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Woman complains to cops after hitman she hired fails to get the job done (http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20050915p2a00m0na003000c.html)

A woman who hired a hitman to murder the wife of her lover, and then complained to police when he didn't do the job, has been arrested along with the hitman, police said.

The murderous intentions of Eriko Kawaguchi, a Tokyo Fire Fighting Department employee, came to light after she complained to police because the hitman didn't carry out the job, although she paid him about 15 million yen.

"I came to know that the wife gave birth and then I felt betrayed (by the lover)," officers quoted Kawaguchi, 32, as saying about her motive for hiring the hitman.

Kawaguchi, from the Tokyo suburb of Tama, phoned Takaharu Tabe, 40, from Kunitachi, after she read Tabe's web page on the Internet in November last year, police said.

In January this year, Kawaguchi met Tabe in Tachikawa, requesting that he murder the wife of her lover.

In due course she paid him a total of some 15 million yen for the murder and the costs of tailing and keeping watch on the target.

Tabe offered to murder the target by taking her on a motorbike into a tunnel and pouring poisonous bacteria over her.

Tabe then showed photos of the home and working place of the woman to Kawaguchi.

He even gave white powder to Kawaguchi and said he used it to murder the 32-year-old target.

But the wife of Kawaguchi's lover was never attacked and recently gave birth.

Six months later, Kawaguchi then went to the Tama Chuo Police Station and made a complaint, police said. Officers are grilling Tabe about the possibility of other murder contracts. (Mainichi)

September 15, 2005

This was just too funny. Dumb criminal stories often turn out as urban legends, but apparantly not this one.

LMAO....well, nobody ever said that criminals were the smartest element in any society. :)

Oh, that is just brilliant.

Frank Zappa was right. Hydrogen isn't the most abundant element in the universe: stupidity is. There is no limit to it.

Yes they do. They just call them politicians.

So she was willing to sacrifice herself to bring down the hitman.

Japan may clock us in anime and videogames, but we got them beat in the "criminal activity and intelligence" catergory!! :D

Its getting so hard to find good help these days.


Bringing someone into a tunnel on a motorbike and pouring "poisonous bacteria" on them seems a bit complex. Was something lost in translation?
Or did this guy go to the "Supervillian" convention on elaborate murders and how to explain them to the victim first.

Frank Zappa was right. Hydrogen isn't the most abundant element in the universe: stupidity is. There is no limit to it.
Quoting Frank Zappa just elevated you from being the hot, bitchy mod, to being the hot, bitchy, wicked-awesome mod!

I wonder if they'll charge the hitman with fraud? :D

Quoting Frank Zappa just elevated you from being the hot, bitchy mod, to being the hot, bitchy, wicked-awesome mod!

I wonder if they'll charge the hitman with fraud? :D
Awesome. Frank Zappa owns! I got that particular bit from his autobiography, which is actually less autobiography and more a guy getting drunk at a party and telling you what he thinks about everything. It's got a number of humorous stories in it, and it is autobiographical when taken as a whole, but reading it, it's fairly obvious that he couldn't resist the occasional editorial.

When I'm particularly angry [like in the Agnosticism thread] I borrow heavily from his writing style in that book, making heavy use of bold and italic fonts for emphasis.

Awesome. Frank Zappa owns! I got that particular bit from his autobiography, which is actually less autobiography and more a guy getting drunk at a party and telling you what he thinks about everything. It's got a number of humorous stories in it, and it is autobiographical when taken as a whole, but reading it, it's fairly obvious that he couldn't resist the occasional editorial.

When I'm particularly angry [like in the Agnosticism thread] I borrow heavily from his writing style in that book, making heavy use of bold and italic fonts for emphasis.
It wasn't until I was about 10 years old that I realised Frank Zappa wasn't really my uncle. My parents always called him 'Uncle Frank', and I learned early on that the words in Uncle Frank's songs were okay for him, but not okay for me to use around the house. Man was I disappointed when he never sent me birthday presents!

My parents were damn weird. They almost named me Moon-unit.

It wasn't until I was about 10 years old that I realised Frank Zappa wasn't really my uncle. My parents always called him 'Uncle Frank', and I learned early on that the words in Uncle Frank's songs were okay for him, but not okay for me to use around the house. Man was I disappointed when he never sent me birthday presents!

My parents were damn weird. They almost named me Moon-unit.
That is just too awesome. But we digress. ;)

That woman is so dumb! She shouldn't have complained to the police!










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