[Jedi Marksman]

This is funny. . .

Nagoya woman lied about knife attack to get attention




NAGOYA -- A housewife lied to police that she had been slashed by a knife-wielding woman on a bicycle to "draw the attention of her partner" away from computer games, police said Tuesday.

The wife's report to police that she had been knifed in Nagoya's Meito-ku late Monday night made headlines following two similar incidents recently where local residents were stabbed by a woman riding a bicycle.

The housewife, 33, whose name is being withheld, apparently cashed in on the media attention to the serial stabbings by fictitiously calling the police.

"My live-in partner has been totally absorbed in playing computer games, so I thought that he would turn his attention to me if I was in trouble," she was quoted as telling officers of the Meito Police Station.

She first contacted police shortly after 11 p.m., saying that she had been slashed with a knife near her home.

She called them again some five hours later and confessed. "The previous report I made was a lie," she told an officer on the telephone. The police plan to send her case to prosecutors on charges of fictitious reporting. (Mainichi Shimbun, April 8, 2003)