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Man Arrested For Stealing Girl Group AKB48’s Fan Mails, Letters, Bills

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Receiving mails through methods which love letters will never employ.

Being a fan is one thing and being obsessed is yet another. It does seem that one particular fan had tried to bring his fandom a little too far!

Police had arrested a 25 years old man named Kota Shibukawa who lives in Shinjuku last Monday over charges of theft of over 200 pieces of mails, letters and bills from the popular all-girl group called AKB48.

According to the police, Shibukawa had stolen over 200 pieces of letters, mails and even mobile phone bills in total, all of which are bound to the 11 members of the girl group called AKB48. This happened over a course of over a year, and it was stated that this “letter theft” had started since last September all the way to this August. Shibukawa had argued that he was a huge fan of AKB48, and would want to collect anything and everything he can get his hands on.

The case was only reported to the police when one of the girls, May, had noticed that she has not been receiving any kind of mails for a long time.

How did this guy pull of this kind of theft? Certainly not by visiting each and every girl’s house and stealing the letter from the letterbox as it’ll take a lot of effort for that. He did in a most discreet manner possible: submitting fake change of address forms for the members to a post office in Shinjuku last September, and all of these mails will be redirected to his own house. It is said that he had gotten the address of the girls through the internet, and had used the reason of “Because we have moved in together” as a way to get past suspension from the post office.

I can understand him stealing fan mails and letters, but bills? God, this person must either be extremely rich to offset all the 11 girl’s mobile phone bills or he is just plain stupid.

Via: JapanToday.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/man-steals-200-fan-letters-destined-for-girl-group-akb48

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Written by: Netto and posted at: November 19, 2009, 10:45 AM.
This post is filed under: Japan.

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2 Comments so far (Add 1 more)

  1.     Kiseki on November 19th, 2009 at 9:37 PM

    Wotas scare me more.

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  2.     NanoWerk on November 19th, 2009 at 10:57 AM

    He collected the bills, he never said he’d pay the bills.

    I thought mobile bills are just liek receipts where you know how much your bank acc is gonna lose but it gets deducted automatically at the designated time of month?

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      midnightcoast had replied:

    November 19th, 2009 at 11:18 PM

    Only if you have automatic withdrawal, otherwise you need to pay by check or credit card. If you happen to be a real old timer you could pay in person with cash.

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