Ever wonder what life is in a Japanese prison? No? Me neither! But Japan site Stippy has been posting a series about a foreigner named "George" (not his real name, folks!) who spent a stretch on the inside in a holding prison. George describes his cellmate:

His charge was robbery, which he quite readily admitted. He saw an opportunity to make some money and he took it. 1 million yen worth of Nintendo game software was sitting in the warehouse in which he worked and he figured that they needed to be sold. He pocketed around 300k yen but within a few days it was fairly obvious to his bosses that he had done it. In fact not long after he had started making sales to shops in Akihabara, he had some sort of accident on his bicycle and jarred his back. He could not go to work for a week and was laid up in hospital when his boss decided to check his locker at work where, low and behold, lay a stack of gaming software that he hadn't yet been able to take home.

Lesson of this story? Don't ride bicycles. (And piracy stealing is bad, blah, blah, blah.) Brian Ashcraft

Japanese Prison Is Not Fun [Stippy via Dark Diamond]

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