
Let's hope this doesn't become a trend ...
MDN wrote:Truck driver screams 'foreigners abducted me' after he slept in
KOBE -- A truck driver fictitiously told police that foreigners abducted him after he took a nap on the job, officers said on Tuesday.
The 34-year-old driver ... took a nap. When he woke up, it was ... more than five hours after his scheduled arrival time at a transport firm ...
The driver called a police emergency line shortly before 11 a.m., saying, "Four foreigners abducted me for some five hours,"...
Hyogo police mobilized about 30 officers to search for the four foreigners.
But they soon felt something was fishy as the driver was not injured at all despite him saying that he was kicked out of a moving car.
After officers grilled him, the driver confessed that he had lied in a bid to cover up his sleeping in. Police plan to send the case to prosecutors...