1 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:05:17 ID:ksNX
The “Hammer Uncle,” covered in tattoos and hailed as a hero on the internet, was actually a “skilled thief” being tracked by police. Locals question the petition for leniency, stating, “The high school students involved weren’t a motorcycle gang.”
How did a violent criminal become a hero? Teruyuki Takabayashi (44), dubbed “Hammer Uncle,” was indicted for assault after attacking high school students hanging out in front of his house during Golden Week with a hammer. Immediately after the incident, people online defended him as a “hero who purged a biker gang” and even started a petition for his leniency. However, locals unanimously say, “The students he attacked weren’t a biker gang.” Furthermore, his third arrest is for a crime far from heroic.
Regarding the man arrested for attacking high schoolers with a hammer in Fussa, Tokyo, the Metropolitan Police Department has re-arrested him for breaking into a recycling shop in Tachikawa City this past February and stealing brand-name bags worth approximately 3.4 million yen.
Man indicted for assaulting high school boy with a hammer… re-arrested on new charges.
The man re-arrested is Teruyuki Takabayashi (44). He is suspected of breaking into a recycling shop in Tachikawa City this February and stealing 9 items, including high-end brand bags, worth about 3.4 million yen.
Takabayashi was previously indicted for assault after allegedly attacking a high school boy with a hammer in Fussa City this April, causing serious injury. Police say the car used in his escape was the same one used during the theft at the recycling shop in Tachikawa City.
Takabayashi allegedly broke into the shop after closing time by breaking a window at the back of the store.
Security footage caught the same car in a December theft.
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the connection, as the same car was spotted on security cameras near the scene of another theft at a different shop in Tachikawa City last December.
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/24b2f01802bac89a84fc1781eb8c6455fcd83bab?page=1
Oh man…
2 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:06:48 ID:fIHp
It was like one of those anime or game tropes where you team up with the villain for a bit…
Turns out he was on the dark side all along.
3 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:07:11 ID:ksNX
People who resort to brute force are never good news.
4 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:07:33 ID:xWxZ
The people who signed the petition for leniency must feel like idiots now.
5 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:07:36 ID:FamL
Seriously?
6 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:07:44 ID:M9gV
Wait, was he out and about?
7 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:08:55 ID:FamL
Well, the judgment of a crazy person is the scariest thing anyway.
8 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:08:57 ID:xWxZ
He committed a robbery in February,
and the hammer incident was in April.
9 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:09:17 ID:WLrZ
Yeah, sounds about right.
10 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:10:03 ID:WLrZ
So cringe.
12 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:10:17 ID:0Gz9
Anyway, this just proves the Fussa police aren’t doing their jobs.
14 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:11:04 ID:wxxS
Can’t we just call it a wash and let him go?
16 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:11:50 ID:WLrZ
>>14
He’s a repeat offender, though…
17 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:12:11 ID:FamL
Can’t defend a 3.4 million yen robbery.
18 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:12:21 ID:CHGn
They really gathered signatures for this guy, huh?
19 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:12:32 ID:ksNX
If the police had done their jobs sooner,
the hammer incident wouldn’t have happened.
20 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:12:49 ID:WLrZ
People who take vigilantism into their own hands are usually just like this, aren’t they?
22 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:13:09 ID:9Rqo
Robbery is high risk, and he only got 3.4 million?
23 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:13:19 ID:FamL
Didn’t this guy have other priors?
25 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:15:28 ID:WLrZ
>>23
Apparently, he was a random attacker who tried to kill a teenager with an axe.
27 Name: Unknown Japuzz Watcher[] Date: 26/06/23(Tue) 06:16:18 ID:FamL
>>25
That’s insane. Those delinquents were brave to be making noise near a guy like that.
Source: [Sad News] “Hammer Uncle,” once hailed as a hero, is unmasked as a career criminal
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