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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