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Truck driver screams 'foreigners abducted me' after he slept in
KOBE -- A truck driver fictitiously told police that foreigners abducted him after he took a nap on the job, officers said on Tuesday.
The 34-year-old driver, who works for a delivery company in Nagasaki Prefecture, was transporting goods from Toyama Prefecture to Kasai, Hyogo Prefecture, on Dec. 16.
He parked his truck at the Yashiro parking area on the Chugoku Expressway in Hyogo at about 4:45 a.m. and took a nap.
When he woke up, it was past 10 a.m., more than five hours after his scheduled arrival time at a transport firm in Kasai.
The driver called a police emergency line shortly before 11 a.m., saying, "Four foreigners abducted me for some five hours," according to police.
He then described how he was victimized. "They asked where an expressway bus stop was at about 5:30 a.m.," officers quoted the driver as telling them. "Someone covered my head with a paper bag from behind, and I was forced into a car."
Hyogo police mobilized about 30 officers to search for the four foreigners.
But they soon felt something was fishy as the driver was not injured at all despite him saying that he was kicked out of a moving car.
After officers grilled him, the driver confessed that he had lied in a bid to cover up his sleeping in. Police plan to send the case to prosecutors. (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Dec. 21, 2004)
KOBE -- A truck driver fictitiously told police that foreigners abducted him after he took a nap on the job, officers said on Tuesday.
The 34-year-old driver, who works for a delivery company in Nagasaki Prefecture, was transporting goods from Toyama Prefecture to Kasai, Hyogo Prefecture, on Dec. 16.
He parked his truck at the Yashiro parking area on the Chugoku Expressway in Hyogo at about 4:45 a.m. and took a nap.
When he woke up, it was past 10 a.m., more than five hours after his scheduled arrival time at a transport firm in Kasai.
The driver called a police emergency line shortly before 11 a.m., saying, "Four foreigners abducted me for some five hours," according to police.
He then described how he was victimized. "They asked where an expressway bus stop was at about 5:30 a.m.," officers quoted the driver as telling them. "Someone covered my head with a paper bag from behind, and I was forced into a car."
Hyogo police mobilized about 30 officers to search for the four foreigners.
But they soon felt something was fishy as the driver was not injured at all despite him saying that he was kicked out of a moving car.
After officers grilled him, the driver confessed that he had lied in a bid to cover up his sleeping in. Police plan to send the case to prosecutors. (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Dec. 21, 2004)