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By: The Opinion Updated 20 Dec 2022, 10: 24 pm EST
It was recently learned that an elderly Japanese man was arrested after calling a police station around 2.060 times within nine days to yell at the workers and call them “tax thieves” and “big assholes”.
According to the police in Saitama Prefecture, its headquarters received repeated abusive calls from a man who told them that they should be fired
According to the Japanese outlet The Sankei News, what surprised the police the most was that among the 27 of September and on October 8, a total of 2 will be held. 60 calls. This means an average of one call every six minutes and more than 27 hours on the phone.
This last figure is the most important, since would constitute a crime of obstruction to police work
. After several months of his calls, this resident of the city of Kawaguchi, of 60 years, was arrested and admitted to the charges: “I knew the police would come for me one day”, said.
During the investigation of the case, police discovered, from the suspect’s phone records, that probably the old man had been doing this for years , although only intensified its efforts in recent months.
Other cases
According to The Sankei News, there were similar incidents
in 2015, when a 71 year-old man from Saitama Prefecture made some 24. abusive calls to your telecommunications provider.
Also earlier this year, another almost a man from 60 years of Saitama made some 9. seat reservations for train and canceled at the last minute. However, although their numbers are huge, both cases occurred in longer terms, of more than a year or two.
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