And this is why:
A gangster turned himself in at a police station in Hiroshima on Tuesday night and admitted shooting a U.S. serviceman and threatening two others last Sunday in city, saying he did it because they had stepped in front of his car, the police said Wednesday.
Tomoyuki Matsumoto, 37, a former ranking member of an organized crime group, now unemployed, handed over an automatic pistol when he appeared at the Hiroshima Higashi police station at around 9:40 p.m., the police said.
He was arrested on suspicion of violating the firearms and swords law, the police said.
Does shooting a guy count as a violation?
Matsumoto was quoted as telling the police, “I was annoyed by the man who cut across in front of my car, so I shot him.”
Well, you got to appreciate the man’s Zen-like simplicy of purpose.
The police said they will also question Matsumoto with a view to having him charged with the attempted murder of the serviceman, U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Eric Heinz, 21.
This is probably in connection with shooting him.
The incident took place at around 4 a.m. Sunday in Hiroshima’s Naka Ward when Heinz and two other U.S. servicemen were walking on a street. A man in a car fired one shot, hitting Heinz in the left side of his waist.
The man got out of the car and pointed the gun at the other two servicemen before driving off, the police said earlier.
Hey, I thought the Japanese were supposed to be the polite ones behind the wheel?
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No. They’re left driving Koreans. And there are 3 times more of them than in Korea….