegal donations to Diet members and bringing slush funds into Japan without reporting the money to customs.

The Tokyo District Court found Mikio Kunisawa, 70, guilty in the illegal donation of \5 million to the former Democratic Party of Japan President Ichiro Ozawa's political fund management body through two dummy entities between October and November 2006.

The court also said Kunisawa illegally donated \3.4 million to a political fund of the Liberal Democratic Party faction led by Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Toshihiro Nikai by purchasing fundraising party tickets between June and July 2006 through two of the firm's dummy entities.

I know the grandma is a hard-core repeat offender, but I wonder if all the things she has shoplifted add up to 8 million yen. Nowhere even close, I would suspect.


http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20090718a5.html

[IkemenTommy]

I think the general consensus on here will disagree with me, but stealing is still stealing. I am happy to see one less obasan roaming around in public though.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I don't think she should get special consideration because of her age. Two years for a 98 yen eraser does seem harsh but it really depends on how bad her past record is. If she steals shit all the time because she figures no one will punish a wittle old wady, she probably deserves to do some time.

[Taro Toporific]

Loneliness driving elderly people to shoplifting: police
AP - August 2, 2009
Elderly people charged with shoplifting are increasingly citing their feelings of loneliness and isolation as the major reason for their crimes, according to a Tokyo police survey, which also found that many juveniles viewed shoplifting as like a game. Twenty-four percent of 204 people aged 65 and older charged recently with shoplifting by the Metropolitan Police Department said they were driven to do so by their feelings of loneliness. One said he was living alone after getting divorced and had just 21 yen at the time of his arrest in a supermarket...more...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Loneliness driving elderly people to shoplifting: police
AP - August 2, 2009
Elderly people charged with shoplifting are increasingly citing their feelings of loneliness and isolation as the major reason for their crimes, according to a Tokyo police survey, which also found that many juveniles viewed shoplifting as like a game. Twenty-four percent of 204 people aged 65 and older charged recently with shoplifting by the Metropolitan Police Department said they were driven to do so by their feelings of loneliness. One said he was living alone after getting divorced and had just 21 yen at the time of his arrest in a supermarket...more...

An elderly senior citizen with 21 yen to his name who lives alone and gets caught stealing groceries is doing it because he's lonely and not because he's destitute and hungry!? Riiiiight ...