From Breitbart/AFP.
A Japanese plumber was arrested for calling a toll-free number around 500 times so he could hear a taped female voice, police said Monday.
Hiroyuki Nomoto, a 38-year-old Tokyo resident, was arrested on suspicion of obstructing the business of the company, a food firm based in the city of Takasaki north of the capital.
“The company has the number for 24-hour order-taking with a female voice. He said he wanted to hear a woman’s voice,” a police spokesman said.
Well…O.K., you got this guy, a middle aged plumber type of guy, maybe he has sense that things just aren’t going the way they should in his life, I don’t know. For some reason, he fixates on a recorded voice and, who knows what the manifestation of that is? Maybe, it’s some kind of “disorder” or “syndrome” or something like that. You almost have to feel sorry for the guy, right? I mean, he isn’t causing any harm, right?
“The company paid the call charges, which amounted to 3.8 million yen (36,900 dollars) for the call time of 3,100 hours,” the official said.
So, it works out to 37 Grand on the phone bill. 37 Grand! I once had a roommate, a German bass player, that stiffed me for a little over $1,000 worth of drunken, late-night calls to the Mother Land. Not only did it piss me off, it screwed me up with the phone company and I couldn’t get a phone in my name. This was before pre-paid cell phones so, it left me screwed. But, that’s off the point here. Surely this guy could have figured out a way to feed his delusion and fetish without costing some food company 3.8 million yen.
Oddly, this sort of thing has occurred before in Japan.
Obsession with female voices is not new for Japanese police.
A 37-year-old man was arrested in January after placing at least 2,600 calls to directory help over several months.
Maybe the plumber guy was a copycat dialer.
I found this photo doing a Google image search using the phrase “Japanese plumber”.
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Pat Darnell and Friends wrote,
Humbly I admit, the stream has caught up with me, and I am on a similar wavelength as many other altruistic yobs in here. I have been looking into the natural flow of bloggery flotsam and jetsum… only to become somewhat an up diked waterway, channeling yob blog plumber’s helper. So in response to digital simulations — refer to:
http://moopigwisdom.blogspot.com/
2008/05/one-has-to-be-socio-path-to-run-for.html
VOIP, Voice Over Internet Protocol, Voice over the Communication lines will allow the actual minds of “us all” to be heard. Eventually brainless yobbings will fill up all the white noise available in our bandwidth, creating a global billing… of say, [some number not yet invented]: that will leave the entire planet phoneless, and easily target to be purchased by Venutians.
[Just two things I ask -- do not call me late for dinner, and don't call collect.]
If I can maybe post my latest revelation concerning YOB ’s, it occurs tome that presidential candidates might after all be Yob’s by way of their collective sociopaths.
Having just finished re-reading “The Peter Principle” by Dr. Peters, (1965) and I definitely think Yobs are to Socio-paths, like a presidential candidate is to being a Socio-path… who define the Peters Principle !!
Other Related Qualities:
1. Contemptuous of those who seek to understand them
2. Does not perceive that anything is wrong with them
3. Authoritarian
4. Secretive
5. Paranoid
6. Only rarely in difficulty with the law, but seeks out situations where their tyrannical behavior will be tolerated, condoned, or admired
7. Conventional appearance
8. Goal of enslavement of their victim(s)
9. Exercises despotic control over every aspect of the victim’s life
10. Has an emotional need to justify their crimes and therefore needs their victim’s affirmation (respect, gratitude and love)
11. Ultimate goal is the creation of a willing victim
12. Incapable of real human attachment to another
13. Unable to feel remorse or guilt
14. Extreme narcissism and grandiose
15. May state readily that their goal is to rule the world
(The above traits are based on the psychopathy checklists of H. Cleckley and R. Hare. –
NOTE: In the 1830’s this disorder was called “moral insanity.” By 1900 it was changed to “psychopathic personality.” More recently it has been termed “antisocial personality disorder” in the DSM-III and DSM-IV. Some critics have complained that, in the attempt to rely only on ‘objective’ criteria, the DSM has broadened the concept to include too many individuals. The APD category includes people who commit illegal, immoral or self-serving acts for a variety of reasons and are not necessarily psychopaths. http://www.mcafee.cc/Bin/sb.html)
Pat Darnell and Friends’s last blog post..Updated: thanks, dad
Link | May 26th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Sans Direction wrote,
Killing over karaoke seems much more mindless yobbiness.
There’s a thing in Japan about useless inventions, and I think that helmet must be part of that.
Sans Direction’s last blog post..Songs You Know By Heart
Link | May 26th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Pat Darnell and friends wrote,
Why didn’t the phone thief just use a SONY recorder and tape the message, and play it back when he is rubbing his zen stones? This guy could sue for carpal tunnel dammages… all that calling!
and speaking of phones, and abuse –
I nominate Health-law Attorneys for mindless yobs growing out of the service industry of US and Canada…
– from same article —
“They could search everybody’s purse, but I don’t think that’s an environment that health-care facilities want,” said Katherine Benesch, an health-law attorney in Princeton, New Jersey, who has helped nursing homes create policies banning camera phones.
“Ultimately,” said Dr. David Cameron, a physician and health-law attorney in Toronto, “there isn’t a lot of power that the hospital has to keep these things from happening.”
retrieved here: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2007/06/hospital_cameras
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Link | May 26th, 2008 at 9:53 pm