Super Terrific Japanese Thing: Police Procedure

Above is a Japanese news report about a man in Chiba prefecture who stole over 2,000 pairs of panties. He took them from laundomats, clotheslines, stores, whatever. But whatever. Panty-stealing is a national pastime in Japan, much like baseball and running from Godzilla. What blows me away is that the police who caught the culprit — decided to lay them all out in a giant room organized by color and design. Do not tell me that this was necessary, or that was important, or will somehow aid in the man’s conviction, because there is no fucking way. Maybe they’d need to catalog a couple hundred, and then it just goes in to a pile labeled “evidence.” But oh no! They laid them all out, in rows, all the same direction, evenly spaced from each other, and again, ORGANIZED BY BOTH COLORS AND DESIGNS SO THAT THE REGULAR PURPLE PANTIES WOULDN’T BE MIXED IN WITH THE PURPLE LACE PANTIES.

Madness. You know, if the police put all the panties in a pile, they could charge Japanese men to jump in them like a pile of leaves. They’d never need another fundraiser again. (Via JapanProbe)