Jobless man busted for making 9,000 prank calls to police

[Champ]

A jobless Tokyo man who made 9,000 prank calls to police has been arrested, the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) said.

Takashi Kikuchi, 59, a resident of Koganei, western Tokyo, is accused of obstructing police from carrying out their duty.

By dialing 110, the number for emergencies, Kikuchi made 9,000 prank calls to an MPD command center between early January and mid-April this year, totaling 64 hours, investigators said. He criticized the government for dispatching Self-Defense Forces personnel to Iraq or uttered abusive words.

Kikuchi made most of the calls while he was drunk, according to MPD investigators. (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, June 8, 2004)
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20040608p2a00m0dm002000c.html

[Lou_C]

1. Wasn't this posted in LBN?

I didn't know that we repost threads from LBN in the DU Lounge.

[Champ]

2. I didn't know that it was