Somewhere in the region of 100 watches were stolen from a jewellery store in the city of Tokushima over the weekend. The hefty haul estimated at around 36 million yen (175,000 pound).
Now whilst such an incident is hardly uncommon, when the location of the shop is taken into consideration, it is probably enough to warrant at least a gentle raising of the eyebrows.
Using a stolen car to smash through the store’s metal shutters, one can confidently assume that the robbers made a fair bit of noise. A racket that would have been especially noticeable at 5 o’clock in the morning. Yet rather surprisingly, not loud enough to disturb the carefree coppers stationed nearby. Yes, just 100 metres from the scene of the crime is a police box, but the on-duty officers went on the record as saying they didn’t hear a thing.
Not a dicky bird.
Smele says
They had probably all just popped out to the local noddle shop.
Surronded says
Mmmm they were drunk or something hahahaha
Pop Culture Review says
Holy moly! And here I thought that only the western world had bungling cops. Thank you for bursting my bubble. I am forever in your debt.
Tokyo Times – the burster of bubbles, among other things.
max says
lol asian ppl r funny
martin g says
On the face of it, one might have thought the officers could have clocked it, and they’d need a ticking off. But let’s hand it to them,
Maybe it wasn’t their watch . . .