A 22-year-old university student who admits to loving aircraft was arrested recently for dressing up in an airline pilot’s uniform and stealing stickers from an office at Narita Airrport.
Police said Shiraishi wore the uniform to gain access to the Japan Airlines operation center at Narita Airport’s Terminal Two on Wednesday afternoon where he stole 13 JAL stickers usually handed out to children, worth around 130 yen. An employee thought Shiraishi was suspicious and reported him to the police.
This case reminded me of a guy I knew when I was a student at Sophia University. He wanted very badly to become a policeman, but was too short. He owned a very authentic policeman’s uniform that he word around campus all the time. Someone told me that he started dressing like that from his high school days.
Though we laughed at him a bit, we often enlisted his help to provide “security” for parties and other school events.
