Japanese police arrest woman for calling them 15,000 times

[hokkien]

Thursday, Dec 05, 2013
TOKYO - Japanese police said Thursday they have arrested a woman for calling them more than 15,000 times over a six-month period.

Authorities repeatedly visited the 44-year-old and asked her to cease and desist.

When she failed to stop making the calls, which started in May, police slapped handcuffs on her.

"She made as many as 927 emergency calls in one day....disturbing our police duties," said an official in the city of Sakai, near the western city of Osaka.

Authorities, who have so far ruled out mental illness for the woman's behaviour, said her calls had "no real meaning".

"She didn't make up a story that required us to respond -- it was just total nonsense," the official told AFP.

"We visited her place about 60 times before arresting her, trying to persuade her not to call us again. I wonder if she was just lonely."

The woman was charged with fraudulent obstruction of police business, which carries a maximum penalty of up to three years in prison or a fine of 500,000 yen (US$4,900).

 

[singveld]

sometime they need to get mental help for their people rather than just throwing them in jail.

 

[Asterix]

She suffers from Munchausen Syndrome?

Zis German shrink's pronunciation sucks. "Fictitious" he pronounced as "farktitious"!

[video=youtube;-idx4e_THW8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-idx4e_THW8[/video]

 

[soIsee]

sometime they need to get mental help for their people rather than just throwing them in jail.

They tired throwing that many in mental insitutions.

But that got full and now they throw them into the next best place.

Now guess what is going to happen to the next best place?

 

[eErotica69]

They tired throwing that many in mental insitutions.

But that got full and now they throw them into the next best place.

Now guess what is going to happen to the next best place?

Tonychat chump, the answer your home land Malaysia?

 

[Narong Wongwan]

I want to employ this woman to help me call back those irritating telemarketers who harass me.

 

[eatshitndie]

incarcerating her at a police station may solve the problem. she can't give any excuses or have any reasons about calling the police if she's besieged by cops 24 by 7. but what happens if she calls the cops from the phone in the police station! in that case, she's truly a nut case.