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Man arrested for breaking into woman’s hotel room, spanking her with shoehorn

Evie Nyan Nov 14, 2014
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Here’s one you don’t hear every day – a man was arrested in Daisen City, Akita Prefecture last weekend on charges of entering the hotel room of a female acquaintance through the window before proceeding to strike her about the buttocks with a shoehorn that he found in the room. But just what could prompt such behavior?

According to reports, the man, a 25-year-old company employee, entered the business hotel room of the woman (also 25) at around 10:00 am on Sunday morning using a ladder (it is uncertain if he provided his own ladder or if the ladder was already in situ), before carrying out his assault.

The man is believed to have confessed to his crimes, telling police, “I did it, I hit her with the shoehorn”. Unfortunately, he failed to elaborate further, so we have no idea what sparked the man’s fury and led him to commit the dual crime of breaking and entering and assault with a weapon (erm, shoehorn).

Since the man entered the hotel room unarmed and grabbed the nearest thing he could use as a weapon, we’re guessing that this was a sudden crime of passion and not a prearranged rendezvous that went badly wrong. Luckily, the woman wasn’t seriously hurt during her ordeal.

Netizens have responded to this odd crime story with a series of bemused tweets:

【社会】はしごで侵入、靴べらで知人女性の尻たたいた男：http://t.co/OXUE2dtY6p ◆そこまで手間かけて侵入しておいて武器が靴べらというのがなんとも…。ほとんどダメージ与えられなかったのでは？それとも普通と違う豪華な靴べらだったのかしら。

— シロマ (@whitemage) November 11, 2014

▲ To go to the trouble of breaking and entering and then using a shoehorn as a weapon… Just how much damage could a person inflict with one of those things? Or was it some kind of… special shoehorn?!

はしごで侵入、靴べらで知人女性の尻たたいた男 : 社会 : 読売新聞（YOMIURI ONLINE） http://t.co/C1hKBygPhQ @Yomiuri_Onlineさんから

プレイかな？

— カタシヨ (@shimamoto_bay) November 12, 2014

▲　Some kind of couples’ play?

はしごで侵入、靴べらで知人女性の尻たたいた男 : 社会 : 読売新聞（YOMIURI ONLINE） http://t.co/UBvHLnHgO2
意味わかんね(´・ω・`)

— ないとうあきのぶ＠青A16＆黄TL50 (@AkinobuNaito) November 11, 2014

▲ Wow, I don’t get it (´・ω・`)

はしごで侵入、靴べらで知人女性の尻たたいた男 : 社会 : 読売新聞（YOMIURI ONLINEhttp://t.co/kZUuL91G6A @yomiuri_onlineさんから
どういうことなんだよ

— 放課後からあげタイム (@sobietatsukuso) November 11, 2014

▲ The hell is this?