Winnie-the-Pooh held for robbery?

[Jon Tees]

Winnie-the-Pooh held for robbery? Tue Aug 12, 11:09 AM ET



Japanese police have arrested a 20-year-old man who attacked and robbed two people after they stared at his Winnie-the-Pooh costume, officials said on Tuesday.

Masayuki Ishikawa was hanging out on a Tokyo street corner after midnight last month while wearing the cuddly costume, accompanied by two friends dressed as a mouse and a panther, when he took offence at being stared at, police said.

"It's uncommon to see people dressed up like this, so the victims were watching them. Then the perpetrator came up and said 'What are you staring at?'" a police spokesman said.

Ishikawa and his friends beat up the two victims and stole $160 from them, the spokesman said, adding the group had apparently donned the unusual garb because they had run out of clean clothes.

(Reporting by Yoko Kubota; Editing by Linda Sieg

Truly odd news indeed. Dressing like a freak and then getting angry that people are looking at you.

[Alexia]

They were, all three of them, out of clean clothes? Yeah...uh-huh, sure, and I really am Cassandra Lynn. I can't believe they actually expect cops to believe that crap. Either they were planning on attacking someone that night, or they were under the influence of something. But out of clean clothes? I don't believe it

[Black Death]

lmao... crime is very low japan compare to us...but if somedone dress like that here ... most people just walk by and not think twice ...lol