Body Of Evidence

‘WE are all for the enterprise culture here at Anorak Towers. But even thrusting young Blairites like us must draw the line at the efforts of one Japanese man to boost his failing business.

Nobuhiko Takahashi ran an undertakers. And the one thing undertakers need about all else is a steady supply of dead bodies. But our hero could not wait for the corpses to come to him so he went to them.

He began by visiting his aunt, and finding her alive and thus not a very useful customer, beat her to death with a golf club. “I thought I would be able to undertake a funeral if I killed auntie,” he told police.

Auntie was buried, albeit my another firm.’

Posted: 16th, February 2004 | In: Strange But True Comment | TrackBack | Permalink