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May 10 2004 3 Comments

Cake crazed crackpot

“I wanted to buy some cakes, but the store on the platform I was at was closed, so I crossed the tracks to buy the cakes from a store on the other platform”

This is what 41 year old bar owner Tadakazu Mitsui told the police after his subsequent arrest. Admittedly at first Mr. Mitsui’s actions seem a little dangerous, but nothing to get too upset about. That is until you find out that the platform he performed his daring run on was only for bullet trains. Which nobody needs reminding travel a fair bit faster than you’re average locomotive.

The cake loving dare devil wasn’t content with just one death defying attempt though, as after purchasing his sugary dessert, he made the perilous journey back. And if all that wasn’t enough, to give the feat even more of an edge, Mr. Mitsui was drunk.

Now whilst I have been known to eat the odd cake now and again, if it meant passing in front of one of these monsters, I don’t think I’d bother. Would you?

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No, I didn’t think so.

Categorized: Food and Drink, General, Odd, Travel

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  1. Kev says

    5/10/2004 at 5:38 pm

    Dude had a serious case of the munchies! You sure he hadn’t *also* been ‘smoking’? 😉

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  2. テッド says

    5/10/2004 at 10:16 pm

    Let’s think about what that blur would look like if you were drunk.

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  3. tom says

    5/11/2004 at 2:57 pm

    Suspect he wouldn’t have done that but for the drink.

    Crazy bastard.

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