Yesterday Pink Tentacle blogged on two news stories in Japan.

1. Job-hating maring officer kidnaps himself: (summary) man found bound and gagged at edge of forest north of Miurakaigan station (this is actually sort of in my ‘hood). Investigation starts with questionning man. Police become suspicious as man has no injuries and his hands are tied in his front, not back. Man admits it was a setup motivated by his hatred of going to work.

2. Mystery money turning up in gov’t office restrooms across Japan: (summary) 10000円 notes (little less than 100 CDN) are being put in envelopes with a handwriting note and placed in stacks in the washrooms of government office buildings. The note asks the finder to use the money to pay for some kind of studies or training. It seems more than 280 of these envelopes have been found.

To 1 - man wants attention.
To 2 - what kind of attention does man (or woman) want?

I don’t have much more to say about these stories. Just that they were interesting but also kind of spooky.