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“Third-year female junior high school student arrested for attempted robbery, threatening convenience store employee with hand saw ~ Nagamp Prefectual Police” (Jiji Press, October 2007)
The Nagano Chuuou Police Department arrested on the 29th a third-year female junior high school student from Nagano City, aged 15, on suspicion of destruction of property and attempted robbery. The female student allegedly threw a rock at and broke the glass window of a convenience store in the same city, before threatening a female employee to hand over money, holding a hand saw against her.
According to police investigations, the female student threw a rock at and broke the window of a convenience store in Kurita, Nagano City at around 7:30 a.m. on the same day. She then held a foldable hand saw, measuring 27~28cm in blade length, against a female employee who was working at the cash register and threatened her to hand over money.
Why a handsaw? Like it is literally one of the worst weapons that I think anyone can chose to rob someone with.
Well, it has longer range than a cutter and being a carpentry/garnering tool I guess it looks less suspicious than carrying a kitchen knife or a katana.
I know this was a year ago but the only people you'd see to have guns are police officers and the Yakuza.
And the Yakuza wouldn't even be caught dead carrying illegal guns, or even legal guns while doing illegal things. Even they don't want the legal shitstorm that will fall on their heads; I read that the bosses will immediately abandon any underlings who make such a stupid mistake.
They say gun ownership is serious business in the USA. It's basically the same in Japan, only in the opposite direction; they make Europe look reasonable from a US perspective.
