JAPANESE MAN BUYS SUSHI FOR STRANGERS WITH STOLEN MONEY

Many good people of the town of Kitakyushu, Japan, have found themselves treated to free sushi at the local restaurants. A very generous 71-year-old local man named Kazunori Inagaki would go out to expensive sushi restaurants or bars and announce that he was picking up the tab for every single customer in the place. The costs ran up to 300,000 yen (US$1,900) but Mr. Inagaki seemed happy to do it. When asked what he did for a living, he claimed to be a strawberry farmer. This was a lie. What he was, was a burglar. Investigators say that between September of 2023 and October of 2024 Inagaki broke into 63 homes in the area, with the total haul from the burglaries coming to roughly 9.3 million yen (US$60,000). Asked why he did it, the 71-year-old said, “I paid for them because I wanted to look cool.”
* Stealing isn’t cool. Unless you look like George Clooney in “Ocean’s 11.”
* You want to look cool, take a video of yourself picking up the tab and put it on TikTok.
* Yeah, the whole situation sounded pretty fishy.
* He wanted to look cool; now he’s going into the cooler.