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Aug 23 2005 7 Comments

Bikini-clad bureaucrat

Whilst taking a day off work last week, a 41-year-old government official in konan, Shiga Prefecture, was arrested for trespassing in a women’s changing room at a local leisure facility.

Ryuhei Kameda was dressed as a woman when he was apprehended, but in his defence he told the police, “I know I am a man, but I want to live as a woman.” How this information will affect the bureaucrat’s case is unknown, but Kameda-san may well have gotten away with his changing room misdemeanour had he managed to curtail his cross-dressing activities a little more.

It turns out that before his capture, the 41-year-old had been for a swim. Yet as innocuous as such an activity may sound, rather surprisingly Kameda chose to wear a decidedly un-government like bikini. A decision which eventually led to his downfall, as facility staff were alerted by other users to be on the look out for a ‘strange person’.

Such complaints presumably meaning that the skimpy swimming attire wasn’t especially flattering.

Categorized: Odd

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  1. englishman says

    8/23/2005 at 4:03 pm

    the beard probably didn’t help either

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  2. Nacente says

    8/23/2005 at 4:48 pm

    Very ridiculous, but they always find an excuse, that’s incredible.

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  3. Colin says

    8/23/2005 at 7:27 pm

    For certain the beard didn’t help. Nor, I would imagine, did the bulge at the front of the bikini pants.

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  4. Surronded says

    8/23/2005 at 8:26 pm

    Colin: hahahaha hilarious!

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  5. Jamie Brockington says

    8/23/2005 at 8:42 pm

    Pretty lame defense, wants to live as a woman?
    He should have said he just walked into the ladies restroom by mistake. Pretty pathetic still, but at least a little plausible.

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  6. ifrit says

    8/23/2005 at 9:10 pm

    Thanks for don’t publish the photo!! 😀

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  7. Toni says

    8/26/2005 at 2:17 am

    Guess he didn’t learn how to tuck it in a la Buffalo Bill in “Silence of the Lambs”

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