A 32-year-old man from Aichi Prefecture, Japan, was recently arrested after allegedly slashing a woman’s tire just so he could follow her and offer assistance when she eventually pulled over to check the wheel.
On June 11, an unnamed 43-year-old woman walked out of the supermarket in Higashiura, went to her car and drove away. She didn’t get very far before noticing that her driver’s side front tire was almost completely flat, so she pulled over to check it out. That’s when a friendly man stopped his car next to hers and offered to help fix her flat. It’s not every day that you get to meet such kind souls, the only problem was that the woman quickly realized that the same thing had happened to her just a year before, and the knight in shining armor looked suspiciously familiar too…
The culprit was identified as Yoshito Harada, and he immediately admitted to the crime, telling police that he had only done it as an excuse to get to know the woman. That’s a weird way to break the ice with someone you like, but the strangest thing about this story is that this wasn’t just a one-time thing for Harada. He had done it quite a few times in the past…
Although the exact number of times Yoshito Harada slashed women’s tires is still unknown, he was believed to have done it over 1,000 times by his lawyer in 2013, and it happened often enough that he actually targeted the same woman twice in one year, and two women who knew each other on at least two occasions. The saddest thing is that despite all his efforts, he was still unable to hit it off with at least one of his victims.